TONIGHT: Mostly clear with widespread frost by early morning. Lows in the lower 30s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and cool with highs in the lower 60s. EXTENDED: Clouds gradually clear overnight, and temperatures drop to near or below freezing in some spots, allowing widespread frost to develop. Areas south of Highway 24 are in a Frost
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business After spending months attempting to get out of his deal to buy Twitter, Elon Musk officially owns the hugely influential platform. Now the question is: What will he actually do with it? Musk’s takeover — which was finalized Thursday night, a source familiar with the matter told CNN — not
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Beech, CNN Mayor Eric Adams has declared a state of emergency to help respond to the city’s migrant crisis, which he told reporters Friday will cost the city $1 billion this fiscal year. “We now have a situation where more people are arriving in New York City than we can immediately accommodate, including
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN Scientists are uncovering new details in the connection between using certain hair straightening products, such as chemical relaxers and pressing products, and an increased risk of cancer in women. Ongoing research previously suggested that hair straightening chemicals are associated with an increased risk of certain hormone-related cancers, including breast and ovarian
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This Afternoon: Highs only climb to near 60 today under partly cloudy skies. Expect a sustained northerly breeze around 5-10 mph. Tonight: It’s football weather this evening with most games in the 50s at kickoff, and potentially the 40s by the 4th quarter. Temperatures will cool efficiently as winds relax overnight and skies stay clear
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Democratic Senate candidate Trudy Busch Valentine blasted her Republican opponent as a career politician in a Jefferson City campaign stop Friday, a little more than a month before the midterm election.
Continue ReadingBy Maeve Reston, CNN Megan Lindsay, a 48-year-old teacher, had a recurring thought as she surveyed the Donald Trump-backed candidates in Arizona’s Senate and governor’s races: she is a voter who no longer feels at home in either party. It was a common refrain in interviews with more than two-dozen voters in the Phoenix suburbs
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As the regular season begins to wind down, there are still some big matchups to get to including week seven’s cross-town game between Rock Bridge and Hickman.
Continue ReadingBy Michael Callahan, CNN The US is imposing new sanctions following a spate of North Korean ballistic missile tests, the US Treasury and State Department announced on Friday. The sanctions target two people and three entities “connected to the delivery of refined petroleum to the DPRK, an action which directly supports the development of DPRK
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Tina Burnside, CNN A suspect is in custody after two people were killed and six others were wounded in a series of stabbings in front of a casino in Las Vegas on Thursday, police said. Three of the surviving six victims were taken to hospitals, where they were in critical condition,
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Business The fever hasn’t broken yet for America’s employment market, but the temperature is coming down. The economy added 263,000 jobs in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, slightly more than economists had estimated. While still robust, the headline number marks the second consecutive month of falling totals. That, coupled with job openings showing
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore and Christine Romans, CNN US factories are humming, and manufacturers are scrambling to find workers as the pace of hiring hits levels not seen in decades. Friday’s September jobs report showed US manufacturers added another 22,000 workers in September, increasing employment in the sector by nearly 500,000 over the course of the
Continue ReadingBy Kocha Olarn, Anna Coren and Hilary Whiteman, CNN Smears of dried blood still stained the wooden floor of a classroom in northeastern Thailand on Friday, a day after one of the country’s worst massacres unfolded in perhaps one of the most unlikely places. At the Child Development Center Uthai Sawan, school bags sat uncollected
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TODAY: Friday marks the first big change in several weeks after yesterday’s cold front welcomed cooler air into the region. Starting in the 40s early this morning, the cool down will be much more noticeable this afternoon as highs only climb to near 60 for a high. Expect a sustained northerly breeze around 5-10 mph.
Continue ReadingBy Christina Zdanowicz, David Williams and Caroll Alvarado, CNN Mitch Pacyna loved entertaining so much that he earned the nickname “The Mayor of Fort Myers Beach,” because of his welcoming nature, his daughter said. Pacyna, 74, died in Fort Myers Beach while he and his wife were trying to get to higher ground during Hurricane
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Kanye West’s latest controversial remarks could land him in a legal battle. The artist and entrepreneur, who has changed his name to Ye, spoke on a recent episode of the podcast “Drink Champs,” where he discussed the death of George Floyd and several other topics. “I watched the George Floyd
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN The breast cancer death rate in the United States has dropped significantly, but Black women continue to be more likely to die from the disease despite having a lower incidence of it, according to a new American Cancer Society report. The study published this week in the CA: A Cancer Journal
Continue ReadingBy Nadia Kounang, CNN In an emergency, everyone is taught to call 911, an alert for the fire department, emergency medical services or police to help. But what if the caller doesn’t need help because of a fire, accident or crime? As one recent caller to the 911 center in Durham, North Carolina, said: “I
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN “Luckiest Girl Alive” has a lot going on, in a way that undermines the movie’s translation from book to screen. Mila Kunis produces and stars in this #MeToo-tinged story, which awkwardly incorporates a mass school shooting as well as gender and class politics into what becomes an ungainly mix of
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN “Amsterdam” certainly doesn’t suffer from a lack of ambition, and the star-studded cast merely adds to that sense of grandeur. Yet writer-director David O. Russell has assembled them in the service of a disjointed story and a movie that’s too precious for its own good, wrapping his mix of fact
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