Six minutes of news from around the nation.

FCC targets Kimmel and ABC after the first family urges his ouster; Population drops at Mississippi ICE detention center; Rising gas prices hurting rural Kentuckians' wallets; WI pummeled early with record-shattering severe weather.

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The public news service Daily Newscast for April the 29th, 2026.

I'm Mike Clifford.

The feud between President Donald Trump, the First Lady, and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel appears to be accelerating.

The Trump-loyal FCC is challenging Kimmel's network station licenses, setting up a legal battle with ABC's parent company, Disney.

The FCC said Disney's ABC is directed to file license renewals for all their licensed TV stations within 30 days.

CNN notes the order will not affect local stations right away.

It's just the start of a long legal process, and ABC has broad legal protections.

Next to Mississippi, where questions are being raised surrounding changes at the ICE Detention Center inside the Adams County Correction Center in Natchez.

The population at the facility decreased from 2,100 detainees on April 2nd to 1,400 on April 9th.

Mutka Joshi is a local investigations fellow for the New York Times and investigative reporter for Mississippi Today.

I started hearing from the detainees that many of them had been removed from their original units and people are being transferred out in large groups, deported, and other groups of people are being scattered across different facilities.

Joshi says CoreCivic, the private company that owns and runs the center, wouldn't comment on the decrease in population.

ICE officials say there are no plans to close the facility.

I'm Freda Ross reporting.

And rural Kentuckians are increasingly burdened by sky-high gas prices, particularly those with lengthy daily commutes to work.

Our Nadia Ramlagan reports workers in rural counties like Elliott, Hickman, Martin, and Fulton have the longest average commute.

According to a new analysis by the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, Jason Bailey with the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy points out, unlike people living in urban areas, most Kentuckians can't choose whether to use their car.

In fact, more Kentuckians commute to a different county for work than the county that they live in.

And in eastern Kentucky, about 40 percent of workers are commuting outside the region for their jobs.

Many residents also work in sectors that require diesel-guzzling large vehicles.

The Commonwealth has more than 33,000 heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers, and some are independent contractors that pay for gas out of their own pockets.

And Wisconsin had more severe weather warnings in the first three weeks of April than any other month in the past 40 years.

Climate outreach specialist Amanda Latham says June and July typically have the most severe weather each year.

So far this month, we have packed about 70 percent of our annual average severe weather activity just into this month.

So it's just been a wild month.

The surge began more than a month before the usual peak of severe weather season and included nearly 300 tornadoes, storms, and flood warnings, according to the National Weather Service.

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The latest 2026 State of the Air report from the American Lung Association shows soot and smog levels in states like Indiana do not paint a healthy picture.

Tiffany Nichols, Director of Advocacy for the American Lung Association, says as the weather gets warmer, it is important to know the air quality before spending time outdoors.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management puts out what's called no zone action days on days when the air is bad.

We encourage you to wear an N95 mask and also limit the time outdoors, especially if you don't want to wear a mask for yourself or your children.

Indiana's major interstates, I-465 and I-70, are heavily used by motorists and diesel truck drivers and can produce high rates of emissions.

Smog is ground-level ozone pollution and soot is particulate matter.

Both can cause a host of health problems, including premature death and births, respiratory illnesses, strokes, and mental decline.

I'm Terry Dee reporting.

Meantime, food prices in the U.S. are forecast to rise by nearly 3 percent by the end of the year.

A North Dakota professor specializing in nutrition says despite elevated grocery bills, there's still too much food waste.

Julia Garden Robinson with North Dakota State University Extension says it's a good reminder to maximize the value of your grocery haul.

She says at home, people sometimes throw out food before they need to, noting lingering confusion about use-by dates.

That milk that might be in your refrigerator that has a Best Buy today or Sell Buy today, that doesn't necessarily mean that you can't drink that milk for a few days.

Garden Robinson says safety is important, but consumers should use common sense to determine if a product has a little extra shelf life.

She recommends better meal planning and going through your cupboards before restocking.

I'm Mike Moen.

Finally, April is Native Plants Month, as South Dakota rancher is reflecting on her journey to turn part of her ranch back to native grasslands.

Dawn Butzer and her husband bought 100 acres in Alcester, South Dakota in 2019, knowing they wanted to convert it to pasture for better soil and grazing.

After leasing it for five years, Butzer says she started researching native prairie plants.

On Good Friday last year, she planted a mix of cool and warm season grasses along with native flowers.

The plants took off after soaking rains.

Agency people would stop in consistently to see the progress.

And they'd say, there's prairie flowers in here that take years to get established, sometimes up to seven years.

And here you go, you've got them the first year.

Butzer also credits the team that taught her the process.

I'm Laura Hatch reporting.

This is Mike Clifford for Public News Service, member and listener supported.

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