By Nick Paton Walsh and Barry Neild, CNN Battered by intense shelling, peppered with gunfire and then … everything goes quiet. Along Ukraine’s strategic Black Sea coast, Russian forces are playing a strange game, testing defenses, spilling blood and raising tensions but failing to drive home any significant gains. The small city of Mykolaiv, located
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By Matias Grez, CNN FIFA and UEFA have suspended all Russian international and club teams from their competitions “until further notice,” the governing bodies announced in a joint statement on Monday. World football’s governing body, FIFA, and European football’s governing body, UEFA, said that both organizations’ presidents — Gianni Infantino and Aleksander Čeferin — “hope
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By Sebastian Shukla and Lianne Kolirin, CNN The Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island — who were all feared dead after their defiant response to threats from a Russian warship — are actually “alive and well,” according to the Ukrainian Navy. All of the soldiers on the tiny island in the Black Sea were thought to
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TONIGHT A bright and warm day will gives temperatures a long way to go to drop below the freezing mark tonight. Clearing skies will drop us into the 30’s, but it’s looking doubtful that we’ll fall below 32. TUESDAY An even warmer day is in store for Tuesday, making it feel like meteorological spring has
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By Delyanne Barros for CNN Business The Great Resignation and the pandemic have left an indelible mark on America’s workforce. While many have left their jobs to care for family or retire early, others have reevaluated their financial lives or changed careers. All of this comes at a time of great economic turmoil. Rising inflation,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC17’s Nathalie Jones brought on Columbia Tribune Sports Editor Chris Kwiecinski in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the conversation in the video player above.
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By Brian Stelter, CNN Business Discovery on Monday confirmed that Chris Licht will become the new head of CNN when Discovery and WarnerMedia merge this spring. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said “we plan to appoint Chris Licht as the new Chairman and CEO of CNN Global, hopefully starting May 1.” The pending merger between Discovery
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By Mark Thompson and Vasco Cotovio, CNN Business Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to stem the flow of Western businesses fleeing the country over his decision to wage war on Ukraine. Capital controls designed to stop the exodus were announced by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, state news agencies TASS and RIA reported on
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MONDAY Bright skies will greet us out the door this morning. A few high clouds will join the mix this afternoon, filtering out a bit of the sunshine. Those won’t be enough to keep us out of the low 60’s this afternoon. TONIGHT We’ll clear out the clouds overnight with lows falling into the mid
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By Ivana Kottasová, Tamara Qiblawi, Tara John and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN Russian forces fired rockets at a TV tower in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Tuesday, hours after Moscow warned of strikes on other facilities linked to Ukrainian security agencies. The rocket attack took out broadcasting hardware, raising fears that Moscow is attempting to
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By Luke McGee, CNN Five days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it seems things haven’t gone exactly to plan for Vladimir Putin so far. Western intelligence officials briefed repeatedly over the weekend that Russian forces have encountered “stiffer than expected” resistance from an outmanned and outgunned Ukrainian military. Russia has thus far failed to take
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Watch the full interview with the candidate here.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A majority of Americans no longer need to wear a face mask while indoors, according to new recommendations released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency classifies counties in the United States by three different community levels which are classified as low, medium, and high. These community levels are
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Big tech companies are clamping down on Russian state media outlets by cutting off their ad revenue during the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Google is the latest platform to ban the outlets from running ads on their content, following similar decisions by YouTube and Meta in recent days. Here’s what you
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By Charles Riley, CNN Business The West has pledged to remove some Russian banks from SWIFT, a messaging service that connects financial institutions around the world, as part of a barrage of sanctions designed to limit Moscow’s ability to pay for its war in Ukraine. The United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Big tech companies are clamping down on Russian state media outlets by cutting off their ad revenue during the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Google is the latest platform to ban the outlets from running ads on their content, following similar decisions by YouTube and Meta in recent days. Here’s what you
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By Travis Caldwell, CNN Russia’s invasion has spurred a groundswell of support for Ukraine in the US, where people rallied in demonstrations over the weekend and states announced decisions to boycott or sever ties with Russian entities. Thousands gathered in cities including Atlanta, Washington, DC, and New York — where key landmarks were lit up
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By Haley Brink, CNN meteorologist An “extreme” atmospheric river is hitting the Pacific Northwest, bringing the threat of avalanches and flooding that will persist for days. “A slow moving low pressure spinning over the north Pacific will result in an atmospheric river (a narrow ribbon of enhanced moisture transport) slowly shifting across the PacNW,” the
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Google will no longer allow Russian state media outlets to run ads, following a similar decision on Saturday by the tech giant’s video subsidiary, YouTube. “In response to the war in Ukraine, we are pausing Google monetization of Russian state-funded media across our platforms,” Google said in a statement to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) MU Health Care’s COVID-19 testing clinic on Keene St. has closed its doors, but the health system still offers tests. Eric Maze, spokesman for MU Health Care, said the hospital’s incident command team based on case data and community prevalence felt like it was a good time to close the clinic. “Our
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