COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia and Boone County will be hosting an affordable housing summit in the fall, according to a City Council memo. Columbia Housing and Neighborhood Services Director Becky Thompson said the summit is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 24, with a location still to be determined. This will coincide with the
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By CNN Staff (CNN) — CNN’s team is fact-checking the first night of the Republican National Convention. We will continue to update this list throughout the night. Trump makes false claims about election fraud in RNC video The Republican National Convention played a video in which former President Donald Trump urged Republicans to use “every
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LELILEF SAWAI, Indonesia (AP) — On a steep trek up to his forest farm on the Indonesian island of Halmahera, Librek Loha let out a cry of dismay. “Aduuuuh,” he said, his voice trailing off. “Landslides, again. They happen all the time now.” The mudslide below Loha´s plantings of cacao, nutmeg and pineapple
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El expresidente de Perú, Alberto Fujimori, aspira a ser nuevamente candidato presidencial, según reveló su hija Keiko Fujimori en un post de su cuenta de X. “Lo hemos conversado y decidido juntos”, precisó la también excandidata presidencial. Fujimori, quien gobernó el país entre 1990 y 2000, sería el
Continue Reading By John King, CNN Milwaukee (CNN) — The public calls from Democrats asking President Joe Biden to bow out of the presidential race have quieted in recent days, but private efforts to nudge the president and his top aides continue, several Democratic sources told CNN. Among the efforts, these sources say, are repeated memos from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An assassination attempt at a Saturday rally in Pennsylvania for former President Trump that left Trump injured after a bullet grazed his ear likely won’t have a major change in the November election, a political professor says. The attack left an attendee dead and two more injured. The shooter was killed on-site
Continue ReadingAitana Ocana (CNN Español) — Estados Unidos, reconocido por su poderío deportivo a nivel mundial, ha dejado una marca imborrable en la historia olímpica. Desde la inauguración de los Juegos Olímpicos modernos en 1896 hasta la actualidad, los atletas estadounidenses han demostrado una capacidad para brillar en el medallero olímpico en una amplia gana de
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Alphabet, propietaria de Google, está en conversaciones avanzadas para comprar la startup de ciberseguridad Wiz, de rápido crecimiento, por unos US$ 23.000 millones, confirmó a CNN una persona familiarizada con el asunto. La adquisición de Wiz, que fabrica software de ciberseguridad para servicios en la nube, supondría una importante apuesta de
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council approved an ordinance on Monday that updated its short-term rental regulations, but voted on some additional amendments before doing so. The amendments updated Chapter 13 of the City Code, which governs miscellaneous business regulations. According to the council memo, the amendments include defining “short-term rental” and “transient guest.”
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A portion of Interstate 70 in Columbia closed on Monday evening after a crash was reported in the eastbound lanes. Boone County Joint Communications sent a notification about a crash in the eastbound lanes at mile marker 125 at 7:04 p.m. BCJC then wrote that the eastbound lanes west of the Business
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — Lionel Messi publicó un mensaje de gratitud y tranquilidad en sus redes sociales luego de salir lesionado en la final de la Copa América 2024. El astro argentino fue sustituido en el segundo tiempo de la final contra Colombia por una lesión en su tobillo derecho, una molestia
Continue Reading By Michael Williams and Sam Fossum, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden told an interviewer he considers himself a Zionist who has also done “more for the Palestinian community than anybody” while calling for more aid to reach the Gaza Strip. In a taped interview with Complex Networks’ Speedy Morman on “360 with Speedy,”
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — Arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico plunged 29% in June, the lowest month of Joe Biden’s presidency, according to figures released Monday that provide another window on the impact of a new rule to temporarily suspend asylum. Arrests totaled 83,536 in June, down from 117,901 in May to mark
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Durante el período Cretácico, un género de tiburones navegaba por el mar con hileras de dientes inusuales. Estos dientes, en su mayoría grandes y redondeados, no tenían como función cortar a sus presas, sino triturar criaturas con caparazón. Sin embargo, desde su descubrimiento en el siglo XVIII, los científicos han tenido que
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who opened fire on former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally Saturday in Pennsylvania, was pictured twice wearing a t-shirt that said “Demolition Ranch” on it. A law enforcement official told CNN that one of the times was when Crooks was at an ammo
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — An activist hacking group claimed it leaked thousands of Disney’s internal messaging channels, which included information about unreleased projects, raw images computer codes and some logins. Nullbulge, the “hacktivist group,” claimed responsibility for the breach and said they leaked a gigantic, roughly 1.2 terabytes of information from Disney’s
Continue ReadingDICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — The president of Dickinson State University in North Dakota has announced his resignation. Steve Easton’s move Monday comes days after the school’s seven nursing faculty quit, with one member citing turmoil around their accreditation being in jeopardy. Easton says the state Board of Nursing had prohibited him and other administrators from
Continue ReadingAP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Paul Skenes looked like a summer intern reporting for duty in a light gray suit, white shirt and cream-colored tie, teenage acne on his face and wonder in his voice. In a ballpark filled with six dozen All-Stars, the 22-year-old Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher with 11 major league appearances
Continue Reading By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — With Donald Trump’s choice to make JD Vance his running mate, he adds to the ticket an author and senator once known as a “Trump whisperer” for his understanding of the former president’s voter base. The onetime “Never Trump” Republican, Vance, 39, shot to fame over his 2016 memoir,
Continue Reading By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick Ohio Sen. JD Vance was once a fervent critic of the former president. In private messages, he wondered ahead of Trump’s election whether he was “America’s Hitler” and in 2017 said the then-president was a “moral disaster.” In public, he agreed Trump was
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