Month: June 2024
ABC Business News
Fed holds interest rates steady at 23-year high
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve decided to hold its benchmark interest rate steady on Wednesday, prolonging an aggressive fight against inflation despite fresh data hours earlier that showed a slight cooldown of [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Oklahoma girl becomes first pediatric patient to undergo robotic deep brain stimulation
Getty Images – STOCK (BETHANY, Okla.) — An Oklahoma girl has become the first pediatric patient in the world to have robotic deep brain stimulation performed on her, two hospitals have announced. The patient, 8-year-old [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
ACLU files federal complaint against new Biden asylum rule
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Texas Civil Rights Project and other civil rights organizations have filed a federal complaint challenging a recent executive order from President Joe Biden, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
House Republicans vote to hold Garland in contempt over Biden interview audio
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans on Wednesday afternoon passed a resolution to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Biden’s interview with [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
White House doesn’t rule out potential commutation for Hunter Biden
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House on Wednesday declined to rule out a presidential commutation for Hunter Biden following his conviction earlier this week on federal gun charges. When asked specifically by a [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Marianne Williamson signals the end of her 2024 bid now that presidential primaries have ended
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Marianne Williamson, an author and speaker who was President Joe Biden’s final Democratic opponent, said earlier this week that she is no longer a candidate for the party’s nomination now [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden, Zelenskyy to sign US-Ukraine security agreement at G7 summit
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will sign a bilateral security agreement at the G7 summit Thursday that will pledge long-term defense and security cooperation. “We want to [Read More…]
ABC National News
New video shows interrogation of Florida woman accused of fatally shooting neighbor
Getty Images – STOCK (OCALA, Fla.) — The Marion County Sheriff’s Office released video of detectives questioning Susan Lorincz, the Florida woman charged in the fatal shooting of Ajike “AJ” Owens, a Black mother of [Read More…]
ABC National News
Gov. DeSantis declares state of emergency in South Florida as heavy rain leads to ‘major flooding’
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) — Parts of southern Florida continued to get inundated with heavy rainfall Wednesday, with Gov. Ron DeSantis declaring a state of emergency tonight for several counties, including Broward, Collier, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Man killed in Georgia bus hijacking shot by suspect with his own gun: Police
ABC (ATLANTA) — The suspect in a bus hijacking that prompted a police chase in Georgia allegedly got into a fight with a passenger before fatally shooting him with the victim’s own gun, authorities said. [Read More…]
ABC National News
Body of skier missing since May recovered from Washington park
Getty Images – STOCK (PARADISE, Wash.) — Park rangers have recovered the body of a dead female skier from the base of Pebble Creek’s Moraine Falls above Paradise at Mount Rainier National Park. Rangers had [Read More…]
ABC National News
Parkland’s 1200 building will be torn down this week. Two grieving moms say it’s long overdue.
Saul Martinez/Getty Images (PARKLAND, Fla.) — For more than six years, the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sat untouched like a time capsule, with its classrooms still filled with dried blood and [Read More…]
ABC World News
Pentagon downplays Russian warships arriving in Cuba
Getty Images – STOCK (RUSSIA) — The Pentagon is downplaying Wednesday’s arrival of four Russian Navy ships in Cuba as U.S. officials acknowledge that U.S. Navy ships “actively monitored” the Russian ships as they made [Read More…]
Ag News
Summer drought conditions possible
Brownfield’s meteorologist says farmers should prepare for El Nino to shift to La Nina sooner rather than later. Greg Soulje tells Brownfield he expects the shift to cause drought conditions to intensify throughout the summer. “As [Read More…]
Ag News
H5N1 detected in third Iowa dairy herd
Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a third Iowa dairy herd. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship says the case involves a farm in Sioux County in the northwest part of [Read More…]
Ag News
House Appropriations subcommittee approves 2025 USDA funding cuts
A House Appropriations subcommittee is proposing more cuts to the USDA’s budget. During Tuesday’s markup of the 2025 budget, Ranking Member Sanford Bishop stressed the need to better fund the Economic Research Service and National [Read More…]
Ag News
Kansas farmer says drought improvements provide a breath of fresh air
Kansas farmer Craig Meeker says timely rains have made all the difference for his operation. “We are in really good condition today here in South Central Kansas,” he says. “Harvesting probably one of my top [Read More…]
Ag News
Corn sees post-WASDE gain, with soybeans, wheat down
Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. The lone change for carryout projections was that new crop U.S. ending stocks were up on the month following a reduction in the old crop crush. That [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Parents looking to ‘Dune’, ‘Bridgerton’ & more for baby name inspiration
Galina Zhigalova/Getty Images Parents can take inspiration from anywhere when deciding what to name their babies, with pop culture a common source for many over the years. Well, this year seems to be no different. [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Olivia Colman and Antonio Banderas spice up trailer for prequel ‘Paddington in Peru’
StudioCanal The third installment of the hit CG and live-action Paddington movies now has a trailer, and the promo for Paddington in Peru shows off some new friends for the cuddly bear in the red hat. Once again, [Read More…]