Russia invades Ukraine
By Travis Caldwell, Seán Federico O’Murchú, Jack Guy and Hafsa Khalil, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
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House Committee throws out governor’s plan to raise starting teacher salary
In a Monday afternoon budget committee hearing, Chair Rep. Cody Smith, R-Jasper, removed the governor’s proposal to allocate $21.8 million to matching school districts in raising the starting salary for teachers to $38,000.
Continue ReadingPileup in Pennsylvania caused by snow squall led to 6 deaths and involved 80 vehicles, police say
By Laura Studley, Eric Levenson and Caroll Alvarado, CNN The massive pileup caused by a sudden snow squall on a Pennsylvania highway Monday left six people dead and involved 80 vehicles, state police wrote in a crash report Wednesday. According to final numbers in the report, there were 39 commercial vehicles and 41 passenger vehicles
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Will Smith resigns from the Academy
By Brian Stelter, CNN Business After slapping presenter Chris Rock on stage at last weekend’s Academy Awards, Will Smith announced in a statement Friday that he has resigned from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. “I am resigning from membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and will accept any
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Will Smith and Chris Rock have a history that predates the Oscars slap
By Lisa Respers France, CNN Sunday night wasn’t the first time Chris Rock had joked about Jada Pinkett Smith, but it may have been his last. Her husband, Will Smith, stormed on stage at the 94th Academy Awards after Rock joked “Jada I love you, ‘G.I. Jane 2,’ can’t wait to see it” and hit
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Why prime real estate owned by the VA is leased for a private school, a ballpark and an oil well — and not homes for veterans
By Nick Watt, CNN In 2014, the mayor of Los Angeles made a bold promise: to end veteran homelessness in this city by the end of 2015. He didn’t. There are, by latest count, still more than 3,600 homeless veterans here, down just a few hundred in five years There are more homeless vets in
Continue ReadingKetanji Brown Jackson courts Republicans, though Romney likely won’t make decision known until ‘day of the vote’
By Clare Foran and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson met with two closely watched Republican senators on Tuesday — Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine — but it is still unclear whether she will win any GOP support. Senate Democrats can confirm Jackson to the high court without
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Jury delivers guilty verdict in killing of Jefferson City corrections officer
A Cole County jury has convicted a man of second-degree murder, assault and other charges in connection with a 2018 fatal shooting.
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Tracking a warm and windy Tuesday, overnight storms
TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy and cool, breezy. Lows in the low 40s. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy and windy. Wind gusts between 25-35 mph. Highs in the upper 60s to low 70s. EXTENDED: We’ll see patchy clouds into this evening with temperature remaining above freezing as winds shift back to the southeast. We’ll start Tuesday out in the
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Mizzou big man Jordan Wilmore enters transfer portal
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) MU’s Center Jordan Wilmore entered the transfer portal Monday. After starting six of the first 10 games this past season, Wilmore struggled to find the court failing to appear in just 20 total games. The 7’3″ post player was the tallest player to play in a game for the Tigers. Last season,
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CNN+ is here: What to expect from the subscription news streamer
By Brian Stelter, CNN Business On Tuesday CNN is introducing CNN+, a subscription streaming service that combines live news coverage, on-demand programming and interactive interviews. CNN’s goal is to establish closer relationships with news consumers — the same way Netflix and HBO Max have done in entertainment. It has hired hundreds of people and developed
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Snow squall causes mass pileup on Pennsylvania highway and sends about 20 to hospitals
Heavy fog and precipitation from a snow squall caused a mass pileup Monday on a Pennsylvania highway and sent about 20 people to area hospitals, authorities said.
Continue ReadingBiden says he was ‘expressing my outrage’ but not making a policy change when he said Putin ‘cannot remain in power’
By Maegan Vazquez, Kevin Liptak and Alex Marquardt, CNN President Joe Biden reiterated on Monday that he was not announcing a change in US policy when he had said that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” — a remark that caught American and international officials off-guard, sending the White House into clean-up mode
Continue ReadingDeSantis signs controversial bill restricting certain LGBTQ topics in the classroom
By Devan Cole and Tina Burnside, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed legislation banning certain instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom, approving the controversial measure that opponents have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law. HB 1557, titled the “Parental Rights in Education” bill, was given final passage by Florida’s
Continue ReadingJudge: ‘More likely than not’ that Trump ‘corruptly attempted’ to block Congress from counting votes on January 6
By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice A federal judge said Monday that former President Donald Trump and right-wing attorney John Eastman may have been planning a crime as they sought to disrupt the January 6 congressional certification of the presidential election. “Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not
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Tracking a warm-up on the way
MONDAY Clouds will be tough to shake completely, but we’ll squeeze in enough sunshine to help things out. Highs will top out in the low to mid 50’s this afternoon, despite a chilly start. TONIGHT Those stubborn clouds will come in handy tonight. Temperatures will be slow to cool off, only bottoming out in the low
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Here’s who’s flying on Thursday’s Blue Origin space launch
By Catherine Thorbecke and Jackie Wattles, CNN Pete Davidson was initially slated to be the next headline-grabbing name to take flight aboard the suborbital space tourism rocket developed by Jeff Bezos’ company, Blue Origin, after the commercial space company launched several other famous faces on its previous flights. But the comedian abruptly dropped out of
Continue ReadingBiden administration proposes larger defense budget to counter China, Russia
By Oren Liebermann, Ellie Kaufman and Jeremy Herb, CNN President Joe Biden’s proposed fiscal year 2023 Pentagon budget includes $813 billion in spending for national defense, a 4% increase of $31 billion from the spending package signed into law earlier this month. The Biden administration’s defense budget remains focused on China as the primary strategic
Continue ReadingJudge: ‘More likely than not’ that Trump ‘corruptly attempted’ to block Congress from counting votes on January 6
By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice A federal judge said Monday that former President Donald Trump and right-wing attorney John Eastman may have been planning a crime as they sought to disrupt the January 6 congressional certification of the presidential election. “Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not
Continue ReadingGirls Who Code founder: Women need flexibility in the workplace
As told to by Sabina Bhatia, deputy secretary of the International Monetary Fund Covid-19 wreaked economic havoc on women globally, especially mothers, bringing into sharp focus the policies and practices that continue to thwart gender equality at work and at home. This widening chasm troubles Reshma Saujani, a leading activist, founder of the Marshall Plan
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