By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Colombia’s most-wanted drug lord has been captured by authorities in what has been heralded as the biggest blow to the country’s narcotics traffickers in decades. Colombia’s President Iván Duque Márquez confirmed the capture of Dairo Antonio Usuga, known as “Otoniel,” in a televised national address Saturday. “This coup is only comparable
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Parts of Missouri has been left with storm damage Sunday night after severe weather made its way across the state.
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ST. LOUIS (KMIZ) The St. Louis Cardinals are expected to hire Oliver Marmol as their new manager on Monday morning, according to The Athletic. St. Louis announced it will hold a news conference on Monday at 10 a.m., but the team would not specify what it is about. Marmol has been the Cardinals bench coach
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17’s Nathalie Jones went one-on-one with Jefferson City basketball standout Hannah Linthacum in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. Linthacum recently announced her commitment to play for the Mizzou women’s basketball team where she will join her two older sisters, Sarah and Micah. She will also join a long list
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Congratulations to our Week 9 SportsZone Football Friday Play of the Week Nominees! You can watch the plays in the video player above. You can vote for your favorite play here. Nominee No. 1: Centralia QB Beau Gordon throws it up to WR Mason Barr, who makes a diving touchdown catch. Nominee No. 2: Marceline’s
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TONIGHT: Storms exit to the east of Mid-Missouri after sunset, leaving us with clouds and chilly temperatures. Lows in the mid-40s. TOMORROW: Cloudy with gradual clearing during the day. Highs in the upper 50s to around 60. EXTENDED: We’re chilly behind the cold front that is moving across the area today, with temperatures falling into
Continue ReadingBy Derek Van Dam, CNN Meteorologist This week has started off with a “bomb cyclone” and atmospheric river in the West, a severe threat in the central US, and now a possible nor’easter could hit the Northeast over the next 48 hours. Evacuation orders in place across some California burn scar areas As a “bomb
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN Eric Robison will never run out of words to describe his wife. Her smile, her laughter, her constant goofiness, the faces she made when she was grumpy, the kindness she bought out of him, the way she felt like home. Losing her made the world stop in its tracks, he says,
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar and Keith Allen, CNN James Michael Tyler, best known as the coffee shop manager Gunther on the hit show “Friends,” died peacefully at his home on Sunday, according to his representative Toni Benson. He was 59. “The world knew him as Gunther (the seventh “Friend”), from the hit series Friends, but Michael’s
Continue ReadingBy Laura Studley, Homero De la Fuente and Laura James, CNN Protesters gathered outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday in support of Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving’s decision to remain unvaccinated against Covid-19 despite local regulations that prohibit unvaccinated players from participating in home games. The Nets said earlier this month
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By Amanda Jackson, CNN Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran announced on Sunday that he has tested positive for Covid-19. “Quick note to tell you that I’ve sadly tested positive for Covid, so I’m now self-isolating and following government guidelines,” the 30-year-old said in a statement posted to his verified Instagram account. The news come ahead of his
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By Kate Sullivan, CNN Nine months after taking office, President Joe Biden still doesn’t have a permanent director of a critical agency in his administration. The last Cabinet-level position that hasn’t been filled is the director of the Office of Management and Budget — an agency that not many Americans are familiar with but is
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By Sahar Akbarzai, Artemis Moshtaghian and Kiely Westhoff, CNN Human remains found in a Massachusetts state park are those of a 5-year-old New Hampshire boy who’d been missing more than a month, according to a news release by the Attorney General’s office in New Hampshire. Dr. Richard Atkison, the Massachusetts chief medical examiner, “was able
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By Maggie Fox, CNN Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted 17-0 with one abstention Tuesday to recommend emergency use authorization of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11. Members of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee agreed the benefits of vaccinating younger children appeared to outweigh
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By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist When you think of Florida, beaches and palm trees come to mind. But what if those palm trees were slowly replaced with other trees? That could happen over time because of climate change, and communities in South Florida are trying to save the world from the climate crisis, one tree
Continue ReadingBy Allie Malloy, CNN Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Sunday balked at claims made by Facebook that it would support government regulation of social media platforms, calling it the “height of disingenuousness.” “What we are hearing from Facebook is platitudes and bromides. When it says it wants regulation, at the same time it is fighting that
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By Noah Sheidlower, Melissa Velasquez and Justin Lear, CNN To the surprise of researchers and sunfish enthusiasts worldwide, a more than 4,000-pound sunfish was found tangled in the nets of a tuna-fishing boat off the coast of Ceuta, an autonomous Spanish port city in north Africa bordering Morocco, on October 4. The mammoth sunfish measured
Continue ReadingBy Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “Dune” — the science fiction epic from Warner Bros. — took in an estimated $40.1 million at the North American box office this weekend. The total exceeded expectations that had the film earning about $30 million. It was also the largest opening for Warner Bros. this year and capped off
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Jackson and Andy Rose, CNN Two young boys were killed Saturday afternoon in Kerrville, Texas, after a vehicle taking part in a drag racing event lost control and struck spectators, police said. The Kerrville Police Department said in a statement that the boys were 6 and 8 years old. Eight other people were
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster, CNN US inflation levels are not expected to decrease to acceptable levels until the latter part of 2022, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday. The prediction comes as rising prices strain Americans’ wallets at grocery stores and fuel pumps amid high energy demand, already exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic wreaking havoc on
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