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Rev. Jesse Jackson delivers powerful eulogy at funeral for Alabama man shot dead by police
Bill Pugliano/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Renowned civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson delivered a powerful eulogy on Saturday at the funeral of a 21-year-old black man who was shot to death by police inside an Alabama [Read More…]

Dog named Toto rescued from storm drain after being missing for 3 days
Haverstraw Police Dept./Facebook(NEW YORK) — A dog named Toto was lost for three days — but not with Dorothy in the Land of Oz. This Toto was lost in a storm drain in Rockland County, [Read More…]

US Navy’s top admiral in middle east has died in Bahrain
Thomas Gooley/U.S. Navy via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Vice Admiral Scott Stearney, the commander of the US Naval Forces Central Command and the Commander of the US Fifth Fleet In Bahrain was found dead at [Read More…]

World leaders remember George H.W. Bush
Cynthia Johnson/Liaison(NEW YORK) — As president, vice president, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and head of the CIA, George H.W. Bush left his mark on global affairs. Bush’s tenure was marked by both war and [Read More…]

Taking farm plans for 2019 to the next level
Mike Baker, regional vice president at Farm Credit Illinois, discusses how farmers can take their planning for 2019 to the next level. As plans take shape, farmers can think through operational changes, asset and [Read More…]

Nation mourns passing of former President George H.W. Bush
Patrick Smith/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The death of former President George H.W. Bush drew an immediate outpouring of condolences from around the country and the world. His son, the 43rd president, sent an immediate statement on [Read More…]

An active Heartland weather pattern returns for the weekend
Across the Corn Belt, fog, low clouds, wet fields, rain and some snow continue to limit late-autumn fieldwork. On November 25, the amount of corn remaining in the field ranged from 10 to 20% in Michigan, [Read More…]

Former President George H.W. Bush dead at 94
Ida Mae Astute /ABC via Getty Images(HOUSTON) — George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States, has died at age 94. His death was announced by his family Friday night on Twitter. [Read More…]

Another early-season winter storm for the Heartland
Cold air will engulf the Plains late in the weekend and spread to the Atlantic Seaboard by the middle of next week. Significant precipitation will precede and accompany the surge of cold air, with [Read More…]

Feds accuse Fugees founder and former DOJ official of ties to Malaysian financial conspiracy
Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A founding member of the Fugees music group and a former Justice Department official took part in a conspiracy to funnel tens of millions of dollars into the United States [Read More…]

Marriott’s data breach is large, but it’s not the largest
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The Marriott International data breach on Friday affected up to 500 million customers — larger than the entire U.S. population — but it’s not the latest large-scale hack to hit a corporation. [Read More…]

Investing in agriculture in the Midwest
The managing director of Chicago-based S2G Ventures says consumer trends have a major impact on investments in food and agriculture. Aaron Rudberg says originally seen as fads, the demand for fresh foods, transparency, clean labels, [Read More…]

CoBank: Blockchain’s exciting but pump the brakes
Blockchain technology is getting a lot of attention but an ag economist with CoBank says “pump the brakes.” Will Secor tells Brownfield blockchain is exciting but there are issues with the transfer of information from [Read More…]

Workshops aimed at tapping Mexico’s ethanol market
Ron Lamberty of the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) says there’s an opportunity to increase Mexico’s use of 10 percent ethanol blended gasoline. Lamberty recently returned from Mexico City where he was conducting workshops for [Read More…]

Cattle, hog futures fade into the weekend
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle futures closed mixed waiting for direction as the cash cattle trade remained in a standoff most of the day. Feeder cattle were pressured by the day’s higher move [Read More…]

Soybeans, corn up on G20 hopes
Soybeans were higher on commercial and technical buying. The G20 got underway Friday and there was some optimism in the trade ahead of talks between the U.S. and China expected to occur Saturday. Still, this [Read More…]

Former Dallas officer Amber Guyger indicted on murder charge for killing man in wrong apartment
Kaufman County Jail(DALLAS) — An ex-Dallas police officer accused of killing an unarmed man in his apartment has been indicted on a murder charge, records showed Friday. Amber Guyger, who is white, allegedly mistook the [Read More…]

Large earthquake rocks Anchorage, Alaska, causing ‘major infrastructure damage’
NOAA(NEW YORK) — A massive earthquake, — registering 7.0 magnitude according to the U.S. Geological Survey — rocked Anchorage, Alaska Friday, sending debris crashing to the ground, damaging buildings and causing “major infrastructure damage,” officials [Read More…]

Passengers terrified after part of engine cover flies off plane during flight to Tampa
Michael Francis McElroy/Getty Images(LAS VEGAS) — A Frontier Airlines plane bound for Tampa was forced to return to Las Vegas after an engine malfunction, according to the airline. On Friday morning, a section of the [Read More…]

‘It’s still a bit of a mystery’: 51 more beached whales die in New Zealand
Department of Conservation(NEW YORK) — Fifty-one more pilot whales beached themselves and died in New Zealand, raising to nearly 200 the number that have done so over the past week. The New Zealand Department of [Read More…]