Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Bullet Train” certainly moves at an appropriately brisk pace, with Brad Pitt heading a sprawling cast. But the breakneck action is offset by a smart-alecky tone that proves both uneven and occasionally too cute for its own good, along with a mashup of styles — from the music to the
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This Afternoon: Mostly sunny skies with highs in the mid-90s. Increased moisture today will bring the heat index up to 100 degrees. Tonight: Skies remain mostly clear and southerly winds keep conditions stifling overnight with lows in the mid-upper 70s. Extended: A stationary boundary to the southeast may be enough to fuel a pop-up storm
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business A few weeks ago, Klondike appalled the internet when it said that the Choco Taco would be discontinued. This week, it reversed course, saying the beloved ice cream treat may be coming back — eventually. “We’ve heard our fans, and we’re hoping to bring this favorite treat back to ice
Continue ReadingBy Toyin Owoseje, CNN A French scientist has apologized after tweeting a photo of a slice of chorizo, claiming it was an image of a distant star taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. Étienne Klein, a celebrated physicist and director at France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, shared the image of the spicy
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Business The US economy has now regained all jobs lost during the pandemic, after a blowout July jobs report that showed a gain of 528,000 jobs, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The massive monthly gain was more than double the 250,000 that economists were expecting,
Continue ReadingBy Colin McCullough, Paul LeBlanc and Sonnet Swire, CNN Three people are dead and one is injured following a lightning strike across the street from the White House Thursday night. James Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, died from injuries following the lightning strike in Lafayette Park near the White House Thursday night, a DC
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, CNN The Biden administration this week announced two new steps aimed at placing more Americans into high-quality jobs, dedicating $500 million toward workforce training and unveiling a new toolkit focused on helping employers hire and retain qualified workers. First, the Department of Commerce this week announced 32 awardees of the Good Jobs
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TODAY: Friday starts sunny, with clear skies behind yesterday’s cold front, which currently sits as a stationary boundary just south of mid-MO. Despite being on the “cool” side of the boundary, temperatures this morning are warm, in the low 70s, and will stay warm this afternoon, as they climb into the low 90s. Winds start
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy, CNN As a US Air Force jet carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi approached Taiwan on Tuesday night, expectations ran high in China over how Beijing would respond. Since reports emerged that the key US lawmaker would visit Taiwan during an Asia tour, conversation in China had churned with nationalist furor and amped-up
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN After years of failed attempts to bring Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed and surreal comic to the screen, Netflix finally creates a home for “The Sandman,” armed with enough top-notch British guest stars to populate a Harry Potter movie. The resulting series is visually striking but dramatically listless, made for those —
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Ali Zaslav, CNN Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Thursday night offered critical support for President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda after party leaders agreed to change new tax proposals at her request, indicating she would “move forward” on Democrats’ sweeping economic package that has been the product of intensive negotiations for more than
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Ali Zaslav, CNN Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Thursday night offered critical support for President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda after party leaders agreed to change new tax proposals at her request, indicating she would “move forward” on Democrats’ sweeping economic package that has been the product of intensive negotiations for more than
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business After the Federal Reserve’s July meeting, investors quickly reached a consensus: The central bank was turning slightly dovish. After embarking on an aggressive rate-hike spree this year in a bid to fight inflation, the Fed indicated it could downgrade the size of its hikes moving forward. “We’ve been front-end loading
Continue ReadingBy Colin McCullough, Paul LeBlanc and Sonnet Swire, CNN Two people are dead and two are injured following a lightning strike across the street from the White House Thursday night. James Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, have died from injuries following the lightning strike in Lafayette Park near the White House Thursday night, a
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Trevor Reed, a US citizen freed earlier this year after being detained in Russia for nearly three years, said Friday that Brittney Griner’s sentence by a Russian court is “clearly political.” Griner, a WNBA star who was arrested in Russia in February, was convicted Thursday of deliberately smuggling drugs into Russia
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The state of Missouri officially began its back to school sales tax holiday at 12:01 a.m. Friday morning as the exemption is set to run through Sunday, Aug. 7.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A free summer lunch program for children and teenagers in Columbia will end this month. Workers with the “Lunch in the Park” program are scheduled to end meal service at Douglass Park on Friday. The lunches are available for anyone up to 18 years old from noon to 1 p.m. While meal
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Right-wing talk show host Alex Jones will have to pay the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim a little more than $4 million in compensatory damages, a jury decided Thursday, capping a stunning and dramatic case that showcased for the public the real-world harm inflicted by viral conspiracy theories.
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN There’s no test for long Covid. There’s no specific drug to take or exercises to do to ease its symptoms. There isn’t a consensus on what long Covid symptoms are, and some doctors even doubt that it’s real. Yet with vast numbers of people having had Covid-19, and estimates ranging from
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Since ancient times, the idea of eternal life has captivated the human imagination. Around the world, there are so-called blue zones where people live exceptionally long and healthy lives. Scientists study these “lands of immortals” to uncover the secrets of longevity. We may not yet have discovered the healing waters of
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