By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Right now, you’re using at least one of your five human senses: sight, smell, hearing, touch, or taste. Animals, of course, have senses too — including a bunch that we don’t have. The senses that exist in the animal kingdom are often a mystery to us, so if you’ve ever wondered
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy and Rob Picheta, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the immediate “partial mobilization” of Russian citizens on Wednesday, a move that threatens to escalate his faltering invasion of Ukraine following a string of defeats that caused recriminations in Moscow. Putin said in a speech that he would use “all the means at
Continue ReadingBy Teele Rebane and Hannah Ritchie, CNN The last time Farnaz heard her brother’s voice was over the phone, on an unknown number. “He called me and said only one sentence: ‘I was caught’ … I immediately understood what my dear brother meant and went to the morality police department (to look for him),” the
Continue ReadingBy Angus Watson and Heather Chen, CNN More than 200 whales have been found stranded in Australia on the western shore of Tasmania, wildlife officials said. The animals, which appear to be pilot whales, are currently stranded on a beach and a sand bank, the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service said in a statement issued
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna, Elizabeth Wolfe and Melissa Alonso, CNN With Category 4 Hurricane Fiona poised to sideswipe Bermuda later this week, people in the storm’s deadly wake still faced days without basic utilities late Wednesday — including much of Puerto Rico, where most were left without power and running water. More than a million people
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The city of Columbia’s Public Transit Advisory Commission will meet Tuesday to discuss the city’s transit system and a possible new bus service between Columbia and Jefferson City.
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The president might have said the pandemic is over but this isn’t the time to forget how bad COVID-19 can be, a Boone Health doctor said Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera, Rob Frehse and Zenebou Sylla, CNN Lawyers for Civil Rights, a non-profit immigrant advocacy group that represents more than 30 of the nearly 50 migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Alianza Americas and other migrants, according to a news release from the organization. Two planes
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday declared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a violation of the global order, sharpening his rebukes of President Vladimir Putin as the war entered a tense new moment. Biden’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly came hours after Putin announced an expansion of his war effort, lending
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First-round approval has been granted by Missouri senators for a proposed plan to cut individual income taxes.
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, Natalie Gallón, Brice Lâiné and Konstantin Gak, CNN In the ruins of an apartment block tarred with soot and clouded in dust amid constant shelling, a small group of Ukrainian soldiers are face to face with a new type of Russian enemy: mercenaries, some of whom may be convicts sent to
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MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) Mexico’s Hunter Cuno and Matt McCurdy are our Week 4 SportsZone Football Friday play of the week winners. You can watch the play in the video player above. Up next – the Bulldogs make the trip to meet the Hannibal Pirates on Friday at 7 p.m.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team will make its first-ever trip to Auburn on Saturday to kick off SEC play at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Ahead of that game, head coach Eli Drinkwitz will be paying special attention to the offensive line. You can watch extended highlights of Tuesday’s practice in the video player below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKpB7Mydud8
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A 58-year-old man was killed Tuesday morning when a house exploded near Vienna.
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess, Brad Parks and Dakin Andone, CNN Eight people have been taken to hospitals from the scene of a building explosion in Chicago on Tuesday morning, according to Chicago Fire. At least three of those people are listed in serious to critical condition, Chicago Fire said on Twitter. The source of the explosion
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and muggy with lows in the lower 70s. TOMORROW: Increasing clouds and warm with highs in the lower 90s. Spotty to scattered storms possible south of Highway 50 by early evening. EXTENDED: The record high for today has been tied with 98 degrees recorded at the Columbia airport as of 3:00 p.m.
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal appeals court is allowing the Justice Department to continue looking at documents marked as classified that were seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and resort. The emergency intervention upends a trial judge’s order over those documents that had blocked federal investigators’ work on the
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Kara Scannell, CNN A court hearing in Brooklyn on Tuesday gave the public its first glimpse of how Judge Raymond Dearie, a senior judge who’s been tapped to serve as a special master in the Mar-a-Lago search dispute, will approach the job of reviewing materials seized from former President Donald Trump’s
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Omar Jimenez, CNN The Justice Department on Tuesday announced charges against 47 people accused of stealing $250 million from a federal program designed to provide meals for needy children during the pandemic. According to the department, the scheme is the largest Covid-19-related fraud uncovered by investigators to date. The defendants are
Continue ReadingBy Reuters Saudi Arabia is planning to launch two astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a space capsule from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, becoming the latest Gulf nation to strengthen ties with private U.S. space companies, according to three people familiar with the arrangement. The sources, speaking anonymously to discuss the mission’s crew before its
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