By Caroll Alvarado, Michelle Watson and Jacquelyne Germain, CNN The mother who posted a video showing a costumed character appearing to ignore two Black children during a parade at Sesame Place in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, says the theme park’s explanation of the incident as a “misunderstanding” is not enough. Jodi Brown and her attorney told
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Henderson, CNN A fire broke out at the Hoover Dam on Tuesday at about 10 a.m. local time when a transformer caught fire, sending plumes of black smoke into the air, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. The fire was extinguished about 30 minutes later by the Reclamation/Hoover fire brigade, the bureau’s Regional
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear with lows in the low to mid-70s. TOMORROW: Less humid and mostly sunny with highs in the mid-90s. EXTENDED: A weak cold front moves through tonight, shifting our winds back to the northwest. That will keep humidity and temperatures a touch lower for tomorrow, but highs still reach the low to mid-90s.
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN The contempt of Congress trial against Steve Bannon got underway in earnest on Tuesday with opening statements and the first witness testimony after a failed last-minute effort from the Trump ally’s team to delay the trial. The simple case that prosecutors wish to put on was evident in
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Temperatures across the Midwest and Western United States have remind above average throughout the majority of June and July. Columbia Missouri has reached 99 degrees as our hottest recorded temperature for 2022 so far. Across the Atlantic ocean, the United Kingdom has officially surpassed Columbia’s high and have beaten their own previous records. Before July
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business In an early victory for Twitter, a judge on Tuesday ruled that the company’s lawsuit against Elon Musk over their $44 billion acquisition agreement should go to a five-day trial in October. The decision came at the end of the first hearing in the case over whether to expedite the
Continue ReadingBy Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Netflix lost roughly a million customers last quarter — the most in the company’s 25-year history. But it stopped the bleeding in a nightmarish year, and the company believes that its new long-term initiatives will boost sales and subscribers. Those efforts — which include cracking down on password sharing and
Continue ReadingBy Shimon Prokupecz and Eric Levenson, CNN Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District officials have informed district police chief Pete Arredondo that the school board intends to meet Saturday to decide on his fate, according to a source close to the discussions. The source told CNN Tuesday the board is expected to vote to terminate Arredondo,
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN Even when the temperature soars into the 90s, Linda Morris won’t turn on her air conditioning until she feels she’s about to faint. Instead, the retired postal worker tries to escape the heat in the unfinished basement of her Hickory Hills, Illinois, home. She brought down a chair so she can
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN The monkeypox virus has spread quickly in clusters across the United States — at certain music festivals, pool parties and bathhouses — and now public health officials in areas with a lot of infections want more vaccines made available to help control transmission, which appears to happen when people touch intimately,
Continue ReadingBy Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Before she was gunned down with her classmates, 10-year-old Alithia Haven Ramirez, of Uvalde, Texas, wanted to be an artist who shared her creations with the world. Google is obliging. Earlier this year, the search giant asked students to submit entries for its Doodle for Google contest. The winner will
Continue ReadingToday: Temperatures look to continue to climb to the upper 90’s this afternoon as the heat index will surpass the 100 degree mark. Winds remain out of the south at 5-10 mph as skies remain mostly clear. Tonight: Temperatures cool to the lower 70’s thanks to a overnight cold front passing through Central Missouri from
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Clare Foran, CNN A bipartisan group of senators reached a deal to make it harder to overturn a certified presidential election, marking the most significant response by Congress to former President Donald Trump’s relentless pressure campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The proposal still needs to be
Continue ReadingBy Sonia Moghe, CNN A Manhattan judge dismissed a murder charge Tuesday against a bodega worker who fatally stabbed a man earlier this month in what the worker’s legal team argued was a case of self-defense. Jose Alba, 61, had been charged with second-degree murder in the killing Austin Simon, 35, on the night of
Continue ReadingBy Justin Gamble and Jacquelyne Germain, CNN The White woman who accused Emmett Till of making advances toward her says the Black teen admitted it was him when her husband and two other men brought Emmett to her, according to a 99-page unpublished draft memoir obtained by CNN. The contents of the memoir were first
Continue ReadingBy Payton Major, Judson Jones and Amir Vera, CNN Heat alerts cover more than 20 states today and Wednesday across the Southern Plains and parts of the Northeast, and temperatures will soar above the century mark for 60 million people over the next week. All while a similar heat wave is bringing all-time record temperatures
Continue ReadingBy Liam Reilly, Wayne Sterling and Ben Church, CNN Former US President Donald Trump told golfers that they should join the controversial Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series and “take the money now,” as the breakaway series prepares for its next event at Trump National Golf Bedminster, New Jersey, from July 29-31. “All of those golfers
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TODAY: Much like Monday, Tuesday starts in the upper 60s with abundant sunshine. With more of a south wind element in today’s forecast, expect temperatures to climb 5 to 10 degrees warmer. Officially, today’s forecast for Columbia sits at 97. TONIGHT: Late Tuesday night cloud cover will increase, and a wind shift will occur as
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Heat-related sickness is top of mind today for many people around the world not used to coping with extreme heat. When the body’s temperature rises faster than it can cool itself, damage to the brain and other vital organs can occur — even death. Here are the key signs of heatstroke
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business General Motors said strong sales and demand for vehicles doesn’t suggest any signs of an economic slowdown, but the company is preparing for a possible recession — just in case. GM reported a sharp drop in earnings Tuesday, but that was caused by Covid lockdowns in China, one of its
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