By Aya Elamroussi, Dakin Andone and Andy Rose, CNN One day after two faculty members were shot and wounded by a student at a Denver high school, the local school board voted unanimously to temporarily suspend its nearly two-year-old ban on armed guards and police officers in its schools. “Based on the emergency situation presented
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter point on Wednesday as it attempts to fight stubbornly high inflation while addressing risks to financial stability. Investors and economists had widely anticipated the quarter-point increase despite the meltdown in the banking sector. Still, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and policymakers entered
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Today: Afternoon highs warm to 70 degrees as a warm front looms just to the north of Mid-Missouri. Light scattered drizzles are expected throughout the rest of the afternoon. Tonight: Storm development begins after 7pm for areas to the north of I-70 as scattered storm cells will begin to pop up. Some strong storms are
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Kara Scannell, Paula Reid, John Miller, Kristen Holmes and Katelyn Polantz, CNN The extraordinary legal peril surrounding Donald Trump is reaching a fever pitch at the same time the former president is forging ahead in a 2024 Republican primary that is increasingly dominated by criminal investigations in New York, Washington and Atlanta.
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Every year Missouri sees a plethora of showers and storms spanning from late March through June. Just as recently as 2021, we saw the second wettest recorded June with the total for the month reaching 10.85 inches.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) In January, Gov. Mike Parson proposed the state spend $859 million to expand parts of Interstate 70 to three lanes. This expansion would affect parts of Boone County and suburban areas in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas. The House Committee met Tuesday morning to discuss aspects of budgeting, which
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez and Nikki Carvajal, CNN Songstress Gladys Knight, actress Mindy Kaling and designer Vera Wang were among a group of creatives, writers, advocates and scholars honored at the White House on Tuesday with the 2021 National Humanities Medals and the National Medal of Arts, marking the first time President Joe Biden has held
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim and Mostafa Salem, CNN A surprise agreement by regional archenemies Saudi Arabia and Iran this month has raised hopes that the Saudi war in Yemen may come to an end, after more than seven years of hostilities that saw tens of thousands of civilians killed or injured and the country left in
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Police arrested a 41-year-old Columbia man Tuesday after he allegedly crashed into another vehicle, then a utility pole before leaving the scene.
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN The US government announced a plan Wednesday to overhaul the country’s organ transplant system. The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration said it will focus on accountability and transparency by seeking more contracts to operate the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and sharing data more
Continue ReadingBy Lucy Kafanov, CNN Situated in the Sonoran Desert near the Arizona-California border is the tiny rural town of Cibola — home to roughly 300 people, depending on the season. Life here depends almost entirely on the Colorado River, which nourishes thirsty crops like cotton and alfalfa, sustains a nearby wildlife refuge and allows visitors
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TODAY: Wednesday is noticeably warmer with a resurgence of wind from the south today. Expect winds sustained around 10-15 mph, gusting to 20-30 mph at times. This wind brings in warmth that will pool up just south of a warm front that will be draped across the northern half of mid-Missouri. Along and south of
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Senator Elizabeth Warren is cranking up the pressure on the Federal Reserve following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. In a new letter shared exclusively with CNN, Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders and ten other senators are calling for the Fed to crack down on large regional banks with assets between $100
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Federal Reserve officials have a difficult path ahead of them. They still have work to do to bring inflation down, but their efforts have been complicated by the events of the past few weeks. The failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank and the ongoing stress in the regional banking
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Advancements in artificial intelligence have stunned the tech industry this year, with an intense race currently underway to create the best chatbot. This week, Google opened up a waitlist for its new AI tool, which promises to help people write essays, plan events and even get lunch ideas. Here’s what else
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Advancements in artificial intelligence have stunned the tech industry this year, with an intense race currently underway to create the best chatbot. This week, Google opened up a waitlist for its new AI tool, which promises to help people write essays, plan events and even get lunch ideas. Here’s what else
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Advancements in artificial intelligence have stunned the tech industry this year, with an intense race currently underway to create the best chatbot. This week, Google opened up a waitlist for its new AI tool, which promises to help people write essays, plan events and even get lunch ideas. Here’s what else
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have made a sweeping affirmation of their alignment across a host of issues — and shared mistrust of the United States — in a lengthy statement following talks between the two leaders in Moscow this week. Their meeting, which took place under the
Continue ReadingBy Larry Madowo and Catherine Nicholls, CNN Ugandan lawmakers on Tuesday approved some of the world’s harshest anti-gay laws, making some crimes punishable by death and imposing up to 20 years in prison for people identifying as LGBTQ+. The new legislation constitutes a further crackdown on LGBTQ+ people in a country where same-sex relations were
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, CNN The New Haven police chief is recommending terminating four of the officers charged in the transportation incident that left a man paralyzed from the chest down in a police van last year. Five officers with the New Haven Police Department were arrested and charged with second degree reckless endangerment in November
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