Month: June 2024
ABC Politics News
President Biden to pardon veterans convicted under regulation used to keep LGBT members from serving
President Joe Biden speaks at an event in the East Room at the White House, June 18, 2024, in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he will pardon U.S. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden administration’s asylum executive action decreased encounters by 40%: DHS
grandriver/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s executive action on asylum, which was rolled out three weeks ago, has decreased encounters along the border by 40%, the Biden administration said. The executive action established a [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Hillary Clinton offers debate advice for Biden on how to handle Trump
In this Oct. 9, 2016 file photo Republican nominee Donald Trump (R) watches Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis. (Saul Loeb/POOL/AFP via Getty Images, FILE) (WASHINGTON) [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Advocates renew calls for rule to require technology that prevents hot car deaths
Guido Mieth/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Across the street from the Department of Transportation’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., advocates working to prevent the deaths of children in hot cars recently hung 1,086 colorful infant onesies underneath [Read More…]
ABC National News
Minnesota’s Rapidan Dam at risk of ‘failure’ amid severe flooding
High water levels at the Rapidan Dam on the Blue Earth River in Mankato, Minn., June 24, 2024. (Ben Brewer/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — As southern Minnesota battles an onslaught of rain and [Read More…]
ABC National News
NASA astronauts stuck waiting aboard ISS to return to Earth amid issues with Boeing’s Starliner
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launches from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on June 5, 2024. (Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP [Read More…]
ABC National News
Family sues children’s hospital, Texas officials for ‘unlawful’ removal of their children
Courtesy of Lorina Bourne (NEW YORK) — Nearly 10 years ago, Lorina Bourne and Jason Troy say their children were taken from them when a flawed investigation by child protective services led Texas state officials [Read More…]
ABC National News
Families sue over Louisiana Ten Commandments classroom requirement
Geo Piatt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A multifaith group of Louisiana families with children in public schools is suing to challenge Louisiana’s new law requiring all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. HB [Read More…]
ABC World News
Assange lands in Australia after pleading guilty in US court
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hugs his wife, Stella Assange, after arriving at Canberra Airport in Canberra on June 26, 2024. (William West/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Julian Assange arrived on Wednesday in his [Read More…]
ABC World News
American reporter Evan Gershkovich arrives in Russian court for secret espionage trial
U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage, looks out from inside a glass defendants’ cage prior to a hearing in Yekaterinburg’s Sverdlovsk Regional Court on June 26, 2024. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — [Read More…]
ABC World News
US military delivers supplies to Gaza via pier, but there’s no one to distribute them
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — U.S. officials are defending President Joe Biden’s decision to build a $230 million temporary pier off Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid as a better-than-nothing solution to the worsening crisis there, even [Read More…]
ABC World News
American woman goes missing while attending yoga retreat in the Bahamas
Royal Bahamas Police Force (NEW YORK) — An American who traveled to the Bahamas to attend a yoga retreat has been missing for nearly a week, her family and police said. Taylor Casey, 41, of [Read More…]
ABC World News
Julian Assange pleads guilty at hearing in the Northern Mariana Islands
An airplane (C) that carried Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is pictured on the tarmac at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok on June 25, 2024. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Julian Assange pleaded [Read More…]
Ag News
Minnesota leaders survey flood damage, talk ag impact
State and federal leaders surveyed flood damage in south-central Minnesota Tuesday. Governor Tim Walz said he was struck by the enormity of the situation. “Just the number of fields, and looked like crop damage that’s [Read More…]
Ag News
Inspections of avocados and mangos resume after additional safety measure put in place
Inspections of avocados and mangos from a Mexican state are set to gradually resume following the temporary pause over an assault on inspectors. Two inspectors were illegally detained last week during field inspections in the [Read More…]
Ag News
Crop losses could push feed costs higher
Crop losses from heavy rains and flooding could push feed costs higher for livestock producers. Rachel Gray with Little Timber Farms in north-central Minnesota says while hay conditions look good. “I think (the adverse weather) [Read More…]
Ag News
Prevent plant claims can be complicated
Photo: Farmers of Mill Creek farmer-led watershed group meet to discuss prevent plant options 6/25/24 A crop insurance agent says filing prevent plant claims can be complicated, and that’s especially true if newly-rented acres are [Read More…]
Ag News
Ohio Pork Producers visit Capitol Hill for USO BBQ
Ohio pork was featured at the recent National Capital Barbeque Battle in Washington, D.C. Ohio pork farmer and a director for the National Pork Board Rich Deaton said the organization showcased various pork items. “We [Read More…]
News
I-29 reopened in extreme southeast South Dakota
At 3 p.m. (CT) on Tuesday, June 25th, state officials reopened the northbound and southbound lanes on Interstate 29 from exit 2 to exit 26 in southeast South Dakota. Motorists are advised that while all [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Film academy invites Lily Gladstone, Catherine O’Hara and hundreds more to join
Emma McIntyre/Getty Images The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed the list of the hundreds of artists it has invited to join its ranks. Among the 497 invited to join the academy [Read More…]