By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a new message for supporters on the campaign trail: God has chosen him. “I’m convinced that God has sent me for a purpose, and when that purpose is finished, my work will be done,” he told local news channel NDTV in an interview
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By AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — During the presidential election four years ago, the Equal Ground Education Fund hired over 100 people to go door-to-door and attend festivals, college homecomings and other events to help register voters across Florida. Their efforts for this year’s elections look much different. A state law passed last
Continue ReadingBy Dave Alsup, CNN (CNN) — No one was injured Monday when a United Airlines flight aborted takeoff at Chicago O’Hare International Airport due to what the Federal Aviation Administration said was a reported engine fire. United flight 2091 was scheduled to fly to Seattle with 148 passengers and five crew members, but its takeoff
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Power outages reported on Monday for City of Columbia and Boone Electric customers have been resolved. There were 105 power outages reported for City of Columbia customers on Monday afternoon, according to the City of Columbia outage map. One outage was reported at 3:19 p.m. near West Broadway and Atkins Drive, which
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — The discovery of an umbilical cord and placenta in muddy mangroves near an Australian river has sparked a major police search for a mother and baby amid fears for their health. A man walking his dog stumbled upon human blood and what appeared to be the remains
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Several Mid-Missouri law enforcement agencies in the past 10 days have warned residents about a scam that impersonates their deputies or each sheriff’s office. The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Monday social media post that it had received reports of someone claiming to be Deputy John Clark was calling people
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe will head to southeast Missouri on Tuesday to assess damage caused by storms that occurred throughout the weekend, according to a Monday press release from the governor’s office. Kehoe was announced as the acting governor on May 17 as Gov. Mike Parson leads a trade mission delegation
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Editor’s Note: This article has been updated for a source error about time served in Afghanistan. This Memorial Day a Columbia woman is asking for the return of her son’s military uniform. “My son’s Class A uniform was accidentally donated, and I’m pleading with Columbia to help me get that back for
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A spokesperson from Spirit of ’76 Fireworks confirmed the warehouse in Boonville caught fire on Monday afternoon.
Continue ReadingBy MITCH STACY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — Nick Lodolo came off the injured list to pitch 5 1/3 innings of one-run ball, Jeimer Candelario homered and the Cincinnati Reds won a season-high fourth straight game, 3-1 over the St. Louis Cardinals. Lodolo, who missed his last two starts while nursing a groin injury,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Shots were heard again on Rice Road on Monday afternoon at 4:35 p.m. While reporting on the shooting scene that occurred on Sunday evening, an ABC 17 News reporter heard seven to nine gunshots ring out from the 4600 block of Rice Road. The reporter saw two males run from Rice Road
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Van Sant, CNN (CNN) — A Virginia company will pay a $7,500 civil penalty after being fined by the Department of Justice over a discriminatory job posting. According to the DOJ, in March of 2023, Arthur Grand Technologies Inc., an information technology services firm based in Ashburn, Virginia, posted a job advertisement for a business
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Lamb and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis allegedly told Italian bishops to not permit gay men to train for the priesthood, with two Italian newspapers claiming that the 87-year-old pontiff made a homophobic slur in a closed-door meeting last week. Citing sources from inside the meeting, the Corriere della Sera and
Continue ReadingBy DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Joe Ryan pitched seven smooth innings for the Minnesota Twins, who got a two-run homer by Jose Miranda and a three-run shot from Trevor Larnach and hung on to beat the Kansas City Royals 6-5 in the opener of a four-game series. Ryan allowed one run
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STURGEON, Mo (KMIZ) A 17-year-old driver suffered serious injuries last week in a crash on Thomas Hill Road near Tucker School Road near Sturgeon, according to a Boone County Sheriff’s Office spokesman. A passenger car was traveling eastbound on Thomas Hill Road on Wednesday, May 22, when the driver lost control of the vehicle, went
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Columbia Police confirmed Monday morning one man died after being shot on Rice Road Sunday night.
Continue ReadingBy Nic F. Anderson and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A suspect accused of stabbing a man through a McDonald’s drive-through window and then stabbing a woman inside the restaurant was arrested last month on suspicion of assaulting a family member, court records show. Massachusetts police are also investigating whether the assailant at the McDonald’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Kevin Dotson, Steve Almasy and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Bill Walton, the basketball Hall of Fame center who won two national titles at UCLA, two NBA championships in Portland and Boston and later put the “color” in color commentator, died Monday following a prolonged battle with cancer, the NBA announced. Walton was
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, Mick Krever, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Eastern Ukraine (CNN) — Mykola first thought it was a dream. The windows of his home blown out. The whistle of a shell landing. An explosion. But as the 10-year-old younger son of Larisa and Mykola Glushko staggered in the dark, toward his mother’s room, he realized he was
Continue ReadingCNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Mick Krever, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Eastern Ukraine (CNN) — Mykola first thought it was a dream. The windows of his home blown out. The whistle of a shell landing. An explosion. But as the 10-year-old younger son of Larisa and Mykola Glushko staggered in the dark, toward his mother’s room, he realized he
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