Year: 2024
ABC Politics News
‘This is the beginning, not the end’: Republicans brace for continued abortion rights fallout
Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republicans accomplished a longtime goal in 2022 when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, scrapping constitutional protections for abortion. They’ve been faced with seemingly monthly electoral setbacks ever since, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Prosecutors say Trump team trying to ‘rewrite indictment’ in bid to dismiss Georgia election case
ftwitty/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Attorneys for Donald Trump said that Trump’s comments “calling into question” the election of 2020 were “the height of political speech,” in arguments seeking the dismissal of the former president’s Georgia [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Prosecutors seeking 2.5-year prison sentence for former Spain soccer chief over World Cup kiss
Burak Akbulut/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images (LONDON) — Prosecutors are seeking a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for Spain’s former soccer chief, Luis Rubiales, who may stand trial over a nonconsensual kiss at the Women’s World Cup last year, [Read More…]
News
Investigation Into State Prison Disturbance
A corrections officer was hospitalized during Wednesday’s disturbance at the South Dakota Penitentiary. Inmates could be heard chanting “We want phones” from outside the prison yesterday afternoon. Attorney General Marty Jackley’s office is investigating… [Read More…]
ABC Business News
MyPillow facing eviction from warehouse, but election denier Mike Lindell says company is in ‘great shape’
Education Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Election denier Mike Lindell’s company MyPillow is facing a court-ordered eviction from a warehouse in Minnesota amid his ongoing legal battles related to his claims about the 2020 election [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Warby Parker offering free eclipse glasses for total solar eclipse
Via NASA (NEW YORK) — As North America gears up for the total solar eclipse on April 8, Warby Parker, a New York City-based eyeglass retailer with over 200 stores across the United States and [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
TV magic: Data shows some ‘Sex and the City’ characters would have trouble affording NYC IRL
HBO/Newsmakers via Getty Images With Sex and the City episodes now on Netflix, new fans are enjoying seeing what Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte were up to in New York City back in the day. [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Hugh Grant as Tony the Tiger, Amy Schumer and more in trailer to Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Unfrosted’
Netflix Jerry Seinfeld‘s near-obsession with breakfast cereals on Seinfeld was channeled into his directorial debut, Unfrosted, the Netflix film about the birth of the Pop Tart. The trailer for Unfrosted: The Pop Tart Story, also [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Florence Pugh gives fans a sneak peek of Marvel Studios’ ‘Thunderbolts’ movie
Disney/Scott Kirkland Dune: Part Two star Florence Pugh gave Marvel fans a behind-the-scenes peek of her next MCU movie, the star-studded Thunderbolts, on Instagram. Dressed as her character, former assassin Yelena Belova, Pugh begins by [Read More…]
Ag News
Cotton, rice acres rise
The USDA anticipates higher cotton and rice planted area. Upland cotton acres are seen at 10.47 million, up 4% on the year, with static to higher planted area for most states. Acreage for all types [Read More…]
Ag News
Spring wheat acres top expectations
The USDA sees an increase in spring wheat acreage. Farmers are expected to plant 11.335 million acres of non-durum spring wheat in 2024, above analysts’ expectations and 1% more than in 2023, with most of [Read More…]
ABC World News
Congo displacement reaches ‘devastating level’ as violence escalates, aid groups warn
GUILLEM SARTORIO/Getty Images (LONDON) — Almost a million people have been forced to flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the start of the year following an upsurge in violence in the [Read More…]
ABC National News
Disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for financial fraud
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) – A judge sentenced Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison Thursday for orchestrating what prosecutors have called one of the biggest financial frauds in American history. Bankman-Fried, 32, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Former Senator Joe Lieberman dies at 82
Win McNamee/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Sen. Joe Lieberman has died, his family announced Wednesday. He was 82 years old. Lieberman died in New York City “due to complications from a fall,” his family [Read More…]
ABC Health News
The dangers of disturbing videos: How to protect yourself and your family
Jose Luis Pelaez Inc / Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Videos and images of the Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore have become ubiquitous in the past few days and may cause strong emotions in some [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Shonda Rhimes reveals daughter started watching ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images Shonda Rhimes‘ daughter is in for the ride of a lifetime. The famed TV producer shared in an Instagram post that one of her three daughters recently started watching Grey’s Anatomy for [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Kenan Thompson discusses ‘Quiet on Set’ and working with Dan Schneider
Disney Entertainment Television/Jeff Neira Kenan Thompson, who starred in the Nickelodeon shows All That and Kenan and Kel as a teen, is speaking out about allegations made about his former producer Dan Schneider in the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: Austin Butler ‘Caught Stealing’ for ‘The Whale’ director Aronofsky, and more
Deadline reports Dune: Part Two‘s Austin Butler has been tapped to star in The Whale filmmaker Darren Aronofsky‘s crime thriller Caught Stealing, for Sony Pictures. The film, adapted from Charlie Huston‘s book of the same [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively returning for ‘A Simple Favor 2’
Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick in 2018’s ‘A Simple Favor’ – Lionsgate A sequel to the 2018 film A Simple Favor is officially in the works. Amazon MGM Studios announced Wednesday that director Paul Feig [Read More…]
Ag News
Grassley surprised by HPAI detection in dairy cattle
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley says the recent detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza in dairy cattle took the ag industry by surprise. “After eight years of avian flu being a bird situation with turkeys and [Read More…]