By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Messages of gratitude and support for US President Joe Biden poured in following his stunning announcement Sunday that he is exiting the 2024 presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the next Democratic nominee. It was the second seismic moment in US politics in just over a
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — A US Navy fighter pilot has become the first American woman to score a victory in air-to-air combat, the service has revealed. The female pilot, who was not named in the Navy release, was flying an F/A-18 Super Hornet off the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower as part
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden’s decision to step down as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president opens the door for other contenders to become the Democratic nominee in November. The president has thrown his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris, and other prominent Democrats moved quickly to rally around her candidacy, but it’s unclear just how smooth
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — China’s central bank has cut both its five-year loan prime rate and its one-year rate, moving to revive its ailing property sector and rev up the slowing economy. The five-year rate, which is a benchmark for mortgages, was cut by 10 basis points to 3.85% from 3.95%. The one-year rate was reduced
Continue ReadingAlaska authorities are conducting a search for a missing airplane with three people onboard. The state Department of Public Safety says Alaska State Troopers received a report from the U.S. Coast Guard of a missing plane shortly before 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The single-propeller, 1948 Beach Craft Bonanza was flying near Mount Crillon in Southeast Alaska
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) — Republican JD Vance will make his first solo appearances on the campaign trail Monday, a day after the 2024 presidential race was thrown into upheaval as President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, making the Democratic candidate an open question. Vance, an Ohio senator, is scheduled to hold
Continue ReadingAssociated Press President Joe Biden’s abrupt decision to bow out of the presidential race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic candidate against former President Donald Trump caused a political earthquake on Sunday. It also changes the contours of a presidential race — which most voters said they did not want to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris moved swiftly to lock up Democratic delegates behind her campaign for the White House after President Joe Biden stepped aside amid concerns from within their own party that he would be unable to defeat Donald Trump. Biden’s exit Sunday, prompted by Democratic worries over his fitness
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the past year, the presidential campaign seemed destined to be a monotonous slog featuring two candidates, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, that voters didn’t really want. But that all changed on a quiet Sunday afternoon just 107 days before the election. Biden’s decision to drop out
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Four days after a faulty software update from a cybersecurity company unexpectedly brought down computers and technical systems across the world, airlines and some other companies are still experiencing delays and other technical problems. The “largest IT outage in history” – prompted by a software update for Microsoft devices
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Utah officials are set to hear testimony about whether a man facing execution should be spared the death penalty and remain imprisoned for life. Monday’s state parole board hearing is for Taberon Dave Honie, who was convicted of the 1998 murder of his girlfriend’s mother. His execution is scheduled for Aug. 8 and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — Karen Read returns to court for the first time since her murder case involving her Boston police officer boyfriend ended in a mistrial. Read was accused of ramming into John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowstorm in January 2022. Her two-month trial ended when
Continue ReadingHOLTS SUMMIT, Mo. (KMIZ) The Holts Summit Police Department and multiple other agencies are investigating an early morning shooting in Holts Summit on Sunday. According to a press release, at around 1:00 a.m. Sunday morning, a Holts Summit officer was on patrol when he heard multiple gunshots near the Holts Summit Lions Club at 116
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Following President Joe Biden ending his bid for reelection, many Missouri democratic lawmakers are saying it was the right choice. “I think it’s a good decision. I think that’s what America wants. I think that’s what America needed,” said Missouri State Representative David Tyson Smith. “You know, I trust President Biden and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Fire Department responded to a fire at Orr Street Studios in downtown Columbia early Sunday morning. According to a press release from the department, crews were dispatched to a large outside fire at 106 Orr Street at 2:09 a.m. Firefighters found a small fire next to the building, but the
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has appointed a bipartisan, independent panel to review this month’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Officials said Sunday that the panel members will have extensive law enforcement and security experience to conduct a review of the planning for and actions taken by the Secret
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters Kochi, India — Authorities in southern India’s Kerala state are taking preventive steps after the death of a 14-year-old boy from the Nipah virus and the identification of 60 people in the high-risk category, the state’s health minister said on Sunday. Parts of Kerala are among those most at risk globally for
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CIUDAD HIDALGO, México (AP) — Hundreds of migrants from around a dozen countries have left from Mexico’s southern border on foot in an attempt to make it to the U.S. border. Some hoped to make it before the November elections because they fear Donald Trump will close the border to asylum-seekers if he
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the U.S. presidential race injects greater uncertainty into the world at a time when Western leaders are grappling with wars in Ukraine and Gaza, a more assertive China in Asia and the rise of the far-right in Europe. During a five-decade career in politics, Biden developed extensive personal relationships
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is being thrust into the most scrutinizing of spotlights, suddenly the leading candidate to succeed President Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and her party’s main hope of defeating Republican Donald Trump. She spoke multiple times with Biden on Sunday, according to people familiar
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