By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration moved Thursday to challenge California’s effort to redraw the state’s congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, throwing the full weight of the Justice Department in the high-stakes battle over control the House of Representatives next year. After voters in the Golden State approved a ballot
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A self-styled clairvoyant who said a statue of the Virgin Mary cried tears of blood and claimed she could multiply gnocchi for her followers, has been charged with fraud, along with her husband. They are due to stand trial in April. For years, faithful Catholic pilgrims flocked
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – A Boonville woman accused of embezzling from a non-profit she worked for is now in the Cooper County Jail. Jennifer Waibel, 52, spent nearly $50,000 on a credit card owned by Unlimited Opportunities Incorporated in the summer of 2023, according to a probable cause statement. She is scheduled to be back in court on
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By Dianne Gallagher, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Charlotte (CNN) — Before he got a call this week from CNN about reports US Border Patrol agents might be headed to Charlotte, North Carolina, City Councilmember Malcolm Graham had no idea such a plan was even in the cards. None of the Charlotte officials CNN reached out to
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By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — Newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate have once again raised questions over Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s account of his friendship with the late sex offender and his denials of the allegations of his accuser Virginia Giuffre. The former prince told Epstein and convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell “I can’t
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By Zeena Saifi, Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — Israeli settlers torched a mosque and sprayed it with graffiti in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to Palestinian authorities, the latest in a surge of increasingly brazen settler attacks against Palestinians. The Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs said settlers attacked the Hajjah Hamidah Mosque
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 68-year-old Stover man was seriously hurt after he hit a deer while riding his motorcycle in Morgan County late Wednesday morning, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report states the man was riding a 2004 Harley-Davidson Dyna Superglide on MO 135 near Pine Tree Road
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN Now that the government is reopening, several US airlines are expressing optimism that they will soon be able to get flights back on schedule — but the effort won’t be easy or immediate. Flight delays and cancellations are expected to linger as air traffic controllers work to increase their staffing levels.
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN Now that the government is reopening, several US airlines are expressing optimism that they will soon be able to get flights back on schedule — but the effort won’t be easy or immediate. Flight delays and cancellations are expected to linger as air traffic controllers work to increase their staffing
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN Now that the government is reopening, several US airlines are expressing optimism that they will soon be able to get flights back on schedule — but the effort won’t be easy or immediate. Flight delays and cancellations are expected to linger as air traffic controllers work to increase their staffing
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CNN By Abby Phillip, Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized, according to a statement obtained by CNN. Jackson, 84, a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), the Rainbow PUSH Coalition said Wednesday evening. “He has been managing
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By Kara Fox, Sana Noor Haq, CNN London (CNN) — A British journalist and political commentator detained by US immigration officers for more than two weeks warned of “an attack on the freedoms of ordinary Americans and citizens worldwide” as he returned to the UK Thursday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had detained Sami Hamdi,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) More than six years after two Columbia residents were shot and killed in northeast Columbia, their families and police are still searching for answers. “Something that was different about this scene than others, it was very quiet,” Columbia Police Department Lt. Matt Gremore said. Just after 3 a.m. Sept. 22, 2019, police
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri’s Young Democratic Democratic Socialists of America allege recent proposals from UM System President Mun Choi would lead to criminalizing homeless The group held a town hall Wednesday night where roughly 50 students gathered to discuss policing and housing in the city. Councilwomen Valerie Carroll (Ward 1) and Vera
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) All eight members of Missouri’s U.S. House delegation voted Wednesday on the bill that is expected to the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history. Six Republicans voted in favor of the bill, while the state’s two Democrats voted against it. The House passed the government funding bill by a vote of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 65-year-old woman from St. Louis was seriously injured Wednesday in a crash on Highway 63 in Macon County, about seven miles north of Macon, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says a 2011 Toyota Sienna – driven by the woman – was disabled in
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An off-duty Airman assigned to Whiteman Air Force Base was killed in a shooting in Warrensburg on Wednesday morning, prompting a lockdown of Warrensburg High School.
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, Kocha Olarn, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump’s much-heralded peace declaration between Thailand and Cambodia is falling apart after the two countries accused each other of opening fire along their disputed border on Wednesday, in skirmishes that killed at least one person. The brief clash came two days after Thailand said
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CNN staff (CNN) — From concern to skepticism, Venezuelans in Caracas are expressing a range of emotions a day after the United States’ most advanced aircraft carrier strike group arrived in the Latin American region and intensified the friction between both nations. The US Navy says the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group will
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cole County judge heard arguments Wednesday on the first redistricting lawsuit in a string of legal challenges. A group of voters is suing Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, arguing that redistricting can occur only after a census, as the state constitution and the state supreme court have ruled, according
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