Banksy has confirmed he was behind an artwork that appeared on the wall of a British jail earlier this week. In a video posted to Instagram on Thursday, the elusive street artist is seen spray-painting the image of an inmate escaping from Reading Prison, a disused institution in southern England that once held the Irish
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At 118 years old, the world’s oldest living person is preparing to carry the Olympic torch this May in Japan. Kane Tanaka, who has twice survived cancer, lived through two global pandemics and loves fizzy drinks, will take the flame as it passes through Shime, in her home prefecture of Fukuoka. While Tanaka’s family will
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China bucked the global recession in 2020, and in doing so narrowed the economic gap with the United States. Now it says it needs to pick up the pace this year. Premier Li Keqiang on Friday announced that China would target growth of more than 6% in 2021. While China emerged from the global downturn
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Senators who vehemently defend the Senate’s 60-vote threshold for legislation are nonetheless about to accept a simple majority of 51 votes when they decide on the Covid-19 relief bill currently being debated. That paradox is made possible through an exception to the filibuster for fiscal measures known as “reconciliation.” It’s time to craft another exception.
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A Dallas police officer is accused of offering to pay another person to kidnap and kill two people in 2017, Dallas Police Chief Eddie GarcÃa announced Thursday. Officer Bryan Riser, a 12-year veteran of the department, faces two counts of capital murder, the chief announced at a news conference. “This criminal investigation dates back to
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LAKE OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) A Lake Ozark woman was arrested Thursday by Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. Officials report Leigh Bauman was arrested this afternoon in Camden County. She is currently being held at Camden County Jail with no bond issued.
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett penned her first Supreme Court majority opinion on Thursday, writing a 7-2 decision that will shield federal agencies from having to disclose certain materials under an exception to the Freedom of Information Act. Barrett’s debut majority opinion came in a case that was the first she heard as a justice, back
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Here are the local scores from Thursday, March 4, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS HOOPS: Fulton (57) Father Tolton (66) FINAL Rock Bridge (53) Washington (66) FINAL Blair Oaks (71) Owensville (32) FINAL Osage (77) Versailles (76) FINAL Macon (50) Hallsville (64) FINAL Fatima (54) St. James
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Covid-19 testing numbers are dropping in the US. And that’s bad news. Without testing, there’s no way to keep track of where the pandemic is headed and whether vaccines are working. And there’s no way to make use of one of the most important tools for fighting infectious diseases: contact tracing. “While the public may
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The Biden administration told the Supreme Court on Thursday that it should dismiss pending cases concerning “sanctuary cities,” which limit cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. In letters filed with the court in all three cases related to sanctuary cities, the Justice Department said it had come to an agreement with the
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When Tiger Woods crashed his car in Southern California last week, he told sheriff’s deputies that he had no recollection of driving or how the accident happened, according to a Los Angeles County affidavit for a search warrant of the vehicle’s black box. Woods was driving February 23 in Rancho Palos Verdes, near Los Angeles,
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New York Attorney General Letitia James was only a few months into her second term as New York City’s public advocate when, over a few hours during a dinner party with friends, a stunning twist of fate put her on a collision course with the state’s most powerful man, Gov. Andrew Cuomo. In a report
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When Humbelina Gonzales heard Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was lifting the state’s mask mandate next week, her first reaction was, “It’s too soon for it.” Gonzales, who volunteers at a thrift store called Trash & Treasure in Alice, Texas, about 45 miles west of Corpus Christi, said she intended to follow guidance by the US
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In the March 4 roundtable, the topics discussed were about the efficacy and availability of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. Also how health organizations are planning to use the doses and how this vaccine could be a game-changer in the pandemic. ABC 17 News spoke with MU Health Pharmacy Director Brad Myers
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Dutch Mandel’s cell phone lit up with messages: “It’s open, it’s open, it’s open!” The 62-year-old South Carolina resident told CNN on Thursday that his friends and he — all older than 55 but younger than 65 — had been anxiously monitoring the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control website for weeks to
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As Donald Trump plotted his Conservative Political Action Conference appearance last week, and a broader, more-robust plan to return to politics as an omnipresent disruptor, one person was conspicuously absent from the confab. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, was notably not on the list of advisers assisting the former President. Kushner, who previously served as chief
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) U.S. Attorney’s Office in Jefferson City is warning residents that scammers are using the office’s title in an attempt to scam residents. Officials say the scammer claims to be with Cyber Crimes and said they (the receiver of the call) had a phone that was identified as a phone used in
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At 118 years old, the world’s oldest living person is preparing to carry the Olympic torch this May in Japan. Kane Tanaka, who has twice survived cancer, lived through two global pandemics and loves fizzy drinks, will take the flame as it passes through Shime, in her home prefecture of Fukuoka. While Tanaka’s family will
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The US shouldn’t ease restrictions in place to prevent Covid-19 before the number of new coronavirus cases falls below 10,000 daily, “and maybe even considerably less than that,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday. The US should pull restrictions gradually, after a substantial portion of Americans are vaccinated, Fauci told CNN’s Jake Tapper. The last time
Continue Reading Ahead of the Senate debate on the stimulus bill, Republican Senate leadership criticized the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package during a news conference Tuesday. Instead of focusing on the bill’s economic provisions designed to revive the US economy, Republicans have attacked it for including funds for non-health care related spending and failing to push schools
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