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Supreme Court rules Trump administration must unfreeze foreign aid payments
Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the Trump administration must comply with a district court order and pay out nearly $2 billion in foreign assistance funds to [Read More…]

‘Partisan and divisive’: House leadership disagrees on reception of Trump’s joint address
House Speaker Mike Johnson appears on ABC News’ “Good Morning America” on March 5, 2025. (ABC News) (WASHINGTON) — As Washington sought on Wednesday to make sense of President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress, [Read More…]

Brazil’s safrinha crop facing potential challenges
The chief science fellow with Nutrien Ag Solutions says Brazil could be facing challenges with its second corn crop. Eric Snodgrass says some areas of the country are dry. “The eastern growing regions that are [Read More…]

More unseasonable warmth ahead for the Heartland; a rather active pattern continues
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures in most areas from the Plains eastward, while colder-than-normal conditions will be confined to northern Maine and the western U.S. Meanwhile, [Read More…]

A classic, early-Spring storm unwinds across the Corn Belt; recovery underway on the Plains
Across the Corn Belt, blizzard conditions linger from parts of Iowa into the upper Great Lakes region, due to snow driven by wind gusts locally exceeding 60 mph. Conditions in blizzard-affected areas are extremely difficult [Read More…]

DEKALB and Asgrow Yield Winners
The DEKALB® corn and Asgrow® soybean brands recognized their 2024 yield winners during Commodity Classic earlier this week in Denver, Colorado. In this episode of Managing for Profit, DEKALB Brand Manager Jamie Horton and Asgrow Brand [Read More…]

South Dakota Legislature passes eminent domain ban for carbon pipelines
South Dakota Searchlight A four-year controversy that has shaken South Dakota’s Republican political establishment culminated Tuesday in the Legislature’s passage of a ban on eminent domain for carbon dioxide pipelines. The state Senate voted 23-12 [Read More…]

Greenland ‘cannot be bought,’ PM says after Trump speech to Congress
Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The prime minister of Greenland warned President Donald Trump off his controversial ambition to acquire the territory, writing on social media Wednesday, [Read More…]

Russia bombards Ukraine as Trump touts prospect of ‘beautiful’ peace deal to Congress
Oleksandr Gimanov via Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukrainian authorities reported a major Russian missile and drone strike on targets across the country on Tuesday night, with a top aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy demanding an [Read More…]

Russia ‘will never agree’ to European peacekeepers in Ukraine, Lukashenko says
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a signing ceremony at the Supreme Council of Russia and Belarus, December 6, 2024, in Minsk, Belarus. President Putin is having a one-day trip to Belarus. (Photo by Contributor/Getty [Read More…]

Pope ‘rested well’ overnight and wakes up on Ash Wednesday, his 20th day in hospital
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images (ROME) — The pope “rested well during the night” and woke shortly after 8 a.m. this morning, his 20th day in hospital, as his condition remains stable and his prognosis remains reserved, [Read More…]

US embassy in Somalia issues urgent warning of potential imminent terror attacks
A general view of a Mosque in Mogadishu on March 4, 2025. (Photo by Hassan Ali Elmi/ AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — The U.S. embassy in Somalia has warned Americans that they are tracking [Read More…]

Supreme Court takes on dispute over nuclear waste storage sites
The two nuclear reactors at FPL Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Homestead, Florida. (D.A. Varela/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Like a radioactive hot potato, a [Read More…]

Trump, Musk raise questions about whether nation’s gold at Fort Knox has been stolen
Fort Knox, Kentucky: Exterior view of the United States Bullion Depository at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. (Bettmann via Getty Images) (FORT KNOX, KY) — President Donald Trump is casting doubt — without providing evidence — over [Read More…]

1 employee dead in shooting at USPS center, suspect at large: Police
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (TUKWILA, WA) — A postal employee was shot and killed at the United States Postal Service Processing and Distribution Center in Tukwila, Washington, on Tuesday, according to reports from the [Read More…]

Is Trump and Musk’s goal of sending humans to Mars feasible?
Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore, Sunita “Suni” Williams and Nick Hague, who are on the International Space Station, discuss the challenges of sending humans to Mars. (ABC News) (WASHINGTON) — It’s been a lofty goal America’s [Read More…]

In Democratic response, Slotkin says Trump has no credible plan to lower grocery prices
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Delivering the Democrat response to President Trump’s joint address to Congress, Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan accused him of having no credible plan to deal with high grocery and home prices. [Read More…]

Democratic Rep. Al Green removed from chamber after outburst during Trump address
Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a dramatic scene only a few minutes into President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday, a longtime Democratic congressman interrupted the [Read More…]

Key takeaways from Trump’s speech to Congress
Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump, six weeks into his historic return to the White House, delivered the longest joint address to Congress in history on Tuesday night. Trump [Read More…]

Trump makes 13-year-old DJ Daniel’s dream come true in address to Congress
Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump turned the nation’s attention to Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel, a 13-year-old who aspired to become a police officer but was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2018, [Read More…]