Year: 2024
ABC Politics News
New EPA vehicle standards would cut US emissions, ramp up pressure for more EVs
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Amid a contentious election year debate over the future of U.S. auto manufacturing, the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced new vehicle emissions standards that will pressure the industry to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Hunter Biden associates to testify in House impeachment hearing
Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Oversight and Judiciary Committees are holding an impeachment hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday amid growing scrutiny of Republicans’ ongoing probe of President Joe Biden and his family. Tony [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
UFC settles wage suppression allegations for $335 million before trial
Raf Willems/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — TKO, the parent company of Ultimate Fighting Championship, will pay $335 million to settle a class action lawsuit over wage suppression, according to a company filing Wednesday. “On March [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Fed holds interest rates steady, postponing rate cuts amid stubborn inflation
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, opting to keep rates highly elevated as progress toward lower inflation has stalled. The move pushes back rate cuts that the [Read More…]
ABC Business News
What to know about new minimum wage in California, why some industries are now exempt
In-N-Out Burger opened a new store, Dec. 7, 2023, in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. (Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Earlier this week, the California General Assembly passed a bill [Read More…]
ABC Business News
UnitedHealth Group recovering from significant cyberattack: CEO
Westend61/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The UnitedHealth Group — one of the nation’s largest health care providers — said it is making progress in its recovery from one of the worst cyberattacks on a health [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Elon Musk releases code for his AI chatbot Grok. Here’s why it matters
SpaceX, Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, arrives for a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the U.S. Capitol, Sept. 13, 2023, in Washington. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Is TikTok different in China? Here’s what to know
Karl Tapales/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The push in Washington, D.C., for a potential TikTok ban has drawn mounting scrutiny toward the app over data privacy risks tied to Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance. In making [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Captain America and Black Panther go retro and toe-to-toe in video game ‘1943: Rise of Hydra’
Marvel Entertainment/Epic Games On Wednesday, Epic Games and Marvel Entertainment released a trailer for a forthcoming World War II-set video game starring Captain America and Black Panther. 1943: The Rise of Hydra has both super-powered heroes [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Former Nickelodeon producer responds to ‘Quiet on Set’ docuseries: “I am so sorry”
Eric Vitale/Getty Images Dan Schneider is responding to the allegations against him in the docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. The four-part series on Max includes interviews with former child stars from Nickelodeon shows like All [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Richard Simmons reveals skin cancer removal procedure
Gregg DeGuire/WireImage A day after clarifying he was “not dying” following a cryptic Facebook post that seemed to intimate the opposite, reclusive former fitness guru Richard Simmons took to Facebook again to say he had [Read More…]
Ag News
Deere, Kinze, and Ag Leader announce agreement to integrate tech
John Deere, Kinze Manufacturing, and Ag Leader Technology are working together to make it easier for farmers to integrate equipment and technology on their operations. Farmers who operate Kinze and Ag Leader planting and display [Read More…]
ABC World News
Private US firm wants to coordinate aid boats to Gaza
MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A private U.S. advisory firm of former senior American military, CIA and humanitarian officials is proposing to operate the anticipated daily deployment of international aid ships from [Read More…]
ABC National News
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…]
ABC National News
About 184 law enforcement officers die by suicide each year: Report
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 1,200 of the nation’s public safety personnel died by suicide over a seven-year period, according to a report released by a nonprofit organization that tracks law enforcement [Read More…]
Latest News
South Dakota no longer only state to saddle counties with all indigent defense costs
Gov. Kristi Noem signed legislation this week to create a state public defender office. The proposal arose from a task force involving legislative and criminal justice officials. When the group convened, South Dakota was one of two states to saddle counties [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Ewan McGregor had intimacy coordinator for love scene with wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for GreenSlate Even a married couple can use some advice in the bedroom — at least when your bedroom is being filmed. That was apparently the case between Ewan McGregor and wife [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Palm Royale’s Kristen Wiig says the series is for anyone who’s ever wanted to belong
Apple TV+ Kristen Wiig bulldozes her way into the Palm Beach, Florida, country club scene in the new Apple TV+ series Palm Royale, out on Wednesday. She plays a woman who thinks everything will fall [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: New ‘Popeye’ live action film in the works, and more
CBS has renewed NCIS: Sydney for a second season. The fifth series in the NCIS franchise was the #1 new series of the fall and currently ranks as the #3 new series of the 2023-24 [Read More…]
Ag News
What low commodity prices might mean for future farm bill
The director of University of Missouri’s Food and Ag Policy Research Institute says lower commodity prices have mixed implications for farm programs in the farm bill. Pat Westhoff says “the existing programs might be more [Read More…]