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Local commission urges Columbia to opt out of 23-hour alcohol sales during 2026 World Cup

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.

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Australia’s gun laws were already among the world’s toughest. The Bondi massacre could spark even tighter controls

By 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

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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty in landmark national security trial, faces possible life sentence

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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Person of interest in Brown University shooting served in Army, worked at Arlington National Cemetery

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,

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Emergency personnel gather at Brown University in Providence

Police release man detained as a person of interest in Brown University shooting

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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A police officer walks along cordon tapeline at the scene of a mass shooting at Bondi Beach on December 14

Gunmen targeted Australia’s Jewish community in a deadly mass shooting. Here’s what we know

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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Palestinians inspect the remains of a destroyed vehicle targeted by the Israeli military in Gaza City

Israel approves 19 settler outposts in major expansion in occupied West Bank

By Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — In another major expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli cabinet approved on Thursday the legalization and establishment of numerous settler outposts, according to an Israeli source familiar with the matter. The decision authorizes 19 outposts across the West Bank, including two

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Brian Walshe faces a first-degree murder charge, but the jury can convict him of a less severe homicide charge. Here’s why

By Lauren del Valle, CNN Dedham, Massachusetts (CNN) — Prosecutors say Brian Walshe planned to kill his wife Ana Walshe before her death on January 1, 2023, then dismembered her body and disposed of her remains in dumpsters in the area near where they lived in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Walshe has been charged with first-degree murder

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