Watch the city council meeting replay in the player above. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council authorized Public Works adding position classification to hire more bus drivers for the City’s Paratransit program. The meeting is at 7 p.m. at City Hall in the council chambers. Columbia Public Works is requested the council to authorize
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By Paul LeBlanc and Eva McKend, CNN Supporters of legal abortion rights gathered at the Supreme Court building on Monday night, carrying signs and raising their voices in chants after a draft of a majority Supreme Court opinion circulated that would overturn Roe v. Wade. The scene outside the court ranged from somber to angry,
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By Alex Rogers, CNN Senate Democratic candidates on Monday immediately called for eliminating the filibuster and passing legislation to protect abortion rights after Politico published what it said was a draft Supreme Court majority opinion that would strike down Roe v. Wade. “Democrats need to act NOW—end the filibuster, codify Roe, and defend reproductive freedom,”
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By Sara Murray and Jason Morris, CNN The Atlanta-area district attorney who’s investigating former President Donald Trump‘s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election said her office will look into the fake Electoral College certifications that Trump backers put forward in Georgia. “We’re going to look at anything connected with interference with the 2020 election,”
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By Tierney Sneed, Ariane de Vogue and Joan Biskupic, CNN In a stunning breach of Supreme Court confidentiality and secrecy, Politico has obtained what it calls a draft of a majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that would strike down Roe v. Wade. The draft was circulated in early February, according to Politico. The
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The deadline for the 2023 Missouri state budget is Friday, but lawmakers still have several things to do before they’re ready to put the bills on the governor’s desk.
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By Gregory Krieg, CNN Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine appears poised to fend off his Republican challengers in the state’s gubernatorial primary, with significant leads in recent polling and fundraising — and a pair of Donald Trump acolytes in former US Rep. Jim Renacci and farmer Joe Blystone appearing to divide support among the former President’s
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By Gloria Borger, Ashley Semler and Gabby Orr, CNN The Trump family’s cooperation with the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol — and Ivanka Trump’s appearance in particular — has proven useful in confirming other key testimony about the state of play inside the White House as well
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By Gabby Orr, CNN Hoping to push himself over the edge with Republican voters in the final hours of the Ohio Senate GOP primary contest, J.D. Vance arrived at a town hall outside of Columbus on Monday with two populist icons who were familiar faces to many in the crowd: Sen. Josh Hawley and conservative
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Nineteen family members of Americans unlawfully detained abroad will take part in a day of activism in front of the White House Wednesday in the hope of securing a meeting with President Joe Biden that could lead to their loved ones returning home. Alexandra Forseth, whose father and uncle are part
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By Priscilla Alvarez and Sean Lyngaas, CNN The Department of Homeland Security and the White House are defending a new initiative to help target disinformation amid fierce criticism from Republicans who cast the effort as overreach and attacked its leader. Last week, DHS announced an interagency team, dubbed the “Disinformation Governance Board,” to coordinate department
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By Priscilla Alvarez and Sean Lyngaas, CNN The Department of Homeland Security and the White House are defending a new initiative to help target disinformation amid fierce criticism from Republicans who cast the effort as overreach and attacked its leader. Last week, DHS announced an interagency team, dubbed the “Disinformation Governance Board,” to coordinate department
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By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Last week, Sen. Joe Manchin was angry. The Democratic senator had seen a TV ad run by GOP Rep. Alex Mooney — the Trump-backed candidate in a primary for a US House seat in West Virginia — suggesting that his Republican opponent, Rep. David McKinley, backed President Joe
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By Whitney Wild, CNN Federal law enforcement tracked the potential for election-related violence as far back as August 2020, which is earlier than previously known, according to a government report released Monday. The Government Accountability Office said in its report that federal agencies had tracked the potential violence on social media and other websites. Furthermore,
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By Kasie Hunt, CNN Where’s the plan? That’s the question at the heart of a deep divide inside the Democratic Party over immigration and the Biden administration’s plan to end Title 42, the pandemic-era policy that allowed border patrol agents to turn migrants back to their home countries more than 1.7 million times. So far,
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole, CNN The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that Boston violated the First Amendment rights of a group seeking to briefly raise a Christian flag atop a city flagpole outside of City Hall as a part of a city program celebrating Boston’s greater community. The court said
Continue Reading By Donald Judd and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday met with the parents of detained American journalist Austin Tice, less than a week after another American imprisoned abroad was returned to the United States through a prisoner swap with Russia. Tice, a freelance journalist, was detained at a checkpoint near Damascus in
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By Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative for Covid-19 on Monday, the vice president’s spokesperson said in a statement, nearly a week after she tested positive. Harris will return to the White House on Tuesday, her spokesperson Kirsten Allen noted, and wear a “well-fitting mask” while around others for an additional five
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By Dan Berman, CNN The volume of investigations involving former President Donald Trump, the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and the finances of the Trump Organization is staggering. Here’s an updated list of notable investigations and lawsuits and latest developments: January 6: House select committee investigation
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By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden is building on his electric vehicle goal with a $3 billion investment Monday aimed at boosting the US supply of lithium ion batteries through the bipartisan infrastructure package. The move is aimed at fighting climate change, but also to make the US more energy independent and secure, officials
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