Things were looking dire for the Dow before Monday even began. The news started coming out Sunday evening that futures trading was way down on the Dow Industrial Average — to the tune of more than 1,200 points. It was a harbinger of another hard Monday to come. The international markets’ major slide since President
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By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but one named Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that. Ronin and his landmine-sniffing rat pack are making a name for rodents everywhere by saving innocent civilians from hidden explosives. The African giant pouched rat recently set
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones sat down Mizzou women’s basketball coach Kellie Harper in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch their full conversation in the video player above.
Continue Reading By Tim Lister and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — One month after Israel cut off humanitarian aid from the Gaza Strip, aid agencies say the humanitarian situation there has deteriorated dangerously, with the plight of two million civilians worsened by intensive Israeli military operations. The United Nations and several NGOs, as well as civilians in
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COLUMBIA, Mo.. (KMIZ) A Columbia man is accused of running away from Boone County deputies with a child Saturday night in northeast Columbia. Capt. Brian Leer, of the Boone County Sheriff’s Office told ABC 17 News via email Cameron A. Baker, 19, of Columbia was arrested in connection with the pursuit. He was arrested on
Continue Reading By Chris Lau, Junko Ogura, Mai Takiguchi and Minori Konishi, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — It’s eaten with almost every meal, used to make sushi, made into sweets, fermented into alcohol and offered to the spirits at religious ceremonies. Rice is everywhere in the diet of Japan – there are at least six ways in Japanese
Continue Reading By Abeer Salman, Dana Karni, Hira Humayun and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian-American teenager and wounded two others in the occupied West Bank on Sunday night, according to Palestinian officials, after the Israeli military said it targeted a group throwing stones at cars. Ramallah governor Laila Ghannam said the 14-year-old
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Task Force 1 returned safely to Columbia Sunday, after a four-day deployment to Southeast Missouri. The team arrived back at the Boone County Fire Protection District Headquarters around 2:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon. Family members greeted the team with gratitude, as they reunited following days of intense rescue operations in hazardous weather.
Continue Reading CNN By Robert Ilich, David Goldman and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — The tariff-induced market mayhem isn’t over just yet. US stock futures plunged Sunday evening after two sessions of sell-offsthat wiped away over $5.4 trillion in market value. Stocks were set to open sharply lower Monday, putting the S&P 500 on the precipice of
Continue Reading By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s president has fired one of his deputies for taking what he described as a “lavish” recreational trip to Antarctica. President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered the removal of Shahram Dabiri from his position as vice president of parliamentary affairs in a decree on Saturday, describing the trip as both extravagant
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A large image of and a quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Park Service webpage about the Underground Railroad, following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration. A comparison on the Wayback Machine between the webpage on January 21 and March 19
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By Jessica Vallejo, Rubén Rosario Click here for updates on this story NORTHEAST MIAMI-DADE, Florida (WSVN) — Gunmen unleashed a barrage of bullets into an SUV in a Northeast Miami-Dade neighborhood overnight, leaving a woman dead and sending a boy and a girl to the hospital, authorities said. Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue
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Eight people were taken into custody Friday morning after law enforcement in Audrain County conducted search warrants at two separate homes.
Continue Reading By Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — The leader of France’s National Rally (RN) party, Marine Le Pen, told supporters she would not give up despite being found guilty of embezzling European Union (EU) funds and banned from running for office, but large-scale protests against the move did not materialize Sunday. The RN called on its
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Columbia Parks and Recreation requested over $350,000 in funds to go to various projects, including a replacement for the Northeast Regional Park Northeast Event Center roof.
Continue Reading By Kareem Khadder, Tim Lister and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — A 17-year-old Palestinian boy died following “likely prolonged malnutrition” in an Israeli prison, according to an autopsy carried out by an Israeli pathologist. The teenager, Walid Khalid Ahmad, is the first minor to have died in Israeli custody since the conflict between Hamas and
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — When Maria Fowler was pregnant with her first child, one of her first purchases for her daughter was a classic: A stuffed animal. She settled on a Sweet Heart Hugs Build-A-Bear, a soft, pink, blue and purple tie-dyed plushie with globe-like eyes and hearts on its feet. Once her
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan, Daniel Wine and Meghan Pryce, CNN (CNN) — Consider this fair warning that you have just 10 days left to file your income taxes. April 15 is right around the corner, but if you are still scrounging for financial statements and donation receipts, you are not alone: Fewer Americans have filed their
Continue Reading By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — At Columbia University, which has long borne witness to protests and dissent, the atmosphere has shifted under a new regime of policy changes ostensibly aimed at heightening security, according to CNN interviews with more than a dozen students and faculty. Students who spoke with CNN – most of whom
Continue Reading By Christopher Lamb, Antonia Mortensen, Barbie Latza Nadeau and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis made a surprise public appearance on Sunday, the first time the leader of the Catholic Church has been seen in public since leaving hospital two weeks ago. Francis greeted crowds at the Vatican and seemed to be in
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