By Oren Liebermann, CNN The Pentagon stands by its investigation into the suicide bombing that killed 13 US service members and scores of Afghans last summer after a CNN investigation raised questions about whether some may have been hit by gunfire. US and coalition service members said they opened fire minutes after the attack, but
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THURSDAY We’re a tad cooler out the door this morning, making it tough to continue our streak of 50’s. We’ll fall just short this afternoon, topping out in the upper 40’s. TONIGHT Winds will start to pick up tonight out of the southwest as clouds increase. That tandem will keep temperatures near 40 overnight. A
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A court hearing is set for 1:00 p.m. Thursday, to decide whether or not a mask mandate can remain in Columbia Public Schools.
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Super Bowl Sunday is right around the corner — and so is a potential traffic nightmare. More than 70,000 fans will flock to SoFi stadium in Los Angeles for the matchup, creating extreme gridlock. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is warning that a convoy of truckers protesting Covid-19 mandates may
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Super Bowl Sunday is right around the corner — and so is a potential traffic nightmare. More than 70,000 fans will flock to SoFi stadium in Los Angeles for the matchup, creating extreme gridlock. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is warning that a convoy of truckers protesting Covid-19 mandates may
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Super Bowl Sunday is right around the corner — and so is a potential traffic nightmare. More than 70,000 fans will flock to SoFi stadium in Los Angeles for the matchup, creating extreme gridlock. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is warning that a convoy of truckers protesting Covid-19 mandates may
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Super Bowl Sunday is right around the corner — and so is a potential traffic nightmare. More than 70,000 fans will flock to SoFi stadium in Los Angeles for the matchup, creating extreme gridlock. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is warning that a convoy of truckers protesting Covid-19 mandates may
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Super Bowl Sunday is right around the corner — and so is a potential traffic nightmare. More than 70,000 fans will flock to SoFi stadium in Los Angeles for the matchup, creating extreme gridlock. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is warning that a convoy of truckers protesting Covid-19 mandates may
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Ritchie, Angus Watson and Helen Regan, CNN Russian teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva failed a drug test taken in December before the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, the International Testing Agency (ITA) confirmed Friday. Fifteen-year-old Valieva, a breakout star of the Games who helped the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) take home gold in Monday’s
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing features the best winter athletics have to offer. But triple corks and quadruple flips aren’t the only things on display — mental health, and the discussions around it, have also taken a prominent place. Snowboarder Jamie Anderson — a two-time Olympic gold medalist — fell
Continue ReadingBy Danya Gainor and Angela Dewan, CNN There’s no silver bullet to the climate crisis, but nuclear fusion may be the closest thing to it. In the quest for a near-limitless, zero-carbon source of reliable power, scientists have generated fusion energy before, but they have struggled for decades to sustain it for very long. On
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By Rebecca Wright, Christine Brennan, Helen Regan and Nathan Hodge, CNN Russian teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva, who is at the center of a drug testing controversy at Beijing 2022, has received the support of the Kremlin back in Moscow, but Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov would not confirm reports of a positive test among the
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy, CNN American ice skater Nathan Chen has won his first Olympic Gold medal with a flawless performance that set him well above the competition in the men’s free skate. Chen, who had been the favorite going into Thursday’s event, pulled off his win with a long program packed with moves to show
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The story has been updated to correct a name. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE) approved the formation of a Blue Ribbon Commission to make recommendations and conduct studies on teacher recruitment and retention. At the December 2021 State Board of Education meeting, the state board legislative
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By Rob Picheta, Henrik Pettersson and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Russia has amassed more than 130,000 troops near Ukraine’s border in recent weeks, according to US estimates, raising fears from Western and Ukrainian intelligence officials that an invasion could be imminent. As frantic diplomatic efforts are made to avert war, Russia announced Tuesday that some of
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Nunnelly says there are many things that come with the business that people don’t think about.
Continue ReadingBy Elle Reeve, Samantha Guff and Deborah Brunswick, CNN Keith Scott says January 6, 2021, was “the greatest day” of his life. The 49-year-old had arrived in Washington, DC, as a member of the “Stop the Steal” movement, which believes former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him, and marched
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, Aya Elamroussi, Tina Burnside and Kate Conerly, CNN A Florida judge on Wednesday granted a temporary injunction blocking the release of additional records related to the death investigation of actor and comedian Bob Saget. The judge’s decision comes after Saget’s family filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block the release of certain records, citing
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business If you’re tired of getting random calls from companies claiming to be from “dealer services” and offering you an extended warranty on your car, the Federal Trade Commission is taking aim at some companies accused of making those calls. The FTC has filed suit against American Vehicle Protection Corp. of
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Columbians will start to see some construction along the Wabash Drive extension starting Wednesday.
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