Month: April 2025
Tom Cruise is back in ‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ official trailer
Paramount Pictures Tom Cruise shows off more of his signature stunts in the official trailer for Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. The new trailer for the upcoming Paramount Pictures film finds Cruise reprising his [Read More…]
Black Monday to the COVID crash: Worst days in the history of the US stock market
Bettmann Archive via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the world reels from tariffs instituted by the Trump administration, stock markets are widely in decline. On Friday, U.S. stock saw the worst decline since the [Read More…]
Trump admin asks Supreme Court to block return of wrongly deported Maryland man
Alex Pena/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court for emergency intervention in the case of a Maryland man the government — by its own admission — removed to El [Read More…]
Republicans Ted Cruz, Rand Paul speak out on risks of Trump tariff policy
Win Mcnamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As fallout continues from President Donald Trump’s destabilizing tariff policy on virtually all U.S. trading partners, some Republican senators are warning about the risks for American families. Sen. Ted Cruz, [Read More…]
Businesses, conservative lawyers planning legal challenge to Trump’s tariffs
ftwitty/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A group of business groups and conservative lawyers are preparing a legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, arguing he does not have the legal authority to impose them. Sources familiar [Read More…]
Former clerk for judge who tossed Trump’s classified docs case now in senior DOJ position
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A former law clerk to the federal judge who dismissed the classified documents case against President Donald Trump is now serving in the Justice Department directly under Trump’s former defense [Read More…]
Planting beginning in Tennessee between wet pockets
Heavy rains have brought up to 10 inches to Tennessee farm fields and some flooding. The first weekly crop report from USDA of the season says topsoil moisture supplies have a 57 percent surplus, and [Read More…]
Wheat gains as soybeans and corn close mixed
Soybeans were mixed. It was an up and down day with the trade waiting for any updates on tariffs. China is reportedly open to negotiations, but significant near-term progress seems unlikely, with the White House [Read More…]
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: April 7, 2025
May corn closed at $4.64 and 1/2, up 4 and 1/4 centsMay soybeans closed at $9.83, up 6 centsMay soybean meal closed at $288.40, up $5.30May soybean oil closed at 45.15, down 69 pointsMay wheat [Read More…]
USDA reports some Illinois planting progress
The USDA says Illinois farmers have been able to get some seed in the ground. Beck’s Hybrids agronomist Matt Montgomery, who’s based in central Illinois, agrees. “There’s actually a little bit of beans, more than [Read More…]
Wet conditions put planting on hold in Michigan
Michigan fields are starting the growing season well saturated. Monroe Country farmer Doug Darling tells Brownfield he’s received nearly five inches of rain over the past 10 days. “We’ve gotten a lot of precipitation, so [Read More…]
Police Investigating After Body Found in Brandon
Brandon police are investigating the discovery of a body found on a sidewalk on Saturday, April 5, 2025. Officers responded to a report around 11:15 AM on the 300 block of N. Splitrock Blvd, where [Read More…]
Flooding danger isn’t over in wake of deadly storm: ‘Do not drive through water,’ governor pleads
Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (FRANKFORT, Ky.) — The rain may have stopped, but Kentucky’s governor warned the danger isn’t over from the four days of deadly storms that devastated the central U.S. [Read More…]
Hawaii man arrested for trapping elderly woman in her car for days: Police
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (HONOLULU) — A Hawaii man was arrested for allegedly trapping an elderly woman in her car for several days and later forcing her to withdraw money from her bank account, according to [Read More…]
80-year-old allegedly shoots, kills fellow turkey hunter: Sheriff
mbbirdy/Getty Images (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — An 80-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly shooting and killing another man in a turkey hunting incident in Northern California, authorities said. The 65-year-old victim was shot once on [Read More…]
Appeals court affirms judge’s order to return wrongly deported Maryland man
Alex Pena/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected the Trump administration’s emergency motion to block a federal judge’s order to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the U.S. [Read More…]
Republicans Ted Cruz, Rand Paul speak out on risks of Trump tariff policy
Win Mcnamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As fallout continues from President Donald Trump’s destabilizing tariff policy on virtually all U.S. trading partners, some Republican senators are warning about the risks for American families. Sen. Ted Cruz, [Read More…]
Businesses, conservative lawyers planning legal challenge to Trump’s tariffs
ftwitty/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A group of business groups and conservative lawyers are preparing a legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, arguing he does not have the legal authority to impose them. Sources familiar [Read More…]
US stocks plunge as tariffs rattle markets worldwide
Sawayasu Tsuji/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — U.S. stocks tumbled at opening on Monday as President Donald Trump’s tariffs stoked fears of a wider global trade war and Wall Street firms sounded alarms about a possible [Read More…]
Altuve drives in winning run in 10th after Alvarez’s homer in 9th ties it as Astros top Twins 9-7
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jose Altuve drove in the go-ahead run with a single in the 10th inning after Yordan Alvarez tied it with a two-run homer in the ninth and the Houston Astros rallied from [Read More…]
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