Month: May 2024
ABC Health News
Mask restrictions prompt concern, fear from disabled North Carolina residents
MoMo Productions/Getty Images (RALEIGH, N.C.) — Disabled North Carolina residents say a mask restriction that is under consideration in the state legislature would make it harder for them to access parts of their communities, pushing [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Abbott Elementary”s Quinta Brunson wants in on Hallmark Christmas movies
ABC Even though she grew up a Jehovah’s Witness and doesn’t celebrate Christmas, Quinta Brunson has the perfect holiday gift in mind for herself. The Emmy-winning creator, writer and star of Abbott Elementary revealed on [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Universal Pictures teases untitled 2026 “event film” from Steven Spielberg
ABC Steven Spielberg will once again team up with Universal Pictures for an as-yet-untitled project that the studio just teased only as an “event” picture slated for May 15, 2026. According to Deadline, the project [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Winona Ryder, Jenna Ortega, Michael Keaton and more in new trailer to ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’
Warner Bros. Pictures Winona Ryder, as a now-adult Lydia Deetz, personally introduces the brand-new trailer to the anticipated sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. “Here’s a preview,” she says, wearing a goth black dress and matching bangs. “Be [Read More…]
Ag News
Cattle futures lower ahead of On Feed report
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were lower ahead of widespread direct business and Friday’s On Feed report. June live cattle closed $.65 lower at $183.52 and August live cattle closed $.60 [Read More…]
Ag News
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: May 23, 2024
Jul. corn closed at $4.64, up 2 and 3/4 centsJul. soybeans closed at $12.39 and 1/4, down 7 centsJul. soybean meal closed at $376.70, down $1.50Jul. soybean oil closed at 45.19, down 69 pointsJul. wheat [Read More…]
Ag News
House Ag Committee farm bill markup underway
Democratic and Republican members of the House Ag Committee came out swinging as the group began its markup of the farm bill. Ranking Member David Scott in opening comments voiced discontent. “I cannot, and I [Read More…]
Ag News
Corn sees good gains with wheat mostly up
Soybeans were lower on profit taking and technical selling. The trade continues to monitor U.S. planting delays and the impact of heavy flooding in southern Brazil. That flooding and crop loss in Brazil has pushed [Read More…]
Ag News
April poultry production surges higher
Poultry production was up sharply in April. The USDA says 4.426 billion pounds of poultry were certified wholesome in April 2024, up 10% from April 2023. That big year-to-year rise was due to a much [Read More…]
ABC World News
Why British PM Rishi Sunak called snap election for July 4, according to expert
Henry Nicholls – WPA Pool/Getty Images (LONDON) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called for a snap general election in the United Kingdom on July 4, despite having until January of next year to [Read More…]
ABC World News
Israel-Gaza live updates: Israel expands operations into central Rafah: IDF
Palestinians look at the rubble of a family house that was hit overnight in Israeli bombardment in the Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood of Rafah in southern Gaza on May 20, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between [Read More…]
ABC National News
Officer involved in Scottie Scheffler arrest violated body-worn camera policy: Chief
Louisville Metro Police Department (LOUISVILLE, Ky.) — A Louisville, Kentucky, police officer violated department policy when he failed to turn on his body-worn camera during a traffic incident involving golf star Scottie Scheffler during the [Read More…]
ABC National News
NOAA predicts record hurricane season for 2024
George Doyle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued its highest-on record May hurricane forecast for the upcoming hurricane season. All categories of storms are expected to exceed the typical [Read More…]
ABC National News
NASA announces new launch date for Boeing’s Starliner astronaut-crewed mission after several delays
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — NASA announced the new target launch date for the first astronaut-crewed flight into space aboard Boeing’s Starliner after several delays. The first flight will attempt to launch on Saturday, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Trump trial updates: Appeals court denies defense’s bid for judge’s recusal
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Justice Department seeks breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster through major antitrust suit
In this April 17, 2024, file photo, the Live Nation website is shown on a laptop in New York. (Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department and dozens of state and district attorneys [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Netflix drops official trailer to ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’
Netflix The official trailer for Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is here, and Eddie Murphy again brings the laughs — and the action. Plot details are scarce, but the trailer shows that once again Foley [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
“You know better than that”: Jennifer Lopez shoots down Ben Affleck divorce question at press conference
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Netflix A press event for their new sci-fi movie Atlas ended with some turbulence on Wednesday, when Jennifer Lopez and Simu Liu shut down a question regarding rumors Lopez’s marriage to [Read More…]
ABC National News
Highest-on record early season hurricane outlook issued by NOAA
George Doyle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued its highest-ever early-season hurricane forecast for the upcoming hurricane season. All categories of storms are expected to exceed the typical number [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
US Supreme Court says South Carolina election map doesn’t impermissibly exclude Black voters
Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a Republican-drawn South Carolina congressional district, reversing lower court rulings that had struck it down as a product of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering that [Read More…]