By Megan Marples, CNN NASA’s Perseverance rover captured an unusual image of something lying in the red sand of Mars: a bundle of string. The rover’s front left hazard avoidance camera took a photo of the light-colored object on July 12 that some people likened to spaghetti. Officials at the space agency confirmed that they
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN Business The German government has stepped in to bail out one of its biggest energy companies — the latest casualty of Europe’s natural gas crisis. Gas distributor Uniper will receive up to €15 billion ($15.3 billion) from the government after months of Russian supply cuts and soaring spot market prices have
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Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Disgraced former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the murders of his wife and son, who were found shot to death on the family’s property in June 2021. The plea comes nearly a week after Murdaugh was indicted by a Colleton County grand jury
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN One image distributed by Iranian media on Tuesday of Russia and Iran’s leaders meeting stood out. Russian President Vladimir Putin is shown clasping palms with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the two rulers — both heads of oil-rich countries grappling with grueling Western sanctions — boast about their tight
Continue ReadingBy Omar Jimenez and Bill Kirkos, CNN An investigation is underway after a 13-year-old boy was shot by a Chicago Police Department officer, according to the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability. The teen’s lawyers, and witnesses, contend his hands were up when police opened fire. He is now paralyzed from being shot in the
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Hundreds will head to Boone County Wednesday as the county fair heads into its second night, and organizers say safety and security is on everyone’s minds.
Continue ReadingBy Evan Perez and Kara Scannell, CNN The federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s business activities is nearing a critical juncture as investigators weigh possible charges and prosecutors confront Justice Department guidelines to generally avoid bringing politically sensitive cases close to an election, according to people briefed on the matter. While no final decision has been
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Road Safety Audit (RSA) team for Route B/Paris Road met with local business owners Wednesday to discuss what changes they would like to see made to the corridor. The Road Safety Audit is a project that was launched to help the City of Columbia reach it’s goal of Vision Zero, a
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Jefferson City Special Learning Center wants to double its capacity to teach children with special needs by creating a new facility with the help of state funding.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police and Columbia Public Schools held an active shooter training exercise on Wednesday at John Warner Middle School in Southwest Columbia. The training exercise was a chance for officers and school personnel to put plans into action when it comes to an active shooter situation here in Columbia. “It involved both the initial response to the
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and a bit cooler with lows near 70. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny with highs in the upper 90s. EXTENDED: A weak cold front has moved across the area today bringing in drier air with lower dew points and keeping humidity low through Thursday. Temperatures begin to warm back into the upper 90s to
Continue ReadingBy René Marsh and Angela Fritz, CNN The water off the coast of northwest Greenland is a glass-like calm, but the puddles accumulating on the region’s icebergs are a sign that a transformation is underway higher on the ice sheet. Several days of unusually warm weather in northern Greenland have triggered rapid melting, made visible
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN The House January 6 committee’s final prime-time hearing Thursday is all about 187 minutes. That’s the period of a little more than three hours as the riot unfolded in the US Capitol that the House select committee has argued then-President Donald Trump was derelict in his duties. The
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MENDON, Mo. (KMIZ.) On Wednesday court documents revealed the latest on a new Amtrak derailment lawsuit. The family argues Billy Barton the second, the man driving the dump truck for MS contracting that hit the train, failed to operate the dump truck with care and safety which ultimately resulted in the death of their family member Binh Phan. Almost a
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A former Trump White House aide who met with the January 6 committee earlier this week went on a profane and sexist rant on a livestream after his testimony, where he railed against the lawmakers and attacked other witnesses, according to audio posted to his Telegram. The aide,
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Clare Foran, CNN A bipartisan group of senators reached a deal to make it harder to overturn a certified presidential election, marking the most significant response by Congress to former President Donald Trump’s relentless pressure campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The proposal still needs to be
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN With their once-sweeping budget reconciliation package whittled down to two health care measures, Senate Democrats are moving ahead with pushing the legislation through the chamber. Another hurdle, however, remains, and it’s not Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who has blocked his party from including climate, tax, social safety net
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN Not 24 hours after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, ending the right to an abortion in the United States, Myisha Malone-King got a call from her insurance company. It said that the medication she takes for a condition totally unrelated to abortion would no longer be
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