Year: 2024
ABC National News
Alabama governor signs bill prohibiting DEI programs at schools, state agencies
Fotosearch/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a sweeping bill that prohibits the use of state funds for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and offices at state agencies, higher education institutions [Read More…]
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What happens if Trump can’t secure a bond for his $464 million civil fraud judgment?
Former U.S. President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump walk together as they prepare to vote at a polling station setup in the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center, Mar. 19, 2024, in [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Washington, DC Police Union set to declare city crime a ‘crisis’ in House hearing as staffing continues to decline
amphotora/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Washington, D.C. Police Union is set to declare a “crisis” during its testimony at a hearing before lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday. The hearing, which will focus on the impact [Read More…]
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Biden administration to forgive student loans for 78,000 public service workers
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the Intel Ocotillo Campus in Chandler, Arizona, on March 20, 2024. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will announce Thursday that about 78,000 public service [Read More…]
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Mark Cuban attends fundraiser for Biden in Dallas
Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks walks onto the court before a game against the Boston Celtics at the TD Garden on March 01, 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Brian Fluharty/Getty Images) (DALLAS) — Billionaire businessman [Read More…]
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Republicans call for President Biden to testify in House impeachment inquiry
Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After nearly eight hours of contentious testimony, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer gaveled Wednesday’s impeachment hearing out of session — but not before announcing his intention to call President Joe [Read More…]
ABC Health News
House committee launches investigation into organ transplant network
Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has launched a bipartisan investigation into the U.S. organ transplant system — the latest scrutiny of the system following [Read More…]
ABC Health News
US life expectancy rose in 2022 as deaths due to COVID dropped: CDC
AlexSava/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Life expectancy in the United States increased in 2022 after two years of decline, according to new final federal mortality data. In a report published early Thursday by the Centers [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Senate mulls TikTok ban amid US national security concerns
The TikTok logo on a smartphone arranged in New York, March 9, 2023. (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Senators from both sides of the aisle warned Wednesday that TikTok endangers millions of users [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Why you will likely see higher egg prices ahead of Easter
d3sign/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After months of egg prices slowly falling, the staple Easter item is on the rise again in part due to a resurgence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in egg-laying [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Road House’ debuts Thursday on Prime Video
Prime Video Prime Video releases Road House, the “adrenaline-fueled reimagining” of the 1989 Patrick Swayze cult classic, on Thursday. In the film, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Elwood Dalton, a down-on-his-luck former MMA fighter who takes a [Read More…]
Ag News
RFA to EPA: final rule disregards ethanol’s carbon benefits
Ethanol industry supporters say the Biden administration’s new automobile emissions standards miss the mark and disregard the carbon benefits of ethanol. Harold Wolle, a Minnesota farmer and president of the National Corn Growers Association, says [Read More…]
ABC World News
US airlifts more than 30 citizens out of Haiti’s capital amid gang rebellion: Officials
Diplomatic Security Services/X (WASHINGTON) — As a gang-led rebellion continues to surge through Haiti, the U.S. on Wednesday orchestrated two helicopter airlifts from Port-au-Prince — evacuating more than 30 stranded Americans to the Dominican Republic, [Read More…]
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Riley Strain’s stepdad opens up about family’s difficult conversations as Nashville search intensifies
@MNPDNashville/X (NEW YORK) — Over 10 days into the search for missing college student Riley Strain, his family said they’re starting to have difficult conversations. “Put yourself in our shoes,” Strain’s stepfather, Chris Whiteid, told [Read More…]
Ag News
Montgomery County IL farmers talk cover crops
Farmers in Montgomery County, Illinois are taking to cover crops. Mark Schweizer converted to a cereal rye cover crop system about five years ago, and tells Brownfield he’s already seen benefits… “It just seemed like [Read More…]
Ag News
Gackle: don’t damage our trade relationship with China
The president of the American Soybean Association told House lawmakers to do no harm to the current trade relationship between the U.S. and China. Josh Gackle said it takes years to build good relationships and [Read More…]
Ag News
House Ag Committee discusses U.S.-China relationship
The House Ag Committee is taking a closer look into China’s connection to U.S. agriculture. “The world is watching us today.” In a hearing on Wednesday, U.S. trade ambassador and Indiana farmer Kip Tom told [Read More…]
ABC World News
‘Most valuable treasure’: $17 billion Spanish shipwreck from 1708 to be recovered
Bruce Yuanyue Bi/Getty Images (CARTAGENA, Colombia) — Centuries after the Spanish galleon ship San José sunk in Colombian waters and nearly a decade after it was initially discovered, the estimated $17 billion shipwreck is set [Read More…]
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4th white Mississippi officer sentenced to 40 years after pleading guilty in torture of 2 Black men
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Rankin County sheriff’s deputy Christian Dedmon was sentenced to 40 years in prison during a hearing in federal court in Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday for his role in two [Read More…]
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Daniel Penny to stand trial in October for NYC subway chokehold death
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Daniel Penny, the man who choked a homeless man to death last May on a New York City subway car, will stand trial beginning Oct. 8, a judge [Read More…]