By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Lawmakers in an Australian state have pledged their allegiance to King Charles III with some using the occasion to call for an Australian republic.Australia’s center-left Labor Party government wants an Australian president to replace the British monarch as the nation’s head of state. The death of
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera, Chuck Johnston, Hannah Sarisohn and Nouran Salahieh, CNN The Seattle Education Association voted Tuesday afternoon to suspend its strike and return to classrooms starting Wednesday. The vote came after Seattle Public Schools earlier announced a tentative, three-year contract agreement with the educators’ union amid a strike that delayed the start of the
Continue Reading By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s governor has appointed several people, including some prominent Native Hawaiian activists, to a new board charged with managing Mauna Kea summit lands underneath some of the world’s most advanced astronomical observatories. Two appointees were leaders of 2019 protests that brought a halt to the construction of
Continue Reading By JILL COLVIN, BRIAN SLODYSKO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sitting on top of more than $115 million across several political committees, Donald Trump has positioned himself as a uniquely indomitable force in the GOP who would almost certainly have the resources to swamp his rivals if he launched another presidential campaign.
Continue Reading By LOLITA BALDOR and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. leaders from President Joe Biden on down are being careful not to declare a premature victory after a Ukrainian offensive forced Russian troops into a messy retreat in the north. Instead, military officials are looking toward the fights yet to come and laying
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By Heather Chen and Gawon Bae, CNN Smash Netflix series “Squid Game” racked up multiple wins at Monday’s Emmy Awards, with South Korean actor Lee Jung-jae winning outstanding lead actor in a drama series and director Hwang Dong-hyuk taking the award for top director of the same. Set in Seoul, the dystopian series which became
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN Quinta Brunson brought the audience to its feet when she won her first Emmy — but at her feet during the moment was Jimmy Kimmel, who pretended to be unconscious and stayed on the floor while she accepted her award as part of an intended joke that ended up miffing some
Continue Reading By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With only three months left in the year, the House Jan. 6 committee is eyeing a close to its work and a final report laying out its findings about the U.S. Capitol insurrection. But the investigation is not over. The committee has already revealed much of
Continue Reading By WILL WEISSERT and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A staunchly conservative, retired Army general is favored to win New Hampshire’s Republican Senate nomination and face potentially vulnerable Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan. That means Tuesday’s primary could again raise questions about whether hard-right candidates could hurt the GOP in November. National Republicans
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A Columbia man was sentenced Monday to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in a child pornography case.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS VOLLEYBALL Blair Oaks (3) Battle (0) FINAL Capital City (0) Helias Catholic (3) FINAL HS BOY’S SOCCER Capital City (2) Helias Catholic (0) FINAL Moberly (0) Mexico (1) FINAL Father Tolton
Continue Reading By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Gates says the global hunger crisis is so immense that food aid cannot fully address the problem. What’s also needed, Gates argues, are the kinds of innovations in farming technology that he has long funded to try to reverse the crisis documented in a report
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By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business The kids, the grandparents, the babysitter, maybe your favorite aunt or uncle. That’s it. You can blame inflation for families knocking friends, co-workers and extended families off your holiday gift lists this year. Persistent inflation — consumer prices increased by 8.5% in July over last year — has reshaped how
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A sign that the painful inflation of the past 18 months may be gradually easing could come Tuesday, when the government is expected to report that the acceleration in U.S. prices slowed in August compared with a year ago for a second straight month. Economists have
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Google searches for “college rankings” spike each year in the months that follow the release of US News & World Report’s annual lists of Best Colleges. The company says that about 40 million people read those lists last year; that’s more than 10 times the number of graduating high school seniors
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera and Nouran Salahieh, CNN A wall of smoke from the Mosquito Fire in the Sierra Nevada mountains is creating hazardous conditions in Northern California, choking the air with smoke as strong winds complicate firefighting efforts. The smoke’s impact was most visually clear in a time-lapse video posted by the NWS in Reno,
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping is using his first trip abroad since the start of the pandemic to promote his country’s strategic ambitions at a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and other leaders of a Central Asian security group. Xi is promoting a “Global Security
Continue Reading PERTH, Australia (AP) — A man who may have been keeping a wild kangaroo as a pet was killed by the animal in southwest Australia, police said Tuesday. It was reportedly the first fatal attack by a kangaroo in Australia since 1936. A relative found the 77-year-old man with “serious injuries” on his property Sunday
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By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Geno Smith threw two first-half touchdown passes, Denver fumbled twice at the 1-yard line in the second half, and the Seahawks beat the Broncos 17-16 on Monday night in Russell Wilson’s return to Seattle. Brandon McManus missed a 64-yard field goal attempt with 20 seconds left
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By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN The Senate Judiciary Committee will investigate claims made by former US Attorney Geoffrey Berman in his forthcoming book that Trump-era officials in the Justice Department pressured his office to “aid them politically.” “Throughout my tenure as U.S. attorney,” Berman writes in the book according to The New York Times, which
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