Month: March 2025

Wendy Williams talks guardianship, gives health update on ‘The View’
Johnny Nunez/WireImage via Getty Images, FILE Wendy Williams discussed the latest on her recent hospital visit and her guardianship with The View. In an interview that aired Friday, Williams said she needed a “breath of fresh air” [Read More…]

Oklahoma Wildfires Postpones Dakota Wesleyan Women’s First Round NAIA Tournament Game
Dakota Wesleyan women’s basketball had its game vs. The Master’s University postponed on Friday night due to high winds and wildfires in the Langston, Oklahoma, area. From Dakota Wesleyan Athletic Director Ross Cimpl “The NAIA [Read More…]

Farmers feel impact of discontinued USDA food programs
The sudden termination of two USDA food programs has some producers seeking new marketing channels. Federal officials ended the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program and the Local Food for Schools Program, which provided a direct [Read More…]

Frozen USDA funds hurting all levels of ag
The director of the Gardner Agricultural Policy Program at the University of Illinois says the Trump administration’s freezing of USDA funding is having far reaching consequences. Jonathan Coppess tells Brownfield, “These are duly appropriated, constitutionally appropriated [Read More…]

Corteva to phase out BMR corn hybrids
A line of corn hybrids popular with U.S. dairy producers is being discontinued. In a statement to Brownfield, a Corteva spokesperson says the dairy industry is evolving and the company is focused on growing farmer demand [Read More…]

Bipartisan bills in Senate support crop insurance & credit access
Bipartisan legislation has been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate to help improve risk management and financial resources for farmers. Senate Ag Committee Ranking Member Amy Klobuchar stressed the need to close crop insurance gaps for [Read More…]

House Democratic leader Jeffries pushes back on divisions with Senate Democrats
Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tussled with reporters Friday, pushing back against the notion that the Democratic Party is fractured as some Senate Democrats, including their leader, were [Read More…]

With help from Democrats, Senate advances bill to avert government shutdown
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ten Senate Democrats provided the necessary votes to allow the House-approved government funding bill to advance on Friday afternoon, setting the government funding bill on a [Read More…]

Vladimir Putin says Ukraine must surrender after Donald Trump calls for soldiers to be spared
Contributor/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vladimir Putin said Ukraine must surrender after President Donald Trump urged the Russian leader to spare the lives of Ukrainian soldiers, following ceasefire talks between the U.S. and Russia in Moscow. [Read More…]

Rare tornado warning issued for South as dangerous weather moves in: What to know
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A dangerous, multiday severe weather outbreak is set to bring tornadoes, flash flooding and damaging winds to the Midwest, the South and the East Coast, with the worst of the [Read More…]

5 people dead in massive car crash in Austin, driver charged
ABC News (AUSTIN, Texas) — A man is facing charges after five people were killed and 11 were hospitalized in a collision involving 17 vehicles, including a semi-truck, in Austin, Texas, authorities said. Solomun Weldekeal [Read More…]

Tesla, in a letter, tells Trump administration it’s worried about tariffs
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In a letter to the Trump administration this week, electric automaker Tesla raised concerns about President Donald Trump’s ongoing tariffs, warning that the company could be “exposed” to retaliatory [Read More…]

DHS arrests another student involved in Columbia university protests
Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Department of Homeland Security has arrested a second student who was involved with Columbia University protests, the agency announced. Leqaa Korda was arrested by agents from Homeland Security [Read More…]

Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers petition for the Columbia activist’s immediate release
David Dee Delgado/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was a “targeted, retaliatory detention and attempted removal of a student protestor because of his constitutionally protected speech,” his attorneys said [Read More…]

Schumer defends support for GOP funding bill ahead of Senate votes to avoid shutdown
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor Friday morning to defend his decision to support a Republican short-term funding bill that will effectively help [Read More…]

Measles cases linked to Texas outbreak grows to 259, with just 2 among fully vaccinated people
Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (GAINES COUNTY, Texas) — The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 259, with 36 cases reported over the last [Read More…]

Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis swap bodies again in ‘Freakier Friday’ trailer
Glen Wilson It’s about to get freakier. Disney has released the teaser trailer for Freakier Friday, its sequel to the 2003 live-action comedy film Freaky Friday. The film, which arrives in theaters on Aug. 8, [Read More…]

Watch teaser for season 4 of ‘BMF,’ returning to Starz in June
Starz Season 4 of BMF is on the horizon, set to return to Starz in June. The season will pick up with the Flenory brothers still in Mexico, where they’d traveled to rescue their key supplier, [Read More…]

Pioneer launches Plenish Enlist E3 soybeans
The marketing manager with Pioneer’s Plenish high oleic soybeans says both growers and dairy producers will benefit from the company’s latest innovation. Roger Theisen says the specialty beans are now available with the Enlist E3 [Read More…]

Duvall: Short-term pain for long-term gain?
The president of the American Farm Bureau Federation says ongoing tariffs could impact the viability of the ag industry. Zippy Duvall says producers can’t sustain the uncertainty much longer. “If it stretches out 18 months [Read More…]
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