By Radina Gigova and Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny failed to appear at another court hearing on Monday, further raising concerns about his well-being 10 days after his team lost contact with him. Navalny, who had been imprisoned in a penal colony about 150 miles east of Moscow, was scheduled
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis formally permitted Roman Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples on Monday, in a significant shift in the church’s approach to LGBTQ+ people. The blessings may be carried out providing they are not part of regular Church rituals or liturgies, nor at the same time as a civil
Continue ReadingBy CNN Impact Your World (CNN) — It’s been a year since the deadly fighting between Israel and Hamas began, and the dire humanitarian crisis is getting worse. In addition to ongoing bloodshed in Gaza, the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has intensified across swaths of Lebanon. Israel’s ambassador to the UN said 70,000 Israeli
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is safe after a car unintentionally crashed into his motorcade Sunday night as he was leaving his campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware. The impacted SUV wasn’t the president’s, but reporters said Biden appeared startled by the loud bang. Here’s what else you need to know to Get
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first launch in more than a year of Blue Origin’s New Shepard tourism rocket, designed to vault paying customers on brief trips to the edge of space, was scrubbed Monday morning. The Jeff Bezos-founded company said the scrub of the uncrewed science mission was “due
Continue ReadingJason Kravarik, CNN Malibu, California (CNN) — Bridget Thompson says she should be dead. If not for a late cheer team meeting on a Tuesday night in October, the Pepperdine University senior would have been with her four best friends — three were her roommates — heading to an off-campus mixer. “I should have been
Continue ReadingCNN Jason Kravarik, CNN Malibu, California (CNN) — Bridget Thompson says she should be dead. If not for a late cheer team meeting on a Tuesday night in October, the Pepperdine University senior would have been with her four best friends — three were her roommates — heading to an off-campus mixer. “I should have
Continue ReadingCNN By David McKenzie and Sarah Dean, CNN Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) — On a dark night six months ago, Adrian mustered the courage to flee. Already on the run for days, with freshly stitched wounds on his thigh, he struggled over the border by foot. “I crossed a swamp at the border. When I reached
Continue ReadingBy David McKenzie and Sarah Dean, CNN Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) — On a dark night six months ago, Adrian mustered the courage to flee. Already on the run for days, with freshly stitched wounds on his thigh, he struggled over the border by foot. “I crossed a swamp at the border. When I reached a
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HOWARD COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A New Franklin man died in a single-car crash this afternoon. Dennis Klatt, 65, was driving north on Missouri 5 south of County Road 345 when he drove off the side of the right side of the road, over corrected, and drove off the left side of the road. Klatt hit a
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso and Jessica Flynn, CNN (CNN) — Chance Comanche, a former player with the NBA G League’s Stockton Kings, and his girlfriend have been arrested and charged in connection with the kidnapping and killing of a missing woman whose remains were found in a desert near Las Vegas, police announced Sunday. Comanche, 27,
Continue ReadingCNN By Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday said it has uncovered “the biggest Hamas tunnel” in Gaza, spanning a length of four kilometres (2.5 miles). The IDF said the tunnel, secured “a few weeks ago” but revealed to the public Sunday, is wide enough to drive a large
Continue ReadingBy Callum Sutherland, CNN (CNN) — The world’s forests are under threat. As well as being logged for timber and cleared to make way for agriculture, rising global temperatures are causing more intense wildfires. This year is set to be the hottest on record and has been the worst on record in terms of fires
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German farmers are gathering in Berlin to protest against planned cuts to tax breaks for diesel used in agriculture, part of a deal reached by the government to plug a hole in the country’s budget. Leaders of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition last week agreed on measures to fill a 17 billion-euro
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Christmas is just a week away and Columbia was full of holiday shoppers over the weekend.
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The promise of self-checkout was alluring: Customers could avoid long lines by scanning and bagging their own items, workers could be freed of doing those monotonous tasks themselves and retailers could save on labor costs. All that has happened since the rollout of self-checkout but
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The convicted sex offender who escaped Sunday from a prison near Houston was captured in a nearby county on Monday morning, officials said. Robert Yancy Jr. was taken into custody in Matagorda County, about 45 miles southwest of the Brazoria County prison, and now faces felony
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Mizzou Athletic Director Desiree Reed-Francois in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. The pair sat down in MU’s new Stephens Indoor Practice Facility to discuss the momentum surrounding Tiger athletics ever since Reed-Francois came to Columbia, in Aug. 2021. “It starts with your people,”
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team fell to 7-4 on the year with a 93-87 loss to Seton Hall at the T-Mobile Center, in Kansas City, on Sunday. You can watch the full postgame press conference with head coach Dennis Gates and players in the video player below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG48VpMQTCs The Tigers only
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council is considering a change to the requirements for applicants seeking an armed guard license, but there’s concern it may make the city vulnerable to lawsuits. Columbia may make a change to the rules, so that security guard applications are handled through the city’s police department. It will be
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