Five of the men charged with hazing in connection with the University of Missouri Phi Gamma Delta hazing case are scheduled for their first appearance in court Thursday.
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TONIGHT: Isolated shower or storm through about sunset, partly cloudy otherwise. Lows in the mid-upper 60s. TOMORROW: Partly to mostly sunny with highs in the upper 80s. EXTENDED: A cold front is draped across the northern half of the state and could trigger a few isolated showers or storms through sunset. Outside of that, we
Continue ReadingBy Gabby Orr, Kristen Holmes, Evan Perez and Jeremy Herb, CNN Not long after the National Archives acknowledged in February that it had retrieved 15 boxes of presidential records from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, Trump began fielding calls from Tom Fitton, a prominent conservative activist. Fitton, the longtime head of the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – A bus and car crashed on Business Loop 70 in Columbia on Thursday afternoon. Columbia Public Schools spokeswoman Michelle Baumstark said no one on the Hickman High School bus was hurt in the crash on Business Loop 70 East and Seventh St. The crash happened around 4:30 p.m. near the school’s
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN It was early May and Rep. Pramila Jayapal was feeling optimistic. The chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus felt almost certain that a major announcement from the White House was imminent. “Something is coming, and something is coming soon,” the Washington Democrat mused to CNN at
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN A state judge in North Dakota on Thursday blocked the state’s so-called trigger abortion ban, which was set to go into effect on Friday. Judge Bruce Romanick of the South Central Judicial District in Burleigh County said he was issuing the preliminary injunction to maintain the status quo in the state
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann and Chandelis Duster, CNN The US carried out additional airstrikes targeting enemy positions and rocket launchers near Deir ez-Zor in northeast Syria following a rocket attack on coalition bases in the region that injured three US troops on Wednesday, according to a US official. A number of enemy fighters were killed in
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed The Justice Department must release a redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit by noon on Friday, a federal judge ruled. The affidavit lays out why investigators believe there was probable cause that crimes had been committed. The warrant authorized the FBI to search former President Donald Trump‘s home and private
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland, CNN Business This month, Tesla fans rushed to defend the automaker after a prominent critic released a video showing one of the company’s cars with the feature it calls “full self-driving” plowing into child-size mannequins. Some fans built or bought mannequins and child-size dummies to use in their own tests. Others asked
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN Photographs by François Brunelle Sometimes when Charlie Chasen or Michael Malone would be out and about on their own in Atlanta, people would mistake one for the other. The long-time friends who live in Atlanta are not related. Their ancestors don’t even come from the same part of the world. Malone’s
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN Just minutes before the end of her term on Wednesday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights dropped a damning report on China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. The report, which includes interviews with dozens of ethnic minority members, said the Chinese government’s actions in the northwestern region
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TODAY: We’re waking up to another familiar start this morning. Temperatures in the mid 60s under mostly clear skies to start will give way to a warm up to near 90 this afternoon. Clouds will increase throughout the day. A field of low to mid level cumulus clouds will likely develop, but also a cold
Continue ReadingBy Dan Merica and Eva McKend, CNN Mehmet Oz was quick to wish John Fetterman well and offer prayers as the Democrat recovered from a stroke earlier this year. But now that the two are officially facing each other in one of the highest profile Senate races of 2022, the Republican Senate nominee and his
Continue ReadingBy Hafsa Khalil, CNN Many people in the northern hemisphere have spent the summer reaching for a boozy drink at the end of the day to take the edge off the scorching, dry heat. It turns out that a tipple may be just what plants need too. A peer-reviewed study published Thursday in the journal
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN Americans who received Pell grants to help pay for college will receive much more help from the Biden administration’s student debt relief initiative than other borrowers. Those who qualified for a Pell grant as undergraduates will have up to $20,000 of their student loan debt forgiven, compared with up to $10,000
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his plan to address student loan debt, which includes debt forgiveness for certain borrowers and extending the pandemic-related payment pause. The Biden administration has already canceled nearly $32 billion of the $1.6 trillion in outstanding federal student debt by expanding existing forgiveness programs for public-sector
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN NASA is gearing up for its most consequential launch in decades, launching a rocket built to carry humans on an uncrewed test flight around the moon. It’s the first major step for the space agency’s Artemis program that aims to one day return astronauts to the lunar surface. To commemorate the
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At least three people have been killed since January 2021 on Highway 124 between Fayette and Highway 63, the highway where four people were hurt in a crash Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean, CNN With millions of travelers expected to rush airports over the Labor Day holiday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is telling major airlines that this summer’s thousands of flight cancellations are not acceptable. The Department of Transportation plans to better inform passengers of their recourse when facing a significant flight disruption, the secretary
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Few companies flourished more amid the pandemic’s economic upheaval than Peloton. With people unable (or unwilling) to go to the gym, consumers rushed to buy its exercise equipment and, more importantly, sign up for its online classes. Peloton posted its first quarterly profits in calendar year 2020 as revenue jumped
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