By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Fourteen-year-old cheerleader Lucy Brooks briefly lost some friends on Snapchat when Australia’s ban on social media came into effect on Wednesday. But within 24 hours, they were back. Many had made new accounts, with some borrowing the faces of parents and older friends who were happy to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team made its return to the win column, on Thursday night. Head coach Dennis Gates and his team rode its best shooting performance since mid-November straight to the bank for a 85-77 win over the Hornets at Mizzou Arena. You can watch extended highlights from Mizzou’s victory in
Continue ReadingBy Tal Shalev, Jeremy Diamond, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan is set to enter a new phase within weeks, but crucial pieces of the agreement remain undefined as Israel tightens its military grip on the battered enclave. With the return of all but one of the deceased hostages held
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) On the morning of Nov. 18, Marlena Wisdom got a call from an unknown caller that nearly cost her a thousand dollars. The caller ID said it was an unknown caller, prompting Wisdom to believe the call was coming from the police department. “When I see that, I think of the police
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County Fire Protection District Chief Scott Olsen is retiring. BCFPD announced in a Thursday press release the last day of Olsen’s career will be Feb. 1, 2026. Olsen submitted his letter of resignation to the district on Wednesday. Olsen said that after receiving his 40-year service award at the department banquet
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The family of the man killed in a May shooting outside a McDonald’s in south Columbia says police might have acted too slowly in giving him emergency medical aid before his death. “The police came up to him, laying on the ground, fighting for his life, and they just, they handcuff him,”
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By Samantha Waldenberg, Hadas Gold, Clare Duffy, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that blocks states from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence and instead aims to create a “single national framework” for AI. “This is an executive order that orders aspects of your administration to take decisive
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By Jessie Yeung, Mike Valerio, CNN (CNN) — When the Trump administration unveiled its new national security strategy (NSS) last week, many experts noticed one major shift: how it talks – or more importantly, doesn’t talk – about China. Gone are the sweeping declarations about China being “America’s most consequential geopolitical challenge,” as articulated by
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By Michael Rios, Lex Harvey, Sandi Sidhu, Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — The United States has announced new sanctions on shipping companies and vessels it says help move Venezuelan oil, putting more pressure on a major prop of President Nicolas Maduro’s regime a day after it seized a sanctioned tanker likely carrying millions of dollars’
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Board of Education accepted the resignation of Board President Erika Leonard at its meeting on Wednesday night. An email from the school district says the board approved a process for accepting applications for the vacant seat on the board. Applications for the position can be placed at the Jefferson
Continue ReadingBy Dana Karni, Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Newly released videos show six Israeli hostages celebrating Hanukkah in a tunnel in Gaza months before they were killed by Hamas in August 2024. Two of the clips show the hostages gingerly lighting makeshift candles on a menorah made of disposable cups. The hostages –
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Alzheimer’s Association hosted Strikes to End Alzheimer’s on Thursday night. The event was held at Strikers Bowling Alley after the Walk to End Alzheimer’s event was canceled in October due to weather. “It’s really a time for the community to come together,” Alzheimer’s Association Fundraising Senior Manager Laurie Williams said.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was arrested after a Wednesday night chase in Morgan County. An email from Morgan County Sheriff Norma Dills says deputies were trying to find a man with a no-bond probation and parole warrant. The man’s name was not described in the email. The man was found leaving a residence near
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EDITOR’S NOTE: A statistic about income taxes paid by the top 1% of earners has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe might be looking to phase out income tax in 2026, but to do that, the state would have to expand the sales tax base to include services, according to conservative group Americans
Continue ReadingBy Meghan Pryce, Jordan D. Brown, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Accidents are bound to happen out in the wilderness. One hiker in Utah’s Arches National Park learned this the hard way when he was trapped for hours in a predicament that felt straight out of an old movie plot. Here’s what else
Continue ReadingBy Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Video released by Australia’s transport safety agency on Thursday shows the harrowing moment when a skydiver’s parachute was caught on the tail of an airplane before a jump in September. According to the report from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) released alongside the video, the skydiver, whom the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri’s new congressional maps are now state law. That is, according to the Missouri attorney general and secretary of state. However, the group fighting the maps says that’s not true, and that the map was suspended from going into effect when they submitted more than 300,000 signatures on a petition to override it. In a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City teenager has been certified as an adult in a shooting that occurred in August. Daniel Day, 17, was charged as an adult on Wednesday with unlawful use of a weapon, two counts of armed criminal action and a count of first-degree assault. He is being held at the Cole
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CNN By Eric Levenson, Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old man accused of fatally shooting conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, appeared in a Utah court Thursday for the first time in-person since his arrest. Robinson wore a light blue shirt, a striped tie and khaki pants, and was seen on camera speaking
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old man accused of fatally shooting conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, appeared in a Utah court Thursday for the first time in-person since his arrest. Robinson wore a light blue shirt, a striped tie and khaki pants, and was seen on camera speaking to
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