By Oliver Darcy, CNN News publishers are getting in on the TikTok trend. That’s according to a brand new survey published Wednesday evening by the Reuters Institute and University of Oxford. The survey found that, from a global standpoint, about half of the world’s top newsrooms are now regularly posting on the ByteDance-owned app. The
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has opened up about her distant relationship with her half-sister Samantha Markle in the highly-anticipated Netflix series, the first episodes of which aired on Thursday. In the third episode of “Harry & Meghan,” the duchess said she “truly” believed that the UK media wanted her mother’s side
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) On Thursday, recreational marijuana use is officially legal in Missouri. This comes after Missourians approved the legalization of marijuana in last month’s midterm election. Voters approved Amendment 3 with more than 53% of votes in favor of the measure. However, medical marijuana dispensaries still have some work to do before recreational sales
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, Jeremy Herb, MJ Lee and Kevin Liptak, CNN WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from Russian detention, President Joe Biden said Thursday. Griner was released in a prisoner swap that involved Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. The exchange, however, did not include another American that the State Department has
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Raja Razek, CNN After allegedly killing five people and injuring more than a dozen others, the 22-year-old suspect in a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, apologized to medical staff after being taken into custody, according to a court document unsealed Wednesday. Anderson Lee Aldrich is accused
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN More Americans are moving to places where extreme weather events are commonplace, a new study found. Hurricane-prone Florida and states in the drought-stricken West have seen exceptional population increases in recent decades, researchers say, signaling climate risks are not at the top of people’s minds when it comes to relocating. Here’s
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN More Americans are moving to places where extreme weather events are commonplace, a new study found. Hurricane-prone Florida and states in the drought-stricken West have seen exceptional population increases in recent decades, researchers say, signaling climate risks are not at the top of people’s minds when it comes to relocating. Here’s
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN The first few episodes of the Duke and Duchess’ highly-anticipated Netflix documentary series aired on Thursday. Here are some of the key takeaways from the first three parts: Early days of relationship The couple talked about how they first met on social media. “Meg and I had met through Instagram. I
Continue ReadingBy Ehsan Popalzai and Ivana Kottasová, CNN The Taliban government has suspended university education for all female students in Afghanistan, the latest step in its brutal clampdown on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women. A spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education confirmed the suspension to CNN on Tuesday. A letter published by
Continue ReadingBy Toyin Owoseje, CNN Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has said she was “fed to the wolves,” and Prince Harry discusses “institutional gaslighting” in a new trailer for part two of their highly-anticipated Netflix docuseries, which airs on Thursday. In the clip, released Monday, the Duke of Sussex discusses stepping back from royal duties and ponders
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, Clare Foran and Ted Barrett, CNN Donald Trump is facing a flurry of criticism on Capitol Hill, with Republican fury growing over their failure to take back the Senate and GOP leaders at odds over their strategy with the former president still maintaining a dominant hold on the party. The GOP reckoning
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Olga Voitovych and Victoria Butenko, CNN What Russia cannot win on the battlefield, it is seeking to win by casting Ukrainian cities into the dark and cold as a long winter sets in. The result is a grinding battle of attrition: Barrages of Russian missiles fly across Ukraine, and Ukrainian power engineers
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy, Selina Wang, Cheng Cheng and Wayne Chang, CNN Empty streets, deserted shopping centers, and residents staying away from one another are the new normal in Beijing — but not because the city, like many Chinese ones before it, is under a “zero-Covid” lockdown. This time, it’s because Beijing has been hit with
Continue ReadingBy Teele Rebane, Adam Pourahmadi and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Iran has executed a man for injuring a paramilitary officer in the first known execution linked to protests that have swept the country since September, state media reported Thursday. Mizan Online, a news agency affiliated with Iran’s judiciary, and the semi-official Tasmin news agency both named
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo, Sana Noor Haq, Eliza Mackintosh, Aditi Sangal, Adrienne Vogt, Maureen Chowdhury and Elise Hammond, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN Jaylen Smith graduated from high school in May. Less than a year later, the 18-year-old will be tasked with governing Earle, Arkansas, as the rural city’s newly elected mayor. Smith, a Democrat, was elected mayor of Earle — population 1,831 — on Tuesday. He defeated his opponent, Nemi Matthews, the city’s
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Katharina Krebs, CNN Nearly 10 months after his invasion of Ukraine began, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday acknowledged that the conflict is “going to take a while,” as he also warned of the “increasing” threat of nuclear war. Speaking at a meeting of Russia’s Human Rights Council at the Kremlin,
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BOYS BASKETBALL SMITH-COTTON (31) HICKMAN (65) FINAL CAPITAL CITY (61) BLAIR OAKS (63) FINAL WARRENSBURG (39) JEFFERSON CITY (83) FINAL HS GIRLS BASKETBALL HELIAS (64) SOUTHERN BOONE (40) FINAL HARRISBURG (25)
Continue ReadingBy Mark Morales and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg said in an email to staff on Saturday that his office will “not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in New York.” The email was sent after former President Donald Trump posted on social media that he
Continue Reading
Part of Clark Lane in east Columbia is closed for a “police incident,” according to a notification from Boone County Joint Communications.
Continue Reading