Year: 2024
ABC Politics News
Deal reached to avoid partial government shutdown Friday
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House and Senate leaders on Wednesday reached a bipartisan deal to avert a partial government shutdown ahead of Friday’s looming deadline. Under the terms of the deal, the House is [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Supreme Court to hear Trump’s appeal for presidential immunity, further delaying Jan. 6 trial
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a unanimous lower court decision rejecting his claims of sweeping presidential immunity in the face of a special counsel [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Supreme Court divided over ban on rapid-fire rifle bump stocks
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared open to upholding a Trump-era ban on bump stocks as devices that turn weapons into rapid-fire illegal “machine guns,” however it was not clear that [Read More…]
Latest News
200,000 comments submitted on Dakota Access Pipeline environmental review
Amy Dalrymple, North Dakota Monitor The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers received 200,000 comments on the Dakota Access Pipeline, with 30,000 that were unique and substantive, an official said Wednesday. Assistant Secretary of the Army [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Jake Gyllenhaal insists ‘Road House’ remake was always meant to stream on Prime Video
Prime Video/Laura Radford A little more than a month after Road House remake director Doug Liman said he “signed up to make a theatrical motion picture for MGM” only to have it instead head exclusively [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Comedian and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ star Richard Lewis dead at 76
HBO/John P. Johnson Stand-up comedian and actor Richard Lewis has died, ABC Audio has confirmed. Lewis, a fixture on the stand-up comedy scene in the ’70s and ’80s, who also appeared in comedies like Robin [Read More…]
Ag News
Ernst questions Vilsack on Administration’s year-round E15 plans
An Iowa Senator wants to know when Midwestern motorists can expect to find more E15 fuel on the market. Republican Joni Ernst told the Senate Ag Committee’s USDA Oversight hearing she welcomes the long-overdue EPA [Read More…]
Ag News
Mississippi River levels have improved, but concerns linger
A Midwest representative for the Waterways Council says Mississippi River levels have improved greatly over the winter but continued moisture will be needed to maintain those levels. Paul Rhode tells Brownfield the amount of snowpack [Read More…]
Ag News
Vilsack reacts to potential shutdown as Congressional leaders extend funding deadline by one week
A deal has been reached in Washington that will likely avert a weekend government shutdown. The stopgap measure pushes back two appropriations deadlines including the deadline for agencies including USDA. During the Senate Ag Committee’s [Read More…]
Ag News
CME milk futures lower, cash dairy mixed again Wednesday
Milk futures were lower and the cash dairy markets were mixed Wednesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. March Class III milk was down $0.04 at $17.24. April was down $0.07 at $17.49. May was down [Read More…]
Ag News
Light trade develops in cash cattle country
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures were sharply lower on technical selling, waiting for widespread direct cash cattle business. April live was down $1.60 at $186.12 and June was $1.40 lower at $182.17. [Read More…]
ABC World News
High-level migration meeting between US, Mexico, Guatemala to result in ‘several important announcements,’ officials say
Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A meeting between top representatives from the United States, Mexico and Guatemala on Wednesday will result in “several important announcements” about “commitments for deeper cooperation” on managing migration [Read More…]
ABC World News
Israel-Gaza live updates: Israeli official says negotiations are slow
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than four months since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip. The conflict, now the deadliest [Read More…]
ABC National News
Death chamber glitch halts execution of serial killer Thomas Creech
Giles Clarke/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech, Idaho’s longest-serving death row inmate, was spared from death on Wednesday after the medical team assigned to administer a lethal injection failed to establish an [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Alabama lawmakers begin debate over IVF protection bills
Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — Alabama lawmakers held a hearing Tuesday to begin debate over two bills that would add protections for in vitro fertilization treatment, allowing physicians [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Guy Ritchie to direct and produce ‘Ray Donovan’ offshoot ‘The Donovans’ for Paramount+
Courtesy Paramount+ – Photo: Daniel Smith On Wednesday Paramount+, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios jointly announced that Guy Ritchie will direct and executive produce The Donovans, a gangster drama “loosely based” on one of [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Following podcast revelation, The Rock wants to know who verbally abused Rebecca Ferguson on set
Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images (NOTE LANGUAGE) In a chat on the podcast Reign with Josh Smith, Mission: Impossible franchise veteran Rebecca Ferguson had listeners guessing as to whom she was referring when speaking about an [Read More…]
Ag News
Broiler sets, placements climb higher
Broilers sets and placements both rose last week. The USDA says 244.604 million eggs entered incubators, up nearly a million on the week and 2% on the year, with most of those bound for meat [Read More…]
Ag News
Ethanol stocks near one year high
U.S. ethanol stocks swelled last week as production moved modestly lower. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says the domestic supply of ethanol was the largest since mid-March of 2023 at 26.022 million barrels, an increase [Read More…]
Ag News
Time is now to call lawmakers to action
Commentary. Many state commodity organizations and other agricultural membership groups are heading to Washington, D.C. in coming weeks to meet with the lawmakers that represent them there. The importance of these visits and of a [Read More…]