COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The MU Faculty Council on Thursday voted 22-1 in favor of a statement that opposes MU Health Care’s recent announcement that it would stop prescribing puberty blockers to current minor patients. MU Health Care made the announcement in August after a law banning gender-affirming care for Missouri youth went into effect. The MU
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By Paul P. Murphy, Tara John, Brent Swails and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The footage is from the last two years, but it is chillingly prescient. In a December 2022 video, Hamas fighters can be seen flooding a training area, shooting rockets and capturing pretend prisoners as they surround mock Israeli buildings. The camp,
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is lashing out at the arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in South Korea, calling it a provocation and again raising the specter of using nuclear weapons to defend itself. The North’s state media issued that threat Friday, citing its escalatory
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Swapping her glamorous blue “Eras Tour” concert film premiere gown for a red Kansas City Chiefs jacket, Taylor Swift returned to Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday to watch Travis Kelce play some football. The singer was shown on the Prime Video broadcast sitting in the family suite next to the
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By Katelyn Polantz, Senior Reporter, Crime and Justice (CNN) — One of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the classified documents case told a federal judge Thursday that he’s not concerned his defense lawyer previously represented three witnesses who could testify against him. The court hearing in Fort Pierce, Florida, addressed concerns raised by prosecutors about the
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– El congresista republicano Steve Scalise se retiró de la carrera por la presidencia de la Cámara de Representantes de EE.UU., después de que sus compañeros de partido no lograran unirse para respaldarlo tras la histórica destitución de Kevin McCarthy. ¿Por qué destituyeron al republicano Kevin McCarthy como presidente de la Cámara de
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By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — An emergency physicians group is disavowing “excited delirium,” a controversial term that some police officers, clinicians, medical examiners and court experts have used to explain how an agitated person could die in custody through no fault of any force used to subdue them. Dr. Michele Heisler, medical director for
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A New Hampshire college student on Thursday pleaded guilty to federal charges of threatening to kill a member of Congress after he became angry while drunkenly scrolling on TikTok. While authorities didn’t name the member of Congress, Rep. Matt Gaetz confirmed he was the target when he played the
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pop superstar Taylor Swift was back at Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday night to watch Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Denver Broncos, one day after walking the red carpet at the premiere of her concert movie. Swift and Kelce have
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pop superstar Taylor Swift was back at Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday night to watch Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Denver Broncos, one day after walking the red carpet at the premiere of her concert movie. Swift and Kelce have
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Vigils for the citizens of Israel and Palestine were held in Columbia on Thursday night as casualties continue to rise as violence continues in the region. One vigil took place on the University of Missouri campus at Speakers Circle and was organized by Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine. According to a
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — When a company goes public it’s kind of like their bar mitzvah. They’ve reached adulthood and are ready to take responsibility for their actions. But a lot of companies that celebrated their “bar mitzvahs” lately are learning that adulting kind of sucks. Setting the scene The initial public
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is pursuing a criminal complaint against the country’s largest copper producer seeking to force a new remediation program for river pollution in the northern state of Sonora. The government’s top environment official announced Thursday that the complaint was filed in August and involves remediation funding
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Yehu Orland wore a shirt honoring a close friend who was killed two days earlier defending Israel, and cried a little when his country’s national anthem played before a game in Brooklyn. But the coach of Maccabi Ra’anana believes continuing his team’s tour against NBA
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado judge has rejected an attempt by former President Donald Trump to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to keep him off the state ballot. The lawsuit claims the U.S. Constitution’s ban on those who have “engaged in insurrection” from holding office applies to
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By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Supply chain management company Flexport said it plans to lay off 20% of its workforce on Friday, just one month after a chaotic CEO shakeup that played out, in part, on social media. In a memo to employees, Ryan Petersen, Flexport’s CEO and its founder in 2013, said the
Continue Reading By Pete Muntean, Gregory Wallace and Donald Judd, CNN Washington, D.C. (CNN) — The Biden administration said they’ll begin chartering flights on Friday from Israel to destinations in Europe, as officials scramble to get Americans stranded in the war-ravaged country back home to the US. Once the travelers get from Israel to Europe – on
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom and Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — The long-running AMC drama “The Walking Dead” may have aired its final episode last year, but the show keeps finding new life among the undead. In this case, the very-much-alive Carol Peletier. Melissa McBride is set to reprise her fan-favorite role in “The Walking Dead: Daryl
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This year’s drought is now a billion-dollar disaster nationwide and will continue further into the end of the year. Dry conditions recently have allowed Mid-MO to fall behind on rainfall, with our deficit dropping several inches below average this past month. This has allowed extreme drought to creep back into especially the western parts of
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri regulators are allowing a multistate wind-energy power line to increase the amount of power to the state’s consumers. State regulators on Thursday gave permission for the Grain Belt Express to expand to bring as much as 2,500 megawatts of power to Missouri. That’s the equivalent
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