By Phil Mattingly, CNN White House officials are bracing for an unusually weak January jobs report due to Omicron cases peaking at the same time the monthly employment survey data was collected. Several of President Joe Biden’s top economic officials have warned that the January jobs report, set for release on Friday, is likely to
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By Andrew Carey, CNN Amnesty International has become the latest human rights organization to accuse Israel of apartheid for its treatment of Palestinians, prompting an angry response from Israel, which has denounced the report as anti-Semitic. Amnesty’s nearly 300-page report, released Tuesday, details “inhuman or inhumane acts of forcible transfer, administrative detention, torture, unlawful killings
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By Caitlin Kaiser, Monica Garrett, Brandon Miller, Allison Chinchar and Dave Hennen, CNN A winter storm has begun to bring heavy snow, sleet and dangerous icy conditions to dozens of major cities across the Central Plains and the Midwest. Follow live updates | Track the snow | Sign up for weather email alerts Here’s how
Continue ReadingBy Jeff Zeleny, Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN Politics is never far removed from the selection of any Supreme Court justice, but the political winds are blowing with unusual ferocity around J. Michelle Childs, a federal judge from South Carolina who is among those on a short list to fill President Joe Biden’s first
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Six days after President Joe Biden‘s inauguration, White House counsel Dana Remus put in a call to Ketanji Brown Jackson to see if the judge might be interested in a new job: replacing Merrick Garland on a powerful federal appeals court. The new administration was poised to
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By David G. Allan, CNN I can’t think of a more fitting start to this story than to point out it’s the same one I wrote last year, with some dates changed to reflect two years into the pandemic instead of one. Don’t be bothered. You probably never read it last year, and if you
Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN The FBI is urging Olympic athletes to leave their personal cell phones at home and instead take burner phones to the Beijing Winter Olympics this month, citing the potential for “malicious cyber activities.” “The FBI urges all athletes to keep their personal cell phones at home and
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By Cheri Mossburg, Stella Chan and Kevin Flower, CNN A former UCLA lecturer is in custody for allegedly making threats toward the university after emails with a link to an 800-page manifesto containing “very alarming” accounts of violence led investigators to Boulder, Colorado, according to authorities. Upon reviewing the emails, UCLA police tracked the author,
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By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business ABC News suspended “The View” host Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks on Tuesday night, hours after she apologized for having falsely declared on the daytime program that the Holocaust was “not about race.” In a statement, ABC News president Kim Godwin bluntly described Goldberg’s comments about the Holocaust, which were
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Here are the local scores from Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022 HS GIRLS BASKETBALL Smith-Cotton 37 | Battle 80 FINAL Jefferson City 71 | Eldon 41 FINAL HS BOYS BASKETBALL Blair Oaks 80 | Hickman 49 FINAL https://youtu.be/Wk9w7-rAAJw Rock Bridge 60 | Jefferson City 69 FINAL Battle 83 | Marshall 67 FINAL HS WRESTLING Jefferson City
Continue ReadingBy Omar Jimenez, CNN The NAACP released a letter Tuesday calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to move forward with federal charges against Jason Van Dyke and to provide an update on any federal investigation, days before the former Chicago police officer is set to be released from a state prison. Van Dyke was convicted
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By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Whoopi Goldberg will start a two-week suspension Wednesday morning. ABC News president Kim Godwin announced the decision to discipline Goldberg on Tuesday night, one day after “The View” host had
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Utility companies are telling their customers to be ready for potential power outages ahead of a major winter storm that could dump more than a foot of snow on Central Missouri.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A new emergency overnight shelter will be open Tuesday in Jefferson City. The shelter’s opening comes just in time for the severe wintry weather expected to hit Mid-Missouri. The Jefferson City Room at the Inn will be open at 1015 Edmonds Street in the Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri
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By Travis Caldwell and Jenn Selva, CNN The man accused in the Tuesday shooting deaths of two police officers at Bridgewater College in Virginia was a former student-athlete, according to the school. Alexander Wyatt Campbell, 27, attended Bridgewater College from 2013-2017 and was member of the track and cross-country teams, Logan Bogert, a communications coordinator
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Parking in front of a snow-covered fire hydrant or along a priority road in Columbia could land drivers a ticket or a tow during this week’s snowstorm.
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Could brighter days be ahead? Travel and tourism are expected to return to almost pre-pandemic levels this year, and a top health official says Europe could be about to enter “a long period of tranquility.” Here’s the latest news from CNN Travel this week. Tourism is bouncing back Omicron is still
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By Travis Caldwell and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN The FBI has identified people suspected of making bomb threats this week directed at historically Black colleges and universities — which the bureau is investigating as hate crimes, a law enforcement official said. No arrests have been made, the official said. At least 14 HBCUs reported bomb threats
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Due to the winter storm on Wednesday and Thursday, some schools have called snow days ahead of time while others move to virtual learning modules. The University of Missouri System and the MU campus announced Monday that it will move to remote operations and classes for Wednesday and Thursday. Christian Basi with
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Since we’re expecting significant snowfall and difficult travel beginning as soon as late tonight, were taking this time to make sure we have things we may need in the Stormtracker to hit the road tomorrow. We spoke with Sharon Watson, the regional Communications Director for the American Red Cross of Missouri and Arkansas. She often
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