Month: May 2024
ABC Politics News
Senate considers making Black Wall Street a national monument
Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — More than 100 years after the nation’s deadliest race massacre, the Senate is considering a bipartisan bill to grant national monument status to Greenwood, Oklahoma, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
House GOP pushes bill to force Biden to continue transfer of weapons to Israel
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Fallout continues on Capitol Hill over President Joe Biden’s pause of a bomb shipment to Israel, and his warning the U.S. won’t supply weapons that could be [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Drug overdose deaths fell in 2023, 1st decrease in 5 years: CDC
Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Drug overdose deaths fell in 2023, marking the first decrease in five years, new provisional federal data published Wednesday showed. An estimated 107,543 Americans died of drug overdoses in [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Why a Texas divorce case could impact IVF care in the state
fstop123/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An acrimonious divorce between a Texas couple fighting over their frozen embryos could end up having an impact on in vitro fertilization care in the entire state, and possibly a [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Walgreens announces it will sell generic version of over-the-counter Narcan
RiverNorthPhotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Walgreens Boots Alliance announced Wednesday that it plans to sell its own generic version of the overdose reversal drug Narcan. Narcan is given as a nasal spray and the active [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Red Lobster closes multiple locations as company prepares to file for bankruptcy
In this undated file photo, a Red Lobster Restaurant is shown. (Jeff Greenberg/UIG via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Red Lobster has abruptly closed at least 99 locations across the country with restaurants shutting their [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Inflation cooled slightly in April, ending monthslong surge in prices
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Consumer prices rose 3.4% in April compared to a year ago, slowing slightly from the previous month and offering a welcome sign for the Federal Reserve in its yearslong inflation [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Paul Walter Hauser joining Major League Wrestling for Battle Riot event
Courtesy MLW If you think you’ve heard the name Paul Walter Hauser a lot lately, you’re not wrong: After winning an Emmy for Apple TV+’s Black Bird, he’s not only snagged the lead in the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Angie Harmon speaks out for 1st time since delivery person shot and killed family dog
ABC News Actress Angie Harmon is opening up for the first time after her family dog Oliver was shot and killed by an Instacart delivery person at her North Carolina home. “It’s so unfathomable to think that there [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: ‘Only Murders’ drops fourth season trailer, and more
Hulu has dropped the first trailer for Only Murders in the Building‘s fourth season. The upcoming season finds Charles, Oliver and Mabel — played respectively by Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez — in [Read More…]
Ag News
USDA issues first look at beef and pork production for 2025
The USDA has projected beef production to decline again in 2025, while it raised its pork production outlook. University of Missouri’s Scott Brown says the 1.5-billion-pound decline for beef is a lot. “It just tells [Read More…]
Ag News
More wet weather parts of the Corn Belt; new showers develop on the Plains, storms south
Across the Corn Belt, lingering showers will sustain a slow pace of fieldwork, although Midwestern producers in and around Illinois may see a window of opportunity for planting. As of May 13, Illinois farmers had [Read More…]
Ag News
The Importance of the See For Yourself Program
The United Soybean Board’s See for Yourself program provides soybean farmers from across the country an opportunity to evaluate the work of the checkoff firsthand. In this Checkoff Chat, Brent Gatton, a Kentucky farmer and [Read More…]
ABC World News
US to send additional $2 billion in Ukraine aid, Blinken says
pop_jop/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The United States will provide an additional $2 billion in aid to Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday during a press conference in Kyiv with Ukrainian Foreign Minister [Read More…]
ABC World News
Deadly clashes intensify in El Fasher, Darfur, amid international calls for end to Sudan civil war
Newly arrived refugees from Darfur in Sudan sit on a vehicle before being taken to a new camp on April 24, 2024 in Adre, Chad. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) (LONDON) — Fighting between the Sudanese Army [Read More…]
ABC National News
Four big takeaways from Day 17 of Trump’s hush money trial
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Across two days of testimony in former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen detailed Donald Trump’s extensive involvement in an alleged scheme to hide [Read More…]
ABC National News
Eight teens taken to hospital after ingesting marijuana edibles during school field trip: Authorities
ABC News/KABC-TV (LOS ANGELES) — Eight teenagers got “acutely ill” and were transported to the hospital after ingesting marijuana edibles during a field trip to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, authorities said. [Read More…]
ABC National News
Michael Cohen testifies about how Trump turned his life ‘upside down’
Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen departs from his home to attend his second day of testimony at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 14, 2024 in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) [Read More…]
ABC National News
Air Force prosecutors ask for new charges for Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira
Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Air Force prosecutors on Tuesday asked a military hearing officer to recommend that Jack Teixeira, an Air National Guardsman, be court-martialed for disobeying orders and obstructing justice after leaking national defense [Read More…]
ABC National News
Boeing breached 2021 deferred prosecution agreement: DOJ
The exterior of the Boeing Company headquarters is seen on March 25, 2024 in Arlington, Virginia. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice has notified a federal court in Texas that it has [Read More…]