By Kevin Liptak, Priscilla Alvarez, Jeremy Diamond and Jasmine Wright, CNN When members of the Congressional Black Caucus arrived to Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence this week for an event marking the group’s 50th anniversary, talk quickly turned to the devolving humanitarian crisis on the US-Mexico border. Gathered on a mild evening on the lawn
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By Travis Caldwell, CNN With a surge in new Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, health officials and state leaders have ratcheted up their calls for the public to be vaccinated before winter arrives while the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has approved booster shots for an expanded number of Americans. Despite the appeals, the
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By Laura Smith-Spark, James Frater, Saskya Vandoorne, Livia Borghese and Nadine Schmidt, CNN Most European countries have Covid-19 vaccination rates that would be the envy of much of the world. But even here, hesitancy in certain areas is causing governments to take action — or risk stalling their efforts to control the spread of the
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The University of Missouri Faculty Council held a meeting Thursday to review MU COVID Policies Faculty Survey results. The discussion was led by Rabia Gregory, chair of the Faculty Council Faculty Affairs committee. A survey was sent out to 2,000 University Employees, and 65% responded. One of the biggest of the numbers
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By Paula Hancocks and Salai TZ, CNN Five-year-old Su Htet Waing often wakes up crying for her mother and older sister. Hiding in the mosquito-infested jungles of Myanmar in a makeshift tent with her father, her young world has been torn apart. “I want to sleep with mummy, but the police have taken her,” she
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By Caitlin Hu, CNN Dozens of children with non-Haitian passports have been sent to Haiti as part of the US government’s massive deportation operation this week, according to the International Organization for Migration. As of Wednesday, the latest figures available, a total of 1,424 deportees from the US had arrived on 12 flights in Haiti,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are the local scores from Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021. HS SOFTBALL Hickman (0) Rock Bridge (1) FINAL Mexico (4) Tolton (11) FINAL Helias (7) Battle (0) FINAL Versailles (8) Boonville (9) FINAL Pilot Grove (1) California (9) FINAL Southern Boone (9) Hallsville (2) FINAL Montgomery County (10) North Callaway (0) FINAL
Continue ReadingBy Laura Klairmont, CNN Growing up in Barranquilla, Colombia, Jenifer Colpas was mostly shielded from the poverty outside her door. It wasn’t until after college, when she moved to India for a job in information technology, that she appreciated the vast social inequalities people endure. “Something inside me (was) saying, ‘You need to do something
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By Jenn Selva, Dakin Andone and Madeline Holcombe, CNN A source close to the family of Brian Laundrie told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday that Gabby Petito‘s fiancé, who is now the subject of a federal warrant, left his parents’ Florida home last Tuesday without his cell phone and wallet. Laundrie’s parents were concerned that
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By Katie Bo Lillis and Kylie Atwood, CNN Some State Department victims of so-called “Havana Syndrome” continue to be denied access to care at Walter Reed National Medical Center, a bipartisan pair of senators said in a letter sent Wednesday to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The letter comes amid the departure of the top
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Flores and Christina Maxouris, CNN Just yards from where thousands of migrants are waiting to be processed by American immigration authorities at the US-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas, a new field hospital has opened up. The hospital became fully operational on Tuesday, and treated roughly 70 patients in its first 24 hours,
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Prosecuting Attorney Dan Knight told Judge Brouck Jacobs during a hear in Joseph Elledge’s case that experts at the Missouri Botanical Garden matched juniper needles on Elledge’s boots to the spot where his wife Mengqi Ji’s body was found. A hiker discovered her remains off a trail in Rock Bridge Memorial State Park in October and identified them in April.
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The requirement was issued after more than 15% of students and staff at the middle school tested positive for COVID-19 or are in quarantine, the district said.
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and cool with lows in the lower 50s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny to start, with clouds building in toward afternoon. Warmer and breezy with south winds up to 20 mph. Highs in the low to mid-80s. EXTENDED: We’re in for a gorgeous night that is slightly warmer as winds will begin to shift
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By Jean Sacra Sean Roubens, Melissa Bell, Pierre Bairin and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Guerrier Antoine traveled through at least 11 countries over the course of nearly a month, braving hostile authorities and violent bandits, being robbed of several years worth of savings, only to end up right back where he started: Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince,
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A gunman who killed a woman and wounded at least 14 other people at a western Tennessee Kroger before apparently killing himself this week was a third-party vendor for the store, police said Friday. UK Thang, 29, was the man who shot 10 employees and five customers Thursday
Continue ReadingBy Nick Valencia and Maria Cartaya, CNN Dozens of police officers were standing by as the Palm Beach County School Board held a meeting Wednesday evening with masked and unmasked spectators watching from separate rooms, as the board said it would abide with the latest state rule that takes a “symptoms-based approach” to quarantining students.
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By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business More than 50 airlines, oil companies and other companies, including Delta, BP and Boeing, pledged on Wednesday to replace 10% of global jet fuel supply with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by 2030. It is one of the boldest commitments yet to tackle the environmental impact of air travel and will
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are the local scores from Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. HS BOYS SOCCER Helias (0) Battle (1) FINAL St. Michael the Archangel (3) Smith-Cotton (1) FINAL Rock Bridge (0) Smithton (5) FINAL HS SOFTBALL Blair Oaks (13) Jefferson City (0) FINAL St. Joseph’s (0) Helias (16) FINAL Louisiana (3) Clopton (13) FINAL
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN In the months before Mary Johnson disappeared, her sister said she wasn’t herself. Johnson and her husband, who had been living in the home of her sister Gerry Davis in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, abruptly left and moved to Marysville about 40 miles away, Davis said. She rarely answered her phone when Davis
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