JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Senate is planning to be in session next week as scheduled even after State Senator Andrew Koenig tested positive for the coronavirus. Senate Majority Floor Leader Caleb Rowden tweeted out that “We are following CDC guidance relating to “close contacts” and contact tracing recommendations. I encourage my colleagues to
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Amazon is once again asking the National Labor Relations Board to direct thousands of the company’s warehouse workers at an Alabama facility to cast votes in-person on whether to form a union, rather than by mail, despite the ongoing pandemic. The e-commerce giant filed a motion Thursday to delay the union election, which is set
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Canadian officials said Friday they are working with the Biden administration to close what they describe as a travel “loophole” and to get more symmetry with Covid-19 safety protocols between the two countries. “A loophole, frankly, does exist because the Americans previously had not placed any restriction on international flights coming into the US,” said
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The New York Police Department says that evidence from three murders at a senior housing complex in Brooklyn point to one suspect: a well-known man who ran errands for the building’s residents. Kevin Gavin, 66, was arraigned Friday and charged with three counts of second-degree murder, according to a criminal complaint. Gavin confessed to all
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LINDENHURST, New York (WCBS) — An initiative on Long Island is gaining attention. Customers are paying it forward, and it all begins with a post-it note. Alice Bopp and her family moved to Lindenhurst from Rio de Janeiro. “I’m from Brazil, I love coffee,” Bopp told CBS2’s Jennifer
Continue Reading Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover Jr. are preparing for two upcoming spacewalks that will help to upgrade and maintain the International Space Station. The NASA astronauts will conduct spacewalks on Wednesday, January 27, and Monday, February 1. It will be the first spacewalk experience for Glover, who is a few months into his first
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About 6 in 10 Americans don’t know when or where to get a coronavirus vaccine, according to a survey released Friday from the Kaiser Family Foundation. This comes after reports that President Joe Biden’s administration must start from scratch with federal plans for distribution, having been left little to no framework from former President Donald
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DURHAM, North Carolina (WTVD) — After more than 1,300 days, a Triangle pastor is leaving a Durham church and will be able to go home to his family. Jose Chicas is an undocumented immigrant. Since mid-July 2017 Chicas has not left Saint Johns Missionary Baptist Church in Durham.
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President Joe Biden signed two more executive orders on Friday — one focused on expanding food assistance and delivering stimulus checks to very low-income Americans, and the other on raising the minimum wage to $15 for the federal workforce — as he continues his swift efforts to overturn his predecessor’s policies. The measures build on
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The White House is keenly aware of the Republican objections that have arisen to President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus proposal, but they are urging Democratic allies to be patient for the moment, according to two administration officials. Biden has spent the last several days on the phone with lawmakers in both parties, and his
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Intel investors and analysts got their first glimpse at incoming CEO Pat Gelsinger’s vision for the company during its earnings call on Thursday. Gelsinger, who starts his job on February 15, has a challenging task ahead: Intel has fallen behind competitors in manufacturing the most advanced chips, putting it at risk of losing share in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — As COVID-19 continues to spread across Florida, the nation and the world, a team of researchers at Florida International University have trained detector dogs to identify the virus. Dogs have highly developed senses of smell. That’s why FIU’s International Forensic Research Institute is using its
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President Joe Biden had been inside the White House for only two hours on Wednesday before finding an opportunity to recall one of his many intimate meals with a foreign leader who, now they are both presidents, can officially be called a counterpart. “When I was with Xi Jinping — and I was on the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — A man carjacked a woman and threatened to shoot her when she stopped for gas in north St. Louis, according to police. Just before 9 a.m. Thursday the 41-year-old woman stopped to get gas at the Gulf Gas Station at 5750 Natural Bridge.
Continue Reading Republican Idaho Gov. Brad Little issued sharp criticism of the state Legislature’s efforts to repeal a Covid-19 emergency declaration in a video statement released Friday. “I believe in my heart that what the Idaho Legislature is doing is harmful to our people and wrong for Idaho,” Little said, adding, “I urge my partners in the
Continue Reading NBC Sports Network is shutting down at the end of this year, the company said on Friday. The cable network will cease operation and USA Network will begin “carrying and/or simulcasting certain NBC Sports programming” later this year, according to a memo obtained by CNN Business. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report
Continue Reading Dakota Johnson’s latest role in the poignant film “Our Friend” taught her life lessons she plans to carry with her. Johnson plays Nicole Teague in the film, based on a true story about a woman’s arduous battle with cancer and the emotional toll it took on her family and friends. Based off of an essay
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri’s health department doesn’t include antigen tests in its count of COVID-19 cases, meaning tens of thousands of positive tests have not been included in the state’s tally. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that though Missouri doesn’t count antigen testing in its tally of 445,621 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the state’s
Continue Reading When President Joe Biden sat down after his inauguration to sign a slew of executive orders, alongside the stack of navy folders was a wooden box, situated within easy reach. Inside that box, ready for use, lay a neat row of gold-trimmed navy Cross Century II pens. But why so many pens? As Biden continues
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Three Wednesdays that changed America. A deadly insurrection, a historic impeachment and the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the 46th President of the United States. The chaotic first 20 days of the year started with mobs supporting President Donald Trump storming the US Capitol on January 6 after he urged them to fight
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