By Hilary Whiteman and Akanksha Sharma, CNN A sixth child has died in hospital after a bouncy castle was lifted into the air at a school event in Australia late last week, police said Sunday. The 11-year-old boy, Chace Harrison, “passed away in hospital this afternoon,” Tasmania Police Commissioner, Darren Hine, said in a statement.
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By Dakin Andone and Susannah Cullinane, CNN The United States is likely in for a hard winter as the Omicron variant of Covid-19 spreads rapidly, Dr. Anthony Fauci says, straining a health care system already battered by the Delta variant. “It’s going to take over,” Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said of the
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By Julia Horowitz, Salma Abdelaziz and Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou, CNN Growing up in Finland, Iida Ruishalme had a deep affinity for nature — particularly the forest, where she loved to go trekking with her dogs. Now, she’s worried that her daughters won’t experience such idyllic days as the climate crisis accelerates. So last month, she
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By Jen Christensen and Tara Subramaniam, CNN The lines for Covid-19 testing are long from New York to Miami-Dade County again, and good luck finding an at-home test in some parts of the country. As the Omicron variant spreads faster than any other coronavirus variant before it, the Biden White House has been pushing to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team hung on for a 83-75 win over the Utes of Utah at Mizzou Arena on Saturday afternoon. https://youtu.be/1uxj6Gz5fJk Junior forward Kobe Brown led the team with 27 points and six rebounds. Guard Amari Davis was right behind him with 17 points, which was a big improvement after
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are the local scores from Saturday Dec, 18, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL Jackson (56) Hickman (72) FINAL Battle (65) Macon (70) FINAL Father Tolton (66) Nixa (73) FINAL Blair Oaks (69) Ozark (67) FINAL Community (28) North Callaway (56) FINAL Capital
Continue ReadingTonight: Skies remain clear with winds out of the northwest at 5-10 mph. Overnight lows bottom out at 22 degrees. Tomorrow: The morning starts out chilly with temperatures into the lower to mid-’20s. A clear sky with plenty of sun slowly warms Central Missouri to 40 degrees. Extended: The next week is trending very dry
Continue ReadingBy Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris forcefully defended President Joe Biden when recently asked whether he or Sen. Joe Manchin is the president of the United States, as Biden’s agenda remains stalled in part because of the West Virginia Democrat. “So, who is the real president of this country, is it Joe Manchin
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By Nick Watt and Jason Kravarik, CNN For decades, Hamtramck was known as Michigan’s “Little Warsaw,” a city of just two square miles of tightly-packed houses and factories, spitting distance from downtown Detroit. The Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla visited once, back in 1969, before he became Pope. A statue of Wojtyla, arms outstretched, still casts
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The University of Missouri is reminding its students to ensure they are prepared before heading home for the holidays, as the 2021 fall semester concluded on Friday.
Continue ReadingBy Sandra Gonzalez, CNN There’s no shortage of pure holiday movie cheese to unwrap this year. Netflix has a Scotland-based love story with “A Castle for Christmas” and the third (!!) installment of its “Princess Switch” franchise. BET+ has drama-filled family fun with “A Jenkins Family Christmas.” HBO Max, which like CNN is owned by
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By Brenley Goertzen, CNN Wisconsin men’s basketball player Chris Vogt was traveling to play in a crucial matchup against Ohio State last Saturday when devastation ripped through his hometown of Mayfield, Kentucky. “I was just stunned,” Vogt told CNN Sports of seeing the extensive damage caused by the tornadoes that struck his home state late
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TODAY: Showers exiting early. Cold and cloudy with highs in the 40s. TOMORROW: Skies clear up but highs remain in the low 40s. EXTENDED: A stable pattern sets up for the week ahead to keep Mid-Missouri dry all the way to Christmas. Highs will rise to the low 50s but a few minor systems are expected to
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Jeremy Diamond, CNN President Joe Biden’s top health officials came to an afternoon briefing at the White House Thursday with a warning — and a request. Sitting at the head of his long conference table surrounded by top members of his Covid response team, Biden listened intently as the officials laid
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN For as much controversy as actor Ben Affleck stirred when talking about his marriage and addiction, he also shined a light on important conversations for addicts and their loved ones, an expert said. Marital problems and addiction have a “chicken and egg” relationship, said psychologist John F. Kelly, Harvard Medical School
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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
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are the local scores from Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL East (43) Rock Bridge (88) FINAL St. Francis Borgia (42) Tolton (72) FINAL Salisbury (79) Northeast Cairo (47) FINAL Russellville (77) Belle (43) FINAL Camdenton (73) Salem (57) FINAL
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Capital Region Medical Center suffered a network-wide outage that affected both its phones and internet communications Friday.
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By Emma Tucker Authorities in the DC metro area said Friday a 35-year-old man who was charged last month in the killing of two women may be a serial killer and the prime suspect in the deaths of two more women, as a wide-ranging investigation is underway to determine if there are more victims. Investigators
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By Jack Hannah, Jason Carroll and Christina Maxouris, CNN Zafar Shamoon, chief of the emergency department at the Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan, said he had been hoping that there wouldn’t be another wave of Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations. But, like a grim deja vu, hospital beds are filled with Covid-19 patients again, most unvaccinated.
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