By Tierney Sneed, CNN An extraordinary dispute will play out in a federal courthouse in South Florida on Thursday afternoon over what transparency the American public is owed into the Justice Department investigation of the handling of classified documents from former President Donald Trump’s White House. US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart is holding a hearing
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Father Tolton has a lot of underclassmen going into the 2022 season, but head coach Michael Egnew is happy with how far the program has come. As Egnew enters his fifth season with the Trailblazers, he says he has more players than before. “My first year here I had 17 kids and
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear with lows in the upper 50s to lower 60s. TOMORROW: Beautiful and mostly sunny with light winds and highs in the low to mid-80s. EXTENDED: We’ll have a gorgeous couple of days with continued upper level winds coming from the northwest, bringing in cooler than average temperatures through the end of the
Continue ReadingBy Ehsan Popalzai and Rob Picheta, CNN An explosion that erupted inside a mosque during evening prayers in Afghanistan‘s capital on Wednesday killed 21 people and injured 33 others, according to a spokesperson for the Kabul police chief. Security forces were investigating the incident in the city’s police district 17, the spokesperson added. Health care
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business A spacewalk was cut short just a few hours into what was intended to be a nearly seven-hour spacewalk after a Russian cosmonaut was repeatedly ordered to drop what he was working on and return to the International Space Station’s airlock because of an issue with his spacesuit. NASA officials
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Dollar stores, as their name suggests, offer inexpensive products for bargain-hungry shoppers. But even Dollar General and Dollar Tree, which have thrived this year as rampant inflation has helped boost sales, are starting to feel the pinch of a slowing economy. Dollar General and Dollar Tree both reported
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Most monkeypox cases in the current outbreak have been linked to sexual activity, but research published Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers new insight into other ways it may be spreading. A man noticed his first lesion and subsequently developed a rash about two weeks after
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ABC 17 News interviewed Missouri Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven about a variety of topics for our Back to School Headquarters coverage.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The SEC announced its 2022-23 schedule on Wednesday which shows the 16 conference games that the Mizzou women’s basketball team will have this season. The Tigers will open conference play against Kentucky on Thursday, Dec. 29 at Mizzou Arena and will conclude their regular-season matchups at home against Florida on Sunday, Feb.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team is just 16 days away from the start of the 2022 season. With a lot of the depth at certain positions on the roster this season, the coaches are starting to determine who is ready to get into the starting rotations. Defensive coordinator Blake Baker says the first
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou volleyball is 10 days away from the team’s first game of the season and to try to get in game mode, the team held the Black & Gold Match Tuesday night at the Hearnes Center. With five freshman on the Tiger’s team this year, they are already stepping into big roles
Continue ReadingBy Athena Jones, CNN Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday he would give “due consideration” to any formal invitation to testify before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, while hinting at potential executive privilege issues. Pence made the remarks during a Q&A after a speech here
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso and Jennifer Henderson, CNN The Florida state Senate will pause its proceedings to remove state attorney Andrew Warren, who was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis for his pledge not to prosecute certain cases, according to a letter penned by Senate President Wilton Simpson on Wednesday. The Republican governor announced he was suspending
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TODAY: Wednesday is starting mostly sunny, and possibly a bit foggy as clouds clear out before sunrise. With clearing skies, a calm to light breeze, and plenty of moisture after yesterday’s rain, fog may be a concern early on. Otherwise, mostly sunny skies will dominate the forecast the first half of the day, before some
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business The Girl Scouts are adding a new, raspberry-flavored cookie to the lineup. The Raspberry Rally, described in a release as a “sister” cookie to the iconic Thin Mints, replaces the mint filling with a raspberry-flavored one. It’s dipped in the “same delicious chocolaty coating” as its sibling. For the first
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, CNN Before July Fourth, Cooper Roberts was almost always active and running around. He loved playing sports — including soccer, baseball and football — and riding his bike, his family has said. Life has looked very different since the 8-year-old was shot in the Highland Park Fourth of July attack, and left
Continue ReadingBy Shawn Deng, Wayne Chang, Simone McCarthy and Reuters, CNN Chinese planes are firing rods into the sky to bring more rainfall to its crucial Yangtze River, which has dried up in parts, as swaths of the nation fall into drought and grapple with the worst heat wave on record. Several regions on the Yangtze
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner and Jeff Zeleny, CNN The day after losing the Republican primary for Wyoming’s House seat, Rep. Liz Cheney is positioning herself for a longer-term fight with former President Donald Trump. The question Cheney must confront is whether there is an appetite within the Republican Party for a candidate singularly focused on serving
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN Rudy Giuliani, who was told by Atlanta prosecutors that he is a target in their probe of former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election subversion schemes in Georgia, appeared behind closed doors for grand jury testimony in the investigation Wednesday. Giuliani declined to comment to CNN on his way into the Superior
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill, CNN William Ruto has emerged the winner of a tense and fiercely fought contest for Kenya’s presidency, but who is the man who will lead east Africa’s largest economy? As a boy, Ruto grew up on his family’s farm in a quiet village in the Rift Valley, selling chickens
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