Year: 2025
Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick film ‘Another Simple Favor’ to open SXSW
Lorenzo Sisti © AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick are headed to South by Southwest. The sequel to their film A Simple Favor, called Another Simple Favor, will serve as the opening [Read More…]
Cattle futures fall further, hogs finish higher
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle were sharply lower with another round of pressure from the slow resumption of cattle imports from Mexico and overbought signals. The higher move in corn was also bearish [Read More…]
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: February 4, 2025
Mar. corn closed at $4.94 and 1/2, up 5 and 3/4 centsMar. soybeans closed at $10.75, up 16 and 3/4 centsMar. soybean meal closed at $314.00, up $10.30Mar. soybean oil closed at 45.76, down 75 [Read More…]
Legislation to protect AM radio re-introduced in Senate
The new legislative session brings a renewed effort to keep AM radios in cars and trucks. Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin tells Brownfield the bipartisan AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act would keep AM radio accessible [Read More…]
Fatalities confirmed in shooting at adult education facility in Sweden, police say
Kicki Nilsson/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Image (LONDON) — “Around 10” people died in a shooting on Tuesday at an adult education facility in Orebro, Sweden, according to police. The victims were found inside the [Read More…]
Father recalls the harrowing night when son was injured in Philadelphia plane crash
ABC News (PHILADELPHIA, Pa.) — It was just a normal Friday evening for Philadelphia father Andre Howard and his 10-year-old son Trey Howard. Andre Howard picked up Trey Howard and his two younger siblings from school and [Read More…]
Senate Republicans defend Musk’s moves but downplay his influence
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Republicans defended the Trump administration’s sweeping revamp of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) led by Elon Musk. But some lawmakers downplayed the billionaire’s power over [Read More…]
Lawsuit filed by transgender young adults, teens against Trump executive order
Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Transgender young adults and families with transgender youth filed a legal challenge Tuesday against an executive order from the Trump administration that restricts gender-affirming care for [Read More…]
Tiger Woods announces death of mother Kultida Woods in heartfelt post
Sam Greenwood/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Tiger Woods is mourning the death of his mother, Kultida Woods, and remembering her as “a force of nature all her own.” The pro golfer took to social [Read More…]
Man charged with threatening Governor Larry Rhoden
A man from Rapid City has been arrested on state charges for threatening Gov. Larry Rhoden. 28 year old Hudson Wheeler was arrested Monday and charged with one felony count of Threatening or Intimidating a [Read More…]
‘Call me by the old, familiar name’: Watch The Weeknd in trailer for ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’
Andrew Cooper/Lionsgate The trailer for Hurry Up Tomorrow, based on an original idea by and starring The Weeknd, has arrived. The film, co-starring Wednesday’s Jenna Ortega and Saltburn‘s Barry Keoghan, is about a musician who [Read More…]
Having a voice in establishing the organization’s policy
The policy that drives the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association begins with the states. Kim Brackett, NCBA Policy Chair, says the grassroots process is the bedrock of the organization. “Many of our state cattle associations have [Read More…]
Soybeans, corn, wheat see good gains
Soybeans were higher on short covering and technical buying. A new tariff battle against China is on, but Beijing’s retaliation doesn’t include soybeans. Mexico does buy U.S. soybeans and soybean products and Canada is a [Read More…]
New research shows gene-edited bacteria provides corn third source of nitrogen
New research from the University of Illinois shows that gene-edited bacteria can supply early corn plants the equivalent of 35 pounds of nitrogen from the air. Study co-author Connor Sible, research assistant professor in the [Read More…]
Senate committee forwards Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for health secretary
The Senate Committee on Finance has advanced the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on a party-line vote. During the vote, Republican Thom Tillis of [Read More…]
Protecting trade from foreign animal diseases
Protecting trade and market access from foreign animal diseases. A veterinarian for a commercial hog operation says she continues to monitor the movement of African Swine Fever. Bethany Heitkamp says if the virus entered the [Read More…]
‘Infuriating’: Former fiancee of American Airlines Flight 5342 pilot rebukes Donald Trump’s DEI allegations
Win McNamee/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — For the family and friends of Jonathan Campos — the captain of American Airlines Flight 5342, which plunged into the Potomac River on Wednesday after colliding with a Black Hawk [Read More…]
FBI agents file suit to block DOJ from compiling list of those who investigated Jan. 6
Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A group of FBI agents who assisted in criminal investigations stemming from the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol filed suit Tuesday in an effort to [Read More…]
Trump planning to attend Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday: Sources
Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is planning to attend the Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday, sources confirmed to ABC News. The Super Bowl 59 matchup between the Kansas [Read More…]
Michael Jordan’s son arrested on cocaine possession, resisting arrest charges in Florida
Orange County Correctional Facility (MAITLAND, Fla.) — Marcus Jordan, the son of basketball legend Michael Jordan, was arrested on drug and resisting arrest charges in Florida after he got his vehicle stuck on train tracks, [Read More…]