By Poppy Harlow and Matias Grez, CNN NBA legend Dwyane Wade says he has sleepless nights over the dangers his children face when going to school in the midst of gun violence in the United States. On May 24, a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers after opening fire inside Robb Elementary School in
Continue ReadingBy Sanyo Fylyppov and Ivana Kottasová, CNN When Ukrainian forces regained control of Katyuzhanka, a village north of Kyiv that had been under Russian occupation for more than a month in March, they found the local school wrecked. Any equipment that hadn’t been stolen was smashed, there was a makeshift cemetery in the school yard
Continue ReadingBy Frank Pallotta, CNN Business President Joe Biden made his first in-person appearance on a late night talk show when he stopped by “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Wednesday night. Kimmel kicked off his interview with the President on Wednesday by saying that Biden is to “aviator sunglasses what Tom Cruise is to aviator sunglasses.” Then Kimmel
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The Columbia Board of Education authorized nearly $7.08 million to increase current employee salaries.
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, CNN A House committee hearing on Wednesday provided a high-profile platform for an 11-year-old survivor of the Uvalde elementary school shooting and others affected by gun violence to tell their harrowing stories to the American public. The hearing took place as lawmakers face pressure to act in the wake of the horrific
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A man faces possible charges after investigators searched a Jefferson City home on Wednesday morning. Investigators executed a narcotics search warrant just before 9:45 a.m. at a home in the 700 block of Jackson Street, according to the Jefferson City Police Department. Police said investigators found suspected heroin, marijuana, and weapons
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN that the immigration challenges facing the Biden administration along the southern border are “beyond anything that anyone has seen before,” and that the issue will be a key focus of a summit of regional leaders taking place this week in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A group of Columbia residents in an old southwest neighborhood is trying to get their neighborhood designated as a Historic District Overlay. The group says they jump-started the process after they found out one house has plans for demolition. Nick Foster, the Ward 4 council member for the City of Columbia, says
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear and cool with lows in the upper 50s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and comfortable with highs in the upper 70s. Rain moving in again late. EXTENDED: Skies are clearing behind an active morning that left anywhere from 0.25″ to 1.25″ of rain across the area. We ended up with about 0.6″ at the
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For those on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), the Columbia Farmers Market also offers up to $60 in additional help.
Continue ReadingBy Greg Wallace, CNN The Transportation Security Administration has started an investigation after an official said a gun may have been missed during a security check at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. A government official with knowledge of the incident told CNN that an Atlanta airport passenger might have boarded a plane on Tuesday carrying a
Continue ReadingBy Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Jill Biden said last month as she wrapped a six-day trip to Latin America that she was not concerned about the threat of boycott from certain countries at the upcoming Summit of the Americas. “I’m not worried. I think that they’ll come,” Biden said, a prediction that this week
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Two tornadoes hit the Kansas City area early Wednesday — part of a system that also caused wind damage in the Lake of the Ozarks area.
Continue ReadingThe US Department of Justice has named the team who will lead a federal review of the response to the deadly rampage at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers and remained in the school for more than an hour while police waited nearby.
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, CNN A House committee hearing on Wednesday provided a high-profile platform for an 11-year-old survivor of the Uvalde elementary school shooting and others affected by gun violence to tell their harrowing stories to the American public. The hearing took place as lawmakers face pressure to act in the wake of the horrific
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN There’s something unfortunately symbolic about “Jurassic World: Dominion,” which combines old and new DNA from the near-three-decade-old franchise and generates a pretty mindless mess. The nostalgia factor gives the movie an initial jolt, and there are, of course, some dino-sized thrills, but not enough to lift this XL-sized mediocrity out
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business A Japanese company has built a four-legged, rolling robot that looks vaguely like a centaur — boasting two arms with claw-like hands, an arachnid-esque abdomen and two bulging cameras for eyes — and is designed to transverse the surface of the moon. The robot, called the R1, was designed and
Continue ReadingBy Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist A “dangerous and deadly heat wave” is on the way for the Southwest through the weekend, the Phoenix National Weather Service warns. More than 30 million people are under heat alerts, and more than 50 daily high-temperature records could be broken through the weekend — including in Death Valley, California,
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell and Holly Yan, CNN The US Department of Justice has named the team who will lead a federal review of the response to the deadly rampage at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers and remained in the school for more than an
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN The California man arrested near US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh‘s home and charged with attempting or threatening to kidnap or murder a US judge said in calls he made to 911 before the arrest that he was thinking of killing himself and needed psychiatric help, according to audio recordings released
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