By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing has urged candidates vying to be Britain’s next Prime Minister to refrain from “hyping up the so-called ‘China threat,’” as foreign relations with the Asian economic giant emerge as a key issue in the closely-fought leadership race. Both former finance minister Rishi Sunak and his rival, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss,
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN National security officials are quietly working to convince House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the risks her potential trip to Taiwan could pose during a highly sensitive moment between the self-governing island and China. Sources familiar with the speaker’s plans say she is planning to visit in the coming
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Business While the latest GDP report showed the US economy contracted again in the second quarter, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said there’s no fear that America is currently in a recession. “That is not what we’re seeing right now when you look at the economy,” she said. “Job creation is continuing,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) While there are very few monkeypox cases in Missouri, some Health Departments across the state will receive the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine. The City of Kansas City Health Department is one of the “hubs” that will be receiving the vaccines. Dr. Robin Blount, Chief Medical Officer with Boone Health, said the monkeypox virus
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Jackson and Caroll Alvarado, CNN Dozens of incoming University of Michigan medical students walked out of their medical school induction ceremony Sunday to protest a keynote speaker with anti-abortion views. As Dr. Kristin Collier, an assistant professor of internal medicine at the university, began delivering her keynote speech, several dozen students abruptly stood
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Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, Chandelis Duster and Laura Ly, CNN Indiana lawmakers reconvened on Monday to consider more restrictions on abortion, the first state to hold a special session with the goal of potentially curtailing abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month. A special Indiana General Assembly committee met for more
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Students will be returning to the Columbia area within the next month and things will start picking up in the downtown area.
Continue ReadingBy Nick Thompson and Forrest Brown, CNN First things first: Despite some truly terrifying tales of survival, you are incredibly unlikely to be duking it out with a shark any time soon. But sharks do occasionally attack humans. Florida teen Addison Bethea was severely injured recently when a shark attacked her in the waters off
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ABC 17 News is taking a look at some of the candidates running for the United States Senate seat currently held by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO).
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Evan Perez, CNN The move by the Justice Department to bring two top aides to former Vice President Mike Pence in front of a federal grand jury is the most aggressive public step taken yet by prosecutors investigating the plots to subvert the 2020 election. It signals that the Department’s probe
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A man charged in a downtown Columbia shooting is sentenced to four years in prison for resisting arrest in connection with the Nov. 14 shooting near Vibez Lounge.
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TONIGHT: Scattered showers and storms becoming more widespread north of I-70 overnight. Lows in the upper 60s. TOMORROW: Scattered showers and storms with dry time in between. Highs near 90. EXTENDED: Light showers continue to thin out the next few hours, but the lull won’t last all night with another round of heavy rain developing
Continue ReadingBy Hira Humayun, Lindsay Isaac and Paula Newton Victoria McIntosh unfurls a little girl’s white winter coat from her handbag and smooths it out on the table. Her grandmother sewed it for her when she was four years old, she says, before she was sent to Fort Alexander residential school in the 1960s. But a
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Many shoppers have pulled back on buying clothing and other discretionary items as the highest inflation in four decades pinches their pocketbooks. That’s left Walmart and other retailers stuck with too much clothing and bigger-ticket stuff sitting on their shelves. To help clear out the backlog, Walmart is cutting prices
Continue ReadingBy Kristina Sgueglia, CNN A flashy Brooklyn pastor known for wearing designer outfits and extravagant jewelry says he was robbed along with his wife of more than $1 million while he was preaching at church Sunday. Police say they received a report that three people entered the Leaders of Tomorrow church Sunday with firearms and
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden and White House officials are continuing to downplay recession fears, even as they brace for a highly anticipated report that could show the economy shrinking for a second consecutive quarter. “We’re not going to be in a recession, in my view,” Biden told reporters on
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Americans grew even more pessimistic about the US economy over the past month, according to the latest survey on consumer attitudes, intentions and expectations from The Conference Board. The consumer confidence index for July slipped to 95.7 from June’s revised reading of 98.4, which was adjusted downward by 0.3 points.
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Continue ReadingBy Keith Allen and Steve Forrest, CNN One of the two American citizens who recently died in the Donbas region of Ukraine has been identified as Luke Lucyszyn, his mother told CNN. Kathy Lucyszyn said she was informed of her son’s death by the US State Department. The State Department confirmed the deaths of two
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