Month: February 2024
ABC National News
Trump asks judge to delay the penalties in his civil fraud case
Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Fox News town hall at the Greenville Convention Center on Feb. 20, 2024 in Greenville, South Carolina. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — The [Read More…]
ABC National News
Parents of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie reach settlement in emotional distress lawsuit
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The parents of Gabby Petitio, the 22-year-old travel blogger who was killed by her fiancé Brian Laundrie, settled Wednesday with Laundrie’s parents and their attorney in an emotional distress [Read More…]
ABC National News
Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro ordered to return presidential records
Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro has been ordered by a federal judge to return presidential records he has in his possession. Navarro, who was then-President Donald Trump’s White House [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden calls Putin a ‘crazy SOB,’ hits Trump for Navalny comparison
President Joe Biden announces the cancellation of an additional $1.2 billion in student loan debt for about 153,000 borrowers, at meeting with community at Culver City Julian Dixon Library in Culver City, CA. (Irfan Khan [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump team insists RNC funds wouldn’t cover his legal bills, as party leadership change looms
Lara Trump, daughter-in-law to former President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump, speaks at a VFW Hall in Beaufort, S.C., Feb. 21, 2024. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — “Absolutely none” of the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Nikki Haley says Trump’s jab at her husband, serving overseas, ‘cuts deep’ because of other military families
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is addressing former President Donald Trump’s mocking jabs at her husband, Maj. Michael Haley, who is serving a one-year deployment overseas in the South Carolina National [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden touts new student debt relief as ticket to ‘chase dreams’
U.S. President Joe Biden pays a visit to Culver City for his campaign at Julian Dixon in Los Angeles, California, United States on Feb. 21, 2024. (Grace Yoon/Anadolu via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden weighs tightening asylum restrictions at the southern border, official says
Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is looking at the possibility of taking executive action to tighten asylum restrictions, an administration official confirms to ABC. One of the possibilities under consideration would [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Indigenous HOOPS program supports Indigenous youth and mental health
ABC News (NEW YORK) — DeShawn and Sharmane Joseph want to see more Indigenous athletes on the world stage. The husband-wife duo are the founders of Indigenous HOOPS — which stands for “Honoring Our Original [Read More…]
Latest News
Lawmakers wade into landowner-hunter relations with plan for special elk licenses
Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight There aren’t enough elk in the state for all the hunters who want to shoot them, yet in some areas, farmers and ranchers complain of too many elk trampling cornfields, [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Jenna Ortega dishes on her ‘Beetlejuice’ sequel character, Astrid
Netflix/Roger Kisby Jenna Ortega is opening up about her role in the forthcoming Beetlejuice sequel and why she’s excited to bring “weird, strange, off-putting stories” back to theaters. The Wednesday actress stars in the Tim [Read More…]
Ag News
Unseasonably mild to warm, wet pattern ahead across much of the Heartland
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of below-normal temperatures west of the Rockies, while warmer-than-normal weather will cover the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. Meanwhile, near- or above-normal precipitation across [Read More…]
ABC World News
Decrease in aid trucks entering Gaza as access to food dwindles, agencies say
Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images (TEL-AVIV, Israel) — The number of humanitarian aid trucks entering the war-torn Gaza Strip has decreased over the past few weeks, with the delivery of food aid to the [Read More…]
ABC National News
Mother arrested in 2005 murder of newborn found in airport bathroom
James C Hooper/Getty Images (PHOENIX) — Investigators believe they have solved a decades-old cold case, identifying the woman who allegedly killed her newborn baby and left her in an Arizona airport bathroom in 2005. The [Read More…]
ABC National News
1 in 4 children in New York City are living in poverty, study says
LAW Ho Ming/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Poverty in New York City is rising at a startling rate and it’s affecting the city’s most vulnerable residents — children, according to a newly released report. More [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Businessman Eric Hovde enters Wisconsin Senate race, setting up showdown in key battleground
Douglas Graham/Roll Call (WASHINGTON) — Republican businessman Eric Hovde officially entered the U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin this week, touting his entrepreneurial success as he tries to topple two-term Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin and help [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Arrest made in break-in of Secret Service vehicle outside Naomi Biden’s home
Mark Makela/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A 19-year-old has been charged with first-degree theft and unauthorized use of a vehicle in connection with the break-in of a Secret Service limo in November outside President Joe Biden’s [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Oppenheimer’ struts on Peacock, with debut beating ‘Super Mario Bros.’ for streamer
Universal Christopher Nolan‘s Oscar-nominated epic Oppenheimer has another record to boast about: Variety reports the acclaimed movie’s debut on Peacock beat the streamer’s previous record holder, The Super Mario Bros. Movie. As reported, the R-rated [Read More…]
Ag News
$1 million available to fund research on emerging swine disease spread by mosquitos
One million dollars is available to fund research targeting an emerging virus that threatens the U.S. pork supply. Swine Health Information Center director Dr. Megan Neiderwerder says Japanese encephalitis virus is transmitted by mosquitos and [Read More…]
Ag News
Non-traditional ag teachers filling gap in Illinois classrooms
More students than ever are enrolled in Illinois FFA, and their teachers are coming from some unlikely sources. Jennifer Waters, state coordinator at Illinois Facilitating Coordination In Agricultural Education, says the state produces around thirty [Read More…]
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