Month: March 2024
ABC Business News
Senate mulls TikTok ban amid US national security concerns
The TikTok logo on a smartphone arranged in New York, March 9, 2023. (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Senators from both sides of the aisle warned Wednesday that TikTok endangers millions of users [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Why you will likely see higher egg prices ahead of Easter
d3sign/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After months of egg prices slowly falling, the staple Easter item is on the rise again in part due to a resurgence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in egg-laying [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Road House’ debuts Thursday on Prime Video
Prime Video Prime Video releases Road House, the “adrenaline-fueled reimagining” of the 1989 Patrick Swayze cult classic, on Thursday. In the film, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Elwood Dalton, a down-on-his-luck former MMA fighter who takes a [Read More…]
Ag News
RFA to EPA: final rule disregards ethanol’s carbon benefits
Ethanol industry supporters say the Biden administration’s new automobile emissions standards miss the mark and disregard the carbon benefits of ethanol. Harold Wolle, a Minnesota farmer and president of the National Corn Growers Association, says [Read More…]
ABC World News
US airlifts more than 30 citizens out of Haiti’s capital amid gang rebellion: Officials
Diplomatic Security Services/X (WASHINGTON) — As a gang-led rebellion continues to surge through Haiti, the U.S. on Wednesday orchestrated two helicopter airlifts from Port-au-Prince — evacuating more than 30 stranded Americans to the Dominican Republic, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Riley Strain’s stepdad opens up about family’s difficult conversations as Nashville search intensifies
@MNPDNashville/X (NEW YORK) — Over 10 days into the search for missing college student Riley Strain, his family said they’re starting to have difficult conversations. “Put yourself in our shoes,” Strain’s stepfather, Chris Whiteid, told [Read More…]
Ag News
Montgomery County IL farmers talk cover crops
Farmers in Montgomery County, Illinois are taking to cover crops. Mark Schweizer converted to a cereal rye cover crop system about five years ago, and tells Brownfield he’s already seen benefits… “It just seemed like [Read More…]
Ag News
Gackle: don’t damage our trade relationship with China
The president of the American Soybean Association told House lawmakers to do no harm to the current trade relationship between the U.S. and China. Josh Gackle said it takes years to build good relationships and [Read More…]
Ag News
House Ag Committee discusses U.S.-China relationship
The House Ag Committee is taking a closer look into China’s connection to U.S. agriculture. “The world is watching us today.” In a hearing on Wednesday, U.S. trade ambassador and Indiana farmer Kip Tom told [Read More…]
ABC World News
‘Most valuable treasure’: $17 billion Spanish shipwreck from 1708 to be recovered
Bruce Yuanyue Bi/Getty Images (CARTAGENA, Colombia) — Centuries after the Spanish galleon ship San José sunk in Colombian waters and nearly a decade after it was initially discovered, the estimated $17 billion shipwreck is set [Read More…]
ABC National News
4th white Mississippi officer sentenced to 40 years after pleading guilty in torture of 2 Black men
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Rankin County sheriff’s deputy Christian Dedmon was sentenced to 40 years in prison during a hearing in federal court in Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday for his role in two [Read More…]
ABC National News
Daniel Penny to stand trial in October for NYC subway chokehold death
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Daniel Penny, the man who choked a homeless man to death last May on a New York City subway car, will stand trial beginning Oct. 8, a judge [Read More…]
ABC National News
How climate change is affecting DC’s iconic cherry blossoms
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Many of Washington’s iconic flowering cherry trees will be cut down because of climate change. While warming temperatures are causing cherry blossoms all over the world to bloom earlier, rising [Read More…]
ABC National News
New York AG pushes back on Trump’s ‘extraordinary’ request to stay $464M fraud judgment
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing back on Donald Trump’s “extraordinary” request for a stay of his $464 million civil fraud judgment, arguing the former president’s [Read More…]
ABC National News
Inmate, accomplice at large after ‘brazen’ ambush at hospital, authorities say
Boise Police Department (BOISE, Idaho) — An inmate escaped from an Idaho hospital Wednesday with an accomplice who opened fire on the correction officers transporting him, striking two, in a “brazen” attack, authorities said. Both [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
‘Uncharted’: Texas officials argue in support of sweeping immigration law amid scrutiny in court
Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday heard arguments about whether to temporarily block the state of Texas from enacting a sweeping and controversial new immigration law while [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Kari Lake zeroes in on likely Senate race with Ruben Gallego, insisting, ‘Nothing’s changed in me’
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (PHOENIX) — Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake is gearing up for a likely contest against Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, one she’s warned will get “nasty,” by leaning into former President Donald [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump keeps losing some Republican primary voters to Haley: Will it matter when he faces Biden?
Scott Olson/Getty Image (WASHINGTON) — Now two weeks after she ended her 2024 presidential campaign, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley continues to win some votes against Donald Trump in the Republican primary, despite the former [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
‘We had to get our government funded’: Speaker Johnson outlines plan to avert shutdown
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With days until a partial government shutdown deadline, Speaker Mike Johnson said the newly negotiated bill text for the funding package will be out by Wednesday afternoon, triggering a timeline [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Why pollen season is starting earlier and how it could affect allergies
Martin Leigh/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the U.S. welcomes spring, it also means the arrival of allergy season, which affects millions of people. High pollen levels can lead to a variety of symptoms including [Read More…]