By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business It wasn’t exactly “The Fast and the Furious” — pretty much the opposite — but the 1988 Oscar winning film “Rain Man” featured cars as an integral part of the story. And the movie’s most famous car, a 1949 Buick Roadmaster, is up for auction. The beige convertible has been
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WEDNESDAY We’re off to a brutally cold start but some sunshine is going to try to fix that. Temperatures will top out in the upper 20’s with winds becoming southerly by this afternoon. Wind chills will still only top out in the teens, however. TONIGHT Winds will stay out of the south overnight. That will
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business It’s been a little more than a year since the meme mania in GameStop began. It’s shaped up to be, to put it extremely mildly, a wild ride for it and other meme stocks like movie theater chain AMC ever since. GameStop and AMC are up sharply from
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Twitter has suspended an annoying bot that automatically responded with the next day’s solution when people posted their Wordle scores on the platform. The account, @wordlinator, would tweet: “Guess what. People don’t care about your mediocre linguistic escapades. To teach you a lesson, tomorrow’s word is…,” then adding the spoiler
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Tuesday that she plans to run for reelection, aiming to extend her more than 30-year run in Congress. “I am running for reelection to Congress and respectfully seek your support,” Pelosi, a Democrat from California, said in a video message posted on her political Twitter
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By Brad Lendon, CNN The United States Navy is trying to retrieve its most advanced fighter jet from the depths of the South China Sea, an extremely complex operation that analysts say will be closely monitored by Beijing. The F-35C, a single-engine stealth fighter and the newest jet in the US Navy fleet, crash-landed on
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The Federal Reserve may have a playbook for how it plans to tackle inflation and keep the economy humming along. But as any sports fan knows, the best coaches always have to adapt to what’s happening in the game. Sometimes, the strategy has to change. Investors understandably don’t
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By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple posted record revenue during the all-important holiday quarter even as it continued to grapple with supply chain shortages. The company on Thursday reported $123.9 billion in revenue for the final months of the year, an 11% increase from the year prior, fueled by demand for its latest lineup
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By Elizabeth Cohen and Danielle Herman, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to send a clear message to pharmacies on a conference call this week: Stop turning away immune-compromised people when they come seeking fourth doses of Covid-19 vaccines. Although fourth doses are not currently recommended for the vast majority of
Continue ReadingBy Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist Confidence is growing that a winter storm with the intensity of a hurricane, snow measured in feet and blizzard-like conditions will impact major Northeast cities this weekend. “The models continue to show a nor’easter with blockbuster potential for the weekend, mainly late Friday through Saturday,” CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller says.
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By Travis Caldwell and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN After a legal battle played out in New York’s court system this week, its state mask mandate was temporarily upheld Tuesday, but the back-and-forth left many residents trying to determine whether mask wearing at certain places was required or optional. The mandate, which was enacted in December and
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By Katharina Krebs, Radina Gigova and Tara John, CNN Five people were shot dead and another five injured when a Ukrainian soldier opened fire at a military plant, the country’s interior ministry said Thursday. A Ukrainian National Guard service-member was detained following the attack, which left four soldiers and a worker dead at a state-owned
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Watch Coach Martin’s post-game press conference Watch players speak after losing to #1 Auburn COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team came up just short against No. 1 Auburn on Tuesday night. The Tigers lost 55-54 to fall to 8-11 overall and 2-5 in the SEC. Javon Pickett led the Tigers with 17 points.
Continue ReadingBy Alta Spells, Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Hundreds of anti-Semitic flyers — falsely claiming the public health response to Covid-19 is being orchestrated by Jewish people — were distributed to homes in South Florida over the weekend, according to authorities. Similar flyers were distributed in five other states — Colorado, Wisconsin, Texas, California,
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Fulton Police are asking for public help in identifying the persons who stole catalytic converters from a Fulton-based non-profit.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team is getting set for its matchup with No. 1 Auburn on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Head coach Cuonzo Martin and a few players spoke with reporters on Monday. MU is coming off a road loss to Alabama on Saturday. The Tigers are 8-10 overall and 2-4 in
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The Missouri Chamber of Commerce and 250 Missouri businesses and employers sent an open letter to Gov. Mike Parson and the Missouri General Assembly asking for them to throw out legislation that prohibits employers from deciding for themselves whether or not to implement a vaccine requirement.
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson, CNN A teacher in Utah is suing her former employer after she said it retaliated against her for reporting sexual harassment among her students, according to court documents filed last week. Kathryn Moore is suing Utah’s Park City School District “for violations of Title IX” and “state breach of contract,” according to
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On Tuesday, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services will host a free COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in Columbia.
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The Biden administration says it is sending the masks to increase access to high-quality masks as the omicron variant continues to spread.
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