COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team is continuing its preparation for its Armed Forces Bowl matchup with Army on Dec. 22. Despite a rocky start to the year, MU did finish the season 6-5. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz said his team is excited to get one last chance to play together. “They still want
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The series of weekend tornadoes that ripped through the parts of the US this weekend adds to another stretch of deadly and potentially unprecedented weather disasters that plagued the planet this year. Meteorologists and climate scientists say the latest outbreak is historic. And as these extreme weather events intensify, occur more
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By Anna Chernova and Kevin Liptak, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin told his US counterpart Joe Biden he would “really like” to meet for more talks, according to a video clip released by Russian state TV on Sunday from the leaders’ virtual call on Tuesday. In a short video clip released on Russia 1, Putin
Continue ReadingBy Nadeem Muaddi, CNN Megan Thee Stallion is now a college graduate, crossing the stage at Texas Southern University on Saturday in cap and gown to receive her diploma with the rest of the student body-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody. The Grammy winning rapper earned a bachelor of science degree in health administration, a goal she set to honor
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN Powerful storms like the ones that tore through parts of the central United States this weekend are the “new normal” in an era of climate change, the top federal emergency management official said on Sunday. Deanne Criswell, the FEMA administrator, said her agency was prepared to bolster resilience in the face
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN Powerful storms like the ones that tore through parts of the central United States this weekend are the “new normal” in an era of climate change, the top federal emergency management official said on Sunday. Deanne Criswell, the FEMA administrator, said her agency was prepared to bolster resilience in the face
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By Oliver Darcy and Brian Stelter, CNN Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, one of the few high-profile news personalities who retained a reputation of integrity as Fox leaned hard into right-wing and conspiratorial programming, announced Sunday that he is departing the network and joining CNN+ to host a weekday show. Wallace made the stunning announcement
Continue ReadingBy Daniella Diaz and Devan Cole, CNN Democrats are going to do “everything to get” President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act done by Christmas, Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Sunday. “We have to get this done, Jake. And Senator (Joe) Manchin is still at the negotiating table,” Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, told CNN’s Jake
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By Megan Thomas, CNN TikTok served as a source of hilarious fodder on this weekend’s episode of “Saturday Night Live.” The show satirized people TikTok-trying-way-too hard on the social media platform and it was was brutally accurate. The video sketch started with a text from a dad (Alex Moffat) asking his teenager to take out
Continue ReadingBy Kay Jones, CNN One person died and five others were rescued after an avalanche near a Seattle-area ski resort. A witness reported that six skiers were swept up by the avalanche in the Silver Basin area in the Crystal Mountain backcountry Saturday morning, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said. All six were wearing avalanche
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By Jennifer Korn Over the summer, an anonymous hacker stole roughly $600 million in cryptocurrency from Poly Network, a decentralized finance network many outside the crypto world had likely never heard of. Then the hacker gave it back. Four months later, hackers stole at least $150 million from crypto exchange Bitmart. According to one analysis,
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TODAY: Cold start with lows again near freezing. Warm and bright this afternoon back in the mid-50s. TOMORROW: The warmup continues, pushing us near 60 degrees on Monday under more sunshine. EXTENDED: Southerly winds will dominate the region in the first half of the week, potentially leading to record-breaking heat. The record high sits at
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By Laura Studley, CNN A decades-old family photo from a home in Kentucky turned up more than 150 miles away in Indiana on Saturday after apparently being whipped up into the debris of deadly tornadoes that tore through the region. “Walked out to my car in New Albany, Indiana and found this picture stuck to
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The Columbia Police Department said Sunday morning they found four shell casings, with two of the bullets ending up in a home two more ending up in a car on Trinity Place.
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By Andy Rose, CNN Anne Rice, author of the best-selling Vampire Chronicles novel series, died Saturday, her son announced on social media. She was 80 years old. She passed away due to complications resulting from a stroke, Christopher Rice said. Rice’s biggest success was her first novel, “Interview with the Vampire,” which was published in
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By Andy Rose, CNN A work release inmate who went missing after being rescued from a Kentucky candle factory that collapsed during deadly tornadoes Friday night has turned himself in to the Calloway County Jail, Kentucky State Police said on Facebook. The jail is about 25 miles from Mayfield, where Francisco Starks, 44, was treated
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By Priya Krishnakumar, Emma Tucker, Ryan Young and Pamela Kirkland, CNN One of the fastest-growing cities in the country, the capital of Texas is nearing the end of its deadliest year on record in 2021 as cities nationwide are experiencing a rise in homicides and gun violence incidents that began last year when the pandemic
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By Andy Rose, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed his “outrage” Saturday at a Supreme Court decision to allow the Texas six-week abortion ban to remain in effect and said he would use similar legal tactics to tackle gun control in his state. “I am outraged by yesterday’s US Supreme Court decision allowing Texas’s ban
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Continue Readingby Carma Hassan, CNN and Reuters At least six people died at an Amazon warehouse building collapse after an EF-3 tornado caused major structural damage to the building Friday, according to the Edwardsville Fire Department in Illinois. Forty-five people made it out of the building, with one person airlifted to a regional hospital for treatment,
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