Tonight: Winds remain breezy out of the south at 8-12 mph. Skies continue to stay mostly cloudy with an overnight low of 65 degrees. Tomorrow: Cloud cover pulls off to the east allowing for mostly clear skies Sunday. Temperatures continue to ramp up with highs into the upper ’80s. By Sunday night, a cold front
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By Rebekah Riess, CNN Some North Carolina state senators are calling for the resignation of North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, after video surfaced on social media this week in which the Republican says that “there’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality — any of that filth.”
Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc, CNN Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday told Attorney General Merrick Garland that parents “absolutely should be telling” local schools what to teach amid a debate over mask and vaccine mandates, the role of racial equity education and transgender rights in schools that has become a flash point ahead of the
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN In a speech in Michigan on Tuesday and again in a speech back in Washington on Friday, President Joe Biden touted the potential economic impact of his two major current legislative proposals: a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and a larger, still-being-negotiated Democratic reconciliation package that would expand the social safety
Continue ReadingBy Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist In a year of extreme heat, Antarctica’s last six months were the coldest on record. “For the polar darkness period, from April through September, the average temperature was -60.9 degrees Celsius (-77.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a record for those months,” the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said. The last
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By Jim Acosta and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Former Trump aide Dan Scavino has been served a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, a source familiar with the matter told CNN, bringing an end to the panel’s struggle to physically locate him. A process server brought the
Continue ReadingBy Sara Sidner and Julia Jones, CNN At 14, Ashlee Thomas was in the grips of anorexia. She weighed 85 pounds. She was hospitalized. Her heart stopped twice. Doctors thought she would not survive. But she did. And now the resident of New South Wales, Australia, is dedicating her life to helping other girls. Her
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HOMECOMING: We’ll start off comfortable this morning but pretty quickly start to warm up. Temperatures will be in the 70’s during the parade, warming into the middle 80’s by midday. Those temperatures this afternoon will threaten the record high of 91 in Columbia. A slight southerly breeze will keep things stirred up a bit more
Continue ReadingBy John Sinnott, CNN Britain’s new sporting hero Emma Raducanu, who stunned the tennis world when she won the US Open in September, experienced that losing feeling as she was beaten 6-2 6-4 by Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the Indian Wells tournament’s second round on Friday. Playing in her first match since her Flushing Meadows triumph,
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN As the search for Brian Laundrie continues in a Florida nature reserve, police said Friday that they have yet to find any physical evidence of Laundrie within the sprawling wilderness area. Laundrie, whose fiancé Gabby Petito was found dead in Wyoming nearly three weeks ago, has been the
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN This was a pretty good week for the world’s wannabe jetsetters. The UK and Israel both cleared out their travel “red lists,” while India, Bali and Vietnam all announced reopening plans. Here are 10 things we learned in pandemic travel this week. 1. The UK cut its ‘red list’ to just
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Here are the scores from Week 7 of area high school football.
Continue ReadingBy Evan McMorris-Santoro and Linh Tran, CNN Nearly two weeks after a racist petition to bring back slavery circulated at her daughter’s school, Julie Stutterheim is still angry. She says it was yet another example of a racist incident at Park Hill South High School in the suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri. “She was very
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After homecoming was canceled last year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, festivities return to the University of Missouri this week.
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Three Centralia police officers resigned Thursday after Chief Bob Bias took early retirement effective this Sunday. One officer mentioned a lack of transparency from the city as a reason why he resigned.
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Janfaza and Kaitlan Collins, CNN Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Friday warned President Joe Biden he should not expect cooperation on raising the debt ceiling again, a day after he voted with Democrats to overcome a procedural hurdle and make way for a temporary extension of the limit through early December. “I
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) Two more Springfield women have been charged with participating in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in January. The Springfield News-Leader reports that the federal case again Cara Hentschel and Mahailya Pryer was unsealed this week. They are charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building; disorderly and disruptive conduct
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The commission’s order requires the murals to be moved to a secure location where the art can be cared for appropriately. The murals, for now, are still hanging in the courthouse.
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By Evan Perez and Zachary Cohen, CNN The White House has informed the National Archives that it is not asserting executive privilege on an initial batch of documents related to the January 6 violence at the US Capitol, paving the way for the Archives to share documents with the House committee investigating the attempted insurrection.
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TONIGHT: Partly to mostly clear with lows in the low to mid-60s. TOMORROW: Hot and breezy with highs in the upper 80s to around 90. Wind gusts from the south between 20-25 mph. EXTENDED: Tomorrow is on track to be near record-breaking hot with highs near 90. It’s breezy too, so that may help keep us
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