The treatment works to prevent hospitalization and should be given to patients with mild to moderate symptoms, officials say. The Biden administration says the treatment has been 70% effective in unvaccinated individuals.
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Allyssia Alleyne, CNN and Oscar Holland, CNN and Nick Remsen, CNN Pop culture’s most famous faces descended on the The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday evening to celebrate the fashion industry’s party of the year: the Met Gala. Postponed last time around due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the star-studded annual fundraiser for the Met’s
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By Jason Hoffman and Christina Carrega, CNN The Biden administration is beginning the clemency process for certain inmates released to home confinement due to the coronavirus pandemic, the White House announced Monday. The process will start with a review of nonviolent drug offenders on CARES Act home confinement with four years or less to serve,
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The only item scheduled for action during the special meeting is the University of Missouri’s COVID-19 masking policy. The special meeting is scheduled to take place at 4 p.m. on Monday over Zoom.
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By Amir Vera and Lauren Clabby Moore, CNN A Covid-19 surge in Kentucky has led to so many patients at St. Claire Regional Medical Center that the workers are unsure how they’ll handle the growing numbers when a medical team sent by the federal government leaves Friday. The Morehead hospital, about 65 miles east of
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By Masoud Popalzai and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Afghan women around the world are protesting the Taliban‘s new hijab requirement in schools by posting photos of themselves wearing colorful traditional dresses on social media. In recent days the Taliban has mandated the segregation of genders in classrooms and said female students, lecturers and employees must wear
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Today: Most of the central and eastern regions of the United States will see a haze today due to continuous upper air smoke from the wildfires out west. Our high today increase to 90 degrees with mostly clear skies. Tonight: Winds continue out of the southwest this evening leading to an above-average overnight low of
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Columbia Fire Department Chief Andy Woody says the events that took place on Sept. 11, 2001, changed firefighting forever.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team did not go down without a fight in its loss to Kentucky on Saturday night. The Tigers trailed the Wildcats by two touchdowns three different times throughout the game. “That’s a football team that’s going to fight and keep getting better,” Head coach Eli Drinkwitz said after the
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business In what appears to be a massively successful pump and dump scheme, cryptocurrency litecoin surged around 25% early Monday after a falsified news release said Walmart would begin accepting the payment for online purchases. Investors had plenty of reason to believe the news was true: A verified litecoin Twitter account
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By Marshall Cohen, CNN The man who was caught with a machete and bayonet-style knife near the Democratic Party headquarters was formally charged Tuesday, as more details emerge of his White supremacist ideology. US Capitol Police said they found Donald Craighead with the two weapons in his truck on Monday, and that the vehicle was
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By Elizabeth Joseph, CNN A hospital in upstate New York is “pausing” deliveries of babies because of the number of maternity unit employee resignations over the state’s Covid-19 vaccination requirements, health officials say. Lewis County General Hospital in Lowville, about 60 miles northeast of Syracuse, will stop deliveries after September 24, said Gerald Cayer, chief
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By Liam Reilly, CNN After a perilous 14-hour drive from Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, to the capital of Kabul, a flight to Qatar, another to Washington, DC, and a week in Fort Lee, Virginia, AA and his family finally made it to New Haven, Connecticut, their new home. AA worked as a contractor and translator
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Congratulations to our Week 3 SportsZone Football Friday Play of the Week Nominees! You can watch the plays in the video player above. You vote for your favorite play here. Nominee No. 1: Battle’s Exavier Hinton comes down with a tough, contested interception near the goal line. Nominee No. 2: Boonville’s Jamesian Mckee snatches an
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The current evidence on Covid-19 vaccines does not appear to support a need for booster shots in the general public right now, according to an international group of vaccine scientists, including some from the US Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization. “Current evidence does not, therefore, appear to
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By Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN Senate Democrats returned to Washington on Monday suggesting they were far away from reaching a deal on a $3.5 trillion economic package, raising fresh questions about whether all 50 members of their caucus can quickly unite behind the centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s agenda amid sharp divisions over
Continue Reading By Lauren Fox, CNN Democrats’ ability to reimagine the social safety net and cement their and President Joe Biden’s domestic policy legacy for decades to come is about to be tested like never before. This September, senators return to Capitol Hill with a crushing set of deadlines, a looming debt ceiling crisis, oversight to conduct
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By Kate Bennett, CNN Then-first lady Melania Trump declined to call for peace and non-violence as insurrectionists stormed the United States Capitol building on January 6, two sources with knowledge of the events of the day told CNN. The sources told CNN that Trump’s aide Stephanie Grisham sent her a text that said, “Do you
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MONDAY: Another warm one to start off a new week. Highs will top out around 90 again with a southwestern breeze keeping things stirred up. We’ll pick up a few high clouds this afternoon, but nothing serious. TONIGHT: Other than a few clouds, we’re quiet overnight. Lows will only bottom out near 70. EXTENDED: It’s
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By Ariel Edwards-Levy and Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Americans have grown more supportive of coronavirus vaccine mandates for workers, students, and in everyday public life, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. The shift comes amid renewed worries about the pandemic and a continued partisan divide over the efforts to combat it. The public
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