By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Alaska Airlines is rolling out electronic bag tags in an effort to speed up the airport check-in process for customers, the company said Tuesday. The new option, which Alaska is billing as the first of its kind for a US airline, will allow customers to skip the step of printing
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The CEO of one of America’s largest banks is worried inflation will remain problematic for a while longer — and he thinks there’s a growing chance of a recession. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said in an interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow Wednesday that people need to “prepare
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TODAY: Sunshine returns with mostly clear skies this morning. Starting in the 70s this morning, a north wind keeps us only in the mid 90s this afternoon. Temperatures will feel pretty true to themselves with little interference from humidity. TONIGHT: Skies stay clear overnight tonight, allowing us to cool just into the upper 60s in
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN America’s CEOs made 324 times more than the workers at their companies last year, according to a new report from one of the nation’s top union groups. S&P 500 CEOs on average got a roughly 18% bump in compensation — about $18 million each — while many of their workers struggle
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN America’s CEOs made 324 times more than the workers at their companies last year, according to a new report from one of the nation’s top union groups. S&P 500 CEOs on average got a roughly 18% bump in compensation — about $18 million each — while many of their workers struggle
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN Americans’ approval of the Supreme Court has fallen again, according to a new poll released Wednesday, with just 38% of the country saying it approves of the nation’s highest court after it overturned Roe v. Wade — a dramatic shift in public opinion from one year ago. The Marquette Law School
Continue ReadingBy Amy Li, CNN “We had to make this really tough decision between our love for our faith or our love for sports.” Simran Jeet Singh — Executive Director for the Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program, who studies religion, racism and justice — recalls his own experience of fighting for inclusion as a turbaned
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Elam and Kacey Cherry, CNN Gems and jewelry worth millions of dollars were stolen from an armored truck parked at a rest stop near Los Angeles, officials said, setting off a multi-agency investigation. The heist unfolded between 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. July 11 at a Flying J rest stop and gas station
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ.) Several Missouri county sheriffs are worried about an alleged FBI request for concealed carry permit holder records. The requests allegedly state that Missouri County Sheriffs’ offices will need to hand over concealed carry permit holder records to the FBI. However, Capt. Brian Leer, who works at the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, says it’s never
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After an armed citizen stopped a shooter at an Indiana mall, ABC 17 News decided to take a look at the current concealed carry laws in Missouri. When it comes to conceal carry laws, some Missourians might think you need a permit to carry concealed in Missouri. However, anyone over the age of 19 who
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN More than a dozen Democratic members of Congress were among those arrested by Capitol Police on Tuesday afternoon as part of an abortion rights protest in front of the Supreme Court. Wearing specially made green bandanas with “Won’t Back Down,” they marched from the Capitol to the Court, which has been
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It now only takes three numbers 9-8-8 to reach a trained mental health professional across the state but some people on the internet are saying there are some risks.
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson and Dakin Andone, CNN The gunman who killed 14 students and three adults at a Parkland, Florida, high school in 2018 was “cold, calculative, manipulative and deadly” in carrying out his attack, prosecutor Michael Satz said Monday in a Broward County courtroom. Three days before the shooting, Nikolas Cruz looked into his
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Habitat for Humanity volunteers were working in the sweltering summer heat on Tuesday to build a home for a family they don’t even know.
Continue ReadingBy Jason Morris, Preston Fore, Celeste Noraian and Dan Berman, CNN An Atlanta judge says he will ensure a report from the special grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump‘s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia won’t be an “October surprise.” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, in a hearing Thursday,
Continue ReadingBy Caroll Alvarado, Michelle Watson and Jacquelyne Germain, CNN The mother who posted a video showing a costumed character appearing to ignore two Black children during a parade at Sesame Place in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, says the theme park’s explanation of the incident as a “misunderstanding” is not enough. Jodi Brown and her attorney told
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Henderson, CNN A fire broke out at the Hoover Dam on Tuesday at about 10 a.m. local time when a transformer caught fire, sending plumes of black smoke into the air, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. The fire was extinguished about 30 minutes later by the Reclamation/Hoover fire brigade, the bureau’s Regional
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear with lows in the low to mid-70s. TOMORROW: Less humid and mostly sunny with highs in the mid-90s. EXTENDED: A weak cold front moves through tonight, shifting our winds back to the northwest. That will keep humidity and temperatures a touch lower for tomorrow, but highs still reach the low to mid-90s.
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN The contempt of Congress trial against Steve Bannon got underway in earnest on Tuesday with opening statements and the first witness testimony after a failed last-minute effort from the Trump ally’s team to delay the trial. The simple case that prosecutors wish to put on was evident in
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Temperatures across the Midwest and Western United States have remind above average throughout the majority of June and July. Columbia Missouri has reached 99 degrees as our hottest recorded temperature for 2022 so far. Across the Atlantic ocean, the United Kingdom has officially surpassed Columbia’s high and have beaten their own previous records. Before July
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