By MJ Lee, Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday landmark new federal protections for same-sex and interracial couples, capping both a personal and national evolution on an issue that’s enjoyed growing acceptance over the past decade. Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act before thousands of invited guests
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday landmark new federal protections for same-sex and interracial couples, capping both a personal and national evolution on an issue that’s enjoyed growing acceptance over the past decade. Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act before thousands of invited guests
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Ashland Police Chief Gabe Edwards said Monday that his department is still trying to find a 15-year-old girl who went missing Dec. 4.
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN After starting out well, “Kindred” gets lost in a maze of its own making, adapting Octavia E. Butler’s time-traveling novel into an eight-part Hulu series that spends far too much time spinning its wheels. In that regard, it joins “The Time Traveler’s Wife” and “Paper Girls” as recent examples of
Continue ReadingBy Stella Chan and Kacey Cherry, CNN Days after video of a scuffle with an activist surfaced, and months after racist remarks on tape went viral, Los Angeles councilman Kevin de León told CNN he will remain on the city council but again faced protests at the council’s scheduled meeting Tuesday. The councilman has defied
Continue ReadingToday: Scattered showers remain throughout all of Central Missouri with some rumbles of thunder possible. Winds remain gusty out of the southwest gusting up to 25 mph. Afternoon highs warm into the lower 50s. Tonight: Scattered showers begin to push to the east after 10 pm allowing for drier conditions. Winds remain out of the
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business TikTok may surface potentially harmful content related to suicide and eating disorders to teenagers within minutes of them creating an account, a new study suggests, likely adding to growing scrutiny of the app’s impact on its youngest users. In a report published Wednesday, the non-profit Center for Countering Digital
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN After making groundbreaking discoveries about the mysterious interior of the red planet, the InSight lander’s mission has officially ended. The stationary lander spent nearly 1,500 days on Mars. Mission managers declared the program’s end on Wednesday after the lander failed to respond to two messages from mission control at NASA’s Jet
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) On Tuesday, the Missouri State Board of Education plans to talk about its priorities for the 2023 legislative session. MO-State-Board-of-Education-Agenda-12-13-2022Download Among other topics, board members expect to discuss the success of students and workforce development. Board members want to retain more educators in Missouri by pushing for a minimum starting salary
Continue ReadingBy Barbara Starr and Oren Liebermann, CNN The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine that could be announced as soon as this week, according to two US officials and a senior administration official. The Pentagon’s plan still needs to be approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin before
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN US Department of Energy officials announced a history-making accomplishment in nuclear fusion Tuesday: For the first time, US scientists produced more energy from fusion than the laser energy they used to power the experiment. A so-called “net energy gain” is a major milestone in a decadeslong attempt to source clean, limitless
Continue ReadingBy Alex Stambaugh and Jill Martin, CNN The global soccer players’ union, FIFPRO, said it is “shocked and sickened” by reports that Iranian soccer player Amir Nasr-Azadani faces the possibility of execution “after campaigning for women’s rights and basic freedom in his country.” “We stand in solidarity with Amir and call for the immediate removal
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Elam, CNN Across the country, overflow health care workers are struggling to catch their breath as hospitals fill with sick patients battling a trifecta of respiratory illnesses — Covid-19, RSV and the flu. “We’ve seen a real increase in cases … particularly since Thanksgiving,” said Dr. Christopher Longhurst, chief medical officer at UC
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN United Airlines placed a massive order for at least 200 Boeing planes on Tuesday, split between two models dogged by recent problems: the 737 Max and the 787 Dreamliner. It’s a crucial vote of confidence for Boeing, which took tens of billions of dollars in financial losses due to the problems
Continue ReadingBy David Close, CNN Mississippi State University has hired Zach Arnett as the team’s next head football coach following the death of Mike Leach on Monday. Hired in 2020, Arnett served as the team’s defensive coordinator for the last three seasons. The school says he agreed to a four-year deal worth $3 million per year
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Drought Assessment Committee plans to meet Tuesday to talk about current conditions. Board members expect to hold a virtual meeting from 2 to 4 p.m. The public is invited to watch the meeting. Committee members expect to talk about recommended changes to the ongoing state and federal responses. Since
Continue ReadingBy Daniella Diaz, CNN The violent attack on Paul Pelosi drove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s decision to leave House Democratic leadership, with the family deciding while in an intensive care unit with him that they were “done,” their daughter detailed in an in-depth interview with CNN on Tuesday morning. “You have to make sense with
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN An experimental personalized mRNA vaccine in combination with the immunotherapy Keytruda reduced the risk of recurrence or death from melanoma in patients who had already had surgery, Moderna and Merck said Tuesday. The randomized trial included 157 patients with stage 3 or stage 4 melanoma who had already had surgery. Some
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TODAY: Tuesday is shaping up to be a wet day with showers and thunderstorms already approaching from the west to start the day. Rain showers will track generally to the northeast as the overall line pushes from west to east through the day. There will generally be two rounds; first the showers and storms early
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN Reem Al-Haddad still remembers how excited she felt when Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup. As a starry-eyed, soccer-mad 11-year-old, Al-Haddad screamed with joy as she watched former FIFA President Sepp Blatter open an envelope, revealing Qatar’s name, live on television, in 2010. That one of the
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