Month: May 2025
Ag News
April red meat production down modestly on year
U.S. commercial red meat production saw a year-to-year dip during April. The USDA says 4.601 billion pounds of red meat were produced in April 2025, down 1% from April 2024, with a 3% decline for [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Senate likely to change House-passed megabill advancing Trump’s agenda
ABC News (WASHINGTON) –House Republicans approved the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” encompassing President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda early Thursday. But clearing the House is just the first hurdle for the bill, which will also [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students
Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration has barred Harvard from allowing international students to enroll at the university, after the school lost its ability to use the Student and Exchange Visitor [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Supreme Court blocks Oklahoma from launching taxpayer-funded religious charter school
Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday, in a rare deadlocked 4-4 ruling, said Oklahoma cannot create the nation’s first religious charter school funded directly with taxpayer dollars. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
White House releases RFK Jr.-led report on chronic disease
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House’s Make America Healthy Again Commission offered a range of critiques about chronic disease in America in a report released Thursday, Chiefly, the report blames many chronic illnesses [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Republican-led House passes Trump agenda bill by a single vote
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After weeks of internal GOP wrangling, the Republican-led House early Thursday passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” critical to advancing President Donald Trump’s tax and immigration agenda. A smiling [Read More…]
ABC National News
New head of Social Security, hired from Wall Street, tells staff he had to Google the job when he was offered it
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The newly sworn-in head of the Social Security Administration told agency staff this week that when he was first offered the job in the Trump administration, he wasn’t familiar with [Read More…]
ABC National News
Former Harvard morgue manager pleads guilty to trafficking body parts from donated cadavers
Scott Eisen/Getty Images (BOSTON) — The former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue pleaded guilty to stealing body parts from cadavers donated to the Boston institution and then selling them, federal prosecutors said. Cedric [Read More…]
ABC National News
Woman found guilty of stowing away on Delta flight from New York to Paris
Niagara County Sheriff’s Office (NEW YORK) — A federal jury has convicted Svetlana Dali of stowing away on a Delta flight to Paris last November after passing through security in a lane reserved for crewmembers [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Own the guitar Joel gave Ellie in ‘The Last of Us’
Liane Hentscher/HBO Start practicing “Future Days” by Pearl Jam. You can now own the guitar Joel gave Ellie in The Last of Us. Taylor Guitars has teamed up with Sony Pictures Consumer Products and HBO to release a replica [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Khaaaaaaan! William Shatner plots tour that includes screening of classic 1982 ‘Star Trek’ film
Courtesy Mills Entertainment Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a favorite of Trekkers everywhere, which is why William Shatner is taking it on the road. The man who played Captain James T. Kirk [Read More…]
Ag News
Local UAN fertilizer supplies could be tight
A sales representative with Helena Agri Enterprises says some fertilizer supplies remain tight across parts of the Corn Belt. Spencer Breckenridge tells Brownfield UAN availability is a major concern especially in northeast Nebraska, northwest Iowa [Read More…]
Latest News
City of Mitchell announces holiday week garbage collection schedule
Due to the observance of Memorial Day on Monday May 26th, 2025 the garbage will be collected one day later than your normal schedule. The City will be collecting garbage Tuesday May 27th through Saturday [Read More…]
ABC National News
Treasury Department to phase out the penny after Trump says the coin no longer makes ‘cents’
Tim Boyle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Treasury Department says it will phase out production of new pennies early next year after President Donald Trump asked the agency to stop producing the coin that has been part [Read More…]
ABC National News
Judge blocks Trump administration from attempting to dismantle Department of Education
J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration from attempting to dismantle the Department of Education. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun issued a preliminary injunction Thursday that bars the [Read More…]
ABC National News
Above-normal activity predicted for 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, NOAA forecasts
Kevin Carter/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season will likely experience above-average activity, the National Hurricane Center announced on Thursday. Between 13 and 19 named storms are expected for the 2025 season, [Read More…]
ABC National News
2 Israeli embassy staffers killed in apparent ‘targeted attack’ in Washington, DC
IsraelinUSA/Twitter/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two members of the Israeli Embassy staff — a couple about to get engaged — were gunned down outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., [Read More…]
ABC National News
Multiple fatalities after small plane crashes into San Diego neighborhood
(SAN DIEGO) — There have been multiple fatalities after a small plane crashed in a neighborhood of San Diego on Thursday morning, spewing jet fuel and starting a large fire that damaged at least 15 [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Supreme Court says Oklahoma can’t launch taxpayer-funded religious charter school
Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday, in a rare deadlocked 4-4 ruling, said Oklahoma cannot create the nation’s first religious charter school funded directly with taxpayer dollars. Justice Amy Coney Barrett [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Republican-led House passes Trump agenda bill by a single vote
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After weeks of internal GOP wrangling, the Republican-led House early Thursday passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” critical to advancing President Donald Trump’s tax and immigration agenda. A smiling [Read More…]