Month: May 2024
ABC Business News
Tipping point: Viral video sparks questions about gratuities
Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Tipping has seen a shift, especially compared to pre-pandemic, when the cost of food and everything else was lower, but one man’s recent experience that went viral on social [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Airbnb launches stays at “Up” house, “Inside Out” headquarters and more ‘Icons’
Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Looking for a unique vacation destination? Airbnb is offering customers an opportunity to stay in famous homes and places such as a re-creation of the Up house [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’s’ Jonah Hauer-King on the drama’s timeless message
Peacock A heart-wrenching love story is at the center of the new limited series The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which tells the true story of a man and woman who managed to find love in one [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Dan Schneider sues ‘Quiet on Set’ producers for defamation, calls series a “hit job”
Eric Vitale/Getty Images Dan Schneider filed a defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against the creators of the Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV docuseries. Attorneys for the former television creator, who is featured [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Paul Walter Hauser joining Liam Neeson for ‘Naked Gun’ reboot, and more
Paul Walter Hauser has been tapped to star alongside Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson in Paramount Pictures’ Naked Gun reboot, according to Deadline. The new movie is based on the Naked Gun film franchise and [Read More…]
Ag News
Indiana farmer says technology is helpful with narrow planting windows
A west-central Indiana farmer says high-speed planters are helping him cover more acres as wet weather has shortened his planting window. Kevin Cox, president of the Indiana Soybean Alliance, says technological advancements have changed his [Read More…]
Ag News
White House touts rural broadband expansion, but job far from finished
The Biden administration realizes there’s still a lot of work to do when it comes to rural broadband expansion. President Biden’s Director of Strategic Engagement Will McIntee touted the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for making great [Read More…]
ABC World News
Dozens of tourists evacuated amid flooding in Kenya’s Maasai Mara Reserve
Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images (LONDON) — Authorities in Kenya have rescued dozens of tourists and hotel staff who were left stranded in Kenya’s famed Maasai Mara Game Reserve after heavy rains [Read More…]
ABC World News
What to know as China attempts to be first country to return samples from far side of the moon
Photo taken at Beijing Aerospace Control Center BACC in Beijing on Dec. 3, 2020 shows the ascender of Chang’e-5 spacecraft flying above the lunar surface. (Jin Liwang/Xinhua via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — China is [Read More…]
ABC World News
Prince William and Kate Middleton’s daughter Princess Charlotte celebrates 9th birthday
Princess Charlotte of Wales attends Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church on Dec. 25, 2023 in Sandringham, Norfolk. (Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Princess Charlotte, the second child of Prince [Read More…]
ABC National News
College protests updates: Police arrest UCLA protesters as encampment declared ‘unlawful’
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Protests have broken out at colleges and universities across the country in connection with the war in Gaza. Many pro-Palestinian protesters are calling for their colleges to divest of [Read More…]
ABC National News
Trump trial live updates: Day will begin with second contempt hearing
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 National News
Contempt hearing puts renewed focus on Trump’s rhetoric about witnesses, jurors in hush money trial
Former president Donald Trump sits in Manhattan Criminal Court for the start of the third week of his trial for falsifying documents related to hush money payments, in New York, NY, on Tuesday, April 30, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Six people between the ages of 3 and 19 shot at apartment complex
kali9/Getty Images (FORT WORTH, Texas) — At least six people ranging between the ages of 3 to 19 years old have been shot at an apartment complex in Fort Worth, Texas, police say. The incident [Read More…]
ABC National News
Fifth victim’s body recovered in Baltimore Key Bridge collapse
Salvage crews continue to remove wreckage from the Dali one month after the cargo ship collided with and caused the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge on April 26, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Chip [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Presidential debate commission sticks to schedule despite Trump’s urging
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Commission on Presidential Debates is pushing back against suggestions from the Trump campaign that it move its general debate calendar up — standing firm in its decision to hold [Read More…]
Latest News
Monument Health: Rapid City hospital ratings have risen
Bart Pfankuch, SD News Watch RAPID CITY, S.D. – After two years with the lowest possible health and safety rating from the federal government, Monument Health’s score will rise from a 1-star to a 3-star [Read More…]
Latest News
U.S. Postal Service downgrades South Dakota mail operations
Stu Whitney / South Dakota News Watch SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The U.S. Postal Service has finalized its plan to downgrade the downtown Sioux Falls post office to a local processing center, shifting non-local mail [Read More…]
ABC Health News
US maternal mortality rates fell in 2022 after three years of increases: CDC
LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Maternal mortality rates in the United States fell in 2022 after at least three years of continuous increases, new federal data shows. In 2022, 817 women in the U.S. [Read More…]
ABC Health News
No avian flu virus detected in sour cream, cottage cheese, powdered infant formula: FDA
Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Retail dairy samples recently tested for the avian flu virus, including cottage cheese and sour cream, did not detect any viable virus that would represent a risk to consumers, [Read More…]