By Faith Karimi, CNN A suspect is in custody after a shooting left one student dead in North Carolina. It was the second shooting in three days at a high school in the state. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5
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By Jacqueline Howard, Amir Vera and Madeline Holcombe, CNN Children now represent more than a quarter — or 26.8% — of weekly Covid-19 cases nationwide, according to data released Tuesday from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The update comes as schools across the US have been in session or are getting into full swing.
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By Gregory McNamee, CNN Countdown to the next spacewalk: On Friday, September 3, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov will stretch their legs on a nearly seven-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Any spacewalk is a momentous occasion, one that speaks to the brilliant efforts of generations of scientists, astronauts, politicians and civilians.
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN The anti-abortion movement has won its biggest return yet on its decades-long investment on reshaping the courts, with a Supreme Court order that allowed the country’s second most populous state to cut off almost all access to the procedure. For a generation, abortion foes have employed a multi-pronged strategy of electing
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By Eric Levenson, CNN Camilla Akbari boarded a 7:43 p.m. New Jersey Transit train on Wednesday night from New York Penn Station hoping to get to her mom’s place in Princeton, New Jersey. It’s a trip that generally takes about an hour. This ride, though, took about 14. Amid torrential downpours and flooding, the 24-year-old
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By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. ABC News President Kim Godwin hasn’t even been on the job for six months, but she has already infuriated her bosses over at Disney. When Godwin called for an independent,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri plan to help refugees from Afghanistan find new homes and make sure the new neighbors have a smooth transition. Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri is a social service agency that offers various programs for different people. The organization has resettled more than 4,000
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Southeastern Conference cross country coaches picked Mizzou to finish in the middle of the pack through conference competition in the annual SEC Cross Country Coaches’ Preseason Poll. The conference picked the women to finish in seventh place and the men’s to end up in sixth. Head coach Marc Burns said his team
Continue ReadingBy David Williams, CNN A Texas school district is closing all of its schools until after the Labor Day holiday after two junior high teachers died of Covid-19 complications in the same week. In an email to parents on Monday, Connally Independent School District said that was closing all of its campuses due to an
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By Kerry Flynn, CNN Business Joe Rogan, one of the world’s highest paid and most influential podcast hosts, announced Wednesday he has tested positive for Covid-19 and said he’d embarked on a fringe treatment regime. In a video posted to his official Instagram account, Rogan said he felt “very weary” on Saturday and got tested
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Eli Drinkwitz opened up his press conference by wishing Central Michigan’s Jim McElwain a speedy recovery after the head coach was diagnosed with appendicitis on Wednesday. McElwain will not be making the trip to Columbia for the game, so assistant head coach Tim Skipper will oversee the team. Drinkwitz added that his
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Crime scene tape was up in front of a house and an ABC 17 News reporter saw an ambulance leaving the scene. Officers were not immediately available to answer questions about the incident but people who live in the area say they saw a shooting happen in the street.
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb and Natasha Bertrand, CNN With the US withdrawal from Afghanistan officially complete, the White House is set to begin the difficult process of reviewing the chaotic and deadly evacuation operation that lurched into high gear after Kabul fell to the Taliban, forcing Biden officials to confront how they got things wrong in
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Drinkwitz is expected at a news conference sometime after 5 p.m. The coach will talk about Mizzou’s home game against Central Michigan to start the season this Saturday.
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By Alex Rogers and Ali Zaslav, CNN Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that “there isn’t going to be an impeachment” of President Joe Biden over the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, noting that Democrats control the House and Senate. “I think the way these behaviors get adjusted in this country is at
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and cool. Lows in the low 60s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and comfortable with highs in the lower to mid-80s. EXTENDED: High pressure centered over the upper Great Lakes region is bringing pleasant temperatures with a less humid air mass over Mid-Missouri Wednesday afternoon. Clouds continue to clear out, leaving us with upper
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By Holly Yan and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Those hit hardest by Hurricane Ida now face an even longer test of survival. Catastrophic damage means some Louisiana parishes won’t have electricity for up to a month — which can be deadly in the oppressive heat. Many areas still lack running water or have sewage systems that
Continue Reading By Geneva Sands, CNN As the United States-backed government in Afghanistan fell to the Taliban and US troops raced to leave the country, White supremacist and anti-government extremists have expressed admiration for what the Taliban accomplished, a worrying development for US officials who have been grappling with the threat of domestic violent extremism. That praise
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden will visit storm-ravaged Louisiana on Friday as the state attempts to recover from the category 4 Hurricane Ida that plowed into the Gulf Coast over the weekend. The White House said Biden would survey storm damage and meet with state and local officials. Since the storm began gathering
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