CNN By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — For nine hours, students at Brown University crouched under desks and behind locked door, making panicked phone calls and sending “I love you” texts that felt dangerously close to goodbyes. An active shooter was on campus — and police were still searching for a suspect. Late Saturday night
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — For nine hours, students at Brown University crouched under desks and behind locked door, making panicked phone calls and sending “I love you” texts that felt dangerously close to goodbyes. An active shooter was on campus — and police were still searching for a suspect. Late Saturday night into
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CNN By Jessie Yeung, Kristie Lu Stout, Karina Tsui, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two national security charges and a lesser sedition charge, in a landmark two-year trial widely viewed as a measure of the city’s shrinking freedoms under Beijing’s rule. Self-made billionaire
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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans have approved their version of a health care bill as the expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies looms ever closer. But the legislation does not address those subsidies, and Obamacare enrollees who want their coverage to begin on January 1 don’t have the luxury of time.
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By Toni Odejimi, Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — The Powerball jackpot rose to an estimated $1.25 billion after there were no big winners in Monday night’s drawing. Monday night’s winning numbers were 23, 35, 59, 63, 68, and the red Powerball was a 2. There was also a Power Play multiplier of 4. While no
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By Laura Sharman, Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — A bystander who wrestled a gun from one of the alleged attackers during a mass shooting at Bondi Beach has been identified as Ahmed al Ahmed, whose refugee parents had just arrived from Syria, according to Australian officials and media. Ahmed, a 43-year-old father to two girls,
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, Sandi Sidhu, CNN (CNN) — A 10-year-old girl, a Holocaust survivor and a young French national were among at least 15 people killed when two gunmen opened fire on families celebrating the first night of Hanukkah at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach on Sunday, an attack that police have declared a terrorist incident.
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By Caitlin Danaher, Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — The new head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service MI6 has warned the nation in her first public speech that the UK is “now operating in a space between peace and war” and “the front line is everywhere,” amid growing tensions with Russia. Blaise Metreweli became the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team cruised to its final win inside of the walls of Mizzou Arena in 2025, overwhelming Bethune-Cookman in a 82-60 victory. You can watch extended highlights of the win in the video player below. The team’s second-straight win lifted head coach Dennis Gates and his team to 10-2
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A local substance use prevention group is asking the City of Columbia to reject extended alcohol service hours during next year’s FIFA World Cup. The City’s Substance Use Prevention Advisory Commission warns that nearly 24-hour alcohol sales could strain service industry workers and first responders, while also posing risks to public safety.
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Australia already has some of the world’s toughest gun laws, but the Bondi mass shooting could lead to even tougher rules as the realization spreads that they aren’t strong enough to prevent bloodshed. Restrictions were tightened almost 30 years ago after a lone gunman armed with semiautomatic
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Kristie Lu Stout, Karina Tsui, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two national security charges and a lesser sedition charge, in a landmark two-year trial widely viewed as a measure of the city’s shrinking freedoms under Beijing’s rule. Self-made billionaire Lai,
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CNN By Curt Devine, John Miller, Evan Perez, Allison Gordon, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN (CNN) — The person of interest detained in connection with the Brown University shooting, identified by law enforcement sources as Benjamin Erickson, is a decorated soldier who had served in a position at Arlington National Cemetery, according to his LinkedIn profile. Erickson,
Continue Reading By Curt Devine, John Miller, Evan Perez, Allison Gordon, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN (CNN) — Saying the “evidence now points in a different direction,” law enforcement officials late Sunday released a man they had detained in connection with the Brown University shooting, which left two dead and nine injured. “This is what these investigations look like,”
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As the Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri gears up to celebrate its annual One for One Holiday Food and Fund Drive on Wednesday, organizers are reminding mid-Missouri that the season of giving can last beyond the holiday season. “A lot of the times we see gaps in volunteerism after the
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By Michelle Watson, Julia Vargas Jones, Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — Members of the Jewish community across the world woke up Sunday to yet another fatal attack — something that has become all too common for those of the faith. The attack Sunday on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, which has been declared a terrorist incident, has
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) One of the most historic runs in NFL history came to an end, on Sunday. With the Kansas City Chiefs’ 16-13 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, the team dropped to 6-8 on the season and was officially eliminated from playoff contention. That elimination will keep KC out of the playoffs
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CNN By Hilary Whiteman, Angus Watson, CNN Sydney, Australia (CNN) — At least 11 people were killed in a terror attack on Sunday targeting the Jewish community celebrating the first night of Hannukah at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach. Around 1,000 people had gathered on a grassy area at Archer Park when at least two gunman
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, Angus Watson, Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Sydney, Australia (CNN) — Sydney residents have laid flowers and lit candles in a massive outpouring of support as the community mourns people who were massacred by two gunmen in a terror attack Sunday targeting the Jewish community celebrating the first night of Hannukah at Sydney’s famed
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The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day for the potential of dangerously cold temperatures and subsequent wind chills between Saturday night and Sunday morning. A fast moving Alberta clipper system will slide by just to our northeast on Saturday, bringing the potential for some light snow across far northeastern Missouri
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