By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN In his first appearance before Congress on Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Chew was grilled by lawmakers who expressed deep skepticism about his company’s attempts to protect US user data and ease concerns about its ties to China. It was a rare chance for the public to hear from the Chew, who
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN The United States is facing a crisis of overdose deaths. In 2021, more than 106,000 Americans lost their lives to drug-involved overdoses — including more than 1,100 teens that year alone. Synthetic opioids, primarily involving the powerful drug fentanyl, are the main driver of overdose deaths, with nearly a 7.5-fold increase
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean, CNN An off-duty pilot who was a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight stepped in to help the flight crew after one of the on-duty pilots had a medical emergency mid-flight. The incident began not long after Flight 6013 to Columbus, Ohio, took off from Las Vegas Wednesday, Southwest Airlines said. One
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN For the next month, Muslims around the world will observe Ramadan by abstaining from eating and drinking during daylight hours — not even water. The daily Ramadan fast, rooted in spiritual activities and self-reflection, takes place from dawn to sunset and concludes with a communal gathering. You can say “Ramadan Mubarak”
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN For the next month, Muslims around the world will observe Ramadan by abstaining from eating and drinking during daylight hours — not even water. The daily Ramadan fast, rooted in spiritual activities and self-reflection, takes place from dawn to sunset and concludes with a communal gathering. You can say “Ramadan Mubarak”
Continue ReadingBy Jill Martin and Thomas Schlachter, CNN US skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin hadn’t anticipated moving into the greatest-of-all-time conversation. Instead, the record-breaking skier thought that fellow American Lindsey Vonn would have been the athlete to challenge Ingemar Stenmark’s landmark of 86 World Cup wins. “Lindsey was the one who got the closest and that we
Continue ReadingBy Juliana Liu China has approved its first Covid-19 vaccine based on mRNA technology, months after the country lifted strict pandemic measures. The vaccine was developed by CSPC Pharmaceutical Group, a homegrown firm based in the northern Chinese city of Shijiazhuang, it said in a Wednesday statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange. The vaccine
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN China’s Evergrande Group, whose collapse in 2021 sparked China’s worst property market crisis on record, has unveiled a multi-billion dollar restructuring plan to make peace with its international creditors. The long-awaited plan could set an important precedence for investors dealing with the growing defaults and restructuring in China’s real estate industry.
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN The Federal Reserve faced a particularly vexing decision this week: Should it raise interest rates during a bank crisis? For Tom Barkin, the decision wasn’t especially challenging. Inflation, he says, remains public enemy No. 1. “Inflation is high. Demand hadn’t seemed to come down. And so, the case for raising was
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch and Tina Burnside, CNN The Tennessee plane crash that killed a Christian diet guru and six others in 2021 was caused by the pilot losing airplane control during a climb “due to spatial disorientation,” according to a National Transportation Safety Board report filed Wednesday. Dietician Gwen Shamblin Lara, her husband, actor William
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, Brandon Miller and Theresa Waldrop, CNN At least one person was injured after a rare tornado hit a city just southeast of Los Angeles Wednesday, local officials said. The National Weather Service confirmed the tornado “briefly touched down” in an industrial park and warehouse district in the city of Montebello and rated
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN The Supreme Court on Wednesday delved into the complexities of federal trademark law in a case concerning a poop-themed dog toy that resembles a Jack Daniel’s bottle, at times erupting into laughter as the justices explored how much protection should be given to parodists that rip off trademarks they don’t own.
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, Olga Voitovich and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Russia unleashed a wave of deadly attacks on towns and cities across Ukraine on Wednesday as Chinese leader Xi Jinping departed from Moscow following talks with President Vladimir Putin. Xi left Russia’s capital pledging to deepen ties with Putin but the meetings failed to achieve a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team managed to get back in the win column Wednesday night with a home victory over Drake 7-1. The Tigers were led in the mound by freshman pitcher Cierra Harrison who pitched five complete innings allowing just two hits and recording eight strikeouts. Lauren Krings closed out the final
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Wednesday, March 22, 2023. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BASEBALL SMITH-COTTON (4) ROCK BRIDGE (13) FINAL CAPITAL CITY (0) JEFFERSON CITY (1) FINAL NEW FRANKLIN (0) MOBERLY (13) FINAL ST. FRANCIS BORGIA (5) BLAIR OAKS (3) FINAL SOUTH CALLAWAY (12)
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Six highway workers were killed when a vehicle crashed into a construction zone near Baltimore, Maryland, according to police. The crash happened around 12:40 p.m. Wednesday at a work zone between temporary concrete walls on Interstate 695 in Woodlawn, about 8 miles northwest of Baltimore, Maryland State Police
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has stylized himself as a political brawler willing to take on all comers, from Disney and the corporate media to high school students wearing masks. But his brewing battle with Donald Trump was for months a one-sided affair. That changed this week when DeSantis for the first
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Shou Zi Chew is getting ready for his inaugural trip to Congress. The TikTok chief executive has, for the last week, participated in near-daily, multi-hour prep sessions, CNN has learned, as he readies to face a bipartisan grilling on Thursday from lawmakers on a number of issues, most notably data privacy
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Inflation in Europe has fallen to its slowest pace in more than a year, though stark signs of persistent underlying pressure on prices will complicate policymakers’ next move on borrowing costs. Prices in the 20 countries that use the euro rose 6.9% this month compared with a year ago, the European
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) When you’re away from your house is a likely time someone may prey on an unsuspecting home. According to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer, there were 619,811 burglaries reported in 2021, the most-recent year for available data. That number has fallen every year for the past 10 years of data available –
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