By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A Texas couple who landed themselves a rare night out with friends says it was cut short when the restaurant kicked them out for wearing face masks, which they say they wore to protect their immunocompromised 4-month-old son. Natalie Wester and her husband, Jose Lopez-Guerrero, joined a group of friends at
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Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz will take questions from reporters at noon Tuesday.
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By Oren Liebermann, CNN The Air Force inspector general will lead the review of the erroneous drone strike on August 29 that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, in Kabul, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. Lt. Gen. Sami Said will “investigate the facts and circumstances relating to the civilian casualty event” and report directly to Air
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By Kate Sullivan, Maegan Vazquez and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday detailed his vision for leading the United States into a new era of diplomacy as he sought to reassure allies — some freshly skeptical — he was moving past the “America First” era of foreign policy. He used his first speech
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By Affan Chowdhry and Paula Newton, CNN Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party will form Canada’s next government following a tightly contested general election against conservative rival Erin O’Toole. Trudeau, however, fell short of his target of winning the necessary 170 seats to form a majority government. As at 2 a.m. ET, Elections Canada showed
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he will work with Congress to double again the United States’ financial commitment to help developing nations confront the climate crisis. Biden pledged in April the US would increase its contribution to global climate financing to $5.7 billion per year, putting his new commitment at $11.4
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TUESDAY: A few showers will be leftover this morning, but the bulk of the activity is pushing east. Most of the area will be done with the rain by 8-9 AM with an isolated sprinkle here and there for the rest of the morning. The clouds will be stubborn to break up but will finally
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business McDonald’s pledged Tuesday to significantly reduce the use of plastics in its Happy Meal toys worldwide, two years after the fast food giant faced backlash in the United Kingdom over environmental concerns. For McDonald’s young customers, that means instead of some plastic figurines, they’ll get 3-D paper-based toys they can
Continue ReadingBy Sonia Moghe, CNN A 2009 settlement agreement between sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Roberts Giuffre — the woman who accused him of sexual abuse and of trafficking her to Prince Andrew, among others — was unsealed Monday. It shows that Epstein paid Giuffre $500,000 to drop the case without any admission of liability
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By Katia Hetter, CNN The initial results are in: On Monday morning, Pfizer announced that its Covid-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year-old children is safe and resulted in a robust antibody response. This is news many parents have been eagerly anticipating — but what exactly does this mean for when vaccines could be available for
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By Amir Vera, CNN Police in Florida resumed their search this week for Brian Laundrie, the fiancé of Gabby Petito, whose remains were found Sunday. Investigators are searching for Laundrie on the Venice side of the Carlton Reserve, a 25,000-acre nature reserve near the family’s home in North Port. About 75 personnel from 16 agencies
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By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Tensions between European leaders and the White House over a scuppered submarine deal threatened to overshadow President Joe Biden’s address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, with one EU official saying “something is broken” in the transatlantic alliance. The French government has been seething since last week, when Australia
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Public School District has seen its highest need for substitute teachers since the start of the school year according to CPS dashboard data. CPS started the school year on Aug. 24. The week of Aug. 23 – 27, it filled 81 of the 122 substitute teacher spots, which equates to 66.5%.
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By Kara Fox and James Frater, CNN Russia was responsible for killing Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian agent turned Kremlin critic who died in London by polonium poisoning in 2006, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said Tuesday. The ruling found that “Russia was responsible for assassination of Aleksandr Litvinenko in the UK.” “The
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe and Leyla Santiago, CNN After many hours spent and many items removed, the FBI’s search of the family home of Gabby Petito’s fiancé, Brian Laundrie, in Florida ended Monday. But authorities are continuing to look for the man who, according to his family, disappeared a week ago, three days after Petito was
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Here are the local scores from Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. HS SOFTBALL Versailles 0 | Blair Oaks 5 FINAL Hallsville 13 | North Callaway 2 FINAL HS BOYS SOCCER Battle 0 | Southern Boone 2 FINAL Camdenton 0 | Helias 5 FINAL HS VOLLEYBALL Fulton 3 | Mexico 0 FINAL
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But a school spokeswoman says the problem here isn’t as severe as it has been elsewhere.
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Text by Gladys Tsai, CNN; Video by John Mees, CNN As night falls, a group of fishermen set sail off the coast of northern Taiwan, where they prepare to catch sardines with a traditional method: fire. Once they are at sea, a fisherman lights fire on a stick with acetylene gas — generated by adding
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If you’ve been patiently awaiting fall-like temperatures to catch up with the calendar, we’re finally getting a break from the heat after a cold front moves through tonight. Temperatures across the mountain west and upper Plains have dipped into the 60s for highs on Monday, a sharp contrast of what we have seen the last
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TONIGHT: Showers and storms likely with a isolated damaging winds and hail possible. Heavy rain between 0.5″ to 1″ is likely. Lows in the upper 50s to around 60. TOMORROW: Clouds stick around through much of the day with a strong north breeze and gusts up to 25 mph. Highs near 70 degrees. EXTENDED: I
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