Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling party, dogged by corruption scandals and plunging support for his weeks-old government, faces its toughest challenge in decades in Sunday’s parliamentary election. This could set up a very short-lived time in office for Ishiba. But even if he falls, it won’t hurt his Liberal
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Among many things on the ballot, Missouri voters will decide who they feel will best serve as the state’s attorney general in the upcoming election on Nov. 5. Republican and current Attorney General Andrew Bailey is running for a full term. He was appointed in January 2023 after his predecessor, Eric Schmitt, was voted
Continue Reading CANTON, N.Y. (AP) — More than 40 dogs have been killed in a fire that swept through a rescue organization’s kennels in northern New York. Fire officials say the blaze at the No Dogs Left Behind building in Canton was reported at about 1 a.m. Thursday by a person who saw the flames while passing
Continue Reading AP Baseball Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees will play Major League Baseball’s starriest World Series in decades. This figures to be the first World Series featuring five MVPs: the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts, and the Yankees’ Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton. Ohtani and
Continue Reading By David Culver and Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Violence is intensifying in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, this week, which saw a United Nations helicopter hit by gunfire and two gangs apparently target US embassy vehicles. A security source told CNN on Tuesday that two armored vehicles belonging to the US Embassy in Haiti were fired
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris was asked this week if she thought Donald Trump was a fascist, and she replied, “Yes, I do.” She subsequently called him the same thing herself, saying voters don’t want “a president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist.” But what exactly
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Around 200 stakeholders in Columbia and Boone County gathered Thursday to discuss how to improve the county’s current housing shortage. The city and county partnered to host the summit upon completion of a Boone County Housing Study completed by Amarach Planning Services. Results of that study showed that the biggest issue for
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Katie Hobbs and the Arizona Department of Water Resources have made the first move toward regulating the use of groundwater in the state’s rural southeast. That water is rapidly being drawn down through agricultural use. The state agency announced on Wednesday a Nov. 22 public hearing to present data and hear
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Joe Biden was running for reelection, his strategy was to keep the focus squarely on Donald Trump and his treat to democratic institutions. Now that Kamala Harris is nearing the end of her abbreviated presidential campaign, she’s trying a similar approach. She will deliver her closing argument Tuesday from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Roughly 4,200 people have voted early in person in Boone County, according to Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon. No-excuse absentee voting began in Missouri on Tuesday. There were 1,500 people who voted the first day. In Boone County, no-excuse absentee voting takes place every day – except on Sundays – between 8
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump said Thursday that China’s leader would handle Vice President Kamala Harris “like a baby” if she’s elected to the White House, as the former president and his top allies increasingly have moved to infantilize the Democratic nominee. “If somehow Kamala wins, she’d have to deal with Xi Jinping,”
Continue Reading AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns’ back-and-forth battle with Cleveland over a planned move into a new suburban stadium has gone to court. The NFL team said Thursday it has filed a lawsuit in federal court asking for clarification of the “Modell Law,” which the city has threatened to use to keep the
Continue Reading Associated Press Colorado officials say at least 12 mailed ballots were stolen in a rural county and then sent in with fraudulent votes. The secretary of state says the issue was discovered during the signature verification process, and eight ballots were stopped at that point. Three slipped past county election officials and were counted in
Continue Reading Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Attorneys for Karen Read made another push to the highest court in Massachusetts to dismiss two charges she faces in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend. Read’s attorneys filed a brief late Thursday in response to the prosecutors’ brief to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. They attempted to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The man shot Sunday night in northeast Columbia has died. The Columbia Police Department said in a news release Thursday that Orrion Moody, 28, of Columbia, died Wednesday at the Columbia hospital where he was treated for his wounds. Police on Wednesday arrested Tavion Johnson, 19, on six felony charges including armed
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have told a federal judge that the election interference case against him should be dismissed, arguing that special counsel Jack Smith was illegally appointed and that funding for his office should be cut off. The argument mirrors the one that persuaded a Trump-appointed judge
Continue Reading AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The red-cockaded woodpecker, an iconic bird in southeastern forests, has recovered enough of its population to be downlisted from an endangered species to a threatened one. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the status change on Thursday. At one point in the 1970s, the red-cockaded woodpecker population had
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MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) Western Smokehouse Partners will invest more than $67 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Mexico, Missouri, according to a Thursday press release from the Missouri Department of Economic Development. The new facility is expected to create 280 new jobs, the release says. The 300,000-square-foot facility – which will specialize in
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare move, the Pentagon is strongly pushing back against misinformation spread on social media that falsely suggests U.S. troops have been authorized to use force against American citizens during the election. The falsehood suggests that a Defense Department policy revision released in late September was timed to interfere
Continue Reading Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Louisville police officer who used a battering ram to smash through Breonna Taylor’s front door testified in federal court Thursday that the gunshots that went off shortly after were the “loudest I’ve ever heard.” Police gunfire killed Taylor, a Black 26-year-old medical technician, who had been roused from
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