By Travis Caldwell, Sara Sidner, Stephanie Becker and Dan Przygoda, CNN For the second year in a row, weary doctors and nurses on the front lines of the pandemic are preparing to treat hospitalized Covid-19 patients over the Christmas holiday as the highly transmissible Omicron variant drives up case counts across the United States. “It’s
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN Afghanistan’s first female Olympian, Friba Rezayee, says she is “very angry” that her country’s plight is “falling off the world agenda” as she continues to help those still trying to escape. Rezayee was one of many to oppose the Taliban takeover of the country in August and says those still left
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ST. LOUIS (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team no longer has Braggin’ Rights over Illinois. The Fighting Illini crushed the Tigers 88-63 on Wednesday night. Mizzou’s three-game winning streak in the rivalry is now over. https://youtu.be/EDHq6klDgKk MU shot just 35.5% from the field. The Tigers were 5-for-22 from three-point range. Meanwhile, the Fighting Illini were
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team is bringing Braggin’ Rights back to Columbia after beating Illinois 84-65 on Wednesday afternoon. The Fighting Illini started the game on a 13-1 run, but MU dominated after that. The Tigers closed out the first quarter on a 9-0 run to tie the game. MU took a
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By Angela Dewan, International Climate Editor, CNN Imagine a world entirely free of fossil fuels. That’s no longer such an abstract concept, as most of the everyday things we do can be powered by electricity — driving a car, heating a home, charging a phone or computer — and all that energy could come from
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TONIGHT: High pressure over head will slide east and winds will swing out of the south this evening. That will help keep temperatures propped up in the mid to upper 30’s overnight. THURSDAY: South winds will start to pick up a bit more on Thursday. That will push the warm weather back into Mid-Missouri. Highs
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By Katie Hunt, CNN An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds. The 70-million-year-old fossil preserves the embryonic skeleton of an oviraptorid dinosaur, which has been nicknamed Baby Yingliang after the name of the Chinese museum which houses the
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By Eliza Mackintosh and Nilly Kohzad, CNN Illustration by Alberto Mier, CNN In the four months since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, Nilofar, a 20-year-old university student, has rarely left her small apartment in Kabul, where she lives with her older sister, brother and father. Her days, which were once punctuated by exam preparation, fitness
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Assistant chief Bryant Gladney had served the citizens of Boone County for 25 years but had worked in emergency response in the Mid-Missouri area for more than three decades.
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By David Williams and Sara Smart, CNN An 1875 almanac, two withered books, a coin and a cloth envelope were among the artifacts inside an 1887 time capsule that was opened Wednesday. The capsule was found last week in the pedestal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia. CNN affiliate
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Columbia Fire Department will now help with some of the Boone County Fire Protection District’s calls after Assistant Fire Chief Bryant Gladney died in the line of duty Wednesday morning. The tragic death of their fellow firefighter has shaken up the Boone County Fire Protection District. Columbia Assistant Fire Chief Jerry Jenkins
Continue Reading By David Williams and Sara Smart, CNN An 1875 almanac, two withered books, a coin and a cloth envelope were among the artifacts inside an 1887 time capsule that was opened Wednesday. The capsule was found last week in the pedestal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia. CNN affiliate
Continue ReadingBy Kristin Wilson and Devan Cole, CNN Pennsylvania Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon was carjacked at gunpoint Wednesday afternoon in Philadelphia, but was physically unharmed during the incident, her office said Wednesday. “(On) Wednesday afternoon, at around 2:45 p.m., Congresswoman Scanlon was carjacked at gunpoint in FDR Park following a meeting at that location,” her spokesperson
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By Michelle Watson, CNN A missing college student was found and reunited with her family on Saturday after she went missing on December 13, Snow College officials said in a news conference Sunday. Madelyn Allen was found at a house in Wayne County, Utah, college police said. Brent Brown, a 39-year-old man from Utah, was
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On Wednesday morning, several people stopped to help direct traffic on the first crash involving a box truck on westbound I-70.
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday acknowledged his administration has struggled to meet the nation’s demand for Covid-19 tests, but he defended the federal response to a surge in cases — driven largely by the Omicron variant. In a one-on-one interview by ABC News, interviewer David Muir asked the
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By David Williams, CNN A Colorado district attorney is asking the court to reconsider the 110-year prison sentence given to truck driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, who was convicted in the 2019 crash on Interstate 70 that killed four people. A status hearing in the case has been set for Monday morning, according to online court records.
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN Sen. Mitch McConnell on Wednesday urged Sen. Joe Manchin to join the Republican Party after the moderate Democrat bucked his own by effectively sinking a massive economic spending and climate bill, but the Republican leader acknowledged that the party switch likely won’t happen. “No wonder why Joe Manchin is uncomfortable on
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The district said in a news release that Bryant Gladney died at the scene after the crash involving a tractor-trailer near Route Z. Gladney was going to the scene of a crash when a westbound tractor-trailer hit Gladney’s firetruck at high speed before hitting a University Hospital ambulance and the vehicle involved in the original crash, according to the release.
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