COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The state health department reported more than 2,700 new COVID-19 cases in Missouri on Sunday morning. MDHSS also added 4 new deaths. The additions bring the total COVID-19 case count to 423,327 and death count to 5,948. 2,700 people are currently hospitalized with the virus in Missouri.
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Tens of millions of workers lost the right to paid sick and family leave at the end of December after Congress failed to extend them in the new relief package. Congress provided the pandemic-related benefit in March to give ill workers and parents whose children’s schools were suddenly closed a cushion. But lawmakers left out
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In his 2004 novel “The Plot Against America,” Philip Roth imagined an American president who coddled dictators abroad and condoned mobs at home. Would such an episode end democracy in the US? Or would it, by showing the consequences of an authoritarian leader, act as a kind of vaccine, prompting the nation’s immune system to
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Watching rioters storm the US Capitol reopened old wounds for Valarie Carey. Carey’s younger sister, Miriam Carey, was fatally shot by Capitol police and US Secret Service officers more than seven years ago after leading officers on a high-speed chase near the White House. Carey said the restraint shown by Capitol police on Wednesday was
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Telsa shares outperformed all other major stocks by a wide margin last year, rising 743%. So does that mean its incredible run is behind it? Maybe not. The first week of 2021 once again saw Tesla among the S&P 500’s best performers, rising 24.7%, just 1 percentage point behind market leader L Brands. The week’s
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A gunman killed at least three people and wounded several others in a series of shootings in the Chicago area Saturday before being shot and killed by police, authorities said. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said in a news briefing the shootings started in Chicago at 1:50 p.m. (2:50 p.m. ET) Saturday when the suspect
Continue Reading There are plenty of reasons to bet against the US dollar right now. Add the riots at the Capitol last week to the list. What’s happening: Political instability often weighs on currencies around the world, and the violence incited by President Donald Trump is unlikely to bolster confidence in the US dollar at a moment
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On Monday, Governor Parson is set to be sworn in as the 57th Governor of the State of Missouri at the 2021 Bicentennial Inauguration.
Continue Reading A new Democratic-controlled Senate boosts the chances Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, 82, would retire this year and offer new President Joe Biden an early opportunity to put his imprint on America’s high court. Breyer, who before becoming a judge was chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, knows better than most how last week’s
Continue Reading Telsa shares outperformed all other major stocks by a wide margin last year, rising 743%. So does that mean its incredible run is behind it? Maybe not. The first week of 2021 once again saw Tesla among the S&P 500’s best performers, rising 24.7%, just 1 percentage point behind market leader L Brands. The week’s
Continue Reading Human remains and plane wreckage have been pulled from the crash site of an Indonesian passenger jet that plunged into the ocean minutes after takeoff on Saturday, with 62 people on board. The Sriwijaya Air flight 182 — a Boeing 737-500 — was heading from Jakarta to the city of Pontianak, on the Indonesian side
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A Sriwijaya Air jetliner carrying 62 people on board crashed shortly after taking off from Jakarta, according to the head of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, Suryanto Cahyono. Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 from Jakarta to Pontianak, in Indonesian Borneo, lost contact at 2:40 p.m. Western Indonesian Time (2:40 a.m. ET) on Saturday. Maj. Gen Bambang
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The weekly tallies of Covid-19 cases and deaths in the United States have never been higher, and state officials are warning of more alarming patterns following the holiday season. The total number of Americans infected with the virus surpassed 22 million Saturday, according to Johns Hopkins University data, and more than 372,000 have died. Kentucky
Continue Reading A Chinese soldier was apprehended on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), south of the Pangong Tso lake in the Ladakh region on Friday, the Indian Army said in a statement. The Chinese soldier was taken into custody by Indian troops after crossing over the LAC, the de facto border between
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TODAY: Light snow flurries are possible again today as cloud cover sticks around. Temperatures will be almost identical to yesterday as we sit in the upper 20s for the morning and reach the low 30s in the afternoon. Some clouds could try to clear out of the area towards the evening, but don’t count on
Continue Reading Almost four weeks after the first American was vaccinated against the coronavirus, around 6 million people have received one of the shots — far below the US target, set last year, of 20 million by the end of 2020, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of Thursday, 5.9 million people
Continue Reading Search and rescue teams are scouring the stormy waters of the Java Sea, hunting for the wreckage of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182. At this early stage, Indonesian officials still don’t know why the Boeing 737 suddenly plunged from the sky within minutes of take-off. Hours after the plane crashed Saturday afternoon, authorities began the grim
Continue Reading A gunman killed at least three people and wounded several others in a series of shootings in the Chicago area Saturday before being shot and killed by police, authorities said. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said in a news briefing the shootings started in Chicago at 1:50 p.m. (2:50 p.m. ET) Saturday when the suspect
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After the first coronavirus case was reported in the United States in early 2020, it took about 90 days to reach 2 million cases. Bu just nine days into 2021, more than 2 million people have been infected with Covid-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. In that same time frame, an additional 24,260
Continue Reading Officials at Fort Bliss have moved to court-martial a private first class accused of the sexual assault of a fellow soldier who was found dead on New Year’s Eve. Pfc. Asia Graham, 19, was found unresponsive in her barracks on December 31, Fort Bliss said in a press release issued January 2. Special agents for
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