Month: April 2025
ABC Business News
Fed Chair Powell says he expects Trump’s tariffs will hike inflation and slow growth
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Friday he expects President Donald Trump’s tariff policy will hike prices and slow economic growth, while noting that key indicators “still show [Read More…]
ABC Business News
US hiring surged in March, defying recession fears
(SimpleImages/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — U.S. hiring surged in March, blowing past economists’ expectations and defying concern on Wall Street about a possible economic recession, government data on Friday showed. The fresh data offered news [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
First look at ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ shows off new Na’vi clans
VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images Avatar: Fire and Ash made a big splash at CinemaCon 2025. Convention attendees were all given 3D glasses to wear while watching a trailer for the film, which has yet [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Kenan Thompson has no plans to leave ‘Saturday Night Live’: ‘The forever cast member’
Theo Wargo/NBC Kenan Thompson has no plans to leave Studio 8H anytime soon. The actor, who has starred on Saturday Night Live for 22 seasons, is the longest-serving cast member in the show’s history. He [Read More…]
Ag News
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: April 4, 2025
May corn closed at $4.60 and 1/4, up 2 and 3/4 centsMay soybeans closed at $9.77, down 34 and 1/2 centsMay soybean meal closed at $283.10, down $4.90May soybean oil closed at 45.84, down 1.22 [Read More…]
Ag News
Cattle, hog futures drop amid tariff concerns
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were sharply lower as the market grapples with demand uncertainty following retaliatory tariff announcements from China. June live cattle closed $6.50 lower at $198.20 and August [Read More…]
Ag News
Not a time to speculate when it comes to retaliatory tariffs
The president and CEO of the US Meat Export Federation says the biggest area of concern for the announced tariffs are in Asia. Dan Halstrom says Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are at the top [Read More…]
Ag News
Proposed legislation offers long-term SWCD funding solution
The executive director of the Association of Illinois Soil & Water Conservation Districts (AISWCD) says a new proposal in the General Assembly offers a potential long-term funding solution for local districts. Eliot Clay tells Brownfield [Read More…]
Ag News
New HPAI case confirmed in Wisconsin
Wisconsin has its first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza for 2025. The Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection says a commercial poultry farm in Sheboygan County has been affected by the virus. Forty-thousand [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Interim US attorney for DC says he’s ‘expanded’ investigation into Jan. 6 cases
Samuel Corum/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said in a message to staff on Friday that he’s “expanded” the scope of his investigation into the office’s [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump tariff formula misrepresents global trade economics, experts say
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When President Donald Trump announced his controversial tariffs on virtually every trading partner in the world, he repeatedly called them “reciprocal” — a response, he said, to those nations that [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Adversaries attempting to recruit laid-off government workers as spies: Intelligence
Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Foreign adversaries including Russia and China are targeting government workers who have been laid off amid the Trump administration’s attempt to downsize to recruit as spies, according to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Students protest Education Department closure in ‘Hands Off Our Schools’ rally
Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Hundreds of college and high school students representing student governments from some of the largest schools in the Washington, D.C., area will rally outside the Department of Education [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Measles outbreak in Texas hits 481 cases, with 59 new infections confirmed in last 3 days
Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — The measles outbreak in western Texas has hit 481 cases, with 59 newly identified infections confirmed over the last three days, according to new [Read More…]
ABC Health News
16 state attorneys general sue Trump administration over NIH grant terminations
Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sixteen state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday over its cancellation of research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The suit, filed in [Read More…]
Ag News
NCBA optimistic tariffs will help level the playing field for U.S. beef
The head lobbyist for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says he’s optimistic the President’s tariff announcement will level the playing field for U.S. beef on the global market. Ethan Lane says American beef has been [Read More…]
Ag News
Planning for tar spot
An agronomist with AgriGold says many farmers have tar spot on their mind. Brian Weihmeir, who covers central Illinois, says the yield robbing corn disease is at the forefront of many farmers plans for the [Read More…]
Latest News
Officer-Involved Shooting Suspect Charged with Attempted Murder
25-year-old Samir Yasser Albaidhani of Sioux Falls has been charged with attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer and multiple other charges following a Tuesday officer-involved shooting. Albaidhani allegedly fired at officers after a [Read More…]
Latest News
One Dead in Southwest Sioux Falls Stabbing
A 45-year-old man has died after a stabbing incident early Friday morning in southwest Sioux Falls. Police responded to a call at 4:43 a.m. in the 3500 block of South Larch Avenue, where they found [Read More…]
ABC National News
Beloved Catholic priest fatally shot at church in Kansas
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (SENECA, Kan.) — A man has been arrested in the murder of a Catholic priest, who was shot Thursday outside the residence at his church in the small town of Seneca, Kansas. [Read More…]
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