By Sean Lyngaas, CNN US officials have deported a key player in the Russian cybercriminal world who was sentenced to nine years in US prison in 2020 for his alleged role in a scheme that defrauded Americans of millions of dollars, according to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. ICE officers put Aleksei Burkov,
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By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN When Covid-19 restrictions made it difficult for a Canadian bride to have her family at her US wedding, she did the next best thing — she brought her wedding to the border. Karen Mahoney and her new husband, Brian Ray, told CNN they met 35 years ago over a love
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By Amir Vera, CNN The MacArthur Foundation announced its class of 2021 Tuesday that includes an anti-racist author, a civil rights activist and a computational virologist. Colloquially known as the “genius grant,” MacArthur fellows are awarded a $625,000, no-strings-attached grant paid out over five years. Since 1981, 1,061 people have been named MacArthur Fellows, according
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By Jennifer Hansler and Jake Tapper, CNN More than 100 US citizens and green card holders and nine special immigrant visa holders were evacuated from Afghanistan via a private charter flight on Tuesday, according to two organizations involved in the effort. Project Dynamo and Human First Coalition said in a press release that the group
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By Tara Subramaniam and Holmes Lybrand, CNN During a Senate hearing on Tuesday over the frenzied US withdrawal from Afghanistan, top generals seemingly contradicted earlier claims from President Joe Biden on the administration’s plan to remove troops. In a mid-August interview, Biden repeatedly disputed that military advisers had told him he should keep troops in
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By Ellie Kaufman, CNN Top military officials warned Tuesday that the war in Afghanistan and the war on terror are not over, even if the US military no longer maintains boots on the ground after 20 years of a consistent military presence in the country. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
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Former state Sen. James Mathewson, the longest-serving President Pro Tem of the Missouri Senate, has died.
Continue ReadingAttorney General Eric Schmitt sought a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit he filed last month to end CPS’s mandate that all students and staff wear masks while indoors. Judge Brouck Jacobs denied that request in a two-plus-hour hearing Tuesday, along with a request to make the lawsuit class action, which would bring in other schools with mandates as defendants.
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By Angela Dewan, CNN Swedish activist Greta Thunberg mocked world leaders — including US President Joe Biden and the UK’s Boris Johnson — at a youth climate summit in Milan on Tuesday, saying the last 30 years of climate action had amounted to “blah, blah, blah.” Thunberg imitated the leaders by repeating their commonly used
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Check back for updates related to the coronavirus pandemic in Missouri.
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By Amir Vera and David Close, CNN NBA superstar LeBron James confirmed Tuesday he received the Covid-19 vaccine, months after being initially skeptical of it. “Everyone has their own choice to do what they feel is right for themselves and their family and things of that nature,” James said during the Los Angeles Lakers media
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By Amanda Jackson, CNN A child in North Texas died earlier this month after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba at a city splash pad, officials announced on Monday. The child was hospitalized September 5 with primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, a rare and often fatal infection caused by an amoeba called Naegleria fowleri, according to a joint
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By Marshall Cohen, CNN A Pennsylvania woman who stormed the US Capitol on January 6 and said she had been looking for Nancy Pelosi “to shoot her in the friggin’ brain” pleaded guilty Tuesday to a low-level misdemeanor for unlawfully protesting on restricted grounds. Doylestown gym owner Dawn Bancroft entered the guilty plea in DC
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By Tierney Sneed, Paula Reid and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Former Trump campaign and White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has defeated an arbitration case brought against her by the Trump campaign, which alleged that she had violated a non-disclosure agreement with public comments and a book critical of former President Donald Trump. In a summary
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By Geneva Sands, CNN The top senators on the Homeland Security Committee introduced legislation on Tuesday to require critical infrastructure companies to report cyberattacks to the federal government and to mandate that most organizations tell the federal government if they make ransomware payments. If enacted, the bill will create the first national requirement for critical
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Defensive back Shawn Robinson, kicker Harrison Mevis and wide receiver Barrett Banister will follow Wilks in taking questions from reporters. The Tigers will host SEC foe Tennessee on Saturday after losing in overtime last week at Boston College.
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN How much would you pay for an Oreo cookie? For some, the answer could be thousands of dollars — as one hard-to-find Oreo cookie featuring a rare Pokémon is fetching a hefty price tag on eBay. The new Oreo collaboration with Pokemon debuted earlier this month, with cookies featuring various Pokémon
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By Rebekah Riess and Steve Almasy, CNN The suspect in the killing of Deputy Josh Moyers has been apprehended after a five-day manhunt in northeast Florida, the Nassau County sheriff said Tuesday. “We got our man. It’s a great day in Nassau County,” Sheriff Bill Leeper said at a news conference. “He’s in custody and
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The first NASA mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroid swarms is getting ready to launch. The Lucy mission has passed all of its prelaunch tests and is set to leave Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at around 5:30 a.m. ET on October 16. The Trojan asteroids, which borrow their name from
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The regional supermarket chain said in a news release this week that its stores will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. effective next Monday. The deli, meat and seafood counters will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. The stores are currently open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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