By Kara Fox, Aditi Sangal, Jessie Yeung, Steve George, Meg Wagner, Melissa Macaya and Melissa Mahtani, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
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By Matt Rivers, Etant Dupain and Jack Guy, CNN Hospitals in Haiti are completely overwhelmed by survivors of Saturday’s 7.2-magnitude earthquake and urgently need help to treat them, medical staff say. The quake, which struck the southwest of the country, left at least 2,189 dead and more than 12,268 injured, the country’s civil protection agency
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BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boonville football team will lean on its veteran starters as the group will kick off the 2021 season on August 27 against the Pleasant Hill Roosters. Boonville is coming off of a 6-4 campaign in the 2020 season, under the leadership of head coach Greg Hough. The Pirates did return the
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By Christina Maxouris, CNN Suneeta hasn’t been able to sleep in days. Instead, she’s been constantly calling and texting her four children, all younger than 18 — the youngest only 7 — who are hiding by themselves in an apartment in Kabul, Afghanistan, thousands of miles away from her Albany, New York, home. She’s scared
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (KMIZ) The Daniel Boone Little League All-Stars beat Texas 10-1 on Wednesday to capture third place at the Little League Softball World Series. The Missouri bats got going right away as the girls scored five runs in the first inning. Kennedy Watson led the way at the plate. She was 2-for-2 with 2
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team announced its non-conference schedule on Wednesday. The Tigers will open up the season on Nov. 9 against Central Michigan. Coincidentally, the football and men’s basketball team will open up against the same opponent this season. MU will make its return to Kansas on Dec. 11. The Tigers
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By Athena Jones, Aaron Cooper and Keely Aouga, CNN Months after the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine, Miriam Vega is still in a battle to persuade some people to get the shot. “It’s extremely challenging fighting the misinformation we’re fighting. You know, Facebook, we’re fighting Twitter,” the CEO of the Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health
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Ufa, RUSSIA (KMIZ) Two Mizzou wrestlers won Junior World Championships for Team USA on Wednesday. Keegan O’Toole dominated the gold medal match at 74 kilograms. He beat Kazakhstan’s Nurdaulet Kuanyshbay 11-0 by technical fall to secure the world title. “I’ve been dreaming of this moment for years,” O’Toole said in a release. “To have that
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The Pfizer or Moderna coronavirus vaccine can now be given at least 28 days after the first two doses if the patient is diagnosed with conditions that leave them more vulnerable to the virus because of their immune system.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Senator Roy Blunt was in Columbia Wednesday afternoon to talk about broadband access. Local officials talked with Blunt about some problem areas where people don’t have access to high-speed internet. Some of those areas even included downtown Columbia. Columbia Mayor Brian Treece spoke with Senator Blunt about the role the government plays
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By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Facebook on Wednesday announced that it had taken action against the so-called “disinformation dozen,” one month after the White House singled out the twelve people and argued that they were responsible for a majority of coronavirus misinformation. In making the announcement, Monika Bickert, vice president of content policy at Facebook,
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Under the blistering summer sun, Cade Lightle moved into a University of Missouri dorm hall with the help of his parents.
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The Columbia Bicycle and Pedestrian Commission listed a stretch of sidewalk on Business Loop 70 from Garth Avenue to Providence Road in a request to the Missouri Department of Transportation. The request asks the department to put the project on its High-Priority Unfunded Needs List, along with five other projects.
Continue Reading By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business A group of restaurant owners and five small businesses are suing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city over its vaccine mandate in the hopes of blocking the new requirement. Earlier this month, the city announced a new rule requiring people to show proof of vaccination against
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TONIGHT: Partly cloudy with showers and storms diminishing around sunset. Lows in the upper 60s to around 70. TOMORROW: Partly sunny with isolated to scattered showers and storms. Highs in the upper 80s with a heat index in the lower 90s. EXTENDED: Showers and storms should diminish with sunset, leaving us with patchy clouds and
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By Jennifer Hansler, Ellie Kaufman, Nicole Gaouette, Oren Liebermann and Kylie Atwood, CNN As reports of harassment and beatings at Taliban checkpoints continued to surface Wednesday, the US Embassy in Kabul warned it could not ensure safe passage for Americans to the airport to escape Afghanistan, despite the Pentagon underscoring alleged Taliban assurances that it
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By Chloe Melas, CNN It’s a boy for Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost. Jost announced the news on his Instagram Wednesdasy. “Ok ok we had a baby. His name is Cosmo. We love him very much,” Jost wrote. No details as to when the baby was born were shared. He went on to say “privacy
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By Jasmine Wright and Arlette Saenz, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris faces a steep challenge next week when she travels to Singapore and Vietnam, as a once-low-risk trip to friendly nations comes at the same time as a bungled US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Harris will have dual responsibilities largely unfamiliar to her in the seven
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Engineers at the University of Missouri have partnered with MoDOT to test mixing plastic waste into the asphalt pavement mixtures on Stadium Blvd. in efforts to make the pavement overlay last longer. Professor of civil and environmental engineering at Mizzou, Bill Buttlar, says normal pavement mixtures are created from asphalt and other
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President Joe Biden said Wednesday he will require nursing homes to have their employees vaccinated to receive federal Medicare and Medicaid funds.
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