Columbia City Council approves next phase of McBaine Water Treatment Plant project
Columbia City Council members are expected to vote Monday on a request for bids for the McBaine Water Treatment Plant Project.
Continue ReadingColumbia City Council members are expected to vote Monday on a request for bids for the McBaine Water Treatment Plant Project.
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona and Annie Grayer, CNN House Democrats are growing increasingly alarmed by Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s comments that are critical of Israel, but so far, have stopped short of saying the Michigan Democrat deserves to be censured over her rhetoric. Tlaib, the only Palestinian American member of Congress and an outspoken critic of Israel,
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Council introduced a bill that would appropriate funds for the purchase of property located at 210 Monroe Street, which will be the home of a new development project. According to the council agenda, the city is preparing to allocate $575,000 for the property, which is the address of
Continue ReadingCNN By John King, CNN Leesburg, Virginia (CNN) — Nanette Mees is a registered Republican and a textbook example of Virginia’s shift from red to blue. Her last Republican vote for president was in 2004, which is also the last time a GOP presidential nominee – George W. Bush back then – carried suburban Loudoun
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, Kit Maher and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Des Moines (CNN) — Breaking from the tradition of the first-in-the-nation caucuses, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president, sending a clear message to Republicans looking for an alternative to former President Donald Trump that the time to act has
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, Alex Marquardt and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US is planning to transfer $320 million worth of precision-guided bomb equipment to Israel, according to three people familiar with the matter, amid Israel’s aerial bombardment of Gaza as part of its war on Hamas. The sale of the Spice Family Gliding Bomb
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Strauss, CNN (CNN) — The Republican National Committee announced Monday that five presidential candidates have met the criteria to participate in Wednesday’s third primary debate in Miami. They are former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and South Carolina Sen. Tim
Continue ReadingBy John King, CNN Leesburg, Virginia (CNN) — Nanette Mees is a registered Republican and a textbook example of Virginia’s shift from red to blue. Her last Republican vote for president was in 2004, which is also the last time a GOP presidential nominee – George W. Bush back then – carried suburban Loudoun County
Continue ReadingThe University of Missouri chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists of America plans to present a proposed ordinance Monday to the Columbia City Council that would make the city a sanctuary for LGBTQ+ people.
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith’s office urged the judge overseeing the federal election interference case against Donald Trump to reject the former president’s attempts to dismiss the charges against him on constitutional grounds, saying his arguments rely on “distortions and misrepresentations.” While Trump has repeatedly
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN Washington (CNN) — American troops were attacked an additional eight times since Friday morning by one-way attack drones and rocket barrages in Iraq and Syria as US forces face ramped up attacks by Iranian-backed groups. The new incidents – one on Friday afternoon, another on Saturday, five more on Sunday and one
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Zackey Rahimi, the Texas criminal defendant challenging a federal gun law before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, said this summer that he no longer wanted to own firearms and expressed remorse for his actions that got him in trouble with the law. “I will make sure for sure this
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden has a charming personal story he likes to insert into speeches in which he is discussing Amtrak, the rail service he used for decades as a US senator to commute between Washington and his home state of Delaware. Biden has publicly told the story at
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Sam Fossum, CNN Republicans who have grown angry at Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s blockade of military nominees had hoped that their new public pressure campaign would force the Alabama Republican to back down. But Tuberville indicated Monday: He’s not caving. In an interview with CNN in his office, the former Auburn football
Continue ReadingA Camden County businessman said Monday that he will seek to unseat an incumbent in the Missouri House.
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday endorsed her former boss Donald Trump for president. Sanders will join the 2024 Republican front-runner at his rally in Hialeah, Florida, on Wednesday as Trump skips the third GOP presidential primary debate, which is being held the same night in Miami.
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN Ankara, Turkey (CNN) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday asserted he made progress on the goals he set for a whirlwind Middle East trip as he departed with few tangible results to show for a flurry of meetings with leaders about the Israel-Hamas war. The situation on the ground
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — The judge in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial despairingly pressed the ex-president’s lawyer: “I beseech you to control him if you can.” Judge Arthur Engoron’s plea reflected his frustration at an incorrigible witness who boasted Monday about his piles of cash, aimed scathing political attacks and spouted uniquely illogical logic. But
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — The judge in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial despairingly pressed the ex-president’s lawyer: “I beseech you to control him if you can.” Judge Arthur Engoron’s plea reflected his frustration at an incorrigible witness who boasted Monday about his piles of cash, aimed scathing political attacks and spouted uniquely illogical logic. But
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Donald Trump brought bombastic rhetoric to the witness stand Monday in the civil fraud case against him and his business, as he spent his time on the stand attacking the New York attorney general who brought the case and the
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