By Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Federal law enforcement is on alert for any potential threats to the US Jewish community ahead of the start of the Passover holiday, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a group of nationwide security officials Wednesday. “We at the bureau remain particularly concerned that lone actors could target large gatherings, high
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By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — Walking into the Lion Cafe, in Tokyo’s Shibuya district, the first thing one notices is the seating. All chairs face one direction, towards two gigantic speakers on the wall, the stars of this 98-year-old institution. It’s one of the city’s few remaining meikyoku kissa, or masterpiece cafés. “Meikyoku
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Hours after she escaped the Columbine High School shooting, 14-year-old Missy Mendo slept between her parents in bed, still wearing the shoes she had on when she fled her math class. She wanted to be ready to run. Twenty-five years later, and with Mendo now a mother
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Editor’s Note: Source errors from the original Highway Patrol crash report have been corrected. A 54-year-old man was seriously injured after a truck rear-ended his motorcycle on Interstate 44 in Phelps County, about three miles west of Doolittle, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The crash occurred as
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — Un operativo para liberar a una persona que estaba secuestrada terminó este miércoles con ocho presuntos delincuentes muertos y otros cinco detenidos, tras un enfrentamiento armado con policías estatales y federales, informó el gobierno de Tabasco en un comunicado. El incidente se registró en el municipio de Jalapa ―sureste de
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CNN By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — A popular lake in central Mexico that is a major tourist destination during the Day of the Dead festivities is drying up due to drought, deforestation, and the theft of its water. Lake Patzcuaro in the western state of Michoacán has lost more than half its volume since
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency that has helped millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank for decades urged the Security Council on Wednesday to ensure its survival as Israel again demanded its dissolution, accusing the agency of becoming part of Hamas’ “terror
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) A small plane made an emergency landing just east of Renick, Missouri, on Wednesday afternoon, according to Randolph County Sheriff Aaron Wilson. Wilson told ABC 17 News in a text message that the pilot was not hurt and that deputies took the pilot to a hotel in Columbia. Wilson said the plane
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — El presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, dijo este miércoles que planteó al Gobierno y a la oposición de Venezuela que en las elecciones presidenciales del próximo 28 de julio realicen “un plebiscito” para establecer “un pacto democrático” entre todas las fuerzas políticas. Petro dio a conocer esta propuesta al
Continue ReadingBy MARK BAKER and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — French construction worker Damien Guerot has spoken of his mixed emotions at being made an Australian permanent resident as reward for his heroism during a knife attack in a Sydney shopping mall that left six victims dead and a dozen wounded. The 31-year-old was
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — Olas de calor sin precedentes, inundaciones graves e incendios forestales agudos, exacerbados por el cambio climático, conllevan un precio colosal: una reducción de aproximadamente el 19% en los ingresos globales en solo los próximos 26 años, de acuerdo con un nuevo estudio publicado este miércoles. Ese golpe financiero no afectará
Continue Reading By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday suggested twice that the United States was unable to recover his uncle Ambrose Finnegan’s remains after Finnegan’s plane crashed near New Guinea during World War II, “because there used to be a lot of cannibals” in the region. Biden’s accounting of his uncle’s death
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, was out driving west of Moscow, Idaho, the night of the slayings, his attorney says, and the defense plans to offer a cell phone tower and radio frequency expert to partially corroborate this account, a court document supporting an alibi
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates is blazing quite a path on the recruiting trail this offseason. On Wednesday, the Tiger head coach picked up his third commitment from the portal in the past couple of months. Northern Kentucky grad transfer Marques Warrick committed to the Tigers over Cincinnati, Penn State, Seton
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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s Wednesday testimony before a House committee on how the school responded to a professor’s controversial piece labeling Hamas’ October 7 attack a “resistance offensive” is at odds with the account the professor shared with CNN. Multiple lawmakers at Wednesday’s hearing on antisemitism
Continue Reading By Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department is in the final stages of negotiating a settlement with sexual assault survivors of disgraced former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar over the FBI’s initial failures in investigating the case, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. The settlement could result
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The final midweek game of the season ended in a ‘W’ for the No. 13 Mizzou softball team on Wednesday night. The Tigers beat SIUE 4-1 to improve to 34-11 on the season. MU got on the board early, courtesy of a Maddie Gallagher single to center field in the first inning,
Continue Reading By Akanksha Sharma (CNN) — Well before the sun rises in Chapra, a small village in the northwest of Bangladesh, Mohammad Abdur Rouf is on his feet. He travels six miles to a neighboring village, where he joins hundreds of other people in line to play a carnival-style game. But instead of throwing darts at
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump met in New York with Polish President Andrzej Duda. It’s the latest in a series of meetings with foreign leaders as Europe braces for the possibility of a second Trump term. The presumptive GOP nominee hosted Duda at Trump
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The mother of the teenager killed April 11 on Premier Lane is grieving her loss. The Columbia Police Department says they are still looking for two juvenile suspects wanted in the fatal shooting of Derek Silvey, 18. Police say they are a threat to the public. Michele Allison wants people to cherish the time
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