Valeria Ordóñez Ghio Hong Kong (CNN) — Cuando Gary Leung perdió la visión de sus ojos hace casi 25 años, su mundo se vino abajo. El hombre nativo de Hong Kong cayó en una espiral de depresión —incluso llegó a contemplar el suicidio— porque pensó que tocar “fondo” sería una batalla diaria. Luego conoció las carreras
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By Gregory Krieg and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday suggested the Civil War could have been avoided through “negotiation,” arguing that the fight to end slavery in the US was ultimately unnecessary and that Abraham Lincoln should have done more to avoid bloodshed. “So many mistakes were made. See,
Continue Reading By MJ Lee, Oren Liebermann, Haley Britzky, Natasha Bertrand and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden was not aware for days that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was hospitalized, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. National security adviser Jake Sullivan ultimately informed Biden late Thursday afternoon, soon after Sullivan himself learned
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, currently the lone Democratic governor in the Deep South, has reached his final two days in office after eight years. His tenure has been marked by successes — expanding Medicaid, joining climate change initiatives, climbing out of a budget deficit
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Orthodox Christians packed churches Saturday night for Christmas Eve services, a holiday overshadowed for many believers by conflict. Traditions vary, but typically the main worship service for Orthodox Christians takes place the night before Christmas, which is Jan. 7. Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, the world’s largest Orthodox
Continue ReadingST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The number of children who died as a result of a fire in their St. Paul home has risen to three. At a news conference Saturday, Pa Cheng Vang, the children’s father, said he was grateful for the community’s support since the fire broke out early Wednesday. The deceased children
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department has released new footage from the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol that shows a dramatic moment of rioters shouting through broken glass at two Republican lawmakers. The video — obtained by CNN on Saturday, which marks three years since the Capitol
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Russel Tchewa scored 18 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as Georgia closed out a 75-68 win at Missouri in the Southeastern Conference opener for both teams. The win, Georgia’s ninth straight, snaps a three-game losing streak to Missouri and narrows its deficit in the all-time series to 11-9. The Bulldogs’ current
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By David Goldman, CNN New York (CNN) — Pat McAfee, the sports-talk sensation who has found life working for the “Worldwide Leader in Sports” can be more complicated than hosting his own YouTube show, has accused his new business partners of purposefully undermining him and his show. On a Friday broadcast of “The Pat McAfee
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The holiday festivities may be over, but the flu continues to linger in Missouri. This flu season Missouri has seen a total of 13,675 reported cases, with 63% attributed to Influenza A. Between December 24th and December 30th alone, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services recorded 1,741 cases, with 64%
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Zerkel, CNN (CNN) — A winter storm is plowing through the mid-Atlantic and Northeast Saturday, and there’s another stronger one nipping at its heels that will affect a much wider area of the US. The first storm will unleash up to a foot of snow through Sunday that could cause travel disruptions
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TONIGHT: I’m tracking a low chance (20-30%) to run into a light snow/rain mix throughout the rest of the evening. Temperatures by the end of the night will cool off into the low 30s and high 20s. Patchy fog is a possibility through the overnight and early morning hours. TOMORROW: I’m tracking a mostly cloudy
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. — Keyshawn Hall scored 22 points as George Mason beat Saint Louis 79-67. Hall added eight rebounds for the Patriots, who won their sixth straight game. Ronald Polite scored 19 points and Amari Kelly added 13. Gibson Jimerson led the way for the Billikens with 20 points.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou linebacker Ty’ron Hopper will look to bring his talents to the next level. The former Florida transfer declared for the 2024 NFL Draft, on Saturday. With that, the tally of MU players headed to the Draft is up to 10. Hopper, a Butkus Award finalist, had one year of eligibility remaining,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou kicker Harrison Mevis, fondly known as the ‘Thicker Kicker,’ made it official and declared for the NFL Draft, on Saturday. He is the ninth Tiger to declare for the draft, so far. The man who’s provided quite a few memorable moments to Tiger football fans will look to take his leg
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CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — A controversial New York Times opinion piece that openly speculated this week whether Taylor Swift is a closeted queer person has drawn the ire of the pop superstar’s associates, CNN has learned. “Because of her massive success, in this moment there is a Taylor-shaped hole in people’s ethics,”
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press A small town in Iowa is stunned but pulling together after a school shooting in which a 17-year-old killed a sixth-grade student and wounded seven other people before authorities say he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Many questions remain about how the shooting unfolded and what might have led
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — For nearly two decades, journalists, police detectives, FBI agents, lawyers and amateur sleuths have pried into the depraved world of Jeffrey Epstein. Yet even after the release of thousands of pages of court records in recent days, some questions about the millionaire pedophile remain unanswered. The documents have gotten a lot
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Despite overcoming a 17-point deficit in the first half, the Mizzou men’s basketball team could not complete the comeback win against Georgia, on Saturday. With the 75-68 loss, the Tigers opened SEC action with a loss to fall to 8-6 on the season. You can watch the full postgame press conference with
Continue ReadingBy Brammhi Balarajan and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A single tree can take much of the credit for a woman surviving in frigid nighttime temperatures after falling hundreds of feet down a mountain in New York State. The 46-year-old woman fell down through steep snowfall on December 26 while hiking the Adirondack Mountains in
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