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Columbia kinders head back to school Thursday as national enrollment surge is expected

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Public Schools kindergartners start school Thursday in-seat and nationwide officials are expecting a surge in students this year. Some school districts across the United States even started hiring additional teachers in anticipation of one of the largest kindergarten classes ever. Across the country, many school districts saw significant drops in kindergarten

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The Taliban's recapture of Afghanistan has sparked fears of an al Qaeda and ISIS revival. A heavily armed Taliban fighter here guards the Afghanistan central bank in Kabul

Kabul airport attack shows Afghanistan is still a terror hotbed that the Taliban will struggle to control

By Tim Lister, CNN The devastating bomb attack outside Kabul airport on Thursday is a brutal reminder that Afghanistan remains fertile territory for jihadi terrorism and that ISIS remains a resilient presence far beyond its birthplace. The attack was claimed — remarkably quickly — by ISIS-Khorasan, the ISIS “province” active in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.

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