By Clare Duffy, CNN Business In the days following the January 6 Capitol riot, Twitter became the first major social media platform to permanently suspend then-President Donald Trump for violating its rules against inciting violence. It was a huge step and one that instantly put pressure on other big platforms to take action. Within days,
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By Alaa Elassar and Holly Yan, CNN At 56, Vicky White was on the brink of retiring from an illustrious career as a corrections officer. “She was a model employee,” said Rick Singleton, the sheriff in Lauderdale County, Alabama, where Vicky White worked for nearly two decades. “All of her co-workers, all the employees in
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By Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologist Parts of eastern India are preparing for torrential rain and strong winds as a tropical cyclone warning is in effect for the Andhra Pradesh coast — as other portions of the country battle extreme heat. While the cyclone may bring some relief from the heat, it will be too far
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By Matias Grez, CNN When Erling Haaland burst onto the Champions League stage, everybody in the world of football immediately sat up and took notice. Playing in European football’s premier competition is supposed to be hard. Haaland made it look anything but. In September 2019, then 19 years old, the Norwegian sensation bagged a hat-trick
Continue ReadingLeah Dolan Inside the gilded halls of the Palais de l’Élysée, master sommelier Carlton McCoy meets chef de partie Francis Oge — the man tasked with feeding French President Emmanuel Macron. Oge, who has served four presidents, is a master of fine dining. From his delicately pinstriped mille-feuille to his sculptural beef Wellingtons, precision and
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By Vasco Cotovio, Fred Pleitgen and Claudia Otto, CNN A US Navy SEAL jumps out of a Romanian helicopter and slides down a rope. He’s one of several American special forces units taking part in a military drill on the Black Sea, just 100 miles from Ukraine, where Russia continues to wage its war. Their
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By Brian Fung, CNN The dating-app company behind Tinder, OkCupid and Match.com sued Google on Monday, alleging that the technology giant runs an illegal monopoly in the Google Play Store and that its in-app payment policies, including its 30% cut of some in-app purchases, are anticompetitive. The suit by Match Group is the latest antitrust
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The Columbia Board of Education is meeting Monday night to discuss an update to its seclusion and restraint policy.
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN A former Democratic congressional candidate went viral on Twitter over the weekend with a false claim that Tennessee has banned Plan B, a pregnancy-preventing emergency contraceptive known as a “morning-after pill.” Pam Keith’s inaccurate tweet came five days after Politico revealed a February draft opinion in which a Supreme Court majority
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN A former Democratic congressional candidate went viral on Twitter over the weekend with a false claim that Tennessee has banned Plan B, a pregnancy-preventing emergency contraceptive known as a “morning-after pill.” Pam Keith’s inaccurate tweet came five days after Politico revealed a February draft opinion in which a Supreme Court majority
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Since Covid-19 vaccines became widely available, there has been a wide gap in deaths between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. But recent Covid deaths are much more evenly split as highly transmissible variants take hold, vaccine protection wanes and booster uptake stagnates. Breakthrough infections have become more common in recent months, putting
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By Henry Klapper, CNN Two Russian reporters appeared to post at least 30 articles on Monday that criticized President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. CNN reviewed the articles, which were taken down almost immediately after they were published on a pro-Kremlin news site. Some were pegged to the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s defeat
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By Brad Lendon, CNN A Russian bomber fired three hypersonic missiles at the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa on Monday night, Ukrainian officials said, as part of a barrage that leveled a number of civilian targets including hotels and a shopping mall. It is not the first time Moscow has deployed its Kinzhal hypersonic
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business In another blow to the US economy, prices at the pump soared to fresh record highs. The national average price for regular gasoline climbed more than four cents on Tuesday to $4.37 a gallon, according to AAA. That takes out the prior record of $4.33 set on March 11. The
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN High winds and extreme heat are fueling dangerous wildfires across the Southwest. Four states — New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Texas — are battling a dozen large fires that have already burned more than 320,000 acres, and triple-digit temperatures are only making matters worse. Here’s what you need to know to
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN High winds and extreme heat are fueling dangerous wildfires across the Southwest. Four states — New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Texas — are battling a dozen large fires that have already burned more than 320,000 acres, and triple-digit temperatures are only making matters worse. Here’s what you need to know to
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TODAY: Temperatures this morning are about 5 to 10 degrees warmer than they were 24 hours ago. This will give today a very good chance of outpacing yesterdays temperatures by a few degrees. With a largely similar forecast, temperatures will climb faster and farther than Monday. Expect highs in the low to mid 90s Tuesday
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By Rachel Ramirez and Michelle Watson, CNN More human remains were found at Lake Mead over the weekend, less than a week after a body in a barrel was discovered at the reservoir. National Park Service rangers responded to a call on Saturday afternoon that reported the remains in Callville Bay. The Clark County Medical
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By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Austin Williams likened the capture of Alabama fugitive Casey White, accused of killing Williams’ mother in 2015, to a “miracle,” saying Tuesday he did not expect White would be captured alive. Williams, 42, and his family had been hoping for the best for Vicky White, the jailer accused of helping
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Monday, May 9, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BASEBALL STURGEON (2) TOLTON (17) FINAL CAPITAL CITY (10) ST. JAMES (0) FINAL HALLSVILLE (8) CENTRALIA (1) FINAL MOBERLY (0) MEXICO (2) FINAL BLAIR OAKS (8) JEFFERSON CITY (0) FINAL MARCELINE
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