By Aya Elamroussi and Andy Rose, CNN A woman who was turned over to officials at an Arizona church as a baby more than four decades ago has been identified through DNA as the daughter of a Florida couple whose murdered bodies were found in Texas in 1981, officials said Thursday. Investigators are still working
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna, Elizabeth Wolfe and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN In his first extensive public comments about his actions during last month’s Texas school massacre, the Uvalde school police chief has contradicted previous narratives about his role, telling the Texas Tribune he didn’t consider himself the incident commander and did not instruct officers to refrain from
Continue ReadingBy Brian Stelter, CNN Business More than 20 million TV viewers tuned in to Thursday’s prime-time presentation about the January 6 attack, and it reached a far larger number through all manner of social and old-school media. According to early Nielsen estimates, nine of the channels that carried the hearing averaged a combined 19 million
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business General Motors and Lockheed announced last year they were teaming up to work on a new lunar rover that would carry astronauts and their gear on the moon. Now the companies say they could develop a whole lineup of vehicles for work on the moon and that these could be
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Sharon Braithwaite, Arnaud Siad, Ivana Kottasová and Bethlehem Feleke, CNN The inaugural flight of a controversial UK government scheme to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda was stopped on Tuesday at the eleventh hour, after an intervention by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). According to the UK’s PA Media news agency, “all
Continue ReadingToday: Temperatures will top out just below 80 degrees before afternoon isolated storms roll through Central Missouri. The majority of Mid-Missouri looks to stay dry, but some areas will see small celled storms bring the potential for brief heavy downpours and smaller hail. Tonight: Skies remain partly cloudy with overnight lows hitting the average mark
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN What if doctors could just print a kidney, using cells from the patient, instead of having to find a donor match and hope the patient’s body doesn’t reject the transplanted kidney? The soonest that could happen is in a decade, thanks to 3D organ bioprinting, said Jennifer Lewis, a professor at
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The Heart of Missouri United Way held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday morning for its new Give 5 program. The organization says “Give 5” was founded in Springfield, Missouri by Greg Burris and is based at the United Way of the Ozarks.
Continue ReadingBy Megan Marples, CNN Skin has traditionally been reserved for animals — until now. For the first time, scientists learned to grow humanlike skin on a robotic finger using cells, a new study revealed. Unlike artificial skin that is commonly used when building robots, this skin is alive, said lead study author Shoji Takeuchi, project
Continue ReadingBy Colby Hentges, CNN Romantic Disney proposal ruined, Prince Louis won’t sit still, and a lot of money hidden in a couch. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Prince Louis wasn’t having it Cameras catch Prince Louis acting out while watching a pageant on the final day of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with
Continue ReadingBy Colby Hentges, CNN Romantic Disney proposal ruined, Prince Louis won’t sit still, and a lot of money hidden in a couch. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Prince Louis wasn’t having it Cameras catch Prince Louis acting out while watching a pageant on the final day of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with
Continue ReadingBy Colby Hentges, CNN Romantic Disney proposal ruined, Prince Louis won’t sit still, and a lot of money hidden in a couch. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Prince Louis wasn’t having it Cameras catch Prince Louis acting out while watching a pageant on the final day of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with
Continue ReadingBy Colby Hentges, CNN Romantic Disney proposal ruined, Prince Louis won’t sit still, and a lot of money hidden in a couch. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Prince Louis wasn’t having it Cameras catch Prince Louis acting out while watching a pageant on the final day of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden is drawing up a surtax on Big Oil that would seek to rein in the industry’s skyrocketing profits at a time when gasoline prices are at record highs. Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, is floating a 21% surtax on the excess profits
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow, CNN Business Supply chain problems and inflation have hit virtually all consumer goods, but women who menstruate are now facing an added strain as a shortage of period products hits the United States. Top retailers and manufacturers acknowledged the shortages this week, confirming complaints that have been circulating on social media for
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TODAY: Showers and storms will continue throughout Friday morning, with the most widespread activity expected in the morning. We will likely see rain on radar this afternoon, but it will be very isolated, with much more dry time, especially along and north of I-70. Some sunshine may peak through the clouds through the late morning
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg and Kacey Cherry, CNN Britney Spears’ ex-husband was arrested and charged with trespassing and battery after crashing her wedding Thursday at her California home, police said. The pop star was set to marry Sam Asghari at her hillside mansion in Thousand Oaks when Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the residence
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, Tina Burnside and Jarrod Wardwell, CNN A man was shot and killed by police near an Alabama elementary school Thursday afternoon after attempting to take a school resource officer’s gun, authorities said. At least 34 students were inside Walnut Park Elementary School when the man earlier tried to open two doors leading to the school, Gadsden
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gangel, Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Jeremy Herb, CNN Conservative Republican election attorney Ben Ginsberg will be among the witnesses testifying Monday before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, as the panel seeks to scrutinize how former President Donald Trump’s election lies led to the
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Dozens of international flights loaded with baby formula have already come into the United States, but formula stock rates are not improving. Experts say it will take at least another couple months for this to change, as both supply levels and consumers’ perspectives level out. Through Operation Fly Formula, the White
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