Senior cybersecurity officials testified before a key Senate committee on Tuesday after one of the nation’s largest pipeline operators was hit by an ongoing major ransomware attack that forced the company to shut down operations. CNN has learned that federal agencies and private cybersecurity firms are investigating the attack on Colonial Pipeline but lawmakers made
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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday signed into law a controversial bill that could remove tens of thousands of voters from the state’s early mail-in voting list, shortly after the GOP-controlled state Senate passed the legislation. SB 1485 would revise the state’s permanent early voting list, which allows a voter to automatically receive a ballot
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy and chilly with lows in the lower 40s. TOMORROW: Clearing skies with more afternoon sunshine. Highs in the lower 60s with light winds. EXTENDED: We finally begin clearing out tomorrow as high pressure settles across the Great Lakes and pushes out cloud cover. This will allow more sunshine to heat us up into the
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Mike Parson is threatening to veto a wide-ranging law enforcement reform bill because of a provision that would give the Legislature the power to issue subpoenas requiring people to testify before committees. The governor says the provision gives lawmakers too much power. In the past, House members accused the
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri House has passed a pared-down school voucher bill after a similar measure went to the governor last week. The GOP-led House on Tuesday voted 79-72 in favor of adding the pruned proposal to another bill. Both measures would create a tax credit program to pay for kids to
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri is closer than ever to joining every other state in having a statewide prescription drug database to flag possible opioid misuse. The House on Tuesday voted 91-64 to send Gov. Mike Parson legislation that would create such a program. Parson has said he supports prescription monitoring programs. The proposal
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Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — What was said in Tina Demary’s son’s Elk River High School classroom made him uncomfortable enough to bring it up to her when he got home. “He felt like they were inappropriate or made him feel like bad for being a white person,” Tina Demary
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As America reopens, more than 37 million people are expected to travel for the Memorial Day holiday weekend — a big boost from last year’s record low. That number of people expected to travel 50 miles or more from home is a 60% increase from last year when only 23 million traveled, according to a
Continue Reading Robert Aaron Long, the suspect in the shootings that left eight people dead at three Atlanta-area Asian spas, has been indicted on murder charges, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty for hate crimes targeting the sex and race of the victims, according to a source familiar with the criminal investigation. Fulton County District Attorney Fani
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NORTH TEXAS (KTVT) — “I love my job and I love my kids and I just want them to feel like the world is their oyster– they can do anything they want to do in life,” Kenda Felker says. Felker has been a middle school teacher at Frank
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Manchester City can finally celebrate becoming the new English Premier League champion after fierce rivals Manchester United lost to Leicester City 2-1 on Tuesday. United needed to win the game to keep its title hopes mathematically alive, but goals from Caglar Soyuncu and Luke Thomas condemned Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s much changed side to defeat, despite
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Most cannabis companies that list their stocks in the United States grow their products in indoor greenhouses, often in Canada. But a company named Flora Growth that went public on the Nasdaq on Tuesday is taking a different approach. Although headquartered in Toronto, its agricultural operations are in Colombia. And it cultivates cannabis the old-fashioned
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Chickens are in short supply. Part of the blame goes to Tyson’s roosters. The meat processor, which sells poultry along with beef and pork, said that its chicken volumes have been low in part because the roosters it uses for breeding are not meeting expectations. “We’re changing out a male that, quite frankly, we made
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Former acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller is expected to tell Congress Wednesday that he was concerned sending US troops to Capitol on January 6 would have encouraged the conspiracy of a possible “military coup,” according to his prepared testimony obtained by CNN. Former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, at the same hearing, will reaffirm
Continue Reading The men charged in last year’s killing of Ahmaud Arbery entered not guilty pleas on federal hate crime and attempted kidnapping charges Tuesday. While previous court appearances in their state court proceedings in Glynn County were conducted via video link, Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William Bryan appeared in person before the federal judge —
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US stocks sold off Tuesday and the Dow briefly tumbled more than 600 points, as investors grow increasingly concerned about raw material price spikes, shortages and inflation. Prices are rising all over the place as commodities, shipping costs and more related categories become more expensive. The shortages and global supply issues have been lurking in
Continue Reading Images captured by two different telescopes are showing our solar system’s largest planet in a new light. The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii and the Hubble Space Telescope have captured Jupiter in visible, infrared and ultraviolet light, revealing striking atmospheric features of the gas giant in detail. These include superstorms, massive cyclones and, of course,
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Click here for updates on this story EL DORADO COUNTY, California (KOVR) — A sizzling search has been underway in the foothills for a pig that, so far, has eluded authorities. It’s been spotted by multiple property owners miles apart from each other in El Dorado County. The Slimmer family is used to seeing animals
Continue Reading Former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen will testify Wednesday about their actions during the Capitol insurrection. Read their prepared testimony here:
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Click here for updates on this story TAHOE, California (KOVR) — Tahoe is a roaring tourist attraction year-round, but when the snow melts, that’s when experts say black bears pose a threat – and it’s getting worse every year. “It’s a real problem every summer. It was heightened last year during COVID with so many
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