Year: 2024

Firemen fight a blaze following a series of explosions in the Embakasi area of Nairobi, Kenya on February 2, 2024. (Photo by LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — At least three people were killed [Read More…]

Biden to attend dignified transfer of US service members killed in drone attack

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday will attend the dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base of the three U.S. Army reservists killed Sunday in a drone [Read More…]

The top threats facing the 2024 election

PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The 2024 presidential election is likely to face a complicated array of threats, from voter manipulation to physical violence, according to a new federal assessment — and [Read More…]

‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ series delivers the action of the original, and little more

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Amazon MGM Studios Mr. & Mrs. Smith are back in action. The 2005 movie starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as married spies is now a TV show, debuting Friday on Prime Video. This time around Donald Glover and Maya Erskine star as secret [Read More…]

Ag News

Unseasonably mild pattern ahead across the Heartland; active & moisture-laden for most

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures and precipitation across much of country. Cooler-than-normal conditions will be confined to Florida’s peninsula and the Far West. Meanwhile, [Read More…]

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…]

Ag News

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…]

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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…]

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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…]

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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…]

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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