By Rachel Metz, CNN Business If you’re a newcomer to virtual reality, you’ll notice something odd about your appearance: Depending on the app, you may look down to see you’re represented by an avatar that’s just a floating torso or nothing but a pair of hands. While wireless headsets and handheld controllers laden with sensors
Continue ReadingBy Angela Fritz, Chad Myers and Ella Nilsen, CNN Meteorologists in California told CNN on Thursday they were surprised at how fast Orange County’s devastating brush fire moved overnight, as it tore through the city of Laguna Niguel and destroyed at least 20 multimillion-dollar homes and mansions. “It’s way too early” for a fire like
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By Joshua Berlinger, CNN Finland and Sweden are poised to end decades of neutrality by joining NATO, a dramatic evolution in European security and geopolitics sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The two Nordic nations had long kept the military alliance at an arm’s length, even while eying Russia to their east with caution. But
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TODAY: Another copy and paste forecast is in store today, with more hot and humid weather expected Thursday. Highs will reach low 90s again with sunny skies and a consistent southerly breeze. It may feel more like upper 90s with the added humidity. TONIGHT: Despite clouds to our west inching closer, most will stay mostly
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Maria Alyokhina, a member of the punk group Pussy Riot, which has long protested Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime, said she escaped the country disguised as a food courier. Alyokhina told the New York Times that though she once refused to leave the country despite multiple arrests and periods of imprisonment,
Continue ReadingBy Luke McGee, CNN Finland’s president and prime minister announced their support for joining NATO on Thursday, moving the Nordic nation which shares an 800-mile border with Russia one step closer to membership of the US-led military alliance. The statement of support for NATO from President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin had been
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Over the weekend the Sunrise Beach Fire Department was notified that asphalt on Wilbus Dr. was cracking and began investigating a landslide.
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Here are your local scores from Wednesday, May 11, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BASEBALL Battle (2) Helias (10) FINAL Capital City (6) Jefferson City (9) FINAL Warrenton (0) Mexico (7) FINAL Blair Oaks (3) St. Francis Borgia (5) FINAL Rock Bridge (18) Willard (3) FINAL HS GIRLS
Continue ReadingEXCLUSIVE by Sara Sidner, Sandi Sidhu, Vasco Cotovio, Kostyantyn Gak and Oleksandra Titorova, CNN Russian soldiers shot two unarmed civilians as they walked away after an encounter in the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. CNN has obtained surveillance video of what is now being investigated as a war crime by Ukrainian prosecutors. Both
Continue ReadingBy Sam Fossum and Shawna Mizelle, CNN President Joe Biden predicted Wednesday that if the Supreme Court officially overturns Roe v. Wade’s holding of a federal constitutional right to abortion, the court will next look to strike down other landmark cases guaranteeing Americans’ rights, from same-sex marriage to contraception access. “It’s not just the brutality
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton, Claudia Dominguez and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Delaware State University, a historically Black institution, said its women’s lacrosse team was racially profiled by sheriff’s deputies last month during a traffic stop in Georgia. The team’s bus was headed north on Interstate 95 in Liberty County on April 20 following a game in Florida
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By Aaron Cooper, CNN A German airline is apologizing after a large number of Jewish passengers were denied boarding on a connecting flight at a Frankfurt airport earlier this month because, the airline says, a “limited” number of them did not follow mask rules and other crew instructions. Passengers told CNN they flew Lufthansa from
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Eighty years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that led to Japanese Americans being forced into internment camps following the attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Columbia’s Substance Abuse Advisory Commission plans to address the city’s opioid crisis when it meets Wednesday.
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Investigators determined the lawn tractor Connolly was using slipped off the bank and flipped over into the creek.
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear, mild, and muggy with lows in the lower 70s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and hot with highs in the low to mid-90s. Heat index in the upper 90s. EXTENDED: Another muggy evening is in store with lows in the lower 70s. Tomorrow’s record of 93 degrees will also be in jeopardy with a forecast
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The Columbia Police Department confirmed one person suffered unknown injuries after being shot early Wednesday morning on Clinkscales Road.
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As time ticks by, representatives and senators in the Missouri Capitol are drawing closer and closer to “sine die,” the Latin phrase that notes the end of the legislative session.
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By Laura Studley, CNN A 28-year-old man who allegedly killed his mother and grandfather to get family and insurance money was charged with murder and fraud, according to a federal indictment filed in Vermont. Nathan Carman was arrested Tuesday. He is accused in the death of his mother, Linda Carman, during a 2016 fishing trip
Continue Reading By Laura Studley, CNN A 28-year-old man who allegedly killed his mother and grandfather to get family and insurance money was charged with murder and fraud, according to a federal indictment filed in Vermont. Nathan Carman was arrested Tuesday. He is accused in the death of his mother, Linda Carman, during a 2016 fishing trip
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