Month: April 2025

Keanu Reeves to star in ‘John Wick: Chapter 5’
Lionsgate John Wick is coming back in a big way. The popular Keanu Reeves character will return in the upcoming film John Wick: Chapter 5, Lionsgate announced during CinemaCon 2025 on Tuesday. Entertainment Weekly reports [Read More…]

A weather pattern change ahead to colder and drier throughout the Heartland
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures in southern Florida, the northern High Plains, and much of the West, while cooler-than-normal conditions will cover most areas east of [Read More…]

Teens who allegedly failed to put out cigarettes accused of causing massive South Carolina wildfire
South Carolina Forestry Commission (TABLE ROCK, SC) — Three teenagers are accused of causing a massive fire that ignited in a South Carolina state park after failing to extinguish cigarettes while on a hiking trail, [Read More…]

Civil rights groups sue Trump over executive order requiring citizenship proof in registering to vote
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Civil rights groups, including the NAACP, filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday challenging President Donald Trump’s effort to overhaul the election system. The executive order, which Trump signed on March [Read More…]

Suspect in officer involved shooting in custody following chase
Attorney General Marty Jackley says the Division of Criminal Investigation, at the request of the Sioux Falls Police Department and South Dakota Highway Patrol, is investigating two separate, but related, officer involved shootings with the [Read More…]

Grant County fatal crash
One woman died and another was seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash two miles east of Milbank, SD Tuesday morning. The South Dakota Department of Public Safety reported around 10:30 am, the 61 year old [Read More…]

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ to continue in new series with Ann Dowd and more
Hulu The Handmaid’s Tale will get a follow-up series after it concludes its sixth and final season. Hulu announced Tuesday that Margaret Atwood‘s 2019 novel, The Testaments, which is a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, [Read More…]

Previewing Iowa’s turkey season with Joy Van Wyngarden
On this episode of Outdoor Adventures, Iowa hunter @joyofalltrades joins Brent Barnett for a conversation about Iowa’s upcoming spring turkey season. She also shares a cool story about a huge gobbler she took during the [Read More…]

Fertilizer prices in an upswing, analyst says
A fertilizer market analyst says prices remain high heading into planting season. Josh Linville with StoneX Group says phosphate costs have been a concern. “The phosphate market started out high and it’s just gradually gotten [Read More…]

Air traffic control room fight at Reagan National Airport leads to arrest
Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A fight in the air traffic control tower at Reagan National Airport, or DCA, in the Washington, D.C., area led to an employee being arrested and charged with assault. Metropolitan [Read More…]

Mass layoffs begin at HHS, some employees turned away after showing up to work
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Employees at the Department of Health and Human Services began to receive notices of mass layoffs on Tuesday, days after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 people [Read More…]

‘Made up emergency’: Democrats try to block Trump tariffs on Canada
Allison Robbert/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on the Senate to keep the United States’ tariffs on Canada in place — hours before Democrats in the upper chamber could [Read More…]

Melania Trump honors women who bring ‘progress for all of humanity’
Pool via ABC News (WASHINGTON) — First lady Melania Trump honored women from around the world during an award ceremony at the State Department, calling the eight honorees’ love “a powerful catalyst” for their work [Read More…]

Paul Rudd says he ‘turned into a 15-year-old’ when Miley Cyrus shouted him out onstage
Miley Cyrus: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images; Paul Rudd: Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Why is Paul Rudd so beloved? It may be because the seemingly ageless actor is just like us: He’s a fan, too. [Read More…]

Grain markets move higher on Tuesday
Soybeans ended the day higher, with May contracts up 19 and ½ cents at $10.34 and 1/4. Markets also found support from sharply higher bean oil. The USDA’s announcement of funding for the administration’s biofuel [Read More…]

Minnesota PCA begins feedlot rulemaking process
A rulemaking process that will have implications for Minnesota livestock producers is underway. Minnesota Pork Producers Association director of public policy strategy and sustainability Lauren Servick tells Brownfield the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has initiated [Read More…]

Produce prescriptions top request for MAHA nutrition policies
The International Fresh Produce Association is calling for the Trump administration to prioritize fruit and vegetable consumption as part of its new Make America Healthy Again Commission. Nutrition and Health Vice President Mollie Van Lieu [Read More…]

Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: April 1, 2025
May corn closed at $4.61 and 3/4, up 4 and 1/2 centsMay soybeans closed at $10.34 and 1/4, up 19 and 1/2 centsMay soybean meal closed at $292.30, down 40 centsMay soybean oil closed at [Read More…]

Rule to block Rep. Luna’s plan for proxy voting for new parents fails in House
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House voted on Tuesday to reject a rule that would have blocked Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s bipartisan discharge petition to allow proxy voting for new [Read More…]

Mass layoffs begin at HHS with far-reaching impacts on public health
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Employees at the Department of Health and Human Services began to receive notices of mass layoffs on Tuesday, days after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 people [Read More…]