Month: January 2025

An ABC News graphic shows the fire risk forecast in Southern California on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. Via ABC News. (LOS ANGELES) — A damaging Santa Ana wind event was peaking early Wednesday and winds [Read More…]

What’s in Jack Smith’s final report on the Trump probes? Recent filings provide some clues

(Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump and his allies unleashed a legal blitz this week to prevent the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on [Read More…]

Here’s why Meta ended fact-checking, according to experts

Carol Yepes/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced plans Tuesday to replace fact-checkers with a user-based system known as “community notes.” Fact-checkers who were put in place in the wake [Read More…]

What are Linda McMahon’s chances to be education secretary?

(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — World Wresting Entertainment co-founder Linda McMahon has been getting high marks from her meetings with the Republican senators who could decide whether she’ll be the next secretary of [Read More…]

As 1st bird flu death reported in US, what could happen with virus in 2025?

Human Bird Flu Cases in the U.S. as of January 6, 2025. Image by ABC News. Data via CDC. (NEW YORK) — In the nearly nine months since the first human case of bird flu [Read More…]

Gender-swapped ‘Holes’ TV show pilot ordered for Disney+

Lucy Nicholson/Getty Images A gender-swapped reimagining of the beloved Louis Sachar book Holes is headed to Disney+. The streamer has ordered a Holes TV series to pilot, over 20 years after it was adapted to [Read More…]

Former Virginia nurse charged with felony child abuse amid probe into NICU babies suffering ‘unexplained fractures’

Henrico County, Virginia Sheriff’s Office (RICHMOND, Va.) — A former nurse who was employed at the Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, was charged on Friday with malicious wounding and felony child abuse for allegedly [Read More…]

Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion suspect used ChatGPT to plan attack: Police

Obtained by ABC News (LAS VEGAS) — Matthew Livelsberger used ChatGPT to help plot the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on New Year’s Day, authorities revealed on Tuesday. Police have [Read More…]

Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni’s lawyers trade jabs amid ongoing legal battle

Getty Images Blake Lively‘s lawyers have issued a statement amid the ongoing legal feud between her and Justin Baldoni. In the new statement, released Jan. 7, Lively’s lawyers said, “Ms. Lively’s federal litigation before the [Read More…]

Farmers concerned about impacts of ag policy in 2025

An ag economist says farmers have expressed concern about how changes in ag policy could affect their operations in the latest Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer. Professor emeritus Jim Mintert says, “We’ve been asking people [Read More…]

Cattle parasite linked to Asian long-horned tick detected in Kansas

A new red blood cell parasite, Theileria orientalis Ikeda, associated with the Asian long-horned tick has been detected in Kansas. Gregg Hanzlicek, associate director of the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory tells Brownfield a common [Read More…]

Cattle futures up, optimistic about direct business

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were up, optimistic about this week’s direct cash business. February live cattle closed $.37 higher at $195.57 and April live cattle closed $.50 higher at $197.77. [Read More…]

Boozman named Senate Ag Committee Chair

U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) will chair the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Boozman was formally named Chairman of the committee during Senate reorganization Tuesday. In a statement, Boozman said, ““It is [Read More…]

Replacement dairy heifer prices jump 69% as beef on dairy trend continues

A market expert says higher beef prices are creating additional challenges for dairy herd expansion. Mike North with Ever.ag says dairy producers have been using sexed semen to get beef calves from dairy cows as [Read More…]

Los Angeles brush fires latest: 2 blazes threaten structures, prompt evacuation

Photo by DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES, Calif.) — Two fast-moving brush fires erupted Tuesday in Los Angeles as dangerous wind conditions and unseasonably dry, warm weather sweep Southern California. A currently 200-acre [Read More…]

Internal watchdog found DOJ officials may have sought to influence 2020 election

Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senior Justice Department officials serving under Donald Trump’s first administration may have violated federal law in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election by pushing for pandemic-related investigations that [Read More…]

FBI has uncovered ‘additional criminal conduct’ by NYC Mayor Eric Adams: Prosecutors

Roy Rochlin/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — The FBI has uncovered “additional criminal conduct” by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, federal prosecutors said in a new court filing Tuesday. Adams has already pleaded not [Read More…]

Jimmy Carter funeral live updates: Harris to deliver eulogy at Capitol ceremony

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Members of Congress, the Supreme Court and other dignitaries will gather at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday afternoon for a lying-in-state ceremony for former President Jimmy Carter. Vice President Kamala Harris [Read More…]

Trump claims he’ll rename the Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’

Scott Olson/Getty Images (PALM BEACH, Fla.) — President-elect Donald Trump declared in a left-field proposal on Tuesday that his administration will rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” in his latest attack on [Read More…]

Johnson says no cuts to Social Security and Medicare to fund Trump’s agenda