Year: 2023
Ag News
The push to get whole milk back in schools
The Chair of the House Agriculture Committee says he’ll continue his push to allow unflavored and flavored whole milk to be offered in school cafeterias. In 2010, Congress passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act which [Read More…]
ABC World News
China braces for another COVID wave, as first Lunar New Year without restrictions approaches
Rainer Puster / EyeEm/Getty Images (HONG KONG and BEIJING) — With just days to go until the Lunar New Year, throngs of bundled-up travelers shuffle their way through the freezing temperatures towards Beijing Railway Station, [Read More…]
ABC World News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she will step down: ‘It’s time’
Kerry Marshall/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced in an emotional press briefing that she will step down, saying “it’s time.” Ardern said Thursday she will not be seeking reelection [Read More…]
ABC World News
Two American citizens killed in Nepal plane crash
AlpamayoPhoto/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two U.S. citizens and two permanent U.S. residents were among those killed in the plane crash in Nepal earlier this week, State Department spokesman Ned Price said during a briefing [Read More…]
ABC National News
Illinois paramedics charged with first-degree murder to appear in court
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) — Two Illinois paramedics accused of killing a patient are expected to appear in court on Thursday. Peter J. Cadigan, 50, and Peggy Jill Finley, 45, are facing first-degree murder [Read More…]
ABC National News
Missing Pennsylvania mom found dead, DA says
Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office (PHILADELPHIA) — Missing mom Jennifer Brown has been found dead in Royersford, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele announced. Investigators responded to an industrial complex on Wednesday, Philadelphia ABC [Read More…]
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Protester killed after shooting cop near where controversial police training center set to be built: Police
avid_creative/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — An officer is in the hospital and the man who shot him has been killed following a confrontation Wednesday in a wooded area near where a police training center is set [Read More…]
ABC National News
Boston man arrested after hiring hitmen to murder wife, her boyfriend, police say
amphotora/Getty Images (BOSTON) — Mohammed Chowdhury’s alleged plan to hire contract killers to murder his wife and her boyfriend was finally coming into place on Tuesday, according to federal prosecutors. Authorities said that Chowdhury, 46, [Read More…]
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British actor Julian Sands, Hawthorne man reported missing in mountains near Los Angeles
San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department (NEW YORK) — British actor Julian Sands is one of two hikers missing in the mountains of southern California amid recent winter storms, officials from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Debt ceiling showdown looms as federal government shifts to ‘extraordinary measures’ to pay bills
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sometime Thursday, the United States is expected to reach its borrowing limit, teeing up a congressional showdown later this year with potentially devastating economic consequences. The federal [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
George Santos denies taking $3,000 intended for disabled veteran’s dying dog
WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — Rep. George Santos this week denied a Navy veteran’s claim that he allegedly ran a fundraiser for the veteran’s ill dog in 2016 — and then never shared the thousands raised. [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 1/18/23
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Atlanta 130, Dallas 122 Washington 116, New York 105 Charlotte 122, Houston 117 Oklahoma City 126, Indiana 106 Miami 124, [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Gender-affirming care for trans youth improves mental health: Study
Flavio Coelho/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Gender-affirming hormone therapy improves the mental health of transgender adolescents and teenagers, a new study released Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine showed. The study tracked over [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
What the best parenting style? ABC’s ’The Parent Test’ explores the answer
ABC/James Clark What’s the best parenting style? That’s the main question at the center of the new ABC show The Parent Test. In the show, host Ali Wentworth and expert Dr. Adolph Brown explore different ways to raise kids. “There’s [Read More…]
Weather
Winter Weather Advisory issued January 18 at 7:59PM MST until January 19 at 5:00AM MST by NWS
…WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST THURSDAY… * WHAT…Snow. Additional snow accumulations of up to two inches. * WHERE…Davison, Hanson and McCook Counties. * WHEN…Until 6 AM CST Thursday. * IMPACTS…Plan [Read More…]
ABC World News
Cake should not be brought into the office, UK food agency chief says
Photo by Cathy Scola (LONDON) — Offices should rethink bringing cake into the workplace as it may pose the same harm to colleagues’ health as passive smoking, according to Professor Susan Jebb, chairwoman of the [Read More…]
ABC National News
12-year-old catches great white shark while fishing in Florida
Courtesy of Janice Yang (NEW YORK) — A 12-year-old boy from Massachusetts caught a great white shark while on a fishing charter in Florida. Campbell Keenan spent 45 minutes fighting to reel in the fish [Read More…]
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Alleged mastermind behind shootings at New Mexico Democrats’ homes appears in court
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) — A New Mexico man, who lost his bid for the state legislature as a Republican, continues to be held without bail after his first court appearance on Wednesday since [Read More…]
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Another electrical substation damaged by gunfire in North Carolina
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Another electrical substation damaged by gunfire in North Carolina An electrical substation in North Carolina has been damaged by gunfire, marking the third incident where a substation was damaged [Read More…]
ABC National News
Death of Memphis man after traffic stop prompts federal civil rights investigation
Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The FBI and the Justice Department have opened a coordinated civil rights investigation into the recent death of a Memphis man after a confrontation with police, U.S. Attorney [Read More…]