Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he plans to campaign against GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska next year when she’s up for reelection, intensifying his pledges to oppose GOP lawmakers who have bucked him. “I will not be endorsing, under any circumstances, the failed candidate from the great State of Alaska, Lisa Murkowski,” Trump
Continue Reading The US Chamber of Commerce will not suspend financial contributions to members of Congress who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to a memo released Friday. “We do not believe it is appropriate to judge members of Congress solely based on their votes on the election certification,” Chamber of Commerce National Political Director
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The Police Accountability Board in Rochester, New York, is calling for fundamental changes in the city’s police department after police said a Black mother was pepper-sprayed during an arrest, which body camera footage showed took place in front of her 3-year-old child. The incident is the latest involving Rochester police officers that have prompted widespread
Continue Reading A lawyer with deep expertise in racketeering cases has been retained by the Atlanta-area district attorney’s office investigating former President Donald Trump. John Floyd is expected to assist the district attorney’s office on multiple cases in the white collar, gang and public corruption units, said Jeff DiSantis, a spokesman for Fulton County District Attorney Fani
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Lawyers for former President Donald Trump sent out cease-and-desist letters Friday to the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee for using his name and likeness on fundraising emails and merchandise, a Trump adviser tells CNN. The three entities are the largest fundraising organizations within the GOP that
Continue Reading The Biden administration is expected to put together a task force to deal with major cyber intrusions that Microsoft said this week were linked to China, according to a US official. There are an estimated 30,000 affected customers in the US and 250,000 globally, though those numbers are expected to increase, the US official told
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Tonight: Temperatures cool down to just below 40 as clouds begin to move out of Central Missouri. Sunday: Sunny skies and warming temperatures lead to a pleasant Spring Sunday. Extended: These Warmer temperatures and drier conditions stay with us early into this week while highs continue to track in to upper 60’s. Tuesday clouds start
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If they’re vaccinated, they will come. At least, that’s the hope of many state and federal officials who are trying to envision the road ahead in the coronavirus pandemic. If more people get vaccinated, there will be more people who are protected against Covid-19. That means fewer people will get sick and be hospitalized, more
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The Callaway County Health Department continues to seek to host a mass vaccination clinic with the Missouri National Guard, as it struggles with vaccine supply.
Continue Reading Newly-released police body camera footage shows a California man telling Fresno police officers, county sheriff’s deputies and paramedics that he can’t breathe as they restrain him in the moments before he died in 2017. In an introduction to the edited video released Friday, former Fresno Police Chief Andrew Hall said 41-year-old Joseph Perez was contacted
Continue Reading A 12-year-old boy was arrested Thursday evening after a series of attempted armed carjackings and one successful one in Washington, DC. All four incidents happened in the span of one hour, according to a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) news release. The boy was arrested by the MPD on the same day and charged with four
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball dropped the regular-season finale against LSU in a 86-80 loss at Mizzou Arena. It was a close game throughout as there were a total of nine ties and 11 lead changes. https://youtu.be/I98bbyBrhHk LSU shot 61% from the field in the second half, as Cameron Thomas and Trendon Watford
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The release of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine and its partnership with Merck means that President Joe Biden expects the US to have enough Covid-19 vaccines delivered to cover every adult by the end of May. If Johnson & Johnson and fellow vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer meet their vaccine pledges, the bigger question we
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Former President Barack Obama on Saturday congratulated President Joe Biden on the successful passage of the Covid-19 relief bill through the Senate, the administration’s top legislative priority as millions of Americans continue to struggle financially amid the coronavirus pandemic. In series of tweets following the Senate’s approval of the bill, Obama said that Biden’s $1.9
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connectitcut (WFSB) — A Hartford father lost his life after heroically saving his daughters from drowning. The tragedy happening on a family vacation to Puerto Rico. The family is now running into obstacles in bringing their father’s body back home. On Christmas, the Gonzalez family surprised their
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The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 386 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday. There have been 480,352 cases reported in the state since the beginning of the pandemic.
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The most expensive trading card in football history, a Tom Brady rookie card, has sold for $1.32 million. FitBit CEO and co-founder James Park made the purchase. “I lived in Boston for 10 years and so am a huge fan of Brady,” Park said in a statement on the Instagram page of PWCC Marketplace, the
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Highly contagious variants will soon have a ridiculously easy chance to spread rapidly across the US. Spring break starts for hundreds of universities this month. And typical spring break revelry could lead to countless more Americans getting infected as coronavirus variants threaten to outpace vaccinations. “It’s the perfect storm,” Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the
Continue Reading A federal district judge on Friday dealt a blow to advocates of the Equal Rights Amendment in ruling that the deadline to ratify the ERA “expired long ago” and three states’ recent ratifications of the amendment arrived “too late to count.” Virginia, Illinois and Nevada had sued the archivist of the United States last year
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team opened up its spring practice on Saturday for fans to come see the Tigers in person. We spoke with head coach Eli Drinkwitz after practice. You can watch the full interview in the video player below. https://youtu.be/MfZynELWKmU Several players have earned their numbers recently, including transfer wide out
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