Add paint to the growing list of things that are getting more expensive. Sherwin-Williams announced Tuesday that “demand remains strong” for its paint and other products, forcing the retailer to hike prices 7% beginning in August. The company blamed rising costs of raw materials for the price increases — a pandemic trend as consumers have
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David Hasselhoff is calling on Germans to get a Covid-19 vaccination in videos released on Twitter by the country’s health ministry. Speaking to the camera in front of palm trees and a blue sky, the “Baywatch” and “Knight Rider” star says getting a jab is the best way for people to regain their freedom. At
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President Joe Biden delivered a taped graduation message at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where students who were freshmen during a mass shooting three years ago graduated on Tuesday. “Three years ago, your lives and the lives of this community changed in an instant. And this class lost a piece of its
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The private investigator hired by Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell to serve a civil lawsuit against Republican Rep. Mo Brooks related to the US Capitol insurrection has described, for the first time, the tense situation that unfolded at Brooks’ home when he handed over the legal papers. The lawsuit was filed in March by Swalwell, a
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For nearly two weeks, police in Las Vegas released images and offered rewards for information that would identify a child who had been found dead on a desert trail. The mother of the boy now sits in a Denver jail, arrested on a charge of murder, police said Tuesday. But the effort to name the
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The company behind Tuesday’s massive internet outage has apologized for making a costly mistake that knocked out websites, apps and online services across the world. Fastly, which runs a content delivery network of servers and data centers, also said in a statement late Tuesday that it would work to prevent such a widespread failure in
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Australia’s baseball team has pulled out of Olympic qualifiers, citing the “insurmountable” challenge of traveling to Mexico during COVID-19. “Attending the Final Olympic Qualifier in a COVID world was always going to present significant challenges,” Baseball Australia chief executive Glenn Williams acknowledged in a press release Wednesday. The late-June qualifying event was to be held
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The previous women’s 10,000-meter record was only set on Sunday, but Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey has already bettered it. Gidey’s time of 29:01.03 in the Dutch city of Hengelo on Tuesday took five seconds off the record set by the Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan on the same track last week. Competing in the Ethiopian Olympic Trials, Gidey
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Four people were killed, including two juveniles, in a series of shooting incidents over a three-hour period Tuesday in the Kansas City area, officials said. The latest burst of deadly violence comes as the US faces a wave of shootings, with more than 8,500 people dead so far this year, according to the Gun Violence
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Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration will meet Thursday to discuss what information the agency should ask for in considering the go-ahead for vaccinating children under 12 — including how many children need to be enrolled in clinical trials and how much safety data will be needed. Members of the FDA’s Vaccines
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Regional Airport saw a 500% increase in travelers last month compared to May of last year, but traveler numbers are still not back up to pre-pandemic levels. In May, the Columbia Regional Airport saw 13,672 passengers travel through the airport, which was a 506.3% increase in travelers compared to May
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The richest people in the world reportedly have been paying shockingly little in US federal income taxes. And it’s all perfectly legal. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign
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Britain’s antitrust regulator is investigating whether Ryanair and British Airways broke the law by refusing to refund customers for flights that they could not legally take during coronavirus lockdowns. In a statement on Wednesday, the Competition and Markets Authority said that the airlines may have breached consumers’ legal rights by refusing cash refunds on flights
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Senate Republicans are holding up President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Personnel Management over concerns about her stance on critical race theory. GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri has placed a hold on Kiran Ahuja’s nomination to lead the federal personnel agency “because of her history promoting radical critical race theorists,” Hawley
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Brazilian national team players and staff published a letter on their social media accounts Wednesday criticizing the organization of the Copa America tournament, but assuring they would still participate should the tournament go ahead. The championship, South America’s biggest international football tournament, is set to start on June 13 in Brazil. “We are a cohesive
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The new State Profile Report shows Missouri is back in the moderate transmission level of COVID-19. Missouri State Profile ReportDownload This comes as Missouri saw a 12% drop in cases, and a 25% drop in COVID-19 deaths last week. However, the state positivity rate increased slightly by 0.5%. As of now, a
Continue Reading Steel, lumber, plastic and fuel. Corn, soybeans, sugar and sunflower oil. Houses, cars, diapers and toilet paper. Prices are rising almost everywhere you look. The post-pandemic recovery is in full swing and the global economy is struggling to keep up. Following a collapse at the start of the pandemic as businesses closed and millions of
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WEDNESDAY: Most of us look to stay dry today, but the threat of an isolated shower will still be there. Temperatures look to push into the middle 80’s this afternoon under partly cloudy skies. TONIGHT: Skies stay mostly clear overnight as lows settle down into the upper 60’s and low 70’s. EXTENDED: Thursday looks pretty
Continue Reading China is getting pummeled by rising costs that have pushed producer price inflation to its highest level in nearly 13 years. Surging inflation in the world’s factory threatens to spill over into the rest of the globe and drive prices that were already ballooning even higher. But economists also say the pressure could begin to
Continue Reading More and more adults are getting vaccinated, but their children under 12 are not yet eligible. What does this mean for parents who are now returning to work and for children going back to summer camp, daycare and, eventually, school? The younger kids are, the more care they need. What’s safe when it comes to
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