By Kim Berryman, Holly Yan and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A police crackdown to remove protesters decrying Covid-19 mandates could soon restore some normalcy to American and Canadian businesses hit hard by a blockade at the border. Windsor Police have started arresting protesters blocking the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest land border crossing in North America. The
Continue ReadingBy Kylie Atwood and Oren Liebermann, CNN The United States has moved some US forces out of Ukraine and ordered the evacuation of most of its embassy staff on Saturday as fears mount that a Russian invasion of the country could take place in the next few days. The moves are signs of growing concerns
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Saturday: Cold with gusty northerly winds up to 25 mph. Highs in the mid-20s and wind chills in the teens. Sunday: Partly cloudy and breezy with highs in the low 30s. Extended: Clouds roll in late Saturday night into Sunday ahead of a weak clipper system that will keep our temperatures near freezing during the day. The best chance
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN This weekend when the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals take the field on Super Bowl Sunday, it will mark the return of cheerleaders to the biggest sports event in the United States, after they were barred from the field last year due to pandemic restrictions. And though today the commercials and
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By Jonathan Hawkins and Becky Anderson, CNN AC Milan CEO Ivan Gazidis believes football needs to do more to fight issues such as domestic abuse — not just in society, but also within the game itself. In the wake of several domestic violence accusations in the English Premier League, including against Manchester United and England
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By Miguel Marquez, Jason Hanna and Kim Berryman, CNN Canadian police on Saturday attempted to clear protesters from the Ambassador Bridge across from Detroit, intending to end a six-day blockage of North America’s busiest international crossing by demonstrators decrying Covid-19 measures. Dozens of police officers approached protesters near the foot of the bridge on the
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ.) Warming shelters in both Jefferson City and Columbia are opening their doors to the community this weekend as temperatures will drop around 19 degrees overnight. According to a press release written by the City of Columbia, on the evening over the next three days, the city will open a temporary overnight warming
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By CNN staff In the span of a week, three American-born athletes of Chinese descent have been thrust into the spotlight at the Beijing Winter Olympics — to very different reactions in China. All three were trained in the United States and are only a few years apart in age, but their paths diverged on
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth, Masoud Popalzai, Sitara Zamani, Abdul Basir Bina, Katie Polglase and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Newly released testimony from US military survivors of the August 26 attack at Kabul airport has cast doubt on the findings of the Pentagon’s investigation into the incident, which concluded that nobody was hit
Continue ReadingBy Giselle Rhoden, Nick Valencia and Jade Gordon, CNN Three weeks ago, Brittany Murphree enrolled in Law 743, a unique class for the University of Mississippi. Despite the skepticism from fellow Republican friends and family, the second-year law student wanted to take the class “to see what it’s all about.” “Honestly, I love it,” Murphree
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The University of Missouri Research Reactor, or MURR, in Columbia is the only one of its kind in the country. It makes radioisotopes used to test for and treat various cancers.
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and cold with gusty winds up to 25 mph from the northwest. Lows in the mid-teens with wind chills just above zero. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and cold with highs in the mid-upper 20s. Wind chills in the teens. EXTENDED: As skies clear overnight, temperatures plunge into the teens overnight. Wind chills will
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Gov. Mike Parson touted plans to make major investments in broadband Internet access and education during a tour of the University of Missouri’s NextGen building and a roundtable with state and education leaders Friday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will do battle with the Ole Miss Rebels for the second time this season in the annual Rally for Rhyan game on Saturday. https://youtu.be/PQX7cmSI2tg Last time the two teams met in January, the Tigers took a 25-point road win against the Rebels in Oxford. The win was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team will open up its season in just seven days on Friday, Feb. 18 against Nicholls State down in Louisiana. The Tigers will look to make 2022 their bounce-back year, after a 15-36 ending to the season in 2021. “Our big focus of the get was to kind of
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Stocks fell sharply Friday after the White House said Americans should leave Ukraine “immediately” due to worries about an imminent invasion by Russia. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell a little more than 500 points, or 1.4%, after the Biden administration said it would be ready to respond
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden spent parts of the weekend reviewing materials on potential successors to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer as his self-imposed end-of-February deadline inches closer. Biden is “currently reviewing the legal record and writings of potential nominees, all of whom deserve fair bipartisan review,” according to White House talking points
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By Dakin Andone, Nick Valencia and Jade Gordon, CNN A Black FedEx driver who says he was shot at by a White father and son while delivering packages in Mississippi “can definitely see the similarities” between his case and that of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was chased and murdered in south Georgia. “That’s
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Columbia Public Schools has dropped its mandate for face coverings to be worn at school, effective Friday, citing declining coronavirus case rates and fewer staff and students being infected.
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TONIGHT Showers will come to an end this evening and temperatures will begin to quickly fall. Expect temperatures to drop into the teens overnight, making for a bitter start early Saturday. SATURDAY With winds gusting up to 25 mph overnight, wind chills will hover in the single-digits through early Saturday. Skies will start cloudy, but
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