By Brian Stelter, CNN Business Mike Richards, who was announced as the brand new host of “Jeopardy!” just last week, said Friday he has “stepped down” and the show is reverting to guest hosts for the time being. His stunning announcement came two days after The Ringer website exposed a litany of offensive comments from
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By Gregory Krieg, CNN As the number of new coronavirus cases in his state soars, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is betting that an aggressive campaign against mandatory mask-wearing in schools will harden the Republican base ahead of his expected re-election bid next year — and make him a GOP star nationwide as the party’s 2024
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You can watch the full live interviews with Sarah Marriott starting at 6 a.m.
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Amazon upended the US brick-and-mortar department store model built by companies like Sears and J.C. Penney. Now, the e-commerce giant reportedly has plans to open physical stores that resemble the concept it’s helping to crush. Amazon is expected to open department stores in the United States, starting in Ohio and
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By Kate Sullivan and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday tried to put an optimistic face on the chaotic evacuations taking place at Kabul’s airport as American forces scramble to remove US citizens and vulnerable Afghans from Afghanistan. In remarks at the White House, Biden sought to project calm at the end of
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By Amy Wray, CNN A snake handler captures a 10-foot python at the grocery store, a zoo guest wrestles an alligator, and a 9-year-old opera singer impresses the “America’s Got Talent” judges. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Special surprise in the spice aisle Call it serendipity that a trained snake handler and
Continue Reading By Amy Wray, CNN A snake handler captures a 10-foot python at the grocery store, a zoo guest wrestles an alligator, and a 9-year-old opera singer impresses the “America’s Got Talent” judges. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Special surprise in the spice aisle Call it serendipity that a trained snake handler and
Continue Reading By Amy Wray, CNN A snake handler captures a 10-foot python at the grocery store, a zoo guest wrestles an alligator, and a 9-year-old opera singer impresses the “America’s Got Talent” judges. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Special surprise in the spice aisle Call it serendipity that a trained snake handler and
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THIS MORNING: Partly clouds with a chance for patchy fog. Lows near 70 degrees. TODAY: Highs reach the low 90s with another chance for isolated afternoon storms. Heat index in the mid-upper 90s. EXTENDED: Moisture continues to filter into Mid-Missouri as our upper-level pattern remains southwesterly, pushing in warmer air to the region. This air
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By Angela Dewan and Radina Gigova, CNN Almost half of the world’s 2.2 billion children are living in countries that face an extremely high risk of the impacts of the climate crisis, including environmental shocks such as cyclones and heatwaves, according to an index published Friday by UNICEF, the UN children’s agency. Among the 33
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By Nadine Schmidt, CNN Business Taliban fighters searching for a Deutsche Welle journalist in Afghanistan shot dead a member of his family and seriously injured another, Germany’s international public broadcaster reported. Deutsche Welle said that other relatives of the journalist were able to escape and are on the run. The Deutsche Welle journalist the fighters
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN Grace weakened to a tropical storm as it slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. But it’s still predicted to strengthen into a hurricane again as it makes a second landfall along the country’s Gulf coast. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN Grace weakened to a tropical storm as it slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. But it’s still predicted to strengthen into a hurricane again as it makes a second landfall along the country’s Gulf coast. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You
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Joseph Elledge is set to appear in a hearing at the Boone County Courthouse, scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Friday.
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By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Elon Musk said Thursday night at Tesla’s AI Day that the company is building a humanoid robot, and will probably have a prototype next year. “It’s basically going to start dealing with work that is boring, repetitive and dangerous,” Musk said of the Tesla robot. “What is the work that
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By Nilly Kohzad, CNN Since the Taliban swept to power in Afghanistan, seizing provincial capitals at lightning speed, it’s been difficult to get a picture of what life is like for Afghans outside the capital, Kabul. Especially for women. On Thursday, CNN reached three women — all in their mid-20s and well-educated — to get
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By Travis Caldwell and Dakin Andone, CNN With an alarming rise in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, more Americans have recently made the decision to get vaccinated than in the last six weeks. More than 1 million doses of the vaccine were reported administered Thursday, new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data showed, marking
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN Chinese astronauts working on the country’s planned space station carried out their second spacewalk on Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Since they were sent into space in June, the three-man crew has been working and living on the Tianhe core module of the space station, the largest spacecraft
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By Rebekah Riess and Melissa Alonso, CNN A Florida judge ruled Thursday that a case may proceed against former Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, a school resource officer who was widely criticized after he failed to confront a shooter during the deadly massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018. Broward Circuit
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Daniel Boone Little League All-Stars arrived back in Columbia to a hero’s welcome on Thursday night. A large group gathered at Columbia’s little league facility to greet the team, including the Mizzou softball team. “It’s really cool. These girls look up to the Mizzou softball team,” head coach Nick Britton said.
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