By Steve Almasy, CNN Massive Hurricane Nicole was dumping rain on Florida Wednesday night as the storm bore down on the east coast of the Sunshine State, threatening to bring damaging winds and heavy precipitation to some places still recovering from Hurricane Ian. Earlier the storm battered the Bahamas while strengthening from a tropical storm
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri will join a growing number of states to allow recreational marijuana. More than 53% of voters approved Amendment 3 on Election Day. With the amendment receiving approval from voters, Missouri is now one of 21 states to legalize marijuana for recreational use. Election Results Missourians could start to see the changes
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow, CNN Business So, you won the lottery. Congrats! What do you do now? Once you’re done screaming and dancing in a shower of Champagne, take a moment to gather yourself and start thinking about the more pragmatic aspects of your new life as a multimillionaire (or billionaire) What will you do with
Continue ReadingBy Daniella Diaz, CNN Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin sent a handwritten note of apology to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for comments he made after the assault on her husband Paul Pelosi, her spokesperson told CNN. The speaker has accepted the apology, the spokesperson said. The letter, which was postmarked for November 1, came after the
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Allegra Goodwin, Eve Brennan, Ingrid Formanek and Ella Nilsen, CNN US climate envoy John Kerry announced a new, controversial plan Wednesday to raise cash for climate action in the developing world — by selling carbon credits to companies wishing to offset their polluting emissions. Speaking at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt,
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Business The White House believes that the press has “egg on their faces, yet again.” That’s according to a White House official who spoke candidly with CNN on Wednesday about the media’s “red wave” narrative that wasn’t. Heading into Tuesday, the dominant narrative in the press — especially right-wing media —
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TODAY: Wednesday brings back enough warming to put us in record breaking territory. Expect breezy south winds sustained at 10-15 mph, with gusts around 20-25 mph to warm us to near 80 this afternoon. Our record high for today is 78, set in 1999. Skies are partly cloudy, and we’ll likely see more sunshine than
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business The results of Tuesday’s midterm elections will set the agenda for the next Congress. That could mean changes to fiscal policy, which uses taxes and government spending to influence a country’s economy. But when it comes to the stock market, this election ranks fairly low on the list of things
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Tropical Storm Nicole is whipping the northwestern Bahamas and could become a Category 1 hurricane before hitting Florida’s east coast by early Thursday, forecasters say, poised to deliver heavy rain, damaging winds and possibly tornadoes to some places still recovering from Hurricane Ian. Nicole’s center, with sustained 70-mph
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, Dan Merica and Gregory Krieg, CNN The battle for control of Congress is still up in the air, with the Senate coming down to three key races while Democrats and Republicans are still hanging onto hopes of winning a narrow majority in the House. Republicans began the night with a rout in
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, Devan Cole and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Voters in four states moved to affirm abortion rights on Tuesday, CNN projects, following a months-long push from Democrats nationwide to act on the issue in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade in June. Party lawmakers and organizers cast the midterm
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, CNN Democrat John Fetterman will win the Pennsylvania Senate race, CNN projects, defeating Republican Mehmet Oz, flipping the seat and boosting Democratic hopes of keeping their majority. Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor since 2019, and Oz, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, ran one of the most contentious and expensive
Continue ReadingBy Maeve Reston and Stephen Collinson, CNN Democrats will pick up a GOP-held Senate seat in Pennsylvania in a huge boost to their hopes of clinging to the chamber, while the red wave that Republicans hoped for has yet to materialize in the House. Democratic nominee John Fetterman‘s victory over Republican Mehmet Oz means Democrats
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Republican U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer has again won reelection to the U.S. House.
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Republican candidate for U.S. Senate and current Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt will watch election results pour in with supporters in St. Louis.
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ST. LOUIS (KMIZ) The Democratic nominee for the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Roy Blunt, Trudy Busch Valentine, lost her bid to be the next senator for Missouri. Busch Valentine was hoping to be the first Democrat elected to the Senate in Missouri since former Sen. Clair McCaskill defeated Todd Akin in 2012. The
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Missouri voters gave the state the ability to require Kansas City to give more money to its police force but the state’s decisions on other constitutional amendments were still up in the air at 11 p.m.
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida’s hard-charging Republican leader who became a household name during the pandemic, will win a second term leading the Sunshine State, CNN projects, a development that will almost immediately turn the focus of his future to 2024. “We not only won election, we have rewritten the political map,”
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