By Blake Essig For the first time in almost 30 years, Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) is conducting a massive nationwide military exercise to prepare troops for potential conflict. Since mid-September, about 100,000 personnel, 20,000 vehicles and 120 aircraft have been participating in various exercises across the country focused on operational readiness. In recent years,
Continue Reading By Blake Essig For the first time in almost 30 years, Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) is conducting a massive nationwide military exercise to prepare troops for potential conflict. Since mid-September, about 100,000 personnel, 20,000 vehicles and 120 aircraft have been participating in various exercises across the country focused on operational readiness. In recent years,
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By Donie O’Sullivan, Tara Subramaniam and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Just days after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6th, Facebook’s Chief Operational Officer Sheryl Sandberg downplayed her company’s role in what had happened. “We know this was organized online. We know that,” she said in an interview with Reuters. “We… took down QAnon, Proud
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has awarded a contract for the replacement of the North Sorrels Overpass Drive bridge over Interstate 70 west of Columbia. According to MoDOT, Emery Sapp and Sons, Inc. received the contract after the company submitted a low bid of $1,038,857. The department closed the 63-year-old
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Hy-Vee said late Thursday that eligible individuals can get the COVID-19 booster shot from Moderna or Johnson & Johnson at the regional supermarket chain’s locations in Mid-Missouri. Hy-Vee has locations in Columbia, Jefferson City and Osage Beach.
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker A Minneapolis police officer was charged with manslaughter for allegedly crashing his squad car into a vehicle during a high-speed chase earlier this year, which resulted in the death of an innocent man, authorities announced Friday. Officer Brian Cummings has been charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminal vehicular homicide in connection with
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Rick formed Friday off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast and is forecast to hit that coast at hurricane strength early next week. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Rick was located about 320 miles (515 kilometers) south of the resort of Zihuatanejo. The storm had winds of 40 mph (65
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A deal within reach, President Joe Biden and Congress’ top Democrats have edged close to sealing their giant domestic legislation. But Friday’s informal deadline was slipping as they worked to scale back the measure and determine how to pay for it. Biden
Continue Reading By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SOPHIA EPPOLITO Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal civil rights investigation found widespread racial harassment of Black and Asian American students at a Utah school district, including hundreds of documented uses of the N-word and other racial epithets over the last five years. The probe released Thursday by
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By Caroll Alvarado, CNN A Colorado police officer has been put on administrative leave and an internal investigation is underway after another officer reported him for yelling and cursing at a 17-year-old female during a traffic stop, according to a release by the Aurora Police Department. The June 29 incident was recorded on bodycam video
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Media coverage of these pre-trial hearings was actually the topic of conversation today.
Continue Reading By Caroll Alvarado, CNN A Colorado police officer has been put on administrative leave and an internal investigation is underway after another officer reported him for yelling and cursing at a 17-year-old female during a traffic stop, according to a release by the Aurora Police Department. The June 29 incident was recorded on bodycam video
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — A San Jose, California woman born in India was one of two foreign tourists killed in the apparent crossfire of a drug-gang shootout in Mexico’s Caribbean coast resort of Tulum. Authorities said one of the dead women was Anjali Ryot. An Instagram account under the same name showed a post of
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Español) — Estados Unidos está por abrirles las puertas a los visitantes extranjeros totalmente vacunados, aunque no todos podrán gozar de este beneficio. De acuerdo con la política de viajes de EE.UU., únicamente se considera que una persona está completamente vacunada cuando recibió las dosis completas de las vacunas aprobadas o
Continue Reading By MORGAN LEE, SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Court records show that an assistant director unwittingly handed Alec Baldwin a loaded weapon and told him it was safe to use in the moments before the actor fatally shot a cinematographer. The assistant director referred to the gun
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN There is a moment in the beginning of the new book from Christine Pride and Jo Piazza that is written from the perspective of a 14-year-old Black boy. After being shot by police, he thinks of his school picture that his mom will use when he dies and his death becomes
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A jury weighing the fate of fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes has had its first chance to listen to recordings of her boasting to investors about purported breakthroughs in blood-testing technology. The technology heralded as a quantum leap in blood testing later dissolved
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A jury weighing the fate of fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes has had its first chance to listen to recordings of her boasting to investors about purported breakthroughs in blood-testing technology. The technology heralded as a quantum leap in blood testing later dissolved
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — La Patrulla Fronteriza de Estados Unidos realizó casi 1,66 millones de arrestos por cruces ilegales en la frontera con México durante el año pasado, el número anual más alto de detenciones registrado, según datos publicados por la agencia el viernes. En septiembre, la agencia fronteriza realizó 185.515 arrestos, lo que
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Dozens of fraternities at the University of Missouri over the last four years have violated the school’s standard conduct. From alcohol distribution violations to hazing violations and most recently, COVID-19 policy violations, the university has decided to sanction many of the fraternities as a consequence of violating the policies. According to the
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