By Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN More than a year after Congress signed into law a bill meant to help service members struggling with severe mental health problems, the Pentagon still has not issued guidance to the services to put the bill into practice. “We hear the rhetoric all the time, but we need
Continue ReadingBy Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent The Republican presidential race is just getting started, but Kim Schmett said he and his fellow conservatives are spending more time thinking about the end of the 2024 campaign and trying to answer one question above all. “We like him,” Schmett said. “The question is can he win?”
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The Boone County Commission had its first hearing Thursday on whether to get part of a massive settlement with manufacturers and pharmacies found responsible for contributing to the opioid epidemic.
Continue ReadingBy Matt Foster, CNN Erica Herman, who was a longtime girlfriend of golfer Tiger Woods, has filed two separate complaints after the six-year relationship between the pair came to an end. Both filings were made to the circuit court in Martin County, Florida. The first suit, filed in October 2022, alleges a trust owned by
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN Jenna Ellis was censured by a disciplinary judge in Colorado Wednesday, in the latest effort to hold accountable attorneys who boosted former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election reversal gambits. Ellis signed a stipulation stating that several comments she made about the 2020 election violated professional ethics rules barring reckless, knowing or
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Today: Afternoon highs peak into the mid-40s with winds out of the west at 5-10 mph. Scattered showers remain across the area until the early evening hours where they push to the east. Tonight: Overnight lows cool to the mid-30s with mostly cloudy skies. Winds switch out of the northwest at 12-16 mph with gusts
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City’s Public Works committee met Thursday to discuss proposed improvements to Highway 54. The meeting was scheduled for 7:30 a.m. at City Hall in Jefferson City. MoDOT is considering expanding the highway North of the Missouri River Bridge to help with traffic in the area. MoDOT has discussed changes for
Continue ReadingBy Janelle Chavez, CNN Newly updated US Food and Drug Administration regulations will require mammography facilities to notify patients about the density of their breasts. Women with dense breasts are at higher risk for breast cancer, and dense tissue can make cancer harder to detect in mammograms. Still, few women recognize dense breasts as a
Continue ReadingBy Christiane Amanpour, Artemis Moshtaghian and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Iran’s longest-held American prisoner has made an emotional plea to US President Joe Biden to put the “liberty of innocent Americans above politics” and ramp up efforts to secure his release, in an unprecedented interview with CNN from inside Iran’s notorious Evin prison. “I remain deeply
Continue ReadingBy Christiane Amanpour, Artemis Moshtaghian and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Iran’s longest-held American prisoner has made an emotional plea to US President Joe Biden to put the “liberty of innocent Americans above politics” and ramp up efforts to secure his release, in an unprecedented interview with CNN from inside Iran’s notorious Evin prison. “I remain deeply
Continue ReadingBy Christiane Amanpour, Artemis Moshtaghian and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Iran’s longest-held American prisoner has made an emotional plea to US President Joe Biden to put the “liberty of innocent Americans above politics” and ramp up efforts to secure his release, in an unprecedented interview with CNN from inside Iran’s notorious Evin prison. “I remain deeply
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A ruptured gas line Thursday morning led to the evacuation of Boone County government and court employees.
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Russia has restricted exports of natural gas to Europe and announced it will temporarily slash oil output this month in response to Western sanctions. Next, it could weaponize exports of important metals such as aluminum and palladium, researchers at Citigroup have warned. Prices of these commodities could spike as a result,
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN The US economy added 311,000 jobs in February, according to the latest monthly employment snapshot from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday. That’s a pullback from the blockbuster January jobs report, when a revised 504,000 positions were added, but shows the labor market is still emitting plenty of heat. The
Continue ReadingBy Phil Mattingly, Chief White House correspondent The budget blueprint President Joe Biden revealed on Thursday is designed lay out a clear, if aspirational, policy vision for the year ahead. To be clear, Biden’s budget proposal as written is dead on arrival in Capitol Hill. But as a proposal it lays down a strategic marker
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Lithium-ion batteries, found in many popular consumer products, are under scrutiny again following a massive fire this week in New York City thought to be caused by the battery that powered an electric scooter. At least seven people have been injured in a five-alarm fire in the Bronx which
Continue ReadingBy Morgan Rimmer and Clare Foran, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is being treated for a concussion and is staying at a hospital for observation after a fall at a hotel in Washington, DC, on Wednesday evening. “Leader McConnell tripped at a dinner event Wednesday evening and has been admitted to the hospital and
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TODAY: Showers return Thursday morning, with some seeing some light sprinkles as soon as sunrise. Precipitation will increase in coverage and intensity, through the day. Still, rain will be light to moderate at times, bringing at most another quarter inch of rain, with many picking up less. TONIGHT: Rain exits by the dinner hour, but
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold, Michael Schwartz, Matthias Somm, Richard Allen Greene and Oren Liebermann, CNN US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin took a swipe at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s plan to weaken Israel’s judicial system as protesters paralyzed two of Tel Aviv’s main travel arteries on Thursday, intensifying a nationwide movement against the controversial proposals. A CNN
Continue ReadingBy David Goldman, CNN The White House lashed out at Fox News host Tucker Carlson Wednesday in an extraordinary rebuke of the late-night commentator who has been airing false depictions of the January 6, 2021, attack this week. Carlson, given access to about 40,000 hours of US Capitol security camera footage by Republican House Speaker
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