By Anna Chernova, Abby Phillip, Dakin Andone and Alaa Elassar, CNN Two-time US Olympic basketball gold medalist Brittney Griner has pleaded guilty to drug charges in a Russian court near Moscow, her lawyers confirmed to CNN on Thursday. Griner, whom the US State Department has classified as wrongfully detained, faces up to 10 years in
Continue ReadingBy Eliza Mackintosh and Luke McGee, CNN The race to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is ramping up, with 11 candidates declaring their intention to run, many on platforms of lowering taxes and promises to clean up government following Johnson’s crisis-plagued leadership. Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative party backbenchers
Continue ReadingBy Anna Chernova and Dakin Andone, CNN Two-time US Olympic basketball gold medalist Brittney Griner has pleaded guilty to drug charges in a Russian court near Moscow, her lawyers confirmed to CNN on Thursday. Griner, who the US State Department has classified as wrongfully detained, faces up to 10 years in prison under the charge.
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The Columbia Police Department is investigating after shots were fired on Premier Lane early Thursday morning.
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TODAY: Showers and thunderstorms are moving into mid-Missouri early this morning. Heavy rain, lightning, and thunder will persist well into the daylight hours as this complex of storms pushes through. This round looks to largely favor communities along and north of I-70. This will likely have a big impact on temperatures today, keeping those north
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Continue ReadingBy Sara Murray and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Michigan Republican gubernatorial hopeful Ryan Kelley pleaded not guilty Thursday to misdemeanor charges over his alleged actions in the US Capitol riot after claiming he only engaged in “First Amendment activity” that day. According to federal investigators, Kelley climbed up through the scaffolding for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration
Continue ReadingBy Scottie Andrew, CNN Depending on who you ask, the “Thor” films are either a love story about a boy and his hammer — or the love between a boy and his brother, or a boy and a brilliant, beautiful scientist or, more recently, a boy and an intergalactic raccoon. “Thor: Love and Thunder,” the
Continue ReadingBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned on Thursday. Here’s his statement in full. Good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon. Thank you. Thank you. It is clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party, that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister, and I’ve agreed with Sir Graham
Continue ReadingBy Mark Thompson, CNN Business Boris Johnson was ultimately forced to resign as UK prime minister Thursday as dozens of members of his party quit the government after one ethics scandal too many. But his popularity outside parliament has also been badly dented by surging inflation and stagnation in the British economy, a cost-of-living crisis
Continue ReadingBy Devon M. Sayers and Jamiel Lynch, CNN A mysterious Georgia monument was damaged Wednesday when an explosive device was detonated near the attraction, prompting authorities to then demolish it for safety reasons, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. Investigators are now searching for whoever set off the explosive at the nearly 20-foot monument known
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, Luke McGee and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Boris Johnson’s turbulent tenure as Britain’s Prime Minister came to an end Thursday after a historic party revolt over a series of ethics scandals forced him to step down. It took the resignation of nearly 60 members of his government — almost half the payroll —
Continue ReadingBy Richard Allen Greene, CNN UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation on Thursday following mounting pressure from lawmakers in his own party to stand down. Under the UK political system, between elections, only Conservative members of Parliament have the ability to remove a sitting Conservative Prime Minister. So, what happens to the UK
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and Tara Subramaniam, CNN The crisis that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing right now might be the gravest for his leadership so far — but it’s definitely not the first. Johnson’s government has been plagued by a series of scandals, from accusations of his disregard for rules and revelations of
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell, Joe Sutton and Rebekah Riess, CNN Days after a gunman killed seven and wounded dozens more in a rampage at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, the shooter’s father told the New York Post he wants his son to serve a long prison sentence. Yellow barricade tape stretched down
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell, Joe Sutton and Rebekah Riess, CNN Days after a gunman killed seven and wounded dozens more in a rampage at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, the shooter’s father told the New York Post he wants his son to serve a long prison sentence. Yellow barricade tape stretched down
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN The head of the Internal Revenue Service has asked a watchdog to investigate the decision to conduct rare tax audits of former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the agency announced Thursday. “The IRS has referred the matter to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
Continue ReadingBy Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO and world’s richest man, welcomed twins last year with an executive at one of his other companies, Neuralink, Insider reported on Wednesday. Musk, who posted a tweet on May 24 saying “USA birth rate has been below min sustainable levels for ~50
Continue ReadingBy Kiely Westhoff and Aya Elamroussi, CNN One of the two police officers injured in a shooting during a July Fourth celebration in Philadelphia didn’t realize he had been shot until he arrived at a hospital and found a bullet lodged in his hat, he told CNN. Officer Sergio Diggs and deputy John Foster were
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There has been an uptick in Boone County’s COVID-19 numbers according to the Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services.
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