FRIDAY: We’re being treated to sunshine this morning, but that will get replaced by more cloud cover this afternoon. Highs will push into the low 80’s with a steady southerly breeze picking up again. Gusts will approach 25 mph at times. TONIGHT: A few showers will be possible after about 5-6 PM through midnight. After
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By Jeremy Herb and Fredreka Schouten, CNN The Cyber Ninjas failed to prove fraud in the Arizona 2020 election, but former President Donald Trump’s election fraud crusade is now proceeding as if they’d won — pushing for more “forensic audits” and restrictive voting in that state and elsewhere across the country. Trump’s allies are already
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By Shawn Deng and Chris Liakos, CNN Business China is intensifying its crackdown on cryptocurrencies. Chinese government agencies including the country’s securities regulator and the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said in a statement on Friday that all cryptocurrency-related business activities are illegal and vowed to clamp down on illicit activities involving digital currencies. The
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By Phyllis L. Fagell When five teenagers realized during virtual learning that their Glenbard, Illinois, classmates were strugging, they set up a text chain of support and delivered quarantine gift bags to their classmates’ homes. “Every single kid called us,” one of the teens told educational psychologist Michele Borba, “and after thanking us, they would
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By Phil Mattingly and Lauren Fox, CNN The White House and Democratic congressional leaders have announced a deal on a framework of a “menu of options” to finance an agreement that doesn’t currently exist on a package that doesn’t currently have a topline spending number that would require those financing options. There’s also going to
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By Laura Smith-Spark and Allegra Goodwin, CNN Health officials in the United States have said Covid-19 vaccine boosters can begin for older and higher-risk people there. But at least 15 countries around the world — most of them in Africa — have yet to give at least one vaccine dose to more than 3% of
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By Tim Lister, CNN The eastern city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan has seen a spate of attacks against the Taliban this week by the group IS Khorasan (ISIS-K), an affiliate of ISIS. ISIS-K claimed three attacks in the city on Wednesday and Thursday. Through ISIS’ official Amaq media outlet, it claimed to have killed six
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business The shortage of computer chips is raising the price of new and used cars, delaying shipments of electronics and holding back the economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. “It’s a huge problem,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told CNN ahead of leading a White House meeting with manufacturers and users of
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN Hurricane Sam is gathering in the Atlantic, marking the 18th named storm of the season. It’s set to become a major hurricane, but we still don’t know where exactly it will go. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN Hurricane Sam is gathering in the Atlantic, marking the 18th named storm of the season. It’s set to become a major hurricane, but we still don’t know where exactly it will go. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN Hurricane Sam is gathering in the Atlantic, marking the 18th named storm of the season. It’s set to become a major hurricane, but we still don’t know where exactly it will go. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN Hurricane Sam is gathering in the Atlantic, marking the 18th named storm of the season. It’s set to become a major hurricane, but we still don’t know where exactly it will go. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also
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By Matias Grez and Amanda Davies, CNN Racism, sexism, homophobia and death threats now regularly form part of the daily life of many leading football stars. Social media has allowed fans to get closer than ever before to their favorite players, but for others, it has provided an open channel to anonymously send abusive and
Continue Reading By Matias Grez and Amanda Davies, CNN Racism, sexism, homophobia and death threats now regularly form part of the daily life of many leading football stars. Social media has allowed fans to get closer than ever before to their favorite players, but for others, it has provided an open channel to anonymously send abusive and
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By Kevin Liptak, Priscilla Alvarez, Jeremy Diamond and Jasmine Wright, CNN When members of the Congressional Black Caucus arrived to Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence this week for an event marking the group’s 50th anniversary, talk quickly turned to the devolving humanitarian crisis on the US-Mexico border. Gathered on a mild evening on the lawn
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By Travis Caldwell, CNN With a surge in new Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, health officials and state leaders have ratcheted up their calls for the public to be vaccinated before winter arrives while the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has approved booster shots for an expanded number of Americans. Despite the appeals, the
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By Laura Smith-Spark, James Frater, Saskya Vandoorne, Livia Borghese and Nadine Schmidt, CNN Most European countries have Covid-19 vaccination rates that would be the envy of much of the world. But even here, hesitancy in certain areas is causing governments to take action — or risk stalling their efforts to control the spread of the
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The University of Missouri Faculty Council held a meeting Thursday to review MU COVID Policies Faculty Survey results. The discussion was led by Rabia Gregory, chair of the Faculty Council Faculty Affairs committee. A survey was sent out to 2,000 University Employees, and 65% responded. One of the biggest of the numbers
Continue Reading By Paula Hancocks and Salai TZ, CNN Five-year-old Su Htet Waing often wakes up crying for her mother and older sister. Hiding in the mosquito-infested jungles of Myanmar in a makeshift tent with her father, her young world has been torn apart. “I want to sleep with mummy, but the police have taken her,” she
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By Caitlin Hu, CNN Dozens of children with non-Haitian passports have been sent to Haiti as part of the US government’s massive deportation operation this week, according to the International Organization for Migration. As of Wednesday, the latest figures available, a total of 1,424 deportees from the US had arrived on 12 flights in Haiti,
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