By Karen Smith and Dakin Andone, CNN US basketball star Brittney Griner — who has been held in Russia since February on accusations of drug smuggling — will remain in Russian custody through at least July 2, after a Russian court extended her detention, Russian state news agency TASS reported Tuesday. Griner, 31, has been
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Mandatory evacuations are in place after a wildfire expanded steadily in Southern California’s Angeles National Forest on Sunday. The Sheep Fire grew from 35 acres Sunday morning to 775 acres that afternoon, according to InciWeb. As of Monday, the fire has scorched 990 acres with around 27% containment,
Continue ReadingBy CNN’s Beijing Bureau and Sophie Jeong in Hong Kong Nine people have been arrested in China following an assault on four women in the northern city of Tangshan on Friday, local police said in a statement on Saturday. Graphic security footage showing scenes from the incident was posted on social media on Friday, triggering
Continue ReadingBy Sandra Gonzalez and Chloe Melas, CNN The Tony Awards celebrate the best in theater and this year’s celebration returned to Radio City Music Hall for the first time since the pandemic. “West Side Story” star and Oscar winner Ariana DeBose hosted the ceremony. See below for a complete list of nominees, with the winners
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A group of 20 senators on both sides of the aisle announced an agreement was reached on new laws meant to address the country’s ongoing gun violence. The proposal would be the first major gun law to make it through Congress in years. There have been more than 250 mass shootings in
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ASHLAND, Mo. (KMIZ) The Southern Boone Eagles baseball team had a historic 2022 season with an 8-3 win over Logan-Rogersville in the Class 4 State Championship game. This is the first time in program history that the baseball title has been in Ashland and breaks the 20 year brought for state titles at the school.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Southern Boone’s new football coach Mark Ross in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill returned to Columbia on Sunday to host his annual youth football camp. You can watch the full interview with Hill and extended highlights from the event in the video players below. https://youtu.be/P3G7gok2his https://youtu.be/8U1eAY6YZSg “Just seeing like all of the kid’s reactions when I show
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters Sri Lanka may be compelled to buy more oil from Russia as the nation faces shortages amid an unprecedented economic crisis, its prime minister has said. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, in an interview with the Associated Press news agency on Saturday, said he would first look to other sources, but would be
Continue ReadingBy Laura He and Mark Thompson, CNN Business Global markets and US stock futures fell early Monday, indicating a downbeat start to the trading week after a broad sell-off on Wall Street following surprisingly strong US inflation data. The Dow plunged 880 points, or 2.5%, on Friday. The S&P 500 shed 2.7% and the Nasdaq
Continue ReadingTonight: Light isolated showers will begin to dissipate late tonight leading to partly cloudy overnight conditions. The overnight lows bottom out into the mid to upper 70’s. Tomorrow: Scattered early morning showers and storms will pull through Central Missouri before exiting by noon. Temperatures will quickly begin to rise by the early afternoon hours to
Continue ReadingBy Dana Bash, Manu Raju and Donald Judd, CNN A bipartisan group of senators announced an agreement on principle for gun safety legislation Sunday, which includes “needed mental health resources, improves school safety and support for students, and helps ensure dangerous criminals and those who are adjudicated as mentally ill can’t purchase weapons,” they said
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN Writer Vladimir Kara-Murza is an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. He has made numerous television appearances, including one on CNN, denouncing the Russian president’s “regime of murderers.” Criticizing the Kremlin comes at a high price, and on the heels of that interview in April, Kara-Muzra was arrested and is still behind
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday would not commit to backing President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, saying instead that “we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.” “I think if the President has a vision, then that’s something certainly we’re all willing to entertain and examine
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No one has been detained after Columbia Police say a women suffered a non- life threatening injury after they say she was shot on North Blvd late Saturday night.
Continue ReadingBy Daniella Diaz, CNN Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat who is on the House select committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, said Sunday he believes Attorney General Merrick Garland knows “what’s at stake here” when it comes to a possible indictment of former President Donald Trump from the Department
Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc and Sarah Fortinsky, CNN March for Our Lives, the student-led movement focused on gun violence prevention, returned to Washington Saturday with a mass demonstration in the wake of recent shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York. The DC march on Saturday afternoon at the Washington Monument featured a slate of speakers
Continue ReadingBy Natalie Gallón, Nick Paton Walsh and Brice Laine, CNN Driving down bumpy, dirt roads, local police escort us into a wooded area where they say a unit of foreign fighters is based. It’s a village like so many in this part of Ukraine — homes destroyed and visible signs of shelling. The distant rumble
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TODAY: An isolated shower or two possible early with lingering cloud cover by the afternoon. Highs reach the mid-90s and increasing moisture will push the heat index to the triple digits. TOMORROW: A lack of clouds opens Mid-MO up to even more intense heat; highs reach the upper 90s and heat indices will likely breach
Continue ReadingBy Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large The most memorable quote of the first public hearing of the January 6 committee came from the panel’s vice chair, Liz Cheney. “There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone,” the Wyoming Republican said. “But your dishonor will remain.” But, while Cheney’s quote is the one that is
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