Month: March 2025

Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (MADISON, WI) — The Democratic National Committee is set to announce on Tuesday its earliest-ever new election cycle investment into the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, which will [Read More…]

Trump claims Biden’s pardons for Jan. 6 committee are ‘void.’ Legal experts disagree

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is taking aim at one of his predecessor’s final acts in office: preemptive pardons for members of the House Jan. 6 select committee. In a late-night social [Read More…]

HHS appears to delete Surgeon General gun violence advisory webpage

Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Find Your Light Foundation (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) appears to have taken down a webpage from the Office of the Surgeon General (OSG) that included [Read More…]

Tesla board members, executive sell off over $100 million of stock in recent weeks

Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As Tesla stock has fallen in recent weeks, members of the board and an executive at Elon Musk’s company have been selling off millions of dollars in [Read More…]

‘Andor’ creator Tony Gilroy no longer releasing scripts of the show: ‘AI is the reason we’re not’

Des Willie Interested in reading the Andor season 1 scripts? You’re out of luck. Tony Gilroy, the creator of the Star Wars Disney+ series, told Collider in a recent interview that he is no longer [Read More…]

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How rising retail prices for proteins could shift consumers grocery basket make-up

March 18, 2025 nedvedmedia

Retail prices for beef in the U.S. have already exceeded the record highs hit in 2024. With the costs of other proteins, like eggs, could that impact what consumers are putting in their grocery carts. [Read More…]

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British, U.S. farmers compare notes on wheat production using conservation practices

March 18, 2025 nedvedmedia

British farmer Mark Stubb credits several crop-specific Yield Enhancement Network programs for nearly doubling his wheat yields, and he was at the Michigan Wheat Program annual meeting to compare notes. The post British, U.S. farmers [Read More…]

Daisy Ridley, Alden Ehrenreich to star in rom-com ‘The Last Resort’

Robby Klein/Getty Images for IMDb We are so back. Daisy Ridley and Alden Ehrenreich are set to star in The Last Resort, an upcoming romantic comedy film from director Donald Petrie, ABC Audio has confirmed. [Read More…]

Rachel Zegler honors original Snow White: ‘To whom I owe everything’

Disney Rachel Zegler is paying tribute to the original Snow White. The actress, who plays the Disney Princess in the upcoming live-action remake, took to Instagram to honor Adriana Caselotti, the actress who voiced the [Read More…]

Gold prices are soaring. Is it a good investment amid the stock selloff?

Ni Lifang/VCG via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — President Donald Trump’s tariffs sent stocks tumbling in recent weeks, but the uncertainty helped propel a different asset viewed as a safe haven: gold. The price of [Read More…]

Trump claims Biden pardons for Jan. 6 committee ‘void, vacant’

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump claimed that former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons of members of the Jan. 6 Select Committee and others were “void, vacant, and of no future force of effect.” Trump, [Read More…]

DOJ asks for last-minute reprieve ahead of hearing over Trump deportation flights

Allison Robbert for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge has scheduled a hearing at 5 p.m. ET Monday to address the question of whether the Trump administration knowingly violated a [Read More…]

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Chinn: WOTUS certainty needed quickly

Missouri’s Ag Director says she’s optimistic for a more durable definition for the latest revamp of the Waters of the United States rule. Chris Chinn tells Brownfield a quick decision from the Trump administration on [Read More…]

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DMI offers Conservation Navigator tool

The dairy checkoff has an online tool to help producers learn from each other about conservation practices. Jacqi Coleman says Dairy Management Inc, dairy’s checkoff program, launched Dairy Conservation Navigator in November of 2024. “This [Read More…]

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Beef processing plant closes in southeast South Dakota

A beef processing facility in southeastern South Dakota has closed. CIMPL’s, LLC is part of the American Foods Group’s fresh meats division. A press release says the closure is due to changes in the current [Read More…]

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USDA takes more comments on HPAI indemnity payment rule

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has reopened the public comment period for an interim final rule for indemnity payments for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. The interim final rule requires farmers pass a [Read More…]

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Nebraska Gov. Pillen on USDA’s HPAI plan

Nebraska Governor and licensed veterinarian Jim Pillen says when it comes to addressing Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in poultry, he has two beliefs – the virus always wins in a naïve population of people, birds [Read More…]

Trump says Iran will suffer ‘dire’ consequences for any more Houthi attacks

U.S. Navy / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — President Donald Trump on Monday said that further attacks or retaliation by the Houthis would be considered an attack by Iran and it would face “dire” [Read More…]

Fire danger continues for Oklahoma after deadly wildfires ravage state

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Oklahoma is under alert for fire danger on Monday after being devastated by deadly blazes over the weekend, and amid a continued fire threat in the Plains. More than 50 [Read More…]

Active-duty airman arrested for allegedly killing woman on South Dakota base