Month: April 2024
ABC Entertainment News
Online casino looks into ‘Joker’ sequel’s Oscar odds for Joaquin and Gaga
Warner Bros. Pictures The teaser trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux debuted on April 9, but an online casino is already looking at its chances at the Oscars. Joaquin Phoenix took home his first Oscar [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: Pacino haunts exorcism thriller ‘The Ritual’, and more
Netflix has tapped Thandiwe Newton for a role in the third season of the hit series Wednesday, according to Variety. The Westworld actress joins fellow series newcomer Steve Buscemi. All that’s known about season 2 [Read More…]
Ag News
La Nina transition could bring moisture to Corn Belt
An atmospheric scientist says the transition to the La Nina weather pattern is underway. Matt Makens tells Brownfield he’s expecting the current southern storm flow to shift to the central and northern crop growing states. [Read More…]
Ag News
Chilly weather across much of the Corn Belt; fair & mild on much of the Plains
Across the Corn Belt, sub-freezing temperatures were reported Wednesday morning in the upper Midwest, extending as far south as northern Iowa. Although some corn and soybeans have been planted in the freeze-affected areas, little emergence [Read More…]
Ag News
Finding Value in Different Parts of the Soybean
From the whole soybean to the meal and the oil, diversifying demand for the soybean creates more opportunity and more value. In this Checkoff Chat, Gary Berg, an Illinois farmer and a United Soybean Board [Read More…]
ABC World News
Loose horses, one soaked in blood, wreak havoc in central London
Two horses on the loose bolt through the streets of London near Aldwych. Picture date: Wednesday April 24, 2024. (Jordan Pettitt/PA Images via Getty Images) (LONDON) — As many as five horses — and at [Read More…]
ABC National News
Student protesters begin dismantling some tents as negotiations with Columbia University progress
A man walks past Israeli and US flags alongside portraits of Israelis taken hostage by the militant Palestinian group Hamas in front of the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University in New York on April 23, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Amid Boeing safety probe, clock ticks on effort to disclose details of 2021 DOJ deal over 737 Max crashes
Photo. Keith Draycott/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An influential, deep-pocketed suspect under criminal investigation. Secret negotiations with federal prosecutors to hammer out a deal. A lack of consultation with victims of the crime. Those are [Read More…]
ABC National News
Dolphin found shot to death on beach with bullets lodged in its brain, spinal cord and heart
Audubon Aquarium Rescue (NEW YORK) — A juvenile bottlenose dolphin was found shot to death with bullets lodged in its brain, spinal cord and heart and now authorities are offering a handsome reward for information [Read More…]
ABC National News
District attorney files response opposing a motion by Scott Peterson’s defense team for DNA testing
POOL/ABC News (NEW YORK) — The district attorney in Stanislaus County, California, has filed new paperwork in court opposing a motion by Scott Peterson’s defense team — the Los Angeles Innocence Project — for DNA [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Supreme Court takes up Trump’s claim of ‘absolute immunity’ from criminal prosecution
Former president Donald Trump speaks to the press during his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, Apr. 22, 2024. (Angela Weiss/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Against the backdrop of a divisive [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Supreme Court to weigh scope of Idaho abortion ban in first post-Roe test
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, for the first time since overruling Roe v. Wade, will consider the scope of a state abortion ban and whether a federal law governing [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
How the Supreme Court stepping into the Trump immunity fray could affect a Jan. 6 trial
Walter Bibikow/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would decide whether former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution in the federal government’s election subversion case, many court experts considered [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Senate passes $95B foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan: What’s next?
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Tuesday night passed a package to deliver $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan — a bipartisan win months in the making. The package [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
George Santos ends long shot comeback bid for Congress after being expelled
Rep. George Santos is surrounded by journalists as he leaves the Capitol after his fellow members of Congress voted to expel him from the House of Representatives, Dec. 1, 2023. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Idina Menzel announces tour including Broadway hits from ‘Wicked,’ ‘Rent’ and more
Scott Kowalchyk/CBS Idina Menzel will be bringing Broadway hits to the concert stage. The Rent star announced her Take Me or Leave Me Tour on Tuesday, which will be kicking off in mid-July and running [Read More…]
Ag News
A very mild to warm pattern ahead for the Heartland; seasonal rains to showery for most
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures and precipitation across most of the U.S. Cooler-than-normal conditions will be confined to the Northwest. Meanwhile, drier-than-normal weather should [Read More…]
ABC National News
Ex-cop suspected of killing ex-wife, girlfriend dies from self-inflicted gunshot wound, police say
Getty Images – STOCK (WEST RICHLAND, Wash.) — A former police officer suspected in the killings of his ex-wife and girlfriend has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, officials said Tuesday night. [Read More…]
ABC National News
Douglas C-54 plane crashes near river in Fairbanks, Alaska
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (FAIRBANKS, Alaska) — A Douglas C-54 aircraft transporting fuel crashed into a frozen river shortly after takeoff Tuesday in Fairbanks, Alaska, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Two people were on [Read More…]
ABC National News
Students at NYU, Yale, others face arrests, protests amid calls for Israel divestment
NYPD officers detain pro-Palestinian students and protesters who had set up an encampment on the campus of New York University to protest the Israel-Hamas war, in New York on April 22, 2024. (Alex Kent/AFP via [Read More…]