By Maggie Fox, CNN Dr. Francis Collins, the folksy, guitar-playing director of the National Institutes of Health, announced Tuesday that he plans to step down as head of the gigantic research agency by the end of the year. “It has been an incredible privilege to lead this great agency for more than a decade,” Collins,
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Randy Boehm, a former Columbia police officer and chief, arrived at the Columbia Casey’s General Store 27 years ago, the morning after the horrific murders of three of the store’s employees.
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By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Half a billion dollars of aircraft that flew for about a year. A huge $85 million hotel that never opened, and sits in disrepair. Camouflage uniforms for the Afghan army whose fancy pattern would cost an extra $28 million. A healthcare facility listed as located in the Mediterranean Sea. These
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Cox won a bronze medal at the 2021 World Wrestling Championship in Oslo, Norway, Team USA tweeted. He was competing in the 92 kilogram weight class.
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After not getting much information from the city on the matter, residents want answers to his unexpected leave.
Continue ReadingBy Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business The former Facebook employee whose leaks triggered some of the most intense scrutiny in the company’s history revealed her identity Sunday night. Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager with stints at several other big tech companies, went public with an appearance on “60 Minutes.” Haugen is set to testify
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By Josh Campbell, Gregory Wallace and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A US Drug Enforcement Administration special agent was killed in a shooting on an Amtrak train in Arizona on Monday morning and two other DEA officers were wounded, police said. One DEA special agent is in critical condition, and a Tucson police officer working on the
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TONIGHT: Increasing clouds and cool with lows in the mid-upper 50s. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy with a few showers possible by afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. EXTENDED: Clouds start to increase tonight as low pressure continues to spin just to our southeast and meanders around the region through most of this week. A few showers will be
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By Donie O’Sullivan, Clare Duffy and Sarah Jorgensen, CNN Business “I have to be thin,” “Eternally starved,” “I want to be perfect.” These are the names of accounts Instagram’s algorithms promoted to an account registered as belonging to a 13-year-old girl who expressed interest in weight loss and dieting. Proof that Instagram is not only
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By Maggie Fox, CNN A study published Monday confirms that the pandemic hit Black Americans, Native Americans and Latinos far harder than Whites early on, killing greater proportions of these groups. People from these groups were more likely to die from all causes — Covid-19 and others — than were Whites and Asians, the National
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly and Seth Fiegerman, CNN Business Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower who released tens of thousands of pages of internal research and documents, said the social media company could “destroy” her for speaking out, but she believed that “as long as Facebook is operating in the dark, it is accountable to no
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Humans have been burning fossil fuels for energy since the Industrial Revolution. We use them to heat our homes, cook our food and fuel our cars. Over the course of more than a century, fossil fuels became entrenched in every aspect of the economy and people’s lives. Our reliance on oil,
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN Just minutes before the end of her term on Wednesday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights dropped a damning report on China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. The report, which includes interviews with dozens of ethnic minority members, said the Chinese government’s actions in the northwestern region
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Chen, CNN When New Jersey native Lauren Cho moved to California late last year she dreamed of a fresh start. The cross-country trip came at the right time, friends say, because the pandemic was wearing on her. A change of scenery was enticing and the 30-year-old was excited about the chance to work
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Today: Winds continue out of the north with mostly clear skies cooling mid-Missouri to highs in the mid-’70s. Tonight: Winds continue at 5-10 mph with mostly clear skies overnight allowing for the overnight low to bottom out at 55 degrees. Extended: Tuesday afternoon, a low pressure off to the southeast will lead to chances of
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By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Facebook is continuing to battle US regulators that are calling for the company to be broken up, this time asking a court to dismiss an amended antitrust complaint against it filed by the Federal Trade Commission. In a filing Monday to the US District Court for the District of Columbia,
Continue ReadingBy Kay Jones and Alta Spells, CNN An 11-year-old girl was killed and a 5-year-old girl injured after being shot while riding in a vehicle Saturday evening in Milwaukee, according to the police department. The two girls were passengers in a vehicle with other family members, when another car pulled up and started firing, according
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Ernest Lee Johnson’s path from a Casey’s General Store in northeast Columbia to an execution room in the Eastern Reception and Diagnostic Center in Bonne Terre took 27 years to travel.
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Captain Kirk is headed to space. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin announced Monday actor William Shatner, 90, will be on the next Blue Origin flight alongside Audrey Powers, Blue Origin’s vice president of mission and flight operations, Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries. “I’ve heard about space for a long time now,”
Continue ReadingBy Kerry Flynn and Brian Stelter, CNN Business Carlos Watson went on TV Monday morning to say that Ozy Media, the company he co-founded, would not shut down even though it announced Friday that it would. Anyone who wanted to find out how what Watson said could be true would run into a problem: Ozy’s
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