Month: August 2023
Ag News
Short-term outlook good for U.S. DDG exports
Exports of U.S. Dried Distillers Grains are expected to hold steady through next year. U.S. Grains Council CEO Ryan LeGrand says demand in 2023 and 2024 should be similar to the past several years. “Distillers [Read More…]
ABC World News
Georgia mom accused of plotting to kill her husband in the Bahamas set to be released on bail
ABC News (NASSAU, Bahamas) — A Georgia mom accused of plotting to kill her estranged husband while vacationing in the Bahamas is set to be released on $100,000 bail on Wednesday. Lindsay Shiver, a 36-year-old mother [Read More…]
ABC National News
Judge schedules Friday hearing on proposed protective order in Jan. 6 case
Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A day after the special counsel’s office and President Donald Trump’s legal team filed dueling motions regarding a proposed protective order in the Jan. 6 case, the judge in the [Read More…]
ABC National News
Mega Millions jackpot estimated at record $1.58 billion for Tuesday’s drawing
IronHeart/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The jackpot for Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing is estimated to be $1.58 billion, a record high for the lottery and among the largest-ever U.S. drawings. The drawing, which is scheduled for [Read More…]
ABC National News
3 charged with assault in Alabama riverfront melee; no bias charges
Christa Owen (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — Charges were filed against three white boaters who allegedly assaulted a Black ferry co-captain, sparking a racially charged melee at Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday night that was captured [Read More…]
ABC National News
NYC struggling to keep up with demand of supporting asylum seekers, Mayor Adams says
Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams says his administration is straining to keep up with the demand of supporting thousands of asylum seekers [Read More…]
ABC National News
28-year-old man killed by lightning, teen fatally hit by tree amid severe storms on East Coast
ABC News (NEW YORK) — At least two people have been killed by severe weather that slammed the East Coast. Marquin Russell, 28, died after he was struck by lightning in Florence, Alabama, on Monday, according [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Vice President Kamala Harris touts ‘raise’ for union workers on federal construction projects
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Philadelphia Tuesday to highlight the administration’s new rule to raise wage standards for construction workers performing federally funded jobs as part of the broader “Bidenomics” [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Ohioans vote in high-stakes special election that could affect abortion rights
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Voting is underway in Ohio in a special election concerning whether to make it harder to amend the state’s constitution — a vote which could have big implications for abortion [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump attorney outlines possible Jan. 6 legal defenses, but some experts are skeptical
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump’s legal defense in his Jan. 6 indictment appears to be taking shape, according to recent comments by his attorney John Lauro. Lauro, in a media blitz on Sunday, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
What is known about Mike Pence’s ‘contemporaneous notes’ on Trump in Jan. 6 case
Erin Schaff/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The “contemporaneous notes” that former Vice President Mike Pence says he took related to Jan. 6, 2021, amid a pressure campaign urging him to overturn the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden announces new national monument to ‘help right the wrongs of the past’
Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images (GRAND CANYON VILLAGE, Ariz.) — President Joe Biden visited Arizona on Tuesday to tout climate investments and designate a new national monument. Nearly a million acres of land near the Grand [Read More…]
ABC Health News
EG.5 now dominant COVID variant in US. Here’s what to know
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new variant now makes up a plurality of COVID-19 cases in the United States, federal data shows. EG.5, an offshoot of the omicron variant and descendant [Read More…]
ABC Business News
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried still slapped with campaign finance charge, prosecutors say
Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Federal prosecutors in New York on Tuesday signaled their intention to hold embattled crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried accountable for alleged campaign finance violations despite dropping the charge last [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Apple TV+ drops creepy trailer for LaKeith Stanfield’s upcoming series ‘The Changeling’
Apple TV+ On Tuesday, August 8, Apple TV+ debuted the trailer for the creepy upcoming thriller series The Changeling, starring and executive produced by Oscar nominee LaKeith Stanfield. Based on the acclaimed bestselling book of [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Yara Shahidi, Odessa A’zion bake up some drama in trailer to Prime Video’s ‘Sitting in Bars with Cake’
Amazon Content Services Amazon Prime Video has released the trailer to Sitting in Bars with Cake, the adaptation of the based-on-real-life book of the same name by Audrey Shulman. Grown-ish‘s Yara Shahidi and Hellraiser‘s Odessa [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Medical examiner determines Robert De Niro’s grandson, Leandro, died of an accidental fentanyl overdose
Tetra Images/Getty Images The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner said Tuesday, August 8, that an accidental fentanyl overdose killed Robert De Niro’s 19-year-old grandson, Leandro De Niro Rodriguez. ABC News has learned [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Chris Noth says he “strayed” on his wife, again denies “completely ridiculous” sex assault allegations
Jason Merritt/Getty Images For the first time since his career was derailed by a pair of sexual assault allegations that surfaced against him in 2021, former Sex and the City star Chris Noth is opening [Read More…]
Ag News
Beck’s agronomist says rootworm pressure up in Iowa
INTERVIEW: Jon Skinner, Beck’s Regional Agronomy Manager Corn rootworm pressure has increased in some parts of Iowa this growing season. Jon Skinner, regional agronomy manager with Beck’s, says the state has seen a blend of [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Weight loss drug Wegovy found to lower risk of heart attack, stroke
bymuratdeniz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A popular drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for weight loss also has heart benefits, according to preliminary results of a new study released by the drug [Read More…]