By Paul LeBlanc, Oren Liebermann and Brian Rokus, CNN US Marine Corps Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller has been relieved of command after he posted a video online questioning military leaders’ handling of the situation in Afghanistan, a Marine Corps spokesperson said Friday. Scheller had posted a video to his Facebook page on Thursday stating: “People
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ultiple new laws are set to take effect on Saturday, including compensation for student athletes, limits on health orders, multiple relating to law enforcement and others.
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By Laura Smith-Spark, Barbara Starr, Nick Paton Walsh and Sandi Sidhu, CNN The US military carried out a drone strike against what it said was an ISIS-K planner in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, amid warnings of possible further terror attacks targeting the last-ditch US evacuation effort from Kabul. The desperate mission to airlift US citizens
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By Daniel Dale Republican former football star Herschel Walker announced this week that he is running for a US Senate seat in Georgia. Some senior Senate Republicans have expressed concerns that Walker’s past words and actions threaten his chances to beat incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock. But Walker was urged to run by former President Donald
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By Rebekah Riess, CNN Fast food restaurant chain Bojangles will close all stores for two Mondays to give staff a “well-deserved break” following the challenges the restaurant industry has been facing during the pandemic, the company said. All company-owned stores will close August 30 and September 13 to allow 8,000 staff members and managers time
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By Barbara Starr and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Another terrorist attack on Kabul’s airport is “highly likely in the next 24-36 hours,” President Joe Biden said Saturday, citing US military commanders, while hours later, the US Embassy in Kabul issued a security alert. “Due to a specific, credible threat, all U.S. citizens in the vicinity of
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TODAY: Mostly clear with highs in the low 90s and a heat index near 100. TOMORROW: A cold front will waver near the area on Sunday and bring scattered showers and storms. No severe weather is expected, though highs will fall a couple degrees with a heat index in the mid-90s. EXTENDED: The front lingers
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By Laura Smith-Spark, Saskya Vandoorne, Oren Liebermann, Nick Paton Walsh and Sandi Sidhu, CNN Nine members of one family — including six children — were killed in a US drone strike targeting a vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul, a relative of the dead told a local journalist working with CNN. The US carried
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Since March 2020, would-be travelers have experienced more turbulence on the ground than in the air. As always, though, CNN Travel are your attendants on hand to guide you through the safety instructions and point our your nearest exits. Here’s our latest roundup of new developments in pandemic travel. Fasten your
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Here are the scores from Week 1 of area high school football.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department is reporting a rise in stolen catalytic converters in the area. According to a report, there was a total of 78 catalytic converters stolen in 2020 and 96 so far for this year. Thieves steal the catalytic converter because of the precious metals in them. Converters contain platinum,
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David Ousley died Oct. 4 at age 83 after contracting COVID-19 while living at Jefferson City Manor, his family says in the lawsuit. Ousley is one of 13 residents of Jefferson City Manor who have died during the pandemic, according to federal data. The family is suing the nursing home and its owner, Juckette Management Services Senior Living, Inc.
Continue Reading By Geneva Sands, CNN Federal officials are on high alert for threats to the homeland following the mass evacuation from Afghanistan and devastating attack in Kabul this week that killed US service members and scores of Afghans. The Department of Homeland Security is tracking three primary threats, including whether individuals abroad in Afghanistan, who are
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has a look-alike. An Alabama law enforcement officer has gone viral due to his uncanny resemblance to “The Jungle Cruise” star. So much so, when the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office posted a picture of Patrol Lieutenant Eric Fields on Facebook, the responses poured in. “It’s cool that
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The ABC17 Stormtrack Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day ahead of dangerously hot temperatures lasting through Friday afternoon. The National Weather Service has issued a Heat Advisory through 9 PM on Friday. The main threat will continue to be heat indices between 103-105. Setup A high-pressure system is currently parked across the Midwest
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear with a few clouds, humid. Lows in the low to mid-70s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and hot with highs in the lower 90s. Heat index in the upper 90s. EXTENDED: This evening is quiet and muggy with lows falling into the 70s to start the weekend. Saturday is hot and humid with highs in the
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By Paul P. Murphy and Madeleine Fitzgerald, CNN The Department of Defense has released the names of the 13 US service members who were killed in an attack outside Kabul’s airport on Thursday, as the US and other Western countries raced to evacuate their citizens and allies out of Afghanistan. Here’s what we know about
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By Ray Sanchez and Cheri Mossburg, CNN Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, was recommended for parole on Friday. After 53 years in prison, the 77-year-old inmate’s fate is now in the hands of California’s governor. Two of Kennedy’s surviving sons, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Douglas Kennedy,
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By Morgan Rimmer, CNN The requests for help evacuating Americans and Afghans have come from every direction for the military veterans serving in Congress: from friends, from former platoonmates, from constituents and from Afghans they served alongside on the front lines. Congressional offices this month turned into around-the-clock operations to help get people out of
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By Alaa Elassar, Miguel Marquez and Bonney Kapp, CNN Dolly Monceaux was unvaccinated when she found herself fighting the coronavirus last week from a hospital bed in a Mississippi ICU, unable to see family and struggling to breathe or sleep. “You don’t know you’re gonna get it, and then you get it and you’re sick,”
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