By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden descended on the island of Nantucket this week looking to preserve the sense of normalcy that the nation was so looking forward to over this holiday season. The President and first lady brought a brood of children, grandchildren and their significant others to
Continue ReadingBy Becky Thompson and Pauline Lockwood, CNN The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) “remains deeply concerned” that Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai “is not free from censorship or coercion.” In an email statement on Saturday, the WTA says CEO Steve Simon has attempted to reach out to Peng “via various communication channels,” including two emails “to
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By Eoin McSweeney, CNN The press conference in Dubai ahead of the World Chess Championship is running 30 minutes late. However, that hasn’t quelled the feverish anticipation of the crowd of journalists clambering for a good spot to photograph Magnus Carlsen, the world’s best chess player. He will face off against challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi across
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By Melissa Mahtani, Aditi Sangal Adrienne Vogt and Fernando Alfonso, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team lost to Wichita State 61-55 on Friday night. The Tigers are now 3-3 on the season. Amari Davis led the Tigers with 17 points, but MU shot just 35% from the field. The Tigers were 2-for-18 from three-point range. Up next – Mizzou will host Paul Quinn
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team lost to No. 25 Arkansas 34-17 in the annual Battle Line Rivalry game on Friday. The Razorbacks snapped their five-game losing streak to the Tigers. https://youtu.be/tqN-6DS0rlE Running back Tyler Badie broke MU’s single-season rushing record in the fourth quarter. He had 41 carries for 219 yards in the
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A record number of Afghan refugees have found a place to call home in Columbia over the last two months.
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By Eric Cheung, CNN In just five years, Lin Fei-fan went from charging into Taiwan’s legislature and occupying the building with hundreds of students to a senior job for the island’s ruling party. But his story could have been very different if he lived in Hong Kong, where student activists once brought the financial hub
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) This year, there’s a different presence in downtown Columbia than there was on Black Friday amidst the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Matt Mccormick, who works for the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, says a lot more people are out shopping for Black Friday when comparing last year. However, many people are starting to rely
Continue ReadingBy Christina Zdanowicz, CNN A Maryland medical student who took a wrong turn after getting lost answered a young gunshot victim’s prayer. Now, 25 years later, Baltimore resident Damon Walker reunited earlier this month with the medical student who drove toward the chaos instead of running from it. “I constantly think about that moment of
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By Todd Leopold, Rob Frehse and Chloe Melas, CNN Stephen Sondheim, the renowned composer of “Into the Woods,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Gypsy,” “Sunday in the Park with George” and other essential works of musical theater, died early Friday morning, according to Aaron Meier at DKC O&M, the producers of Sondheim’s current production “Company.” He was 91.
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette, Raja Razek and Steve Almasy, CNN Three people were shot and three more injured during a shooting Friday at a packed shopping mall, police in Durham, North Carolina, said. Off-duty Durham police officers were working Friday afternoon inside The Streets at Southpoint mall heard shots coming from within the mall, and called
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By Marianne Garvey Kyle, Stan, Kenny, and Cartman navigate life after the pandemic in “South Park: Post Covid,” streaming now on Paramount+. We see some of the boys as adults in the animated special. “You remember when we were little as friends, we said we’d always be there for each other when things got bad?”
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SATURDAY: Brrr! It was a cold start this morning, but temperatures have really rebounded this afternoon. As of this writing, Columbia Regional Airport has recorded 50 degrees twice in the last two hours. Temperatures late tonight will drop into the mid-30’s by early Saturday. South winds, and some sunshine gets temperatures up to near 60
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado apologized to “anyone in the Muslim community I offended” on Twitter Friday after video surfaced of her making anti-Muslim comments last weekend about Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. In the video, posted last Saturday on Facebook from an event that day, Boebert implied Omar had
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden announced Friday the US will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other countries starting Monday as a new coronavirus variant has emerged. Acting on advice from the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Biden administration
Continue ReadingBy Brian Lowry, CNN Thanksgiving weekend is theoretically all about family. Yet in terms of entertainment options — to consume with them or as a means of escaping them — the prevailing theme is heavily tilted toward nostalgia, with projects rooted in the 1960s, ’70s and ’90s. Music plays a sizable role in all this,
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By John Blake, CNN Zak Khogyani has seen sights and wonders that would fill you with awe. He’s walked through Antelope Canyon in Northern Arizona, surrounded by swirling sandstone formations formed by flash flooding. He’s stood on the rugged Cliffs of Moher in Ireland, which rise some 700 feet over the Atlantic Ocean — a
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By Jodi Upchurch, CNN Physical therapists share the secret to successful sleep, a fast-acting group of thieves made out big, and Adele gets a taste of her own medicine when a surprise brings her to tears. These are the must-watch videos of the week. The key to unlocking great sleep Physical therapists Bob and Brad
Continue Reading By Jodi Upchurch, CNN Physical therapists share the secret to successful sleep, a fast-acting group of thieves made out big, and Adele gets a taste of her own medicine when a surprise brings her to tears. These are the must-watch videos of the week. The key to unlocking great sleep Physical therapists Bob and Brad
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