Month: April 2025
Ag News
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: April 11, 2025
May corn closed at $4.90 and 1/4, up 7 and 1/4 centsMay soybeans closed at $10.42 and 3/4, up 13 and 3/4 centsMay soybean meal closed at $299.60, up $1.70May soybean oil closed at 47.35, [Read More…]
ABC National News
‘Nothing has been done’: Judge slams DOJ in case of wrongly deported man
Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The federal judge overseeing the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador in error, slammed the government’s handling of the case Friday [Read More…]
ABC Health News
US reports highest number of measles cases since 2019: CDC
Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. has recorded the highest number of measles cases since 2019, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data published Friday. There are [Read More…]
ABC Business News
US stocks climb, shrugging off China trade war and consumer fears
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — U.S. stocks climbed on Friday, shrugging off new Chinese tariffs on American goods that intensified a trade war between the two largest economies in the world. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Baristas, chocolatiers caught in trade war cross fire
Marcus Wells, a barista at Float Coffee in Hollywood, Calif., speaks, April 8, 2025, about the impact the global tariff war will have on his business. KABC (NEW YORK) — Americans’ love affair with coffee [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Joseph Quinn reveals how his ‘Fantastic Four’ character is different from past versions
Marvel Studios Joseph Quinn’s Johnny Storm in the upcoming Fantastic Four: The First Steps might act a little differently than we’ve seen him in the past. Quinn tells Entertainment Weekly that his version of the character is less of [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Eric Dane reveals he’s been diagnosed with ALS, says he’ll return to ‘Euphoria’
Michael Tullberg/Getty Images Former Grey’s Anatomy star Eric Dane revealed he has been diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The 52-year-old shared the health update with People, saying, “I have been diagnosed with ALS,” and [Read More…]
Ag News
Five plus years of dryness and climatologist says not much relief on the way
A climatologist says there’s not much relief in the forecast for ag producers who have been facing multiple years of drought conditions. Brian Fuchs is with the National Drought Mitigation Center. “There are places in [Read More…]
Ag News
Uncertainty impacting multiple segments of cattle sector
The market news manager for the Missouri Department of Agriculture says until recently, sale barns have been largely focused on market fundamentals. Tony Hancock says this week has been different. “It affected prices at sale [Read More…]
Ag News
Governors ask EPA to increase biofuel blends
Four midwestern governors are asking the U.S. EPA to increase Renewable Volume Obligations for 2026. In a letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin this week, governors say the RVO for 2026 shouldn’t be less than [Read More…]
Ag News
Farmers first?
The executive director of the Organic Farmers Association says the Trump administration’s actions aren’t matching its messaging. “I don’t see how you put American farmers first if we’re gutting all of this support for them.” [Read More…]
Ag News
Soy-based firefighting foam looking to expand in Ohio
Photo provided by the Ohio Soybean Council. The deputy executive director of the Ohio Soybean Council says the group is working to increase the adoption of soy-based firefighting foam across the state. Brandon Kern says [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump administration reviewing case of FBI informant convicted of lying about Bidens
Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice said it is reviewing the criminal case brought against a former FBI informant convicted of peddling lies about former President Joe Biden and his [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
What to know about Trump’s health as he undergoes latest physical
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump undergoes his annual physical at Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, marking his first such exam of his second term. “I have never felt better, but nevertheless, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Small plane crashes in Boca Raton, Florida; all 3 on board killed
(BOCA RATON, Fla.) — All three people on board a small plane were killed when the aircraft crashed in Boca Raton, Florida, on Friday morning, according to local officials and the Federal Aviation Administration. The [Read More…]
ABC National News
Walmart employee in Georgia kills 2 co-workers, injures another in after-hours shooting spree
Newton County Sheriff’s Office (COVINGTON, Ga.) — A Walmart employee killed one co-worker and injured another in an after-hours shooting spree that started at the store and ended with the individual killing another co-worker at [Read More…]
ABC National News
Judge says Friday hearing in case of mistakenly deported Maryland man will proceed
Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge in Maryland says she’ll go ahead with Friday’s hearing in the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador in error, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Ghislaine Maxwell, jailed Epstein accomplice, appeals case to US Supreme Court
Sylvain Gaboury/Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Ghislaine Maxwell asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to overturn her sex-trafficking conviction, arguing she was covered by a non-prosecution agreement the government made [Read More…]
ABC National News
Menendez brothers’ aunt breaks her silence in exclusive interview as case goes to court
Ted Soqui/Sygma via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Eight relatives of the Menendez brothers sat down with ABC News in an exclusive interview the night before the case returns to court to show they are [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Stocks wobble as new Chinese tariffs on US goods intensify trade war
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — U.S. stocks seesawed between gains and losses in early trading on Friday as new Chinese tariffs on American goods intensified a trade war between the two largest economies [Read More…]