By Caroline Faraj, Eleni Giokos and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN An explosion on a container ship docked at Dubai’s Jebel Ali port late Wednesday caused a large fire and was felt across the city, authorities said. There were no reported deaths or injuries and the fire was brought under control, authorities said. The Comoros Islands-owned ship
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri State Rep. Sara Walsh, R-Ashland, announced her bid for Congress in Missouri’s 4th Congressional District. State Rep. Sara Walsh Walsh is seeking to replace Rep. Vicky Hartzler. Hartzler is running for U.S. Senate to replace the retiring Sen. Roy Blunt. Hartzler’s run for senate opens up her 4th District congressional seat.
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The parents of a man killed in a retaining wall collapse last year at a Jefferson City construction site are suing contractors and the property owner.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jackson County legislators voted to join a lawsuit challenging a new state law that bans state and local law enforcement officers from enforcing federal gun rules. The Jackson County Legislature voted 5-3 Tuesday to join St. Louis and St. Louis County in opposing the law. Supporters of the lawsuit contend
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Officials say 17 more people in southwest Missouri died from COVID-19 in a two-week period ending Sunday as the coronavirus surges in the region. The Springfield-Greene County Health Department reported Tuesday that the deaths were recorded in the two-week reporting period from June 21 to July 4. The Kansas City
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Personal Birth date: June 19, 1945 Birth place: Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar) Birth name: Aung San Suu Kyi Father: Aung San, commander of the Burma Independence Army. Helped negotiate Burma’s independence from Britain.
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By Neelam Bohra and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN The Oakland and Denver zoos will be among the first to start vaccinating tigers, bears and other mammals susceptible to coronavirus infections with a new animal Covid-19 vaccine from animal health company Zoetis. The vaccine requires two doses and was first administered to gorillas in the San Diego
Continue Reading Health experts are worried about growing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among young adults as the Delta variant continues to spread across the U.S.
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN As some states move toward banning critical race theory from public schools, the president of the second-largest teachers’ union in the country has vowed to defend teachers against any backlash. “Mark my words: Our union will defend any member who gets in trouble for teaching honest history,” Randi Weingarten, president of
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By Omar Jimenez and Carma Hassan, CNN Darnella Frazier, the teen who recorded George Floyd’s murder, said Tuesday that her uncle died in a car crash involving Minneapolis Police. Frazier identified her uncle as Leneal Lamont Frazier in a Facebook post, saying she is “so hurt” and “nothing feels real.” “Minneapolis police has cost my
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The unsung heroes of commercial space flight testing … are real dummies. Jeremy Roth reports.
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN Ingenuity, the helicopter that accompanied the Perseverance rover on its Mars mission, has undertaken its ninth and “most nerve-wracking” flight since it first took off on the red planet. Although we don’t have the full details about what it accomplished, NASA confirmed in a tweet on July 5 that Ingenuity had
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Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown provides an update on after two ATF agents were shot in Chicago.
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By Holly Yan and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN After an arduous battle for tenure at the University of North Carolina, Nikole Hannah-Jones explained why she rejected an eventual tenure offer from her alma mater and will instead teach at Howard University. “I don’t want to force myself into an institution that doesn’t seem to appreciate what
Continue Reading Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones explains her decision to decline the University of North Carolina’s offer of tenure and a teaching position in favor of accepting a faculty role at Howard University.
Continue Reading By Carma Hassan, CNN Two Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents and one Chicago police officer were shot while they were in a car early Wednesday, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said. They suffered non-life-threatening injuries, said Brown. One of the ATF agents was shot in the hand, the other was hit in
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A Fulton man was killed in a Callaway County crash involving a tractor at 5:20 p.m. Tuesday.
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By Gregory Lemos and Jason Hanna, CNN A boat from Cuba capsized in the storm-hit Straits of Florida this week, spurring a search in which nine people were still missing Wednesday after 13 were rescued, the US Coast Guard said. Crews of two Coast Guard cutters still were searching for the missing on Wednesday, the
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By Emmet Lyons and Rosanne Roobeek, CNN; with reporting by Reuters Celebrity Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, known for his investigative work exposing the criminal underworld, is “fighting for his life” after being shot in the Netherlands’ capital. “He was seriously wounded and is fighting for his life,” Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said
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By Al Goodman, CNN Spanish police have arrested three people over the killing of a male nursing assistant in a suspected homophobic attack that prompted protests across the country. The investigation into the death of Samuel Luiz, 24, is ongoing and no motive has been ruled out — including the possibility that it was a
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