By Leah Asmelash, CNN The use of the term “Latinx” has been a divisive issue for some time — and a new poll shows that it’s the least popular signifier among Hispanic and Latino people. Gallup found that only 4% of Hispanic and Latino Americans prefer the term Latinx, a gender neutral signifier that has
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, Kiely Westhoff and Laura Ly, CNN Baltimore County officials have agreed to a $3 million settlement with the family and estate of Korryn Gaines, according to court documents. The agreement comes five years after Gaines, 23, was shot and killed after an hourslong standoff with police in Baltimore County. She was
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By Ashley Vaughan, CNN After the federal eviction moratorium expired, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an extension until October 3 for high Covid-19 transmission areas. The Biden administration says those areas cover 90 percent of the country’s renters. According to a recent survey by the US Census Bureau just before the extension
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi. Personal Birth date: December 14, 1960 Birth place: Mashhad, Iran Full name: Sayyid Ebrahim Raisol-Sadati Father: Seyyed Haji, a cleric Mother: Sayyedeh Esmat Khodadad Husseini Marriage: Jamileh Alamolhoda (1983-present) Children: Two daughters Education: Attended seminary in Qom; Shahid Motahari University, Ph.D
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Missouri hospitals are seeing a steady increase in occupancy due to the spread of new COVID variants.
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN We are driven by discovery. As a kid, I devoured stories about the arduous efforts to reveal the past (and I still do). There were divers seeking shipwrecks, astronomers peering through telescopes at the universe, researchers digging for fossils, and historians looking through pages and paintings to find lost masterpieces. Their
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri announced a $5 million commitment from Pinney Allen and family to the Trulaske College of Business. The gift will establish the Allen Access Program to support under-resourced and underrepresented students in the College of Business through scholarships and programs. “The Allen Access Program will create more opportunities for
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN The fallout from a police officer who followed a car thinking the man behind the wheel was Native American is testing the fragility of race relations in a South Dakota city. The police officer in Rapid City resigned after he allegedly reported that “a young Native American male (was) driving a
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By Melissa Alonso, CNN A Jefferson County Sheriff’s (JCSO) deputy has died after being shot early Thursday while working an off-duty detail, and investigators believe he was “targeted” and “ambushed,” according to JCSO spokesman, Lt. Col. Carl Yates. Deputy Brandon Shirley, 26, was working an off-duty security detail at Rockford Lane Auto Sales in Shively,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A USDA animal and plant health inspection service study found white-tailed deer carrying COVID-19 antibodies. The deer were studied from populations in Illinois, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania. The study shows 33-percent of samples from January 2020 to March 2021 showed deer with the antibodies. The study says that it should not
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By Kristin Wilson, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that Democrats should expect zero help from Republicans in their effort to raise the debt ceiling, previewing a looming fight this fall over the nation’s borrowing limit, which Congress must approve. “Democrats are about to tell Republicans to go
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Parking Advisory Committee says it needs more information on the proposed hotel parking at the intersection of Cherry St. and Hitt St., in order to make a recommendation. Columbia’s city council asked the parking advisory committee to go over the plan at its last meeting. “Our job is to pass
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By Dakin Andone and Keith Allen, CNN Nearly 500 cases of Covid-19 have been reported in people who congregated in Milwaukee’s Deer District to cheer on the Milwaukee Bucks during the NBA playoffs last month. At least 491 cases have arisen from people who “self-declared” they attended a Deer District gathering at some point during
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN Found frozen deep in the Siberian Arctic, the cave lion cub looks like she’s asleep and one touch might awaken her. The cub’s golden fur is matted with mud but otherwise undamaged. Her teeth, skin, soft tissue and organs are mummified but all intact. Some 28,000 years since she last closed
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN In the quest to understand Mars, two robots are better than one — especially when they work together. While the Perseverance rover prepares to collect its first Martian sample, the Ingenuity helicopter is flying overhead to scout the terrain and take photos. “Ingenuity is allowing the Perseverance science team to be
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Just a couple of weeks after the Ingenuity helicopter celebrated a year of flying on Mars, things got quiet. For the first time, the Ingenuity team on Earth lost contact with Ingenuity on sols 427 and 428, or Martian days that correspond with May 3 and May 4. The little chopper’s
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By Hadas Gold, CNN Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is warning that Israelis over 60 are at risk unless they go get their third booster shot immediately. In a recorded audio message meant to be forwarded to friends and family, Bennett said that in the next two to three weeks anyone who is over the
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN An array of planets with similarities to some in our solar system have been found around a nearby star by astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. The star, known as L 98-59, is 35 light-years away from Earth. There may be as many as five planets
Continue Reading By Hadas Gold, CNN Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is warning that Israelis over 60 are at risk unless they go get their third booster shot immediately. In a recorded audio message meant to be forwarded to friends and family, Bennett said that in the next two to three weeks anyone who is over the
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By Brian Rokus and Christina Carrega, CNN A former Louisville, Kentucky, police officer has pleaded guilty to hitting a kneeling person in the head who was surrendering during an arrest in May last year, according to a statement from the Department of Justice. Cory Evans, 33, appeared in court and pleaded guilty Wednesday in the
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