Year: 2024
ABC National News
Au pair program changes could leave families priced out of child care
Davis and Glen Griffin, their three kids and their former au pair Myra. — Courtesy of David Griffin (NEW YORK) — Davis and Glen Griffin of Houston, Texas, say having a live-in au pair to [Read More…]
ABC National News
A day after Trump’s brief testimony, lawyers to present closing arguments in E. Jean Carroll defamation trial
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nearly five years ago, then-president Donald Trump repeatedly denied allegations that he sexually assaulted columnist E. Jean Carroll in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. Last year, a jury [Read More…]
ABC National News
Man who ran dogfighting ring with more than 50 dogs training at his property sentenced
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (BIDWELL, Ohio) — An Ohio man has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison after it was discovered he was running a dogfighting ring from his residence where he kept [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
White House cites climate in pause on new liquified natural gas export terminals
In this June 21, 2023, file photo, the Golden Pass LNG plant is shown under construction in Sabine Pass, Texas. — picture alliance via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration announced a pause [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Despite ‘game-changing’ new RSV shots, uptake lagged among infants, adults: Experts
Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For years, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been the most common reason infants are hospitalized in the U.S. and has hospitalized thousands of elderly people every year. After decades of [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Alabama performs first nitrogen gas execution: What to know about this method
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (ATMORE, Ala.) — An Alabama man has become the first ever person executed via a new method, nitrogen gas, on Thursday. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was sentenced to death for his alleged [Read More…]
Weather
Dense Fog Advisory issued January 26 at 5:25AM MST until January 26 at 11:00AM MST by NWS
…DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY… * WHAT…Visibility one half mile or less in dense fog. * WHERE…Portions of northwest Iowa, southwest Minnesota, and central, east central, south central, and southeast [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is confident more Americans will love electric vehicles
ABC News (WASHNGTON) — Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm can relate to Americans’ anxiety over electric vehicles. The former governor of Michigan and longtime EV owner (who currently drives a Ford Mach-E) says she has experienced [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Masters of the Air’s’ Callum Turner, Austin Butler on what drew them to the WWII drama
Apple TV+ Like Band of Brothers and The Pacific before it, Masters of the Air helps tell the story of U.S. soldiers during World War II who faced incredible odds while fighting the Axis powers. The latest miniseries from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks debuts [Read More…]
Ag News
Unseasonably mild weather continues for most of the Heartland; an active pattern to resume
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures nationwide, except for cooler-than-normal conditions across Florida’s peninsula. Meanwhile, above-normal precipitation from the Pacific Coast to the Plains should [Read More…]
Weather
Dense Fog Advisory issued January 26 at 3:46AM MST until January 26 at 11:00AM MST by NWS
…DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY… * WHAT…Visibility one half mile or less in dense fog. * WHERE…Portions of northwest Iowa, southwest Minnesota, and central, east central, south central, and southeast [Read More…]
Weather
Dense Fog Advisory issued January 26 at 2:22AM MST until January 26 at 11:00AM MST by NWS
…DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY… * WHAT…Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog at times. * WHERE…Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Colman Domingo’s new roles include Nat King Cole, Michael Jackson’s father
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Oscar nominee Colman Domingo has some very interesting projects coming up. Variety reports Colman will star in and direct an upcoming biopic about legendary singer Nat King Cole. The actor revealed his involvement in the project during an [Read More…]
Weather
Dense Fog Advisory issued January 25 at 9:03PM MST until January 26 at 11:00AM MST by NWS
…DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST FRIDAY… * WHAT…Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog at times. * WHERE…Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and [Read More…]
ABC World News
North America experienced an unprecedented ‘hot drought’ in the last century, new research shows
K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Western North America has experienced an unprecedented “hot drought” over the last century, according to new research that shows the amplification of heat [Read More…]
ABC World News
Israel-Gaza live updates: Woman recounts moment Israeli army penetrated Khan Younis camp: ‘Afraid that our fate will be death’
A man holds the body of a small child as he and others mourn while collecting the bodies of friends and relatives killed in an airstrike on January 13, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. (Photo by [Read More…]
ABC World News
Iranian activists go on hunger strike over execution of protester Mohammad Ghobadlou
Iran International (LONDON) — Dozens of Iranian women political prisoners went on a hunger strike Thursday in protest of the execution of Iranian protester Mohammad Ghobadlou. The announcement of the hunger strike was made on [Read More…]
ABC National News
Inside Mexico’s ‘Gringo Hunters’ as they track down, capture foreign fugitives
ABC News (NEW YORK) — It’s an old Hollywood story: some criminal suspects believe they can outrun the law, and escape their charges, by fleeing to Mexico. But when fugitives who commit a crime in [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
CIA director headed abroad for Gaza hostage talks: US officials
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — CIA Director Bill Burns will soon travel to Europe to meet with Middle Eastern officials as part of an ambitious push to lock down an agreement that would free all [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
US, Iraq to begin talks that could lead to withdrawal of American troops
simon2579/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. and Iraq will begin formal talks in coming days that officials say could lead to the eventual withdrawal of American troops in the country, a major milestone in the [Read More…]