Month: March 2025
ABC National News
14 House members demand release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil after arrest at Columbia
David Dee Delgado/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Fourteen members of Congress have signed a letter demanding the release of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week, despite being [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Perkins Coie files suit to block Trump executive order aimed at punishing firm
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The law firm Perkins Coie has filed suit against the Trump administration over an executive order signed by President Donald Trump last week that targeted the firm for its work representing Hillary [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump checks out Teslas at White House as Musk’s auto company stock sinks
Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As Tesla’s bottom line continues to slide downward, Elon Musk on Tuesday received maybe an unsurprising endorsement from a potential new owner of one of his EVs: President [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
RFK Jr. tells food leaders he wants artificial dyes removed from food products before he leaves office
Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told food industry leaders in a closed-door meeting on Monday that he wants them to remove artificial color additives from their [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump vowed to make the economy better on Day 1. Now, he says the US is in ‘transition’
Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Then-candidate Donald Trump, at a campaign rally last August as the 2024 race for the White House was heating up, made a promise to voters to quickly bring economic [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Gigi Hadid speaks out on relationship with Bradley Cooper: ‘I just feel really lucky’
Gotham/GC Images/Getty Images Gigi Hadid is opening up on her relationship with Bradley Cooper. The model discussed meeting Cooper, their relationship and why they keep private in a new interview with Vogue published Tuesday. “I [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
James Cameron’s wife has seen ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’: ‘She bawled for four hours’
Roxanne McCann/Getty Images James Cameron‘s wife has seen Avatar: Fire and Ash, and she had quite the reaction to it. In an interview with Empire, the filmmaker said that Suzy Amis Cameron, his wife of [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
H.E.R. says fans will ‘get a different Dr. Dre’ in her directorial debut, ‘The Makings of Curtis Mayfield’
Disney/Scott Kirkland, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Image, Disney/Randy Holmes When H.E.R.‘s song “Fight For You” from Judas and the Black Messiah won the Oscar for best original song in 2021, she credited her win in part to the [Read More…]
Ag News
Spring fieldwork starting soon
A field agronomist with Pioneer says spring fieldwork could be underway for several farmers as soon as next week in eastern Missouri. “I’ve seen a couple of anhydrous tool bars starting to run and a [Read More…]
Ag News
Petersen: biosecurity most important part of HPAI plan
Minnesota Ag Commissioner Thom Petersen says biosecurity is the most important part of the USDA’s 5-point plan to address Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. “The farms that have had USDA’s Wildlife Services inspections have had little [Read More…]
Ag News
Live cattle pressured ahead of direct business
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle were mostly lower, and feeder cattle were mostly higher ahead of the week’s direct business. April lives closed $1.02 lower at $199.55 and June live cattle closed $.97 [Read More…]
Ag News
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: March 11, 2025
May corn closed at $4.70 and 1/4, down 1 and 3/4 centsMay soybeans closed at $10.11 and 1/4, down 2 and 3/4 centsMay soybean meal closed at $301.80, down 50 centsMay soybean oil closed at [Read More…]
Ag News
Modest post-WASDE losses for soybeans, corn, wheat
Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. The USDA left U.S. ending stocks steady and made no changes to exports or production for Argentina and Brazil. The biggest domestic adjustment was the USDA lowering [Read More…]
ABC World News
SpaceX mission set to launch on Wednesday will bring home Starliner astronauts
NASA (NEW YORK) — An upcoming SpaceX mission on Wednesday will bring the next crew set to work on the International Space Station (ISS), but also return a pair of astronauts back to Earth. Barry [Read More…]
ABC World News
Trump adds another 25% to tariff on Canadian steel and aluminum
Katherine Ky Cheng/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday escalated a trade war with Canada, imposing a fresh round of tariffs on steel and aluminum products, threatening additional duties, and reiterating a call [Read More…]
ABC World News
At least 450 taken hostage in Pakistan train attack
(LONDON) — At least six military personnel have been killed and 450 people have been taken hostage after the Balochistan Liberation Army, a militant group, attacked a train in Pakistan, according to a U.S. official. [Read More…]
ABC National News
DC plane crash: NTSB calls for immediate changes at Reagan airport
Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Giles/ U.S. Coast Guard via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The National Transportation Safety Board chairman called for immediate changes at Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, saying the current [Read More…]
ABC National News
InfoWars reporter shot dead outside his apartment after possibly interrupting burglars: Police
Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE (AUSTIN, Texas) — A homicide investigation is underway after a reporter for InfoWars, the website run by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, was shot dead outside his apartment complex in Austin, Texas, [Read More…]
ABC National News
3 charged with second-degree murder after 5-year-old killed in hyperbaric chamber explosion
A hyperbaric chamber; BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images (TROY, Mich.) — Three people have been charged with second-degree murder after a 5-year-old boy was killed when a hyperbaric chamber exploded at a medical facility in Michigan earlier this [Read More…]
ABC National News
Parts of Northeast and Southwest bracing for elevated fire danger
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Gusty winds, low humidity and dry conditions are expected to produce elevated fire danger in parts of the Southwest and Northeast on Tuesday following wildfires that erupted on New York’s Long [Read More…]