Month: February 2024
ABC Politics News
Biden to visit East Palestine a year after toxic train derailment
President Biden. CREDIT: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (NEW YORK) — President Joe Biden is heading to East Palestine, Ohio, on Friday to mark one year since a train derailment spilled hazardous materials [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Sen. Joe Manchin announces he won’t run for president in 2024
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Sen. Joe Manchin, the Democrat from West Virginia, announced Friday he will not launch a 2024 bid for the White House as an independent — removing what would have [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
High school football team that beat the odds gets deserving surprises
Jeffrey Grigsby / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Cardinal Hayes High School’s football team is the definition of a ray of sunshine! Once called one of the “worst teams,” the players overcame the odds to [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Sebastian Stan calls out reporter who described disfigured character as a “beast”
L-R: Renate Reinsve, Pearson, Stan — RONNY HARTMANN/AFP via Getty Images At the Berlin Film Festival promoting his new thriller A Different Man, Sebastian Stan called out a reporter who used an arguably offensive term [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
See Disney treasures go ‘Up for Auction’ with Chris Hardwick
Steve Granitz/FilmMagic Nerdist founder — and massive Disney fan — Chris Hardwick takes viewers on a trip through Disney history in the new series Up for Auction, which is now streaming on the CW’s website [Read More…]
Ag News
USDA price outlook projects continued slide
USDA is projecting a continued downturn in commodity prices for 2024. Chief economist Seth Meyer tells Brownfield the slide began more than a year ago. “Off of those peaks in 2022. And generally speaking, the [Read More…]
Ag News
Wide temp swings & a seasonally busy weather pattern continues across the Heartland
During the next few days, a west-to-east storm track across the country will feature fast-moving storms producing generally light snow. For example, the storm system currently affecting the Midwest will cross the middle Atlantic Coast [Read More…]
Ag News
A more typical, mid-winter look or feel across much of the Heartland
Across the Corn Belt, colder air is replacing previously mild conditions. In addition, light snow is affecting the southwestern Corn Belt. Farther north, a band of snow cover from an earlier event stretches from South [Read More…]
ABC National News
Kansas City Chiefs parade shooting: Police determining ‘applicable charges’ for juvenile suspects
Police officers investigate the scene of a shooting where at least one person was killed and more than 20 others were injured after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVIII victory parade on Feb. 14, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Fulton County hearing live updates: Fani Willis doesn’t take stand on Day 2
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Scott McAfee, the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case, is set to hear arguments over motions to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, primarily over [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Anatomy of a Fall’ ranks as “most cost-effective” Oscar nominated film
‘Anatomy of a Fall’ – NEON While big-budget movies like Killers of the Flower Moon and Oppenheimer were well-represented in terms of nominations for the upcoming 96th Academy Awards, a new ranking of the Best [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Milo Ventimiglia opens up about his connection to new film ‘Land of Bad’
Courtesy of The Avenue Milo Ventimiglia’s newest film, the action thriller Land of Bad, hits close to home for the actor. “It’s deeply personal to me,” he told ABC Audio. The movie – which also stars Liam [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: Jon Hamm joins Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Landman’, and more
Meryl Streep has inked a deal to reprise her role as Loretta Durkin, the love interest to Martin Short‘s Oliver Putnam, in the fourth season of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, according to Deadline. [Read More…]
Ag News
Nonstop Planning
West-central Minnesota farmer Joe Sullivan says he uses John Deere’s Operations Center every day to help make his family farm more profitable. He tells Brownfield as crop margins tighten, honing in on costs is essential [Read More…]
ABC World News
Alexei Navalny, vocal critic of Vladimir Putin, dies in prison: Russian government
MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Alexei Navalny, the longtime Russian opposition politician and critic of Vladimir Putin — often considered to be a vocal and prominent thorn in the side of the Russian [Read More…]
ABC National News
Almost 5,000 people have died in U.S. gun violence so far in 2024
Steve Prezant/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Feb. 14 mass shooting following a parade and rally for the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl win has left one person dead and at least 21 others injured, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Kansas City authorities investigating motives behind what led up to Super Bowl parade mass shooting
Police officers investigate the scene of a shooting where at least one person was killed and more than 20 others were injured after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVIII victory parade on Feb. 14, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Body of missing Tennessee deputy who disappeared after making arrest recovered: Officials
kali9/Getty Images (KNOXVILLE, Tenn.) — The body of a deputy who disappeared after making an arrest has been recovered, authorities said Thursday night. The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office in Tennessee confirmed in a Facebook post [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
White House clashed with DOJ over special counsel report before its release, sources confirm
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department rebuffed efforts by attorneys for President Joe Biden to omit language critical of his age and memory in a report published last week by special counsel Robert [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
University of Iowa’s Caitlin Clark breaks NCAA women’s basketball scoring record
Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes dribbles against the Nebraska Cornhuskers in the second half at Pinnacle Bank Arena, Feb. 11, 2024, in Lincoln, Neb. — Steven Branscombe/Getty Images (IOWA CITY, Iowa) — Caitlin Clark, [Read More…]