COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Sunday marked the last day of the True False Film Festival in Columbia, which was expected to bring in 10,000-15,000 people to the downtown area. With an influx of people flocking to the area, downtown businesses said they noticed an increase in business. Owner of Ninth Street Public House Jamez Kanne said
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team wiped out a nine-run Northern Kentucky lead over the course of three innings, but could not complete the comeback in the series rubber match on Sunday. The Norse beat the Tigers 16-15 to drop MU to 5-6 overall. Head coach Kerrick Jackson and company took a two-run lead
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says he had no choice but to defend his country’s territory in the South China Sea against what he called Chinese aggression and illegal actions in pursuit of Beijing’s own territorial claims. Marcos is attending a summit of the Association of
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by Van Jones, CNN (CNN) — Many were shocked last year when the Tennessee legislature dramatically expelled state representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson. Their offense? Breaching decorum by speaking out in favor of common-sense gun reform alongside Rep. Gloria Johnson — something it seems many of their constituents wanted them to do. But nobody
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Han pasado 10 años desde que Ellen Degeneres rompió X (por entonces todavía Twitter) al publicar una selfie repleta de actores y actrices durante la transmisión de los Oscar de 2014. Ahora puedes seguirnos en WhatsApp Channel Degeneres logró incluir en el encuadre a Meryl Streep, Bradley Cooper, Jared Leto,
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nikki Haley has won the Republican primary in the District of Columbia, notching her first victory of the 2024 campaign. Her victory Sunday at least temporarily halts Donald Trump’s sweep of the GOP voting contests, although the former president is likely to pick up
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An increasingly assertive China and a humanitarian crisis in Myanmar are likely to be high on the agenda when Southeast Asian leaders meet in Australia for a rare summit this week. The ASEAN-Australia Special Summit that starts in Melbourne on Monday marks 50 years since Australia
Continue ReadingBy Danny Freeman and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Philadelphia’s head of LGBT affairs and her husband were arrested by a state trooper Saturday, in what the mayor is calling a “very concerning,” interaction, according to a video circulating on social media, which was confirmed by police. Celena Morrison, executive director of the City’s Office
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By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley won the Republican presidential primary in Washington, DC, after three days of voting in the party’s only capital polling location – a downtown hotel. Haley’s victory – her first of the primary – comes on the eve of what is expected to be a decisive
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital Management are upping their offer to acquire Macy’s in a deal now valued at $6.6 billion. The investment firms announced Sunday that they had submitted an all-cash proposal of $24 for each of the remaining shares in Macy’s they don’t already own — up from a
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and the United States began large annual military exercises Monday to bolster their readiness against North Korean nuclear threats after the North raised animosities with an extension of missile tests and belligerent rhetoric earlier this year. The South Korean and U.S. forces began
Continue ReadingOpinion by Dean Obeidallah (CNN) — The adage “show, don’t tell” sends the message that it’s far more convincing to make a point with one’s actions than with words. That lesson was also underscored this week during the opening sketch of “Saturday Night Live.” The show lampooned the myriad allies of President Joe Biden who have defended
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Un tribunal federal de apelaciones concedió una suspensión temporal de la decisión de un tribunal inferior de bloquear la aplicación de una controvertida ley de inmigración de Texas, allanando el camino para que entre en vigor esta semana si la Corte Suprema no interviene. La semana pasada, un juez
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By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — Thousands of delegates from across China are gathering in Beijing this week for the start of the country’s most prominent annual political event, where leaders will signal how they plan to steer the world’s second largest economy in the year ahead — and try to dispel deepening concern
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, Betsy Klein and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday forcefully called for more humanitarian aid into Gaza, saying that people in the region are “starving” in the face of “inhumane” conditions and urging Israel to do more in one of the strongest pushes by a US official
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KGAN, CNN By Eric Levenson, Ben Morse and Patrick Sung, CNN (CNN) — Iowa Hawkeyes superstar guard Caitlin Clark became the NCAA’s Division-I all-time leading scorer in basketball – male or female – in a win over the Ohio State Buckeyes on Sunday, passing Hall of Famer “Pistol” Pete Maravich. Clark entered the game needing
Continue ReadingBy Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — Sean Martell was magnet fishing on what he thought was a normal Friday – until he pulled up a military projectile from the Charles River in Needham, Massachusetts. Martell, who was broadcasting live to his YouTube channel, said he recognized the danger of the object immediately after pulling it
Continue Reading By Clare Foran, Ted Barrett, Lauren Fox and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Top lawmakers unveiled a finalized package of six government funding bills Sunday evening, kicking off a race against the clock to pass the measure ahead of a shutdown deadline at the end of the week. The release of the package – which is backed
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court granted a temporary stay of a lower court’s decision to block the enforcement of a controversial Texas immigration law, paving the way for it to go into effect this week if the Supreme Court doesn’t intervene. Last week, a federal judge in Austin, Texas, blocked
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Chris Mortensen, the award-winning journalist who covered the NFL for close to four decades, including 32 as a senior analyst at ESPN, died Sunday morning. He was 72. ESPN confirmed Mortensen’s death on Sunday. There was no immediate word on the cause or place of death. “Mort was widely
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