By George Ramsay, CNN As Aaron Judge hit his record-breaking 62nd home run, one fan struck the jackpot. The New York Yankees slugger moved clear of Roger Maris’ single-season American League record with his 62nd home run Tuesday, and Cory Youmans — sitting in left field with a front-row seat — was the lucky fan
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, CNN Business OPEC+ said Wednesday that it will slash oil production by 2 million barrels per day, the biggest cut since the start of the pandemic, in a move that threatens to push gasoline prices higher just weeks before US midterm elections. The group of major oil producers, which includes Saudi Arabia
Continue ReadingBy Don Riddell and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The World Cup in Qatar is practically a home tournament for Iran, only the narrow Persian Gulf separates the two nations. But as they line up for their opening match against England on November 21, some of the Iranian players might feel rather uncomfortable wearing the tricolor flag
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX and NASA launched a crew of astronauts who hail from all over the world on a trip to the International Space Station Wednesday. The mission, which includes some historic firsts, moved forward even as rising geopolitical tensions brew on the ground. The four crew members — astronauts Nicole Mann and
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN Spring is for skinny bears and March Madness basketball. Fall, however, is for fat bears — and for Katmai National Park & Preserve’s annual Fat Bear Week and its accompanying tournament of crowning a chubby champion for 2022. And unlike that bracket-busting basketball tourney, you can actually participate in and sway
Continue ReadingBy Chloe Melas, CNN Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen, who have been living separately from each other in recent weeks, have each hired divorce attorneys and are “exploring their options” regarding their marriage, a source close to the estranged couple told CNN on Tuesday. CNN reported last month that Brady, a seven-time Super Bowl champion
Continue ReadingBy Jomana Karadsheh and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN A woman dressed in black raises a framed portrait of her son, Siavash Mahmoudi, in the air as she paces the sidewalk in Iran’s capital, Tehran. “I am not scared of anyone. They told me to be silent. I will not be,” the woman seen in a viral
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill, CNN A grueling two-year drought in Kenya has wiped out 2% of the world’s rarest zebra species and increased elephant deaths as well, as the climate crisis takes its toll on the east African nation’s wildlife. Animal carcasses rotting on the ground — including giraffes and livestock — have become a common
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN The application for President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan is expected to go live as soon as this week. But the nation is divided over the program, flooding social media platforms with praise or criticism. Additionally, ongoing legal challenges and lawsuits aiming to block the plan are creating a few
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN The application for President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan is expected to go live as soon as this week. But the nation is divided over the program, flooding social media platforms with praise or criticism. Additionally, ongoing legal challenges and lawsuits aiming to block the plan are creating a few
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN The pandemic has been tough, but the return to in-person schooling has also been emotionally difficult for Mary Norris’ 12-year-old daughter. Norris says her daughter was bullied relentlessly at the school she attended last year in Fresno, California, near where her father lives. So she transferred to a school in Madera,
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TODAY: Wednesday brings a cold front back to mid-Missouri. Impacts of the cold front are minimal, with only an increase in cloud cover and a chance for sprinkles expected. At the most, some north of I-70 may see a quickly passing light shower, but otherwise this front is a bit noneventful. We will see a
Continue ReadingBy Olga Voitovych, CNN A Crimean beauty queen has been fined 40,000 Russian rubles (around $680) by occupying Russian authorities for singing the patriotic Ukrainian song “Chervona Kalyna,” according to Russian state media and pro-Russian regional authorities. Olga Valeeva, who was named Mrs Queen Beauty — Crimea 2022, was spared a jail sentence because she
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team will take a road trip to Gainesville, Florida on Saturday to meet the Gators at the Swamp, after nearly upsetting then-No. 1 Georgia in week five. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz noted that wide receiver Dominic Lovett and defensive back Kris Abrams-Draine are both day-to-day with injuries after the
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Thursday that the jury in the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy case will not see a “death list” of Georgia election officials allegedly written by a defendant, saying that it is “too prejudicial.” The document was found in a search of defendant Thomas
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS SOFTBALL Southern Boone (4) Blair Oaks (15) FINAL Iberia (4) Capital City (6) FINAL Rolla (0) Camdenton (3) FINAL Hickman (6) Tolton (7) FINAL HS BOYS SOCCER Rock Bridge (2)
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN Authorities in California’s Central Valley are investigating what they believe is a series of killings that has claimed the lives of six people since last year. Police in Stockton are offering a $125,000 reward for any information regarding the homicides, which began in April 2021 with the most recent killing reported
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First responders in Boone County blocked off a northeast Columbia road on Tuesday night.
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By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business A board seat accepted and then rejected. A stunning $44 billion takeover offer with uncertain financing. And a surprise early morning tweet putting the deal on hold, temporarily. Even by the standards of Twitter, a company that has known plenty of chaos and dysfunction in its history, the weeks-long effort
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Some neighbors to a possible resource center for the homeless are pushing back on its location. Several groups in the city are wanting to build the Opportunity Campus on Business Loop 70 near Bowling Street. The person who used to own the land for the center is against the plan. The Voluntary
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