TODAY: Spotty showers remain throughout the afternoon hours before more widespread showers surge into the area towards I-44 and just north. Northwest of this area remains a lot more dry. The highest rainfall totals amount to near 1/2″ overnight along and south of I-44 back towards Rolla. Highs warm into the mid-60s. TONIGHT: Overnight lows
Continue ReadingBy GEOFF MULVIHILL and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press Voters in both Colorado and South Dakota will have a say on abortion rights this fall after supporters collected enough valid signatures to put measures on the ballot, part of a national push to pose abortion rights questions to voters since the U.S. Supreme Court removed the
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The 97th Academy Awards will be held March 2. The date announced by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Wednesday moves the annual ceremony up about a week. This year’s Oscars were held on March 10. The telecast that culminated in the best picture win for “Oppenheimer, was
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Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, JILL COLVIN and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With his job on the line, House Speaker Mike Johnson is dashing to Florida to meet with Donald Trump this week. He has also offered far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a seat on his own “kitchen cabinet” advisory group. Facing the threat
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Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — México rompió sus relaciones diplomáticas con Ecuador el viernes 5 de abril, luego de que la Policía ecuatoriana irrumpió en la embajada mexicana en Quito para capturar al exvicepresidente Jorge Glas, quien había recibido asilo de México y se encontraba a la espera de un salvoconducto para dejar el país. Ante
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By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told donors and supporters at an appreciation retreat over the weekend that he would help fundraise for former presidential rival Donald Trump, two sources familiar with the details told CNN. “He’s committed to helping Trump in any and every way,” said Texas businessman Roy Bailey,
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Comstock Click here for updates on this story TEMECULA, California (KCAL) — Sometimes you feel a different person after getting a haircut. But the unlikely bond at a barbershop in Temecula changed the way one client looks at the world. “I said to myself, I would never let this person touch me,” client
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Continue ReadingBy Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN Sunday’s NCAA women’s basketball championship between Iowa and South Carolina drew nearly 19 million average viewers, shattering records to become the most-watched women’s college basketball game ever measured by Nielsen. The game not only eclipsed Monday’s men’s final between Purdue and UConn by more than 4 million viewers, but it
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By Leda Joy Abkenari, CNN (CNN) — Climbing up abandoned, unfinished floors and tightrope walking across balcony ledges, backpacks clanging with cans of alkyd and acrylic, a collective of Los Angeles graffiti artists have transformed their craft beyond urban aesthetics to champion community issues. Their choice of canvas: Oceanwide Plaza in Downtown LA. Occupying over
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Continue Readingmondemanola (CNN Español) — El presidente de Argentina, Javier Milei, y su hermana y secretaria general de la presidencia, Karina Milei, recibirán este miércoles la distinción “Embajadores Internacionales de la Luz”. ¿De qué se trata este reconocimiento? Los hermanos Milei viajaron el martes en la noche en la aerolínea de bandera Aerolíneas Argentinas rumbo a
Continue Reading By Kristen Holmes, Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — As Mike Johnson stares down a serious threat to his speakership, he’s taking steps to show alignment with the most powerful figure in the Republican Party: Donald Trump. Johnson has made plans to trek down to Mar-a-Lago on Friday to appear at a joint
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