By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business The world’s first all-electric passenger aircraft has successfully taken to the sky. Israeli-founded company Eviation Aircraft successfully launched the Alice on Tuesday morning from Washington’s Grant County International Airport. The zero-emission plane traveled at an altitude of 3,500 feet for its eight-minute inaugural flight. “This is history,” Gregory Davis, Eviation’s
Continue ReadingBy Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN The calls to quickly fix Jackson, Mississippi’s water system are growing louder, with the US Justice Department and NAACP demanding not just answers from the state and its capital city, but solutions. Days after the NAACP wrote Gov. Tate Reeves directly, the civil rights organization submitted a 25-page complaint to
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and chilly with lows in the upper 30s to around 40. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny with highs in the upper 60s. EXTENDED: Absolutely perfect weather for us this week with continues with a blocking high pressure expected to be stuck over our area as the remnant low of Ian stays along the east
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business The Hamburglar is back at McDonald’s. But this time, it’s just for adults. McDonald’s is bringing back its family of recognizable figurines in a new adult Happy Meal, which, yes, includes the toys. Beginning October 3, customers can order a Cactus Plant Flea Market Box — a Big Mac or
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand Kyle Young, one of several rioters who attacked Washington, DC, police officer Michael Fanone during the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol was sentenced to 86 months in prison on Tuesday. “On January 6, the violence was you,” Judge Amy Berman Jackson told Young before handing down the sentence, adding
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN Business The European Union wants to raise €140 billion ($140 billion) by tapping the windfall earnings of some energy companies to help households and businesses pay eye-watering gas and electricity bills. On Wednesday, the European Commission proposed skimming off excess revenue from renewable and nuclear electricity producers, and taxing the windfall
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Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that the Biden administration “will certainly look for ways to facilitate technology services being made accessible to people in Iran” amid widespread internet outages during the nationwide unrest. Anti-government protests have raged across Iran after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez and Nikki Carvajal, CNN The White House is closely tracking Hurricane Ian as it barrels toward Florida, with President Joe Biden receiving regular updates and speaking with local officials in the storm’s projected path ahead of landfall in the United States. As of Tuesday afternoon, Hurricane Ian remains at Category 3. The
Continue ReadingToday: Winds will slowly begin to shift out of the southwest aiding in afternoon highs reaching back into the mid-70s. Skies remain sunny with pollen at medium levels. Tonight: Winds quickly return out of the northwest allowing for overnight lows to reach into the lower 40s. Some northern counties such as Macon could se temperatures
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Mizzou football head coach Eli Drinkwitz will take questions from reporters during a noon news conference Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN The official campaign arm of Senate Republicans has been running attack ads that mislead viewers about how a law signed by President Joe Biden in August will affect seniors enrolled in Medicare. One of the National Republican Senatorial Committee ads shows a senior sitting alone, looking sad, as a narrator claims
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, CNN The House Select Committee investigating January 6 has been able to uncover much of the multi-faceted plot to subvert the 2020 presidential election. But as it heads into what is likely to be one of its final hearings this week, there are a few investigative threads that remain unanswered. The committee
Continue ReadingBy Frank Pallotta, CNN Business It looks like “Don’t Worry Darling” didn’t have that much to worry about. The Warner Bros. film starring Florence Pugh generated a lot of off-screen drama due to a pretty wild press tour and behind the scenes gossip, but that didn’t seem to hurt its box office totals. The psychological
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN Business Millions of mortgage borrowers in the United Kingdom are bracing themselves for huge hikes to their monthly payments as a consequence of the run on the pound. Markets have been in turmoil since UK finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng announced the biggest tax cuts in 50 years on Friday, together with
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN Two basketball players from Mali have apologized for fighting in the mixed zone following the team’s 81-68 defeat against Serbia at the Women’s World Cup. The incident between Salimatou Kourouma and Kamite Elisabeth Dabou took place on Monday after Mali’s fourth-straight defeat at the tournament in Sydney, Australia, and footage of
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates surged for the sixth week in a row, moving closer to 7%. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.70% in the week ending September 29, up from 6.29% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. That’s the highest level since July 2007. Mortgage rates have more than doubled since
Continue ReadingBy Mick Krever, Olga Voitovych, Josh Pennington, John Allen and Stephanie Halasz, CNN The foreigners that Russian state media routinely cite as being international observers to the so-called referendums in four regions of Ukraine are violating numerous international principles of election observation and are engaging in nothing more than “political activism,” experts in the field
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Apple has removed VKontakte, a top Russian social media platform, from its app store, according to the app’s developer. Apple’s decision also affects other iOS apps produced by VKontakte’s parent, the technology giant VK, according to a blog post Tuesday by the company. “Now some VK applications are blocked by Apple,
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TODAY: Tuesday is shaping up to be almost identical to Monday. Expect abundant sunshine warming us up into the mid-70s again this afternoon. One key difference today will be winds as we won’t be as breezy. Still, a north breeze of 5-10 mph will keep air moving today. TONIGHT: Skies stay clear, and surface high
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