By Laura He, CNN China’s leader Xi Jinping hit out at the United States with unusually direct comments as he called on the country’s private companies to “fight” alongside the Communist Party at a time of mounting challenges at home and abroad. “[In the past five years,] Western countries led by the United States have
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau China’s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang warned Tuesday that “conflict and confrontation” with the United States is inevitable if Washington does not change course, delivering a stern and wide-ranging rebuke of US policies for his first press conference in the new role. Qin, who was until recently China’s
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN The remains of a woman found in a small Massachusetts town in 1978 were identified more than four decades after her death using “old fashioned police work” — and help from advances in forensic genetic genealogy, officials announced Monday. Referred to for decades as “Granby girl,” alluding to
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Emergency dispatchers said a crash shut down a stretch of busy road in south Columbia a little after noon Monday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Hold Como Accountable members are raising some concerns of theirs at the Columbia City Council meeting on Monday night. The group is asking for Columbia City Council, the Columbia Police Department, and the Boone County prosecuting office, to reopen the case of Quillan Jacobs. “We got access, group access, to a lot
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Monday, March 6, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL Battle (37) Rock Bridge (33) FINAL St. Francis Borgia (65) Jefferson City (69) FINAL Tolton (53) Springfield Catholic (38) FINAL Oak Park (49) Staley (56) FINAL
Continue ReadingBy Arlette Saenz and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN First lady Dr. Jill Biden warned parts of East Africa are “on the precipice” of famine as the region is dealing with a severe drought, threatening livelihoods and the ability of families to feed their children. Her comments came in a series of wide-ranging interviews during a recent
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Drivers can look forward to about a month’s worth of overnight lane closures in western Boone County and eastern Cooper County as work continues on the Interstate 70 bridge over the Missouri River.
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The most recent in a series of bills in the Missouri legislature related to drag shows and transgender people is one that criminalizes drag shows that are open to minors.
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TONIGHT: Increasing clouds, breezy, and cooler with lows falling into the mid-upper 30s. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy with evening rain showers moving in around sunset or just before. Highs in the lower 50s. EXTENDED: A cold front sliding south through the area tonight will bring clouds and cooler temperatures overnight into Tuesday. Tuesday starts off dry
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City of Columbia staff has outlined what a move to roll carts for trash pickup might look like.
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, CNN Former Vice President Mike Pence has filed a motion asking a judge to block a federal grand jury subpoena for his testimony related to January 6 on the grounds that he is protected by the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause, according to a source familiar with the filing. Pence had publicly
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team will open up the home schedule with a game against Kansas City on Wednesday afternoon, then the No. 20 Kentucky Wildcats will come to town for a weekend series on Friday. The Tigers have been on the road for the first month of the season. Head coach Larissa
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Today: Afternoon highs peak at or just below 70 degrees today with winds out of the northwest at 10-15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Skies look to remain mostly sunny. Tonight: Overnight lows cool to the mid-30s with winds remaining out of the north at 10-15 mph. Cloud cover increases to partly cloudy.
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Flores, Josh Campbell, Paul P. Murphy, Polo Sandoval, Rebekah Riess and Steve Almasy, CNN Two South Carolina families have identified the four US citizens who were assaulted and kidnapped by gunmen in northeastern Mexico on Friday in what a US official with knowledge of the investigation tells CNN was a case of mistaken
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN CNN anchor and chief national affairs analyst Kasie Hunt and husband Matthew Mario Rivera welcomed their second child to the world last week in an unforgettable way. Their daughter, Grey Hunt Rivera, was born at home on Wednesday morning after just 13 minutes of sudden labor — before there was time
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) On Monday, Jefferson City leaders are set to hear a presentation on a proposed bond increase for all Jefferson City School districts. The bond issue is called “Kids FIRST” and it will be on the April ballot. The Jefferson City School District says the “Kids FIRST” proposal is a zero-tax-increase bond and
Continue ReadingBy Artemis Moshtaghian, Isa Kaufman-Geballe and Samantha Beech, CNN At least seven people have been injured in a five-alarm fire in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City thought to have been caused by a lithium-ion battery, according to fire officials. A civilian and an emergency services worker were seriously injured, and five firefighters received
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Qiblawi and Nima Elbagir, CNN A committee of US senators has called on the United Nations to investigate a network of secret torture centers in Iran exposed by a CNN investigation last month. The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the CNN report — which revealed a swathe of clandestine detention centers used
Continue ReadingBy Tina Burnside and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Fort Lauderdale was forced to return to Havana, Cuba, on Sunday morning after reportedly experiencing bird strikes, the carrier says. In a statement to CNN Sunday, Southwest said the plane suffered bird strikes. “Southwest flight #3923 departing Havana, Cuba, for Fort Lauderdale,
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