By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump caused alarm across Nigeria over the weekend when he said he was contemplating military action in Africa’s most populous nation in response to what he claimed was a “mass slaughter” of Christians by Islamist insurgents. The reality on the ground, experts and analysts say, is
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By Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — There were just 11 minutes between the moment British police received an emergency call about a stabbing on a train heading to London and the moment the suspect was arrested. Eleven victims were hospitalized in the attack, including one railway worker who is in critical but stable condition,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 19-year-old Steelville man is dead after a head-on crash in Camden County just after 11 p.m. Sunday, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report states the 19-year-old was driving a 2011 Chevrolet Impala on Highway 5, just under a mile from Dry Hollow Road, when
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN Senators are returning to Capitol Hill today as the government shutdown enters its 34th day — with no end in sight. The record for the longest shutdown in US history is likely to be broken in less than 48 hours as Democrats and Republicans show no signs of reaching an end
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN Senators are returning to Capitol Hill today as the government shutdown enters its 34th day — with no end in sight. The record for the longest shutdown in US history is likely to be broken in less than 48 hours as Democrats and Republicans show no signs of reaching an
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Four suspects in custody in relation to their alleged involvement in the spectacular heist at the Louvre museum last month are local petty criminals with no association with organized crime, according to investigators. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said the quartet, comprising three men and one woman, were living in
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, Ryan Young, and Cynthia Salinas Cappellano, CNN (CNN) — When Brian O’Hara took over the Minneapolis Police Department in 2022, he saw a department in free fall. The murder of George Floyd and the ensuing riots in 2020 had fractured the public’s trust in law enforcement. Crime and shootings were rising at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A motorcyclist is seriously hurt after a multi-vehicle crash around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, at the intersection of Range Line Street and Rainforest Parkway, according to a press release from the Columbia Police Department. A preliminary investigation shows a vehicle heading south on Range Line St. made a turn eastbound onto Kennesaw Ridge
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It took extra innings in Game 7, but the Los Angeles Dodgers pulled off a championship repeat in this year’s World Series. Their opponent was the Toronto Blue Jays, who tried to take the trophy back to Canada a few decades after the great Jays teams of the 1990s. Ratings for the final game aren’t
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By Chris Boyette, Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — An expert for the defense in the $40 million lawsuit filed by a former Virginia elementary school teacher shot by a 6-year-old student with a history of disciplinary problems testified Monday the assistant principal did not breach professional standards or act with indifference. Former Assistant Principal Ebony
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Cooper, Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — Flight delays linked to the ongoing federal government shutdown continue, with this past weekend marking the worst for air traffic control staffing shortages since the shutdown began, according to a CNN analysis of Federal Aviation Administration operations plans. Between Friday morning and Sunday night, there were 98
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Junko Ogura, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she wants to hold a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – something no Japanese leader has done in more than 20 years. “We have already conveyed to North Korea our desire to hold a summit meeting,”
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By Alaa Elassar, Leigh Waldman, Jeff Winter, Holly Yan, CNN Dearborn, Michigan (CNN) — Two men face federal charges for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired Halloween attack in the US – possibly on the scale of the 2015 Paris terror attacks that killed at least 130 people, authorities say. An FBI raid on Halloween morning stunned
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — The Maldives has become the first country to impose a generational smoking ban – making smoking, buying and selling tobacco illegal for anyone born after January 1, 2007. The ban took effect on Saturday in the South Asian archipelago, “marking a historic milestone in the nation’s efforts to protect
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By Danya Gainor, Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — A judge has extended her order blocking President Donald Trump from deploying any National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, until Friday – keeping soldiers in the city in limbo as the legal showdown over presidential power continues. US District Court Judge Karin Immergut’s decision on Sunday followed
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — The mayor of Evanston, Illinois, says he is opening two investigations after federal agents were filmed pinning down and repeatedly striking a person in the head as they arrested him Friday. Videos shared on social media showed federal agents pinning a man to the ground and punching him in
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By Masoud Popalzai, Catherine Nicholls and Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — A powerful earthquake has rattled northern Afghanistan, killing at least 27 people and injuring 956 more, according to Dr. Sharafat Zaman Amar, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Health. The tremor also damaged one of the country’s most beautiful mosques. Families were jolted
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By Billy Stockwell, Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Several drones spotted above a Belgian airbase over the weekend were there “to spy” on military fighter jets, the country’s defense minister said Sunday, at a time when European nations are on high alert for airspace intrusions. “They come to spy, to see where the F-16s are,
Continue ReadingReuters Mexico City (Reuters) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum promised on Sunday there would be justice for the brazen murder of a local mayor, Carlos Manzo, an outspoken critic of organized crime who had called on the government to do more to protect him and others. Manzo, 40, was shot on Saturday while attending a
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A senior Justice Department official has told Congress that the Trump administration can continue lethal military strikes on alleged drug traffickers without congressional approval and that the administration is not bound by a decades-old war powers law, two congressional sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The head of
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