By Zachary Cohen, CNN Top US General Mark Milley appeared before Congress this week to defend Pentagon decision making in Afghanistan but instead found himself fighting a personal battle with lawmakers who charged that he has been more preoccupied with rehabilitating and burnishing his own image. Republican lawmakers directed their fury at Milley for his
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Centralia residents are asking the city for more transparency after the police chief on Friday submitted his letter of resignation.
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By Chloe Melas and Cheri Mossburg, CNN Britney Spears scored a legal victory Wednesday in her fight to regain control of her life. A Los Angeles judge suspended Jamie Spears, the singer’s father, as conservator of her estimated $60 million dollar estate and designated a temporary replacement to oversee her finances. Mathew Rosengart, attorney for
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with a few showers overnight. Lows in the mid-upper 60s. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and storms increasing by afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s to around 80. EXTENDED: The pattern begins to get a bit more active over the next several days as upper level high pressure moves to the
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MU Health Care is now sharing data on how many COVID-19 patients are vaccinated.
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The news conference will take place between 5 and 6 p.m.
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By Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden wasn’t pitching in Wednesday night’s Congressional Baseball Game, where players and spectators alike held the key to his political fate. But even off the mound, it was clearer than ever the moment has arrived for Biden to play the closer. His presence in in the
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Thursday is the last day of the fiscal year, and if a federal budget does not pass the government will go into a full shutdown at 12:01 a.m. The budget was held back because it was attached to a Democratic attempt to raise the debt ceiling, which Senate Republicans strongly opposed. A new proposed budget without the raised debt ceiling could make its way through Congress as soon as Wednesday.
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By Maggie Fox, CNN Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday it has asked the US Food and Drug Administration to authorize booster shots for its coronavirus vaccine, but has left it up to the FDA and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to decide just who should get their boosters and when. “We’re describing
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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Disney+ has found success with a series about the adventures of one bounty hunter in a galaxy far, far away. So why not two? “The Book of Boba Fett,” a new Star Wars series starring the franchise’s infamous bounty hunter, will premiere exclusively on the service on December 29, Disney
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By Clare Foran and Ali Zaslav, CNN Senate Democrats approved a $3.5 trillion budget resolution early Wednesday morning, setting the stage in the weeks and months to come for the party to craft and attempt to pass a sweeping economic package expanding the social safety net that President Joe Biden has made a signature agenda
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Alan Jackson has gone public with an illness he says has been affecting him for years. In an interview with Jenna Bush Hager of “Today,” the country star shared that he has suffered for years with a degenerative nerve condition known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. The singer said it is a
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By Jessica Dean, Ali Zaslav and Tami Luhby, CNN When Democrats passed a one-year expansion of the child tax credit in their Covid relief bill earlier this year, it was seen by many in the party as a triumph, a move that could reduce child poverty by nearly half this year. Ever since Democrats won
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By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Google Maps is making it easier to find the latest information about wildfires as part of a push to ensure the immensely popular app is more useful during emergencies. On Wednesday, Google said it’s adding a new wildfire layer to Google Maps, which users will be able to turn on
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN The show will not go on for the Zac Brown Band. Lead singer Zac Brown says he has tested positive for Covid-19 and that the band’s Thursday concert at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Michigan has been canceled. “I have made the very difficult decision to pause Zac Brown Band’s ‘The
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By Allegra Goodwin, Sarah Dean and Amy Cassidy, CNN London’s Metropolitan Police has issued advice to women approached by lone police officers in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder, including telling them to run “into a house,” “wave down a bus” or call the police on 999 if they do not believe the officer is
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By Clare Duffy, CNN Business YouTube will remove videos spreading misinformation about any approved vaccine, not only those aimed at preventing Covid-19, the company announced in a blog post Wednesday. In a statement provided to CNN Business, YouTube also confirmed it would remove the channels of “several well-known vaccine misinformation spreaders” under the new policy,
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By Madeline Holcombe and Christina Maxouris, CNN Some governors are beginning to report encouraging signs in their state’s Covid-19 numbers, but warn of what could come next if more people don’t get vaccinated. Covid-19 hospitalizations and ICU utilization have decreased over the past week in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear announced at a Thursday news conference.
Continue ReadingBy Evan McMorris-Santoro and Meridith Edwards, CNN Robin Steenman pulled her daughter out of public school over a mask mandate last year. She’s now in private school and misses public school. But Steenman is keeping her out not because of masks, but because of lesson plans she says make students feel bad about their race.
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN After 25 movies over 60 years, billing a James Bond adventure as the end of something requires a certain leap of faith. Still, Daniel Craig’s yeoman service comes to its conclusion with “No Time to Die,” a big and length-wise bloated epic that includes the desired bells and whistles, which,
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