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Month: September 2022

Missouri State Highway Patrol to start counting period for Labor Day Weekend

COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) Friday kicks off Labor Day weekend and the Missouri State Highway Patrol will have an increased trooper presence on roads and waters for their counting period. Troopers on the roads will be enforcing Missouri’s speed limit, seat belt, and impaired driving laws, in addition to being available to assist motorists during their participation for

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‘We need to act right now’: Fed Chairman Powell vows to continue aggressive inflation fight

Martha C. White for CNN Business At a think tank conference Thursday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reiterated his pledge to stay the course on the central bank’s aggressive inflation-busting policy. “The Fed has, and accepts, responsibility for price stability,” he said at the Cato Institute’s 40th Annual Monetary Conference. “We need to act right

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Rights body urges Dutch to improve migrants reception

BRUSSELS (AP) — Europe’s top human rights body is calling on the Netherlands government to drastically improve reception conditions for asylum seekers. Hundreds of people have been left stranded in recent weeks outside the main Dutch registration center. The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner, Dunja Mijatovic, said Friday conditions at the Ter Apel center

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Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk chooses not to shake hands with Belarusian opponent Victoria Azarenka at US Open

By CNN Sport staff Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands with Belarusian opponent Victoria Azarenka after their US Open match on Thursday. Kostyuk had told Azarenka via text before the second-round match that she intended to decline the usual post-match handshake given Belarus’ role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The pair instead

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A third of Pakistan is underwater amid its worst floods in history. Here’s what you need to know

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN More than one third of Pakistan is underwater, according to satellite images from the European Space Agency (ESA), as deadly floodwaters threaten to create secondary disasters. Food is in short supply after water covered millions of acres of crops and wiped out hundreds of thousands of livestock. Meanwhile, aid agencies have

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Fighting goes on near Ukraine nuclear plant; IAEA on site

By YESICA FISCH Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Heavy fighting continued Friday near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in a Russian-controlled area of eastern Ukraine, a day after experts from the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency voiced concerns about structural damage to the sprawling Zaporizhzhia site. Britain’s Defense Ministry says shelling continued in the district

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