Month: March 2025

Quinta Brunson files for divorce from Kevin Jay Anik after 3 years of marriage
Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Neiman Marcus, FILE Quinta Brunson has filed for divorce from Kevin Jay Anik, her husband of three years. The Abbott Elementary star and creator filed for divorce from Anik on Wednesday, [Read More…]

Amanda Seyfried thinks ‘Jennifer’s Body’ is a perfect movie: ‘Looking forward to the sequel’
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tory Burch Amanda Seyfried thinks her movie Jennifer’s Body deserved better. The actress starred alongside Megan Fox in the 2009 horror comedy film. She spoke about the role in a recent [Read More…]

London’s Heathrow Airport to restart flights after fire causes closure
(Jake Warga/Getty Images) (LONDON) — London’s Heathrow Airport is now “safely able to restart flights” after a fire at a nearby electrical substation closed one of the world’s busiest airports on Friday. However, even as [Read More…]

Measles cases linked to outbreak in Texas reach 309, surpassing nationwide total in 2024
Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 309, with 30 cases reported over the last three [Read More…]

Corn growers take tariff message to D.C.
The vice president of the Illinois Corn Growers Association says numerous Midwestern corn farmers recently took their message to Washington, D.C. “Trade and tariffs came up continuously.” Mark Bunselmeyer, who farms in Macon County, says [Read More…]

A cautiously optimistic trade outlook for the pork industry
An Indiana pork producer says maintaining stable trade relationships is critical for the success of the U.S. pork industry. Jackie Ponder says she’s cautiously optimistic the Trump administration’s trade plan will benefit producers. “We don’t feel [Read More…]

Cash dairy prices end week mixed
Cash dairy prices were mixed Friday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dry whey was up $0.02 at $0.50. Two sales were recorded at $0.49 and $0.50. Forty-pound cheese blocks were down $0.0175 at $1.6025, more [Read More…]

Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman grilled at town hall about DOGE: ‘Where is this fraud?’
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Wyoming Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman tangled with a fiery town hall audience in her home state on Thursday night as she went back and forth with constituents over [Read More…]

Musk PAC offers $100 to WI voters who sign petition against ‘activist judges’
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Elon Musk’s political action committee is offering Wisconsin voters $100 who sign a petition opposing “activist judges” ahead of the April 1 Wisconsin Supreme Court election, [Read More…]

Elon Musk served by the SEC earlier this month, filing says
(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — A representative of the Securities and Exchange Commission served Elon Musk earlier this month with a copy of a complaint alleging he misled investors when he bought millions of [Read More…]

‘Severance’ renewed for season 3
Courtesy Apple TV+ The mysterious and important work will continue: Severance is hired for another season. AppleTV+ announced that the mind-splitting workplace thriller will be back for season 3 shortly after the season 2 finale episode was [Read More…]

In brief: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’ teaser trailer and more
The eighth and final season of Big Mouth now has a release date. Netflix has announced that the final episodes of the show will drop on the streamer on May 23. Along with the date [Read More…]

IALF welcomes new CEO
The Illinois Agricultural Leadership Foundation (IALF) has announced new leadership. Dr. Amanda Martin has been appointed as the organization’s new chief executive officer effective April 14, 2025. She most recently served as senior director of [Read More…]

Benson Hill files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
A St. Louis, Missouri based seed innovation company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Benson Hill’s board of directors chairman Dan Jacobi says the move is the result of current industry challenges and financial constraints. According [Read More…]

Fire at London electrical substation closes Heathrow Airport
(Jake Warga/Getty Images) (LONDON) — A fire at an electrical substation near London’s Heathrow Airport has closed one of the world’s busiest airports. Heathrow Airport said the fire at the substation, which supplies power to [Read More…]

Former University of Michigan football coach indicted for hacking accounts, downloading ‘intimate’ photos
Michigan Wolverines logo on the end zone pylon during the second half against the Oregon Ducks at Michigan Stadium on November 2, 2024 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Photo by Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty Images) (NEW [Read More…]

NTSB recommends vulnerability assessments on 68 bridges following Key Bridge collapse
n this aerial view, a steel truss from the destroyed Francis Scott Key Bridge that was pinning the container ship Dali in place was detached from the ship using a controlled detonation of explosives in [Read More…]

‘Hitting a fly with a sledgehammer’: Judge blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive Social Security records
(spxChrome/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Government Efficiency approach’s to identifying fraud at the Social Security Administration “is tantamount to hitting a fly with a sledgehammer,” a federal judge said Thursday, blocking DOGE’s unlimited [Read More…]

Nationwide injunctions are central to Trump’s feud with judges. Here’s what to know
(SimpleImages/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — In President Donald Trump’s escalating battle with the judiciary, he and his Republican allies have zeroed in on a similar message. No single judge, they argue, should be able to use [Read More…]

Foreign adversaries, private sector, state governments may swoop in to recruit fired federal workers, experts say
People hold signs as they hold an “informational picket” over DOGE’s reductions to the federal workforce outside the Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building on March 19, 2025 in New York City. Federal workers and [Read More…]