Month: May 2024
News
DWU Director of Nursing joins state board
Dr. Penny Tilton, Dakota Wesleyan University’s Administrative Chair of Nursing, was recently appointed to the South Dakota Board of Nursing. According to its website, the Board of Nursing exists “to safeguard life, health, and the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
“Hey, buddy!” Reclusive ‘Seinfeld’ star Michael Richards supports Jerry at ‘Unfrosted’ premiere
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images Michael Richards, the Emmy winner who played Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld, has mostly stayed out of the spotlight after an infamous 2006 onstage racist meltdown, but he was back [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Ryan Gosling and ‘SNL”s Mikey Day return as Beavis and Butt-Head at ‘Fall Guy’ premiere
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic The Los Angeles premiere of Ryan Gosling’s latest movie, The Fall Guy on Tuesday, April 30, featured a couple of surprise guests: Beavis and Butt-Head — aka Gosling and Mikey Day, reprising their live-action [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: Prime Video gives ‘Cross’ an early second season renewal, and more
Ahead of its series debut, Prime Video has already ordered a second season of its detective series Cross, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series, based on James Patterson’s bestselling books, follows the titular detective [Read More…]
Ag News
Carbon emissions legislation re-emerges in IL General Assembly
Carbon emissions legislation has re-emerged in the Illinois General Assembly. Kevin Johnson, president of the Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association, says the two bills targeting trucking emissions build off a proposal that failed to advance [Read More…]
Ag News
Central IL farmer pleased with H-2A experience
A central Illinois farmer says the H-2A Temporary Agricultural Workers program has been vital to their operation. Jeff Brown, who grows corn, soybeans, and wheat, tells Brownfield… “It’s a great thing.” He says, “This year [Read More…]
Ag News
EPA explains year-round E15 timing
There’s an explanation for why the EPA delayed implementation of year-round E15 for eight midwestern states until next year, and then granted an emergency order allowing E15 sales this summer in those same states. EPA’s [Read More…]
Ag News
The Importance of Infrastructure
USB prioritizes investments in infrastructure to keep U.S. soybean growers in a global leadership position. In this Checkoff Chat, Philip Good, United Soybean Board Secretary and Mississippi soybean farmer, talks about why checkoff dollars are [Read More…]
ABC World News
‘Large-scale massacre’ looms in Sudan city surrounded by paramilitary forces, US warns
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (LONDON) — The U.S. is warning of a looming potential “large scale massacre” in El Fasher, a city in Sudan, as troops from the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group and allied militias encircle [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump to swing through two battleground states for first time since start of criminal hush money trial
Former U.S. President Donald Trump returns to the courtroom after a break during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on April [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Kamala Harris travels to Florida as six-week abortion ban goes into effect
Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday, to focus on abortion access — the same day the state’s six-week abortion ban goes [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Justice Stephen Breyer’s blunt message to Supreme Court conservatives: ‘Slow down’
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retired from the high court in 2022 but isn’t finished prodding his former conservative colleagues to abandon what he sees as an aggressive tack to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
DEA plans to back reclassifying marijuana as less serious drug, sources say
Oksana Smith / EyeEm/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a historic shift, the Drug Enforcement Administration supports recommending the reclassification of marijuana as a less dangerous drug, moving it from a Schedule 1 classification, alongside drugs [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump says ‘it depends’ if there will be violence if he loses 2024 election to Biden
Former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom during his hush money trial at Manhattan criminal court, Apr. 26, 2024, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump is [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Florida’s strictest abortion ban takes effect, prohibiting abortions after 6 weeks of pregnancy
The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Florida’s law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy took effect on Wednesday, becoming one of the most restrictive states in the country on abortion access. Florida’s six-week [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Survey: 3 in 4 Americans feel that mental health takes a back seat to physical health
xijian/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Even though one in five Americans lives with a mental illness, many feel it is not adequately addressed, with a new survey from West Health and Gallup suggesting that three [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Fed expected to hold interest rates steady at highest level since 2001
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve is set to announce a decision on Wednesday about whether to adjust its benchmark interest rate, just days after new government data showed that the economy is [Read More…]
ABC National News
Uber and Lyft alternatives say they will launch in Minneapolis soon … just not today
Max Nesterak , Minnesota Reformer May 1 was supposed to be a big day in Minneapolis for emerging ride-hail companies, with at least nine startups saying they would launch in the Twin Cities and claim the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
“Miracles happen”: Robert Downey Jr. on Jeremy Renner’s recovery from snowplow accident
Marvel Studios By now, fans know how Jeremy Renner bounced back from a 2023 snowplow accident that nearly killed him. However, a new Vanity Fair piece on Chris Hemsworth gives a peek at what Renner’s [Read More…]
Ag News
Scattered showers & locally severe t-storms returning to parts of the Heartland
Across the Corn Belt, spotty showers and thunderstorms have returned parts of the region, extending from the western Great Lakes, southwestward. Meanwhile, warm weather is returning across the southwestern Corn Belt, well in advance of [Read More…]
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