Year: 2024
ABC National News
UnitedHealthcare CEO killing latest: Luigi Mangione expected to waive extradition in court Thursday
Luigi Mangione is seen inside the police station in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Dec. 9, 2024/Obtained by ABC News (NEW YORK) — Luigi Mangione, the accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is expected to waive extradition when [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
‘Total dumpster fire’: Republicans fume over speaker’s spending plan days from shutdown deadline
Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Several House Republicans stormed out of Tuesday morning’s conference meeting furious over Speaker Mike Johnson’s handling of the government funding bill – which still isn’t ready and [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Peter Kavinsky is back in ‘XO, Kitty’ season 2 trailer
Park Young-Sol/Netflix Kitty Song Covey is bringing on the chaos in the trailer for season 2 of XO, Kitty. The second season of the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before spinoff show finds Kitty, [Read More…]
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Monitoring Indiana’s biggest state issues in 2025
Pictured: Katrina Hall, Indiana Farm Bureau with Brownfield’s Erin Anderson Water protections and taxes are two top legislative priorities for Indiana Farm Bureau members in 2025. Caitlin Smith is the associate director of policy engagement. [Read More…]
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Congress could be close on economic aid package for farmers
Lawmakers continue to negotiate a farm bill extension and economic aid package for farmers. U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley says House Speaker Mike Johnson indicated an agreement was reached last night. “We still don’t have text [Read More…]
Ag News
USSEC optimistic about exports under new administration
The CEO of the U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC) says he’s optimistic soybean exports can rebound under the Trump administration. Jim Sutter tells Brownfield about 60% of U.S. soybeans are exported. “I believe that the [Read More…]
ABC World News
Syrians uncovering ‘massive’ graves could find 100,000 bodies, NGO says
Bekir Kasim/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Mouaz Moustafa, the head of the U.S.-based Syrian advocacy organization, the Syrian Emergency Task Force, told ABC News Tuesday there are believed to be well over 100,000 bodies in [Read More…]
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Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect Rex Heuermann charged with 7th murder as stunning details emerge
James Carbone/Newsday RM via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has been charged with a seventh murder: the death of Valerie Mack, whose remains were first found 24 years [Read More…]
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Abundant Life Christian School shooting latest: Motive under investigation
Scott Olson/Getty Images (MADISON, Wis.) Officials are trying to figure out why a 15-year-old girl allegedly opened fire at the Christian school she attended, killing a fellow student and teacher in a heinous crime that [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Senate to vote on expanding Social Security payments for some teachers, firefighters
Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In a final lame-duck push, the Senate will attempt to pass legislation aimed at providing full Social Security benefits to millions of Americans this week. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Bluey’ animated movie from Disney to hit theaters in 2027
Ludo Studio The first-ever Bluey feature film is in the works. BBC Studios and The Walt Disney Company announced Tuesday that the beloved animated series is getting the movie treatment; it’s set to hit theaters [Read More…]
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In brief: Kristen Bell to host 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards and more
The Apple TV+ series Silo has been renewed for a third and fourth season, the streamer announced on Monday. Season 4 will also be the series’ last, bringing the Rebecca Ferguson-starring sci-fi series to its [Read More…]
Ag News
Temps gradually returning to more seasonal levels in the Heartland; new moisture for some
Across the Corn Belt, rain stretches from southern Missouri into the lower Ohio Valley. In fact, rain has become heavy enough in parts of southwestern Missouri to spark flash flooding. Meanwhile, mild weather covers the [Read More…]
Ag News
Unseasonably mild weather next week on the Plains to build eastward into the Corn Belt
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of below-normal temperatures across the eastern one-third of the U.S., while warmer-than-normal weather will stretch from the Pacific Coast to the Plains and upper [Read More…]
ABC World News
Earthquake damages US Embassy in Vanuatu
STR/AFP via Getty Images (PORT VILA, VANUATU) — The U.S. Embassy in Port Vila was damaged on Tuesday as a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. The embassy, which is in [Read More…]
ABC World News
Ukraine behind killing of Russian chemical weapons general in Moscow blast, sources say
Sefa Karacan/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — A senior Russian general was killed in a bomb blast in a residential neighborhood in Moscow, Russian media reported early Tuesday, in what Ukrainian sources told ABC News [Read More…]
ABC National News
‘Significant development’ in case against accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann
James Carbone/Newsday RM via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Prosecutors on Long Island plan to announce a “significant development” in their case against accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann on Tuesday, according to the [Read More…]
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Wisconsin school shooting latest: Attack happened inside classroom, police say
Scott Olson/Getty Images (MADISON, WI) — Details are still emerging about the course of the Madison, Wisconsin, school shooting that left three people — among them the 15-year-old female shooter — dead and several others [Read More…]
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Drone updates: No national security risk found after many tips, FBI and other federal agencies say
Richard Newstead/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The thousands of drone sightings reported over the last month in Northeastern states don’t appear to be “anything anomalous,” nor do they present a national security or public safety risk, [Read More…]
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Child shot after younger brother accesses unsecured gun: Police
Bernard Van Berg / EyeEm/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A 5-year-old girl suffered a gunshot wound in her upper body after her 3-year-old brother accessed an unsecured firearm in a southwest Washington, D.C., apartment on Monday [Read More…]