Year: 2024
ABC Business News
Teamsters president to rally with workers as Amazon strike set to go into 2nd day
Amazon workers in New York striking Thursday morning. Image via WABC. (NEW YORK) — Workers affiliated with the Teamsters began striking at Amazon facilities across the country Thursday morning — in what the union calls [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Rose Byrne, Meghann Fahy to star in ‘The Good Daughter’ limited series
William Morrow The limited series adaptation of The Good Daughter has found its stars. Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Karin Slaughter, the upcoming Peacock series will star Rose Byrne and [Read More…]
ABC National News
Raw oysters linked to norovirus outbreak leaves at least 80 sickened in Los Angeles
Alexander Spatari/Getty Images/STOCK (LOS ANGELES) — An event celebrating the top restaurants in Los Angeles left at least 80 people sickened with norovirus due to an outbreak linked to raw oysters, LA County’s Department of [Read More…]
ABC National News
ICE removed largest number of people in US illegally since 2014: report
Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — U.S. immigration authorities in 2024 removed the largest number of people in the country illegally in a decade, according to a new report. In fiscal year 2024, Immigration [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump endorses GOP leadership’s spending deal that would avert shutdown
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed a spending deal that House Republican leadership said it had reached to continue to fund the government through March and avoid a government shutdown at the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘The Housemaid’ film starring Amanda Seyfried, Sydney Sweeney gets release date
Grand Central Publishing The Housemaid film adaptation has a release date. On Thursday, the cast of the upcoming film shared a fun video announcing that the movie is coming to theaters on Dec. 25, 2025. The video, [Read More…]
Ag News
Rep. Mann applauds decision to remove Kansas from NIETC project
A U.S. Congressman from Kansas is applauding the U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to remove the state from a proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor. Tracey Mann tells Brownfield the primary concern for farmers was [Read More…]
Ag News
Gonzalez named outstanding Wisconsin Ag in Classroom teacher
A second-grade teacher in the Milwaukee Public School system, has been named the 2024 Wisconsin Outstanding Teacher by Wisconsin’s Agriculture in the Classroom program. Ag in the Classroom coordinator Beth Schaefer tells Brownfield Joshua Gonzalez [Read More…]
Ag News
U.S. Senate passes Water Resources Development Act
The 2024 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) is on its way to the President’s desk to be signed into law. Soy Transportation Coalition executive director Mike Steenhoek says last minute passage by the U.S. Senate [Read More…]
Ag News
Government funding agreement falls apart, shutdown looms, new deal emerging
Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski says the proposed Continuing Resolution to fund the government, extend the farm bill, and bring disaster aid to producers is stumbling. “I’m very concerned about the fact that an unelected billionaire like [Read More…]
Ag News
USDA makes additional investments in fertilizer expansion
The USDA’s Fertilizer Production Expansion Program is awarding $116 million in grants to eight new projects. Michigan Rural Development Deputy State Director Valarie Handy tells Brownfield nearly 70 percent of this week’s funding announcement has [Read More…]
ABC National News
FBI says man was plotting attack with Madison school shooting suspect
Scott Olson/Getty Images (CARISBAD, Calif.) — A judge granted a gun violence protective order against a Carlsbad, California, man who authorities allege was communicating with the Abundant Life Christian School shooting suspect. Carlsbad police filed the [Read More…]
ABC National News
Judge in Uvalde criminal case denies motion to dismiss charges, sets tentative trial date
Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images, FILE A judge has denied a motion to dismiss charges in the Uvalde, Texas, criminal case stemming from the 2022 mass shooting and has set a tentative trial date. Former Uvalde [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Democrats dig in while GOP negotiates with themselves as shutdown looms
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — GOP House leaders and Vice-President-elect JD Vance continue to meet behind closed doors in Speaker Mike Johnson’s office Thursday to craft a path forward and reach a budget deal — [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump says he gave permission to Elon Musk to trash GOP-proposed spending bill on X
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump, after rejecting House Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to avoid a government shutdown, worked the phones on Thursday, showing wavering confidence in Johnson and claiming he is aligned [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Ghostbusters’ animated film coming from Sony Animation, Netflix: Report
Sony Who you gonna call? Sony Animation and Netflix are teaming up for a Ghostbusters animated film, Deadline reports. While plot details are under wraps and the project is currently in early development, Kris Pearn [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Tom Holland on working with Zendaya: ‘Best thing that’s ever happened to me’
Karwai Tang/WireImage via Getty Images Tom Holland and Zendaya have made three films together, and they recently signed on for a fourth one. Holland, who is in a relationship with Zendaya, opened up about the [Read More…]
Ag News
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: December 19, 2024
Mar. corn closed at $4.40 and 3/4, up 3 and 1/2 centsJan. soybeans closed at $9.63, up 11 and 1/4 centsJan. soybean meal closed at $284.10, up $4.60Jan. soybean oil closed at 40.01, up 46 [Read More…]
Ag News
Additional cash cattle business develops Thursday afternoon
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures were down sharply ahead of the USDA’s Cattle on Feed numbers, out Friday afternoon. Ahead of the report, on average, analysts expect all major categories to be [Read More…]
Ag News
Soybeans, corn both bounce off recent lows
Soybeans were higher on fund and technical buying. Contracts found some new interest near the recent mutli-year lows, helped out by good weekly sales and unknown destinations buying U.S. beans Thursday morning. The weekly total [Read More…]