By Ivana Kottasová, Pau Mosquera, Vasco Cotovio, CNN (CNN) — Maria del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her Madrid home sparked a government crisis in Spain, has died, the Madrid Tenants’ Union announced on Wednesday. Known in Spain simply as Maricarmen, she died just weeks after hundreds of people turned up to
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By Anna Chernova, Zahra Ullah, Billy Stockwell, Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Russia’s health watchdog said Wednesday there is no risk of an epidemic following the death of a laboratory worker at an anti-plague research institute in Siberia, even as the World Health Organization (WHO) made a plea for more information about the concerning episode.
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By Whitney Wild, Rob Kuznia, CNN (CNN) — Federal officials in Minnesota have charged a man with terrorism after he planned a shooting at the Mall of America using an AK-47 rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, they said at a news conference Wednesday. FBI investigators determined Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, planned to attack
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By Aaron Cooper, Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — A Delta Air Lines passenger went out a terminal door at a Southern California airport Tuesday night, stole a vehicle on the tarmac, crashed it, and then tried to commandeer an airline truck before he was arrested, an airport official said. The passenger, who was scheduled to
Continue Reading Por Gonzalo Jiménez, CNN en Español El estudio de animación IA Fable dio a conocer este miércoles el tráiler de la primera película creada con Inteligencia Artificial que se estrenará en las salas de cine de Estados Unidos, este 4 de diciembre. La empresa no ha revelado el nombre del distribuidor de la cinta titulada
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Tarana Burke thinks those asking if anything has changed since MeToo are posing the wrong question. The political organizer, who in 2006 started the hashtag that would take off in 2017 amid a mass reckoning with sexual violence, has seen it before. A high-profile episode sparks a new media
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Missouri attorney general and one-time co-deputy director of the FBI Andrew Bailey spoke at the Columbia and Boone County Pachyderms chili supper on Tuesday. Watch a replay of his remarks.
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By Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — After a heavy-handed response to the student protests sweeping France, the government has changed tack. It has banned police from using stun grenades after a student’s hand was blown off earlier in the week and there are promises to listen more to protesters’ demands. But with hundreds of
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By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — The leader of the UK’s Green Party, Zack Polanski, will on Thursday challenge the political establishment by taking on the ruling Labour Party in a special election for the seat held by former prime minister Keir Starmer. Polanski, with his deep reserve of progressive policies and an active
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By Issy Ronald, Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry for designing revolutionary experiments that replicated chemical asymmetry, a feat only previously seen in nature. Their work has solved one of the field’s enduring mysteries and advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing, the award committee said
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A botched lethal injection in Tennessee left a woman in critical condition after the drug used failed to kill her. Christa Pike was conscious and speaking Tuesday, her lawyer said, but she suffered severe damage to her arm, and a long recovery is expected. Pike, convicted in the 1995 murder of a 19-year-old woman, was
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By Rebekah Riess, Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee’s attempt to put her to death via lethal injection last week, will be in court Wednesday as they seek to preserve relevant evidence in her twice-botched execution. Pike has been hospitalized for nearly a week after being injected with
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By Gloria Pazmino, Holly Yan, Danya Gainor, Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN Ithaca, New York (CNN) — Gang rape allegations at Cornell University are fueling a firestorm of actions against the school, against fraternity members named in a lawsuit and against the former student known as Jane Doe, whose accusations have galvanized a nationwide reckoning of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) All-American running back Ahmad Hardy is continuing his rehab process, as the team is still waiting for his body to respond in the way it needs to to play, according to Mizzou head coach Eli Drinkwitz. After getting shot in the leg at a concert in Mississippi in early May, Hardy has
Continue Reading By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — France’s unprecedented wave of student protests has laid bare the country’s growing financial pressures, which will only become more difficult to tackle as Europe’s second-largest economy tries to rein in a ballooning budget deficit. The country’s finances are in a precarious state. Public debt was more than $4
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey took aim at Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe during a Tuesday night speech, accusing her of undermining law enforcement and the city, while also voicing support for a proposed new Boone County Jail. Bailey made the comments while serving as the featured keynote speaker at the Columbia
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By Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Three years to the minute after the start of the deadliest single day in Israel’s history, the country marked the somber occasion with a series of ceremonies, memorials and protests at more than 400 locations. At 6:29 in the morning on October 7, 2023, Hamas-led gunmen
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office says a man who was found dead on Tuesday had likely died several weeks before being found. The sheriff’s office wrote on its social media that Missouri Department of Transportation workers found human remains near Highway 50, west of Route FF in Knob Noster. The sheriff’s office
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. James man was charged with multiple felonies after he was accused of seriously injuring another man during a Sunday night attack. Stacey Cameron Johnson, 37, was charged in Phelps County with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and drug possession. He is being held at the Phelps County Jail without bond.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was arrested on Tuesday after Columbia police claim he walked around the MKT Trail while he was nude. Draquawn Jennings, 33, of Columbia, was arrested on suspicion of four counts of sexual misconduct, according to a Tuesday evening social media post from the Columbia Police Department. Police write that it
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