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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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou soccer team could not pull of the win for head coach Stefanie Golan in her Audrey J. Walton Stadium debut on Thursday night. The Tigers struggled to get anything going offensively, as Illinois outshot them 15-7. The Fighting Illini got on the board early as forward Abby Lynch found the
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Continue Reading 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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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou’s starting quarterback, Connor Bazelak, did not practice on Thursday due to a “mild illness.” As a result, the back up quarterbacks got reps with the first team offense. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz said that the team did test the quarterback for COVID-19 to be safe, but added that Bazelak is vaccinated.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team released its non-conference schedule on Thursday. Mizzou will open up the regular season on Nov. 11 against Murray State. The Tigers first road game is on Nov. 17 against Saint Louis. MU’s toughest test will come on Dec. 5 as the Tigers are scheduled to travel to
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By Paul LeBlanc, CNN A former Trump administration official said Thursday evening that the Biden administration’s decision to stick with the US’ 2020 agreement with the Taliban is “why we are where we are now” and that the US has “literally pulled the rug out from under the Afghans.” “The Biden administration had an opportunity
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Fire Department and Police Department chiefs met with the city council Thursday to discuss getting a share of federal funding. Both departments are looking to get money for staffing. They’re trying to get money from the American Rescue Plan from which the city is expected to get $25 million. CPD
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By Maggie Fox, CNN Jennifer Nuzzo is both a mom and a health expert. Worried about sending her young son to in-person school last year, she settled on one of the few things she could control. She bought a portable air cleaner for her son’s classroom. She’s joining air quality experts who are urging schools
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By Christina Carrega, Marshall Cohen and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department has charged Capitol bomb threat suspect Floyd Ray Roseberry with threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to use an explosive device, a judge said Friday. The charges were unsealed during Roseberry’s first court appearance in DC District Court. Roseberry,
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By Priscilla Alvarez and Geneva Sands, CNN The Biden administration is ramping up efforts to process the influx of Afghans rushing to flee Afghanistan as the Taliban overtakes the country. In recent days, administration officials worked overtime to pull lists of names of special immigrant visa applicants to push through systems and get security checks
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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN It’s been a month since England dropped most of its coronavirus restrictions, a move that was welcomed by much of the country’s hard-pressed business sector but criticized by thousands of scientists as a “dangerous and unethical experiment.” In an open letter published in the Lancet medical journal, they argued that a
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Temperatures have been gradually increasing the last few days thanks to a shift in our winds aloft to the southwest. This weekend will be no exception as dew points continue to rise ahead of a deep low-pressure system to our northwest on Friday. Friday starts off muggy and mild and there will be an afternoon
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TONIGHT: Partly cloudy with patchy fog developing overnight. Lows in the lower 70s. TOMORROW: Partly cloudy with a chance for isolated afternoon storms. Highs near 90 with a heat index between 93-95. EXTENDED: Moisture continues to filter into Mid-Missouri as our upper-level pattern remains southwesterly, pushing in warmer air to the region. This air mass
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By Cheri Mossburg and David Williams, CNN The mystery surrounding the deaths of a couple, their baby daughter and the family dog found on a hiking trail near Yosemite National Park is deepening after autopsies yielded no immediate clues as to what caused their deaths. The bodies of Jonathan Gerrish, Ellen Chung, their 1-year-old daughter,
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By Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck and Drew Myers, CNN “Glass ceiling? Ha! What glass ceiling? Women, women exaggerate the problem of sexism,” radio host Larry Elder said in a 1996 ad for his radio show. Then a hand slaps him across the face. “Blacks exaggerate the significance of racism,” Elder adds. Another slap. “Medicare should
Continue Reading By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen and Kylie Atwood, CNN While the US State Department continues to engage in high-level diplomatic talks with the Taliban in the neutral setting of Doha, Qatar, as it has for the past year, the real negotiations have moved to the chaotic streets of Kabul in recent days, where American military
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Mike Richards, the new host of “Jeopardy!,” has issued an apology after a number of derogatory remarks about little people, Jews, people receiving unemployment benefits and sexist comments he made about women resurfaced. Richards, who executive produced the game show before being named the full-time replacement for the late Alex Trebek,
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