By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Lisa Louis was holding her dying father when she looked up, directly into the face of his murderer. “The only way I can describe it is I saw into his soul,” Louis wrote in a letter posted to Facebook on Monday. Her father, Craig Hayden, was one of four
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By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — French prosecutors are piecing together clues over the death of South Africa’s ambassador to France, Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa. Early findings, authorities said, suggest Mthethwa had apparently fallen from a high-rise Paris hotel on Monday, hours after sending a “disturbing message” to his wife that he planned to kill
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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — After weeks of repeated incursions into European airspace, officials are meeting in the Danish capital Copenhagen where they are expected to discuss several measures intended to protect the continent’s skies, including a flagship “drone wall” initiative. The commission, alongside the European Union, is working to build a “Defence Readiness
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By Max Saltman, Inke Kappeler, Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — German police arrested three suspected Hamas members who were allegedly procuring weapons “for assassinations targeting Israeli or Jewish institutions,” German prosecutors said in a statement Wednesday. The three accused, who police only identified by first names and initials of their last names, were charged with
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WABC, CNN By Holly Yan, Joel Williams, Shimon Prokupecz, John Miller, CNN New York (CNN) — An explosion at a New York City apartment building blew off a floor-to-roof chunk of the high-rise – terrifying residents in the Bronx and fueling frustration and outrage as to how this could have happened. Investigators have not determined
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By Tal Shalev, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended US President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan to skeptics in his hardline cabinet Tuesday evening, telling ministers that coordination with Washington “is closer than you think,” according to two Israeli officials who participated in the meeting and another official briefed on
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By Holly Yan, Joel Williams, Shimon Prokupecz, John Miller, CNN New York (CNN) — An explosion at a New York City apartment building blew off a floor-to-roof chunk of the high-rise – terrifying residents in the Bronx and fueling frustration and outrage as to how this could have happened. Investigators have not determined the exact
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Members of the University of Missouri’s School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine will be going through simulated mass casualty training at Faurot Field Wednesday morning. MU Health Care spokesperson Eric Maze told ABC 17 News that around 24 emergency medicine resident physicians will be engaging in six different scenarios such as
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN If you have a trip coming up, plan to arrive at the airport early and brace for potential delays. Many airport employees, including air traffic controllers, are required to report to work during the government shutdown — but they will do so without pay, and staffing issues are likely to
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN If you have a trip coming up, plan to arrive at the airport early and brace for potential delays. Many airport employees, including air traffic controllers, are required to report to work during the government shutdown — but they will do so without pay, and staffing issues are likely to arise.
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By Chris Boyette, Devon M. Sayers, Karina Tsui, Danya Gainor, CNN Memphis (CNN) — Federal authorities are racking up arrests in Tennessee’s second-most populous city as President Donald Trump surges federal officers and National Guard troops to crack down on crime across major Democratic-run cities. The president suggested this week the cities could be used
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The Missouri National Guard has a new mission starting Wednesday. A few Guard members will be used to support the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Missouri, under an order from Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe. Soldiers have been deployed in other areas to support ICE agents, including California. Do you support using the Missouri
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CNN By Helen Regan, Masrur Jamaluddin, CNN (CNN) — Indonesian rescue teams are frantically searching for scores of young students buried for two days under rubble in Sidoarjo, East Java, after their Islamic boarding school collapsed on them during afternoon prayers. In one pocket of the mangled concrete of the collapsed century-old Al Khoziny boarding
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A Japanese warship is on the way to the United States to be fitted with Tomahawk cruise missiles, the latest move by Washington and its Asian allies to beef up firepower as adversaries like China and North Korea expand theirs. The JS Chokai, an Aegis-equipped guided-missile
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, Masrur Jamaluddin, CNN (CNN) — Indonesian rescue teams are frantically searching for scores of young students buried for two days under rubble in Sidoarjo, East Java, after their Islamic boarding school collapsed on them during afternoon prayers. In one pocket of the mangled concrete of the collapsed century-old Al Khoziny boarding school,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man in ICE detention was taken into custody by federal authorities because of convictions for possession of marijuana and cocaine, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said Tuesday. Owen Ramsingh was detained by agents in Chicago after returning from the Netherlands and landing at O’Hare International Airport. He has been
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) State lawmakers are reacting to the outpouring response by local leaders and community organizations following a deadly downtown Columbia shooting over the University of Missouri’s Homecoming weekend. Columbia police responded to a shooting in the 800 block of East Broadway just before 2 a.m. Saturday. Police found three people shot; one woman,
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is returning to the international limelight as the prospective head of an authority tasked with the reconstruction of Gaza. Blair would bring years of political and negotiating experience to the task after occupying 10 Downing Street for a decade and later acting as
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By Andi Babineau, CNN Denver (CNN) — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation will be conducting a review into the case of renowned journalist and activist Hunter S. Thompson’s death more than two decades after it was ruled a suicide, the agency said Tuesday in a news release. Thompson died at his home in Woody Creek,
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe said Tuesday that he has authorized the Missouri National Guard to help at ICE facilities in Missouri. The mission will begin on Wednesday, Kehoe’s office wrote in a news release. “This decision comes in response to a request for assistance from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
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