Mars is about to be a very busy place when three separate missions arrive at the red planet in February. One of those missions includes NASA’s Perseverance rover. When it lands, we’ll be able to hear the sounds of Mars for the first time, thanks to microphones riding on the rover. A new interactive experience
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As if we needed any more reason to ruminate over pandemic life’s daily plights, today (January 18) is Blue Monday — the third Monday of January, which is rumored to be the most depressing day of the year. But is it? Research hasn’t proved that there is any one day more depressing than all the
Continue Reading As Indonesia continues to count the number of dead from last week’s earthquake on Sulawesi island, search and rescue teams are being stretched to breaking point, as they grapple with a series of disasters unfolding across the country. Flooding in South Kalimantan has killed more than a dozen people and displaced tens of thousands. Rescue
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Instead of training for up to five hours a day as they prepare for the Australian Open, 72 players find themselves unable to leave their hotel rooms under quarantine rules — and a number of them are vocally expressing their frustrations. Some are not only frustrated. Covid-19 Quarantine Victoria Commissioner Emma Cassar said on Sunday
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TODAY: Cloudy with a chance for a few rain or snow showers north of I-70. While many areas will only see trace accumulations at most, there are some isolated areas in the north that could receive heavier snowfall. The National Weather Service out of St. Louis has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for Monroe County
Continue Reading As Los Angeles County battles against the unrelenting coronavirus, an air pollution control agency says it has temporarily suspended limits on cremations in order to assist crematoriums in the county with a “backlog” caused by the pandemic. The South Coast Air Quality Management District said in a news release Sunday that permits for crematoriums usually
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Mukesh Ambani has spent years trying to turn his inherited oil business into a tech empire. In 2020, that pivot really kicked into overdrive. Between March and November last year, even as the coronavirus upended lives and devastated economies around the world, India’s richest man was handed more than $27 billion to make a bet
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Rapper, producer and entrepreneur Dr. Dre is back home after being hospitalized for more than a week in Los Angeles, according to his attorney Peter Paterno. “He’s home and on the mend,” Paterno said in a brief email to CNN on Sunday. Paterno did not provide additional details on the 55-year-old’s condition. The news comes
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ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on Jefferson City High School’s new football coach Damon Wells in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full interview in the video player above.
Continue Reading Two young men work side-by-side in a butcher’s shop. They live in the same teeming and densely packed town. One is fortunate — he’s eligible to get an Israeli Covid-19 vaccination. The other isn’t. Both are Palestinian residents of Kafr ‘Aqab, a finger of territory that under Israeli law is part of greater Jerusalem, but
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A letter sent out from the city on Sunday said the investigation is addressing allegations relating to the safety of police department evidence brought forward by a former officer.
Continue Reading Mass public vaccination programs using a Chinese coronavirus vaccine are underway across Indonesia and Turkey, where tens of millions of people are expected to receive doses of the CoronaVac shot made by Beijing-based company Sinovac. On Wednesday, Indonesian President Joko Widodo was shown receiving the country’s first CoronaVac shot, after the government authorized it for
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Congratulations to our Week 2 SportsZone Basketball Play of the Week Nominees! You can watch the plays in the video player above. You can vote for your favorite play here. Nominee No. 1 – Boonville’s Kennedy Renfrow scores five points in less than ten seconds. Nominee No. 2 – Mexico’s Isaiah Reams catches everyone off
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If you’re fascinated by unsolved 19th century murders and have $2 million burning a hole in your pocket, this could be the perfect opportunity for you. The Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast Museum in Fall River, Massachusetts is up for sale. It’s the same home where Borden’s father, Andrew, and step-mother, Abby, were murdered with
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Officials were prepared this weekend for potential unrest ahead of Inauguration Day, but the small groups of protesters that gathered at state capitols across the country were dwarfed by the heavy presence of law enforcement. Demonstrations remained small and peaceful as of Sunday night, despite warnings that armed protests were being planned at all 50
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AMES, Iowa (KMIZ) The No. 9 Mizzou wrestling team improved to 7-0 on the season after beating two Top 20 teams on Sunday afternoon. The Tigers beat No. 10 Iowa State, 31-7, and No. 20 Northern Iowa, 34-6. “We wrestled two really good teams and we won a lot of tight matches,” Head coach Brian
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A cache of ancient burial shafts containing hundreds of wooden coffins dating back to the New Kingdom are among a new batch of major discoveries found at Egypt’s Saqqara archaeological site. Coffins, funerary masks and a funeral temple were discovered during an archeological mission at Saqqara, a vast necropolis about 32 kilometers (20 miles) south
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the life of Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia and convicted war criminal. Personal Birth date: January 28, 1948 Birth place: Arthington, Liberia Birth name: Charles Taylor Father: Nelson Taylor, judge Mother: Zoe Taylor Marriages: Victoria Addison-Taylor (unknown-present); Jewel (Howard) Taylor (1997-2006, divorced) Children: with Victoria Addison-Taylor: three girls; with Jewel
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President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Gary Gensler to serve as the commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Rohit Chopra to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a source familiar with the decision tells CNN. Gensler and Chopra are both allies of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Currently a member of the Federal
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