Year: 2024
Many students have still not regained pandemic-era losses in reading, math: Report
Ableimages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Elementary and middle school students have only made up some of the losses in math and reading they experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report finds. For the report, [Read More…]
Ex-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg in perjury plea talks, sources say
Alex Kent/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Trump Org. Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg is in plea talks with the Manhattan district attorney’s office to resolve a potential perjury charge, sources familiar with [Read More…]
139 passengers, crew sickened during gastrointestinal illness outbreak on Queen Victoria cruise: CDC
Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nearly 140 people have fallen sick during a gastrointestinal illness outbreak on a three-week Queen Victoria cruise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The [Read More…]
Pentagon defends delay in US retaliatory strikes for drone attack
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Warning that the Middle East is facing a “dangerous moment” in time, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday defended America’s seeming delay in responding to Sunday’s enemy drone attack that [Read More…]
Nikki Haley argues she won’t have to win in South Carolina to still claim a victory
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley insisted on Thursday that she won’t actually have to win in her home state in order to achieve victory there — after two huge [Read More…]
Bradley Cooper says ‘Wedding Crashers’ co-star Vince Vaughn was a major inspiration for him
Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Netflix Bradley Cooper is an acclaimed director and has 12 Oscar nominations, so one might think he’d have some highfalutin answer for his biggest inspirational moment as an actor. However, he revealed it [Read More…]
Tim Burton climbing ‘Fifty Foot Woman’ remake
Netflix Tim Burton is dipping back into the pulpy roots that gave us 1996’s Mars Attacks! for a remake of the 1958 sci-fi horror film Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, Deadline reports. The trade [Read More…]
Biden administration to continue their current trade approach
The chief agricultural negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative says not much is expected to change on the Biden administration’s trade approach in the next few months. Doug McKalip tells Brownfield… “We’ve [Read More…]
Direct cash cattle trade picks up steam Thursday
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures were sharply higher, supported by the sharply higher direct business during the session, along with the USDA’s neutral to bullish Cattle Inventory numbers. Feeders had additional support [Read More…]
Soybeans fall as corn finishes modestly lower
Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling, managing to finish just above the session lows. U.S. export sales were a marketing year low at just 6 million bushels, reflecting Brazil’s hold on the market [Read More…]
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: February 1, 2024
Mar. corn closed at $4.47 and 1/4, down 1 centMar. soybeans closed at $12.03 and 1/4, down 19 centsMar. soybean meal closed at $361.70, down $6.60Mar. soybean oil closed at 45.60, down 42 pointsMar. wheat [Read More…]
Five-month FMMO hearing testimony under review
The National Milk Producers Federation expects its proposals for Federal Milk Marketing Order reform to be the foundation of conversations moving forward. Alan Bjerga tells Brownfield their organization is currently reviewing the 12,000-page transcript over [Read More…]
Crypto exchange Binance sued by Hamas hostages, Oct. 7 victims’ families for allegedly ‘facilitating terrorism’
Ismail Kaplan/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An American woman freed after being held hostage in Gaza and the families of two men killed in the Oct. 7 attack in Israel sued Binance, the [Read More…]
Joshua Schulte, largest leaker of CIA material in history, sentenced to 40 years in prison
Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Joshua Schulte, who was convicted of orchestrating the largest leak of classified material in CIA history, was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday. Schulte, 35, handed WikiLeaks a [Read More…]
Murder suspect mistakenly released from jail after ‘cybersecurity incident’
Kali9/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Authorities in Georgia are searching for 30-year-old murder suspect Zion River Shaka, who was mistakenly released by Clayton County authorities last week, according to ABC affiliate WSB in Atlanta. Last week, [Read More…]
School staffers win $1 million Powerball prize after playing same numbers for years
Stuart Hammer/Kentucky Lottery (FLORENCE, Ky.) — A group of current and former staffers at Rector A. Jones Middle School in Florence, Kentucky, are celebrating this week after they played the Kentucky Powerball and won $1 [Read More…]
Health Secretary Becerra talks about launch of Medicare drug negotiations
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Prescription drug prices have long been a back-and-forth issue between insurers and pharmaceutical companies. Those who aren’t covered by insurance are usually left with a high bill for much-needed [Read More…]
Washington state experiencing first known outbreak of potentially deadly fungus: Health officials
Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Washington state is experiencing its first known outbreak of a potentially deadly fungus, according to public health officials. Four patients in the last month have tested positive for Candida [Read More…]
Mama Kelce to be featured on ‘The Price is Right at Night’ Ultimate Super Bowl Party
CBS If seeing Travis Kelce‘s family cheer him on during the Super Bowl isn’t enough for you, CBS has invited his mom, Donna aka Mama Kelce, to “come on down” to The Price is Right [Read More…]
Patrick Stewart mixes it up with Drew Barrymore, Jeff Probst and more in Paramount+ Super Bowl ad
Paramount+ Paramount+ has mixed it up again for another Super Bowl ad showcasing some of its stars. The new spot features Picard‘s Patrick Stewart, Drew Barrymore, Thomas Lennon in his Reno 911 character’s short-shorts and [Read More…]