TONIGHT: Partly cloudy to mostly clear with lows in the upper 20s to around 30. TOMORROW: Partly cloudy and breezy with highs near 50. EXTENDED: We’re clear overnight with temperatures dropping down to near 30. Tomorrow will bring a couple more clouds as a cold front works through to our southeast, but we still manage to make
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The top two Republican leaders in Congress were at odds Tuesday over the Republican National Committee’s recent resolution that formally censured GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for serving on the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, pressed by CNN’s Manu Raju on
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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Leslie Jones can keep posting unfiltered videos of herself commenting on the Olympics, according to NBC. On Monday, Jones said she would stop making the videos, because they were routinely getting blocked. But NBC said Tuesday that the former “Saturday Night Live” cast member can continue offering her commentary while
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN As the first trial for a January 6 US Capitol riot defendant approaches, prosecutors are laying out a strategy that includes calling a member of former Vice President Mike Pence’s security detail and the defendant’s two children to the stand. The trial of Guy Reffitt, a Texas Three
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN A new government report out Tuesday details how opioid trafficking in the United States has changed in recent years, with Mexico now a “dominant source” of the country’s fentanyl supply and synthetic opioids rapidly saturating drug markets. In its report, the federal Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking — a bipartisan
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The Missouri Department of Transportation is putting its support behind a proposal to ban the use of cellphones while driving.
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By Jack Guy, CNN An English pub that claims to be the oldest in Britain is closing due to financial problems worsened by the pandemic. Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St. Albans, just north of London, has been in business since 793 AD, according to its website. Now it has closed its doors “after a
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Major automakers are coming out with electric cars and SUVs that could, one day, threaten Tesla’s dominance in that field. But there’s a big fight brewing in another electric vehicle market where Tesla doesn’t even play. Electric work vans. Electric vans present a big opportunity because of two concurrent trends.
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Peloton is replacing embattled CEO John Foley and cutting about 20% of its workforce to help reinvigorate the flailing fitness company. Barry McCarthy, the former chief financial officer of Spotify and Netflix, will become its CEO and president, effective Wednesday. Foley will become the company’s executive chair, and wrote in
Continue ReadingBy Kelly Mena and Fredreka Schouten, CNN The Supreme Court took action this week in one state’s redistricting case that could have broad repercussions for the voting rights of African Americans and other minorities across the country. The court on Monday reinstated an Alabama congressional map that a lower court had said diluted the political
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By Omar Jimenez, Peter Nickeas and Bill Kirkos, CNN A Minneapolis SWAT team serving a warrant that led to an officer shooting Amir Locke was looking for his teenage cousin and two others in connection with a homicide investigation, according to the court documents released Tuesday. Authorities linked Locke’s cousin, 17-year-old Mekhi Speed, to a
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TONIGHT A south breeze, along with sunshine has warmed temperatures into the upper 40’s with the likelihood of reaching mid 50’s this afternoon. A few clouds will move in this afternoon and evening along a weak cold front, which will only enhance the sunset. WEDNESDAY Starting around 30 degrees early Wednesday, temperatures will again be
Continue Reading By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Leslie Jones can keep posting unfiltered videos of herself commenting on the Olympics, according to NBC. On Monday, Jones said she would stop making the videos, because they were routinely getting blocked. But NBC said Tuesday that the former “Saturday Night Live” cast member can continue offering her commentary while
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business This is the best labor market most workers have ever experienced in their lives. So why are so many Americans feeling gloomy about the state of the US economy? The simple answer is inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, which is showing the fastest rate of price increases
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Four years ago this week, the most powerful operational rocket in the world, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, made its inaugural launch from Florida and tore into outer space carrying nothing other than Elon Musk’s personal Tesla roadster. The cherry red sports car — which is occupied by a spacesuit-clad mannequin nicknamed
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By Paula Newton and Travis Caldwell, CNN Canadian protesters have impeded access to the busiest international crossing in North America again Tuesday, escalating tensions as frustration over demonstrations against Covid-19 rules continues to roil the nation. After idling trucks and vehicles snarled roadways in major Canadian cities over the weekend, “Freedom Convoy” drivers hindered travel
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN An English pub that claims to be the oldest in Britain is closing due to financial problems worsened by the pandemic. Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St. Albans, just north of London, has been in business since 793 AD, according to its website. Now it has closed its doors “after a
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By Ivana Kottasová and Charles Riley, CNN Business President Joe Biden said Monday that natural gas will not flow through Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany if Moscow orders an invasion of Ukraine. What does an $11 billion undersea pipeline between Russia and Germany have to do with Ukraine? And why is it such
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By Michelle Toh, CNN Business SoftBank’s record-breaking sale of a prized chip designer to Nvidia has officially been called off. At an initial value of $40 billion, the US chipmaker’s acquisition of British design firm ARM would have been the largest semiconductor deal on record. But regulators around the world have long raised concerns about
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TUESDAY We’re off to a mild start this morning and look to be able to do something with it this afternoon. A breeze out of the southwest will pick up a bit more. That breeze, along with morning sunshine will get temperatures into the middle 50’s this afternoon. A few clouds will move in this
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