Month: September 2024
ABC Health News
Overdose deaths have continued to drop, now at their lowest level in three years, data shows
In this Jan. 25, 2024, file photo, a used Narcan brand Naloxone nasal spray rests on the street after paramedics and police responded to a suspected fentanyl drug overdose in Portland, Oregon. — Patrick T. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
New York Magazine places reporter on leave after alleged relationship with RFK Jr.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York Magazine placed its Washington correspondent, Olivia Nuzzi, on leave this week after it learned she allegedly “had engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Georgia election board approves controversial rule change requiring ballots be hand-counted
ilbusca/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The Republican-led Georgia State Election Board on Friday passed a major rule change just a few weeks before the November election requiring the hand-counting of all ballots, prompting fears from both [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Harris campaign, Jewish groups fiercely criticize Trump preemptively blaming Jewish voters if he loses
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign and Jewish advocacy groups on Friday forcefully criticized what they called former President Donald Trump’s “dangerous” and “antisemitic” comments saying Jewish voters would be to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Lack of communication, drone issues plagued Secret Service at Trump Pennsylvania rally: Report
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Issues with a host of communications and technical difficulties with drone capabilities plagued the U.S. Secret Service at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where an assassin took a shot at [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Walz debate prep underway with Pete Buttigieg as Vance stand-in
Jeff Swensen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s preparation for the Oct. 1 vice presidential debate with Sen. JD Vance is well underway, sources familiar with the process have confirmed to ABC News. He’s [Read More…]
ABC National News
Texas man believed to be witness now arrested for murder in apparent road rage shooting
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (SELMA, Texas) — A man initially interviewed as a witness at the scene of a murder has now been arrested over a year later in the apparent road rage slaying, authorities in [Read More…]
ABC National News
Three Mile Island, site of 1979 nuclear reactor accident, reopening to power AI
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (HARRISBURG, Penn.) — Three Mile Island, the shuttered Pennsylvania nuclear power plant that was the site of a 1979 reactor accident that remains the worst commercial nuclear power plant accident [Read More…]
ABC National News
Son arrested in the murder of his father, stepmom and stepbrother: Police
Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (PAWLET, Vt.) — A son has been arrested for the murder of his father, his father’s wife and her teenage son, who were found shot to death at their Vermont home, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Eight firefighters hurt, two critically, in fire truck rollover crash while returning from California wildfire
KABC (IRVINE, Calif.) — Eight firefighters were hurt — including two critically — when the fire truck they were in rolled over while returning from a 12-hour shift battling the Airport Fire wildfire, one of [Read More…]
ABC National News
Extreme temperatures may contribute to thousands of additional deaths in the US
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Earth’s temperature continues to rise, lives could be at stake. A new study found deaths related to extreme temperatures may triple by the middle of the century, hitting [Read More…]
ABC World News
Key Hezbollah leader, commanders killed in strike in Beirut, Israel says
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike on Lebanon’s southern village of Kfar Kila on September 20, 2024. — Rabih Daher/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A key Hezbollah commander and his [Read More…]
ABC World News
Israel had hand in manufacturing pagers that exploded in Lebanon: Source
Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Israel had a hand in the manufacturing of pagers that exploded on Hezbollah operatives this week, with this type of “supply chain interdiction” operation having been planned [Read More…]
ABC World News
Conservationists persist in Latin America despite political challenges, experts say
Gaby Oraa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Conservationists in Latin America, home to some of the most important ecosystems in the world, are persisting in their environmental work despite political challenges that can sometimes [Read More…]
ABC World News
UK team performs surgery to fix rhino’s broken leg, an operation they say is world’s 1st
Knowsley Safari Park (LONDON) — A team of over ten vets – including specialist surgeons, anaesthetists, and animal keepers – have on Thursday performed what they described as a ground-breaking world-first surgery on a Rhino [Read More…]
ABC World News
Israel launches strikes on Hezbollah in wake of device explosions
People attending a funeral for victims of Tuesday’s pager attacks in Lebanon react after an explosion in a store, in southern Beirut, Sept. 18, 2024. (ABC News) (LONDON) — Israel launched a series of strikes [Read More…]
Ag News
Hillsdale County sparking ag career interests
Community leaders in southern Michigan are encouraging students to consider a career in agriculture. Scott Welden tells Brownfield 11 schools came to his farm in Hillsdale County this week to learn about the diversity of [Read More…]
Ag News
Waiting on a market bounce that never came
Jeff Pape is one of many row crop farmers facing some difficult marketing decisions as harvest gets going. “Kind of interesting talking to people that market ahead like I typically do, and just not having [Read More…]
Ag News
Cash cattle business develops Friday
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures were mostly higher, watching direct business develop and waiting for the USDA’s Cattle on Feed report, which was out after the close. October live was up $2.50 [Read More…]
Ag News
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: September 20, 2024
Dec. corn closed at $4.01 and 3/4, down 4 centsNov. soybeans closed at $10.12, down 1 and 1/4 centsOct. soybean meal closed at $317.40, down $2.50Oct. soybean oil closed at 42.16, up 41 pointsDec. wheat [Read More…]