Year: 2024

Milk futures were lower and the cash dairy markets were steady to higher Tuesday to start the new year on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. January Class III milk was down $0.02 at $15.41. February was down $0.11 [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: Top Hamas leader killed in Beirut strike, group says

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel ended on Dec. 1, and Israel has resumed its bombardment of Gaza. The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas freed over 100 [Read More…]

‘Loud explosions’ in Kyiv as Russia again strikes capital, US ambassador says

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Russia launched an attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities early Tuesday, continuing its escalated large-scale attacks on residential areas, local officials said. Air raid sirens in Kyiv began to [Read More…]

Two cross-country storms forecast to start the new year

Snow Storm CREDIT: Normand Blouin / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Residents across the U.S. are bracing for multiple powerful storms forecast to impact a large swath of the country with heavy rain and snow. [Read More…]

Harvard President Claudine Gay announces resignation

Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Embattled Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned, she announced on Tuesday. “It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share [Read More…]

No evidence of terrorism found yet in deadly New Year’s crash near Rochester, New York, concert venue

Perry Gerenday/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The driver suspected of causing a fiery fatal crash outside a concert venue in upstate New York early New Year’s Day was identified on Tuesday, however, officials added they [Read More…]

Michelle Yeoh celebrates becoming a grandmother

Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Michelle Yeoh has a lot to celebrate as the new year kicks off. The Oscar winner, 61, took to Instagram on January 2 to share that she and her husband, Jean Todt, are [Read More…]

Mickey Mouse stars in horror movie as ‘Steamboat Willie’ enters public domain

LMPC via Getty Images The earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse has just entered public domain, and there’s already a new trailer for a non-Disney film using the character. Animated shorts Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy entered public domain at [Read More…]

In Brief: Shecky Greene dies, George R.R. Martin gives an update, and more

Legendary Las Vegas stand-up comic Shecky Greene died Sunday, December 31 of natural causes at his home in Las Vegas. His wife Miriam Musso Greene confirmed the news to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He was [Read More…]

Ag News

A closer look at foreign ag land ownership in United States

A recent USDA report says foreign-owned ag land in the United States increased slightly in 2022. Danny Munch, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, says the biggest increases happened in forestland across Alabama, [Read More…]

Ag News

Improved conditions in South America weigh on U.S. markets

A market analyst says the improved weather in the dry crop growing areas of South America isn’t helping U.S. grain and oilseed prices as the New Year begins. But Don Roose with U.S. Commodities tells [Read More…]

Ag News

Export inspections mostly lower on week, year

The USDA says corn, soybean, and wheat export inspections during the week ending December 28th, 2023 were slower than what’s needed to meet projections for the current marketing year. The 2023/24 marketing got underway June [Read More…]

Ag News

Global Dairy Trade index up to start new year

The Global Dairy Trade index rose 1.2% in the first trading session of the new year Tuesday. It’s the third straight trading event with a rise in the index. The average price was $3,363 dollars [Read More…]

Ag News

IRFA says carbon capture projects will unlock full potential of sustainable aviation fuel

The executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association says sustainable aviation fuel could become the largest new market in the history of agriculture. Monte Shaw tells Brownfield, “We created a 14-billion-gallon a year market [Read More…]

Tragic Shooting in Sacramento: 10-Year-Old Fatally Shot by 53-Year-Old Father’s Child with Stolen Gun

In Sacramento County, California, a 10-year-old boy retrieved a stolen gun from his father’s car and fatally shot another child, identified as Keith “KJ” Frierson. The incident led to the arrest of the boy’s father, [Read More…]

Man dies when transport vehicle crashes through ice on Minnesota lake

A passenger died after a commercial transport vehicle crashed through the ice on a Minnesota lake. Meanwhile, state officials are warning people to be wary of ice that is unusually thin for this time of [Read More…]

Restriction on carrying guns in Omaha and Lincoln violate Nebraska law, lawsuits say

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s two largest cities are violating a new state gun law by prohibiting them from public places such as parks, according to two recent lawsuits. The Liberty Justice Center filed lawsuits [Read More…]

US women are stocking up on abortion pills, especially when there is news about restrictions

Thousands of women stocked up on abortion pills just in case they needed them, new research shows, with demand peaking in the past couple years at times when it looked like the medications might become [Read More…]

Michael Penix Jr. leads Washington to 37-31 win over Texas in the Sugar Bowl

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The remarkable comeback story of Michael Penix Jr. is a victory away from a perfect ending for Washington. Penix passed for 430 yards and two touchdowns, and the Huskies held off [Read More…]

Ken Jennings talks “intense” ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ semifinals