By Megan Marples, CNN Years of long hours, understaffed companies and burned-out employees have all led to the latest TikTok trend: quiet quitting. The catchphrase quiet quitting is misleading, however, making some people think it means workers doing the bare minimum at their jobs. This is unequivocally false, said Kathy Caprino, a Connecticut-based women’s career
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business The now viral phrase “quiet quitting” is annoyingly imprecise and misleading. Some say it means doing the bare minimum at work or just not going above and beyond. Others say it’s about setting healthy boundaries or not mindlessly buying into ‘hustle culture.’ And then there are those who say it’s
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster and Niamh Kennedy, CNN The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are set to move their family out of London during school term time, in a bid to give their children a “normal” family life, a royal source told CNN. The decision to move the children’s school was announced by Kensington Palace in
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Young adults were using marijuana and hallucinogens at record high rates in 2021, new data shows. Vaping also increased significantly among this age group last year, despite leveling off during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. People ages 19 to 30 were surveyed as part of the Monitoring the Future
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Sterling and Amir Vera, CNN Doctors for Easton Oliverson, the injured Little League Baseball World Series player, said his skull cap will be put back in on Friday, according to an Instagram account set up to provide updates on the 12-year-old’s recovery. He will “most likely” return to Utah after the procedure. Easton
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist A quarter of the state of Texas has been experiencing exceptional drought — the most extreme level of drought — and suddenly, the skies have opened up above the Lone Star State, nearly wiping away their summer rainfall deficit in 24 hours. More than nine inches of rain has fallen
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TODAY: A few clouds pop up during the heat of the afternoon but conditions remain fair in the mid-80s. Sunburn is possible for unprotected skin in as little as 20 minutes as the UV Index reaches an 8. TONIGHT: Clouds clearing through the night. Another cool morning at the bus stop with lows in the
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Many students across Mid-Missouri, including in Jefferson City, headed back to school Monday. To mark the first day, Jefferson City High School seniors gathered on the football field for “Senior Sunrise” where students watch the sun come up together. Senior Francis Smith said one of his goals for the school year
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Sealy, CNN Pfizer and BioNTech have submitted their application to the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of their bivalent Covid-19 vaccine for use in people age 12 and older, the companies said in a statement on Monday. This updated formulation will combine the original vaccine with one that targets
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN Dr. Anthony Fauci is departing his roles as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and as chief medical officer to President Joe Biden at the end of this year, marking the end of nearly four decades as the nation’s top infectious disease expert. “I am announcing
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TODAY: Starting clear and calm with temperatures in the low 60s, Monday morning will have a crisp feel. Some patchy fog will reduce visibility in some of the typical areas around sunrise. Otherwise, mostly sunny skies and a slight northeast will land us in the low-to-mid 80s this afternoon. TONIGHT: Some sparse cumulus clouds will
Continue ReadingBy Tara John and Maria Kostenko, CNN The new school year is a day of celebration in Ukraine, where children dress up and give bouquets of flowers to their teachers. But Russia’s invasion has cast a shadow on the happy day. Now educational facilities across the country are racing to build bunkers and bomb shelters
Continue ReadingBy Eliott C. McLaughlin, Andy Rose and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Three Arkansas law enforcement officers have been removed from duty and are facing state and federal investigations, officials confirmed Monday, after bystander video captured at least two of them punching and kneeing a suspect during an arrest. At one point in the 34-second video recorded
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ABC 17 News asked for 41 Mid-Missouri school districts’ security plans, maintenance records and expenses ahead of the 2022-2023 school year.
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Sealy and Brenda Goodman, CNN Moderna on Friday filed patent infringement lawsuits against Pfizer and BioNTech “for infringing patents central to (its) mRNA technology platform,” the company said in a news release Friday. “Moderna believes that Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty infringes patents Moderna filed between 2010 and 2016 covering Moderna’s foundational
Continue ReadingBy Brian Lowry, CNN Medieval-style medicine obviously had its limits. But a pivotal moment in the “House of the Dragon” premiere will likely resonate for many in a way that goes beyond the realm of fantasy and touches upon real-world concerns about women’s reproductive rights. In the opening chapter of the HBO series, the queen,
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Davies, Aleks Klosok and George Ramsay, CNN With last week marking a year since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, football star Nadia Nadim is coming to terms with a “weird feeling.” The anniversary comes weeks after a landmark period for women’s football: the European Championships attracted record-breaking crowds in England just weeks
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The pandemic lift for Zoom has gone poof. Shares of the video conferencing company plunged more than 10% Tuesday morning after Zoom reported revenue for the second quarter that missed analysts’ forecasts and issued a weak outlook for sales and profit in the third quarter. Zoom’s stock was
Continue ReadingBy David Culver and Karol Suarez, CNN Sandra Ortiz struggles to talk about her family’s restaurant without breaking down into tears. “They arrived and told us we had five minutes to get everything out,” Ortiz said, recalling her family’s eviction in February. Ortiz, 55, and her four siblings had taken over Tortería Colima from their
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Of all the pandemic-inspired business changes, there’s one that will likely stick around for the long haul: QR codes. Many restaurants utilized the technology when they ditched physical menus to help slow the spread of Covid-19. But now, QR codes are more than just a way for businesses to offer a
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