By Alexandra Meeks, CNN As you scroll through social media this week, there’s a chance you’ll see pictures of your friends, but re-imagined as celestial beings or cartoon-like characters. Perhaps you’ve even seen a few of the eye-catching portraits already — or maybe you’re grimacing at the notion of another viral trend hijacking your feed.
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TODAY: Monday is shaping up cool thanks to an east wind and some more stubborn cloud cover. This keeps highs in the 40s through the afternoon. Some fog is possible early this morning. TONIGHT: Temperatures fall into the 30s overnight, as cloud cover lingers. EXTENDED: Winds turn more southerly early Tuesday, which will pick up
Continue ReadingBy Gabby Gretener and Evan Perez, CNN A Libyan man accused of being involved in making the bomb that destroyed Pan Am flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie in December 1988 is now in US custody, authorities in the United States and Scotland said Sunday. The US charged Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi
Continue ReadingBy Teele Rebane and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Iran has executed a second man allegedly involved in the nationwide anti-government protest movement after he was convicted of fatally stabbing two security officials last month, Mizan Online, a news agency affiliated with Iran’s judiciary, and the semi-official Tasmin news agency reported on Monday. Mizan Online named the
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Gray and Haley Brink, CNN Meteorologists A large winter storm slammed into the western US over the weekend, blanketing mountain areas with heavy snow, and is now set to traverse the nation, threatening dangerous blizzard conditions, strong tornadoes, and flooding this week. “This winter storm is a true coast-to-coast, top-to-bottom impact that will
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Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN In a drone photograph by Yevhen Samuchenko, Lake Lemuria, the so-called “Dead Sea of Ukraine,” takes on a surreal, otherworldly quality. Its waters turned pink by algae, its shoreline streaked with white salt deposits, the body of water might easily be confused for an abstract painting were it not for the presence
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh and Holly Yan, CNN Fresh off her elated return to the US after months in Russian custody, Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is back on a basketball court. But her reintegration into American life is far from over, as is the fight by WNBA players for equity as US professional athletes. The
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN It started with floating bodies, and finally brought home its various threads with a sly nod to the fact that the sex in this visit to “The White Lotus” tended to be transactional. In between, the second installment proved almost as engrossing, uncomfortable and meme-worthy as its Emmy-winning predecessor, which
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After nearly four thousand days, the Kansas Jayhawks made their return to Mizzou Arena for the Border Showdown on Saturday. Head coach Dennis Gates and company could not get it done in front of a sellout crowd, falling 95-67 in their first loss of the season. ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team got a fifth straight win Sunday afternoon at Mizzou Arena 74-61 against Jackson State. After maintaining just a slight lead at the half, the Tigers pulled away out of the locker room led by senior Hayley Frank with 21 points and four rebounds. Watch the full post-game
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie brought on the Columbia Tribune’s sports editor Chris Kwiecinski in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch their full conversation in the video player above.
Continue ReadingBy Tricia Escobedo and Allie Torgan, CNN Nelly Cheboi, who in 2019 quit a lucrative software engineering job in Chicago to create computer labs for Kenyan schoolchildren, is the 2022 CNN Hero of the Year. Online voters selected her from among this year’s Top 10 CNN Heroes. Cheboi’s nonprofit, TechLit Africa, has provided thousands of
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Two people, a 17-year-old boy and his grandmother, died in a house fire in Salisbury early Sunday morning.
Continue ReadingBy Tricia Escobedo and Allie Torgan, CNN Nelly Cheboi, who in 2019 quit a lucrative software engineering job in Chicago to create computer labs for Kenyan schoolchildren, is the 2022 CNN Hero of the Year. Online voters selected her from among this year’s Top 10 CNN Heroes. Cheboi’s nonprofit, TechLit Africa, has provided thousands of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)Sawdust Studios, a Columbia business gave the community an opportunity to show their creativity and also help raise money for a student program at the University of Missouri. A total of $655 was raised. The studio held a holiday event at its community woodworking shop from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. on Sunday at
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Tonight: Overnight lows cool to nearly 30 degrees with patchy fog and mostly cloudy skies. Winds remain out of the east at 4-8 mph. Tomorrow: Monday remains mostly dry, with more breaks in the clouds. This helps highs reach near 50, and temperatures won’t fall much into the overnight hours as a low pressure system
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN The Artemis I mission — a 25½-day uncrewed test flight around the moon meant to pave the way for future astronaut missions — came to a momentous end as NASA’s Orion spacecraft made a successful ocean splashdown Sunday. The spacecraft finished the final stretch of its journey, closing in on the
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN The top US hostage affairs official on Sunday reflected on conducting the prisoner swap that led to Brittney Griner’s release, saying the WNBA star immediately thanked the crew returning her to the United States. “When she finally got on to the US plane, I said, ‘Brittney, you must have been through
Continue ReadingBy Don Riddell, CNN It was 5 a.m and I couldn’t sleep; my mind was replaying the extraordinary drama of Argentina’s penalty shootout victory over the Netherlands, over and over again. And then I checked my phone. I thought I was going to throw up. The American soccer journalist Grant Wahl, who’d also been covering
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