COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou Tigers moved today’s kickoff against Louisiana Lafayette three hours earlier in an effort to spare fans and players from extreme heat. Despite the switch, many in Faurot Field still found themselves battling sweltering conditions. “Yeah, it’s hot out here it’s really hot,” one fan told ABC 17 as temperatures and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) From start-to-finish, the No. 25 Mizzou football team thoroughly trounced the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns, 52-10, to move to 3-0 to start the 2025 campaign. It’s the third-straight season that head coach Eli Drinkwitz and company have started a season with three-straight wins. “We’re 3-0. I think there’s always room for improvement,” Drinkwitz
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters Sydney (Reuters) — Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles said on Sunday that the United States would be able to use planned defense facilities in Western Australia to help deliver submarines under the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal. The government on Saturday said it would spend A$12 billion ($8 billion) to upgrade facilities at
Continue ReadingBy Esha Mitra, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — In the home he thought was safe, Mohammad Ismail pines for the daughter who was snatched from him and sent back to the country they fled eight years ago; a country where their community officially does not exist. Mohammad and his daughter Asma ran from their village
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Police officers were “attacked with projectiles” and “assaulted” during far-right anti-immigration protests in London on Saturday, the British capital’s force said, as more than 110,000 people took to the city’s streets. The Unite the Kingdom protest was organized by far-right political activist Tommy Robinson. Counter-protesters also flocked to the
Continue ReadingBy Max Saltman, Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker and activist Basel Adra said soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) searched his house in the occupied West Bank after a group of Israeli settlers attacked him, his family members and a foreign activist on Saturday. On Saturday afternoon, a group of settlers
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 41-year-old New Franklin man died Friday night in an ATV crash on Route P in Howard County, north of County Road 451, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the man drove the 2005 Arctic Cat off the road and was ejected from the
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KINGDOM CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A car overturned on Interstate 70, causing part of the highway to be shut down in Callaway County. The crash occurred just before 2:30 p.m. at mile marker 140 west of Kingdom City, and backed up traffic to mile-marker 141 on westbound I-70. Troopers reported injuries in the single-car crash, but
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Editor’s note: A spelling error has been corrected. BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) When Heather Overstreet heard about Charlie Kirk’s death, she knew she had to gather the community. “I think Charlie once said that once society stops having conversations between each other, that’s when bad things happen,” Overstreet said. Kirk was a conservative political activist and
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CNN By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — Charlie Kirk’s widow and many of his fans have predicted that Wednesday’s assassination will make his voice even more powerful posthumously. Social media statistics indicate that they’re right. Kirk’s accounts across the internet have gained millions of followers in the three days since his death, according to data
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By Christopher Lamb, Antonia Mortensen, CNN Rome (CNN) — The Vatican has brought together an eclectic mix of thinkers and music artists as it seeks to influence both the development of artificial intelligence and the future of humanity. A summit held Friday and Saturday on “human fraternity” convened Nobel prize winners to discuss everything from
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Thousands of fans are expected to return to Memorial Stadium Saturday as the Mizzou Tigers are set to face the University of Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns at noon.
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — It’s been more than five years since Clare Yeo got her masters in piano performance, but this fall, she’s assigned herself a semester of coursework. Yeo, 33, is studying the relationship between good and evil through a series of classic texts: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” and “The Idiot,”
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By Max Saltman, Isa Cardona, Abel Alvarado, Isabel Rosales, Ana Melgar, CNN San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN) — It was a “mind blowing” idea, Jorge Perez remembers, two years after he first heard it: Bad Bunny wasn’t going to tour the US. In August 2023, Perez – a tourism official who manages the island’s biggest
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — The United States has suspended some funding for its flagship AIDS relief program, according to international organizations and members of Congress who warn the cuts are already hurting patients and halting critical projects globally. The full extent of the budget cuts related to US-funded HIV/AIDS relief work is highly
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By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Like thousands of Americans captivated by the manhunt for the shooter who killed conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, a Utah father had seen the photos and video footage of the suspect released by authorities. The man in the images, dressed in a black T-shirt plastered with an eagle and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) On Friday night, Mizzou Athletics welcomed a loaded class of six new members into its Hall of Fame. The Tiger legends were officially enshrined into the Hall in a ceremony on Friday night and will conclude their weekend by being honored on the field during Mizzou football’s game against Louisiana at Memorial
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MILLER Co. (KMIZ) A Miller County mother is searching for answers as Friday marks the fourth anniversary of her son’s disappearance. “It’s difficult, it’s always going to be difficult until we have some answers,” Chyenne Noriega said. “But I have my four other boys that have kind of helped pull me together and keep the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri high school football kicked off Week 2 of the 2025 season on Friday. Scores from Mid-Missouri teams are posted below.
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By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — For decades, wealthy Gulf Arab states cast themselves as oases of stability in a region mired in conflict, building gleaming capitals with fast-growing economies powered by millions of foreign workers drawn to economic opportunity and a tax-free lifestyle. But this year, their sense of safety was shattered when two
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