By Ryan Prior, CNN Dr. Myron Cohen began his career fighting HIV in the early 1980s, and he’s been battling the epidemic around the world ever since. But he has never worked as hard to generate new therapies and save lives as he has during the Covid-19 crisis. “Desperation or urgency can push us away
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By Rachel Trent, CNN This Independence Day, many Americans are celebrating much more than the 13 colonies’ split from Great Britain. This Fourth of July also marks something of a return to normal after the Covid-19 pandemic forced most plans to be canceled, or at least adjusted, a year ago. While the pandemic is not
Continue Reading Pandemic Era Record: TSA Screened 2.19 Million People on Friday
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By Holly Yan and Christina Maxouris, CNN Chicago’s “challenging” holiday weekend turned more violent overnight after four people were shot in a drive-by shooting. Police said four men standing outside in the 1000 block of W. 89th Street were wounded when an unknown assailant drove by and shot them shortly before midnight Saturday night. A
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MORGAN, Mo. (KMIZ) One man is dead after a fatal crash in Morgan County on Saturday night. Missouri State Highway Patrol reported the crash happened at 10:10 on Saturday night on MO 52 Eastbound about 1,000 feet from Stevenson Lane. 35-year-old Jeffery Smith from Stover, was traveling eastbound on a 2003 Harley Davidson Motorcycle when
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Stocks enjoyed a stellar first half of the year. But will the market be able to keep rallying? Valuations are rapidly approaching historically expensive levels, and some experts are worried about how high stocks are relative to their earnings. One market measure, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-Earnings ratio, or
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By Duarte Mendonca and Sarah Dean, CNN Face masks are set to become a “personal choice” in England with the further easing of coronavirus restrictions, a senior UK government minister said Sunday. Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick told Sky News: “I don’t particularly want to wear a mask, I don’t think a lot of people enjoy
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By Lily Lee and Amy Woodyatt, CNN Chinese astronauts on Sunday successfully carried out the country’s first spacewalk outside their space station — a significant milestone in its rapidly expanding space program. The spacewalk is only the second by Chinese astronauts since the Shenzhou 7 manned mission of 2008, which was conducted outside a spacecraft,
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The bicentennial celebration of Columbia’s Fire in the Sky wraps up Sunday. The annual Fourth of July festival has a lineup of family-friendly musical guests and a historical tour of Columbia planned for the final day.
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Independence Day: Another sunny day with highs in the upper 80s. The UV index is very high this afternoon – sunburn can take as little as 20 minutes when exposed. This evening will be perfect for fireworks with temperatures in the 70s by sundown, a little more humidity, and light wind. Tomorrow: High pressure will
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Prince Charles has revealed some of his favorite songs — including one song that would give him “an irresistible urge to get up and dance.” The Three Degrees, Diana Ross and Edith Piaf all made the cut as part of the prince’s list, which he shared as part of an hour-long
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By Douglas S. Wood and David Close, CNN This week saw the beginning of the NIL-era of college athletics. Suddenly allowed to profit from their name, image and likeness (or NIL), college athletes are unleashing a barrage of endorsement deal announcements. Potentially 460,000 NCAA student-athletes can now sign sponsorship deals. And the profit-making has already
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By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN When New Zealand’s Olympic weightlifting team gathered last month for a celebratory photo shoot, one person was noticeably absent: Laurel Hubbard. The publicity-shy weightlifter is set to be the first openly transgender athlete ever to compete at the Olympics, and her inclusion has generated a fierce debate on gender, sexism and
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By Selina Wang, Junko Ogura and Emiko Jozuka, CNN At least two people are dead and some 20 people are missing after a mudslide swept across a seaside city around 60 miles southwest of Tokyo, sweeping away homes amid Japan’s rainy season. Footage posted on social media showed the powerful black mudslide shoot down a
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At least two people are presumed dead and 20 people are still missing, after a giant mudslide swept away homes in the city of Atami, in Japan’s Shizuoka prefecture, according to local officials. CNN’s Selina Wang reports.
Continue ReadingBy David Williams, CNN A former sugar cane farmer in Puerto Rico has been confirmed as the world’s oldest man by Guinness World Records, just a few weeks shy of his 113th birthday. Emilio Flores Márquez was born on August 8, 1908, in Carolina, Puerto Rico, making him 112 years and 326 days old as
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By Jason Hanna and Haley Brink, CNN A tropical storm watch was issued for the Florida Keys as Tropical Storm Elsa battered parts of the Dominican Republic and Haiti with heavy rain and high winds as its center passed to the south on Saturday. Elsa should move near or even over far southwestern Haiti later
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A tropical storm watch is now in effect for parts of the Florida Keys in advance of Tropical Storm Elsa. CNN Meteorologist Gene Norman is tracking the latest.
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By Hannah Gard, CNN Skiers and snowboarders pray for snow so they can shred the slopes. Climatologists and hydrologists have an entirely different and more critical reason to cross their fingers for the “white gold.” The West’s historic drought has many impacts, including water shortages, more severe wildfire seasons and unprecedented heat waves, to name
Continue Reading Historic Northwest heat wave linked to dozens of deaths and hundreds of emergency room visits.
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