By Kate Sullivan and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden will face a more skeptical global audience than his first day in Rome when he attends the Group of 20 Summit, which begins Saturday in the Italian capital after a day of presidential glad-handing with world leaders. Divisions within Biden’s own political party are threatening
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Ashley Footer, a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Missouri, was hit by a suspected drunk driver Tuesday night at 9:20 p.m.
Continue ReadingBy Dan Merica, Eric Bradner and Eva McKend, CNN In the increasingly nationalized race to be Virginia’s next governor, Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin are closing their campaigns in decidedly different ways. McAuliffe, helped by Vice President Kamala Harris and Virginia-native performer Pharrell Williams, spent Friday highlighting the national implications of the race,
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By Mark Morales and Ralph Ellis, CNN The first witness in the civil lawsuit filed against organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally testified Friday, saying the attacks by angry White nationalists left her physically and emotionally scarred. Natalie Romero said she and friends were standing at the Thomas Jefferson statue on the University
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This week’s storms were a reminder, for one local EMA Director, of how vulnerable their residents are to severe weather. “We are physically a larger county, and our population is spread out.” Samantha Henley, Director of Emergency Management for Camden County, says the rural nature of her county is just one of the reasons residents
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Governor Mike Parson hopes to halt the the Biden administration’s federal vaccine mandate. Parson spoke with ABC 17 News moments before Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson, along with 10 other states, filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration for imposing a vaccine mandate on
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with patchy fog developing overnight. Gusty winds up to 30 mph. Lows in the mid-40s. TOMORROW: Partly sunny with highs in the upper 50s. EXTENDED: Clouds slowly work their way out tomorrow, but temperatures will be able to recover into the upper 50s during the day with more sunshine. Winds die down, allowing
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Joseph Elledge’s defense team is set to appear in court again Friday at 9 a.m. ahead of his first-degree murder trial, set to begin Monday.
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN As the dust settles on Democrats’ $1.75 trillion economic framework, climate has emerged as a big winner. The framework crafted by President Joe Biden and congressional leaders includes $555 billion for climate and clean energy provisions. If passed, it would be the largest legislative investment on climate in US history, and
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business October may be notorious for big market crashes. But this month was more of a Rocktober than Shocktober for stocks. Despite some notable drops in big techs Friday following disappointing sales from Apple and Amazon, the broader market still finished October with healthy gains. The Dow closed about
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The gap is widening between the impacts of the climate crisis and the world’s effort to adapt to them, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme. The annual “adaptation gap” report — which published Thursday amid the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow — found that the estimated costs
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Attorney General’s Office has filed a lawsuit to stop a vaccine mandate for federal contractors. According to the 12-count lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Executive Order 14042 issued by the White House on Sept. 9 violates the rights of federal contractors.
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TONIGHT: Things won’t change much by this afternoon. Expect dreary, breezy, and wet conditions with temperatures hanging near 50 through the early evening. Showers will gradually come to an end by the evening hours with our eastern most counties seeing the last of the rain as it leaves. Clouds will likely linger into early Saturday.
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By Faith Karimi and Gregory Lemos, CNN A violent week of fistfights at a Louisiana high school led to the arrests of at least 22 students last month. So a group of concerned fathers decided enough was enough. They formed a volunteer group, Dads on Duty, and began roaming the halls of Southwood High School
Continue ReadingAmy Woodyatt, CNN Archeologists have uncovered a set of “incredible” rare Roman statues while excavating a site in England ahead of a high speed rail project, the rail company said in a statement. Two complete statues of a woman and a man, along with the head of a child, were found at the site of
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday admitted that his administration was “clumsy” in its handling of the deal that deprived France of billions in defense contracts. The comment came during a closely watched meeting with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, in Rome, meant to repair fractured ties after a rift over an
Continue ReadingBy Daniella Diaz and Annie Grayer, CNN Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois who has been a strong critic of former President Donald Trump, announced in a video Friday morning he is not running for reelection. “I also remember during that campaign saying that if I ever thought it was time to move on
Continue ReadingBy Gabe Cohen, CNN The free food delivery that arrives at Beth Greenlee’s door each week is much more than an endpoint of the US supply chain. It’s her lifeline. The 61-year-old has Stage 4 endometrial cancer and little income. For eight months, she’s been relying on food from MANNA, a non-profit that provides free
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Profits soared at the nation’s two largest oil companies, as ExxonMobil and Chevron both benefited from the recent run-up in oil prices. ExxonMobil, America’s largest oil company, posted net income of $6.8 billion, swinging to a profit after a $680 million loss a year ago. Oil prices got crushed in
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Jada Pinkett Smith wants to be clear that she and her husband Will Smith have no problems when it comes to their intimacy. Apparently, some things were taken out of context after the latest episode of Pinkett Smith’s “Red Table Talk,” where she and guest Gwyneth Paltrow got real about
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