COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia City Council at its meeting on Monday approved tourism development funds for the True/False Film Festival, which takes place annually in Downtown Columbia. The resolution authorizes a tourism development sponsorship between the city and True/False this year. The festival will take place March 2-5. There will be roughly 130 screenings.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Council unanimously approved a resolution Monday night that aims to improve 911 response times. The city authorized an agreement between the City and Cole County for integrated computer-aided dispatch Cole County implemented a new emergency dispatch system last week. The dispatch system can combine the Cole County Communications
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By Annie Grayer, Jamie Gangel, Alayna Treene and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has granted Fox News host Tucker Carlson access to all of the US Capitol security footage from January 6, multiple sources told CNN. The highly unusual move — a House speaker handing over a massive trove of internal government materials
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The City of Columbia is holding a meeting next month to get input from residents about the city’s recycling system.
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN Around 7 p.m. ET on Saturday night, President Joe Biden was out in Washington on a Valentine’s week date-night, lingering over rigatoni with fennel sausage ragu before returning with his wife to the White House. The next time he was seen in public was 36 hours later, striding
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN Around 7 p.m. ET on Saturday night, President Joe Biden was out in Washington on a Valentine’s week date-night, lingering over rigatoni with fennel sausage ragu before returning with his wife to the White House. The next time he was seen in public was 36 hours later, striding
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Planning the 20th annual True/False Film Festival is truly a numbers game. Over the course of three days, March 2 through 5, the event will feature 130 screenings of 35 full-length documentaries and 20 short films. Large crowds often follow the festival, but the Convention and Visitors Bureau Advisory Board estimates over
Continue Reading By Jack Forrest, CNN Michigan Republicans have chosen Kristina Karamo, who has yet to concede last year’s secretary of state race, as their next chair, putting an election denier at the head of the party in a crucial battleground state. Karamo tweeted Sunday that she was “honored to lead the Michigan Republican Party.” On the
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden slipped into Kyiv on Monday for the first time since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago, demonstrating in dramatic personal fashion his commitment to the country and its struggle as the war enters an uncertain new phase. The highly secretive visit — which
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden slipped into Kyiv on Monday for the first time since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago, demonstrating in dramatic personal fashion his commitment to the country and its struggle as the war enters an uncertain new phase. The highly secretive visit — which
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By Isabella Roberts JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Monday evening, Jefferson City Council will meet to discuss a resolution that could improve emergency services response times in Cole County. A new emergency dispatch system was put in place to be shared between both Jefferson City and Cole County. The system allows for the emergency dispatch center
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas pointed the finger back at Congress to fix the country’s broken immigration system and maintained that he will not resign from his post in an new interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace. House Republicans, who have been fierce critics of President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, have been
Continue Reading By Sam Fossum and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The US ambassador to the United Nations said Sunday that China would cross a “red line” if the country decided to provide lethal military aid to Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. “We welcome the Chinese announcement that they want peace because that’s what we always want to
Continue Reading By Sam Fossum and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The US ambassador to the United Nations said Sunday that China would cross a “red line” if the country decided to provide lethal military aid to Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. “We welcome the Chinese announcement that they want peace because that’s what we always want to
Continue Reading By Aaron Pellish, CNN Two leading House Republicans have called on President Joe Biden to increase military support to Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion and reiterated support on both sides of the aisle for continuing to fund the Ukrainian war effort. Texas Rep. Mike McCaul, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
Continue Reading By Andrew Millman, Paul LeBlanc and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday announced $100 million in disaster relief aid for Turkey and Syria as the countries grapple with the aftermath of a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake that has killed at least 46,000 people. The top US diplomat, who took a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former United State’s President Jimmy Carter has decided to receive hospice care at his home in Georgia instead of additional medical intervention. The Carter Center, a non-profit organization founded by the former president and his wife, Rosalynn Carter put a statement out Saturday about the former president’s decision. “After a series of short hospital stays,
Continue Reading By Jasmine Wright and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made clear that the US has no doubt China was seeking to surveil the US via the balloon that was ultimately shot down off the coast of South Carolina earlier this month. “I can’t say dispositively what the original intent was, but
Continue Reading By Aaron Pellish, CNN Two leading House Republicans have called on President Joe Biden to increase military support to Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion and reiterated support on both sides of the aisle for continuing to fund the Ukrainian war effort. Texas Rep. Mike McCaul, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
Continue Reading By Steve Contorno, Jeff Zeleny and Fredreka Schouten, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has made freedom his calling card, but some conservatives have become skeptical of how liberally the Republican leader is using government power to impose his will. Among GOP donors, leading conservative voices and even some supporters, there is a growing concern that
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