Personal essay by Patrick Oppmann, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after arriving to Cuba, Assata Shakur was stopped by a policeman, not because she was a wanted fugitive and convicted cop killer in the United States but because she was Black. It was clearly a seminal moment for Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member (perhaps now
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The state where the suspect was arrested has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man has been charged with five felonies after he allegedly broke into two southwest Columbia homes and stole thousands of dollars’ worth of jewelry and cash. Seweryn Rapacinski, 62, of Poland, was charged on Thursday with two counts of
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Secretary of State’s Office has rejected three petitions submitted to get a newly redrawn congressional map before voters. Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ office released three rejection letters late Friday. The letters were addressed to Richard von Glahn, with Missouri Jobs with Justice, and said the three petitions submitted
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As Homecoming preparations continue, drivers should expect several road closures in downtown Columbia on Saturday morning for the University of Missouri’s annual parade. City transit services including Go COMO, Paratransit and the MU Tiger Line will be delayed until noon because of the parade. The parade begins at 9 a.m. Saturday at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Brunswick man was charged in Chariton County with a slew of sex crimes on Thursday. Kenneth Paul Jr. was charged with six counts of first-degree rape, two counts of first-degree sodomy, two counts of fourth-degree child molestation and a lone count of third-degree assault. He was arrested on Thursday and his
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WFAA, KTVT, CNN By Alaa Elassar, Gustavo Valdés, CNN (CNN) — When people arrived at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas early Wednesday morning for routine appointments, they were instead thrust into chaos as an ordinary day turned into a life-threatening nightmare. Sharp cracks of gunfire pierced the morning air, loud, jarring pangs
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CNN By Diego Mendoza, Taylor Galgano, Alex Stambaugh, Gloria Pazmino, Holly Yan, Maria Santana, CNN (CNN) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shoved a woman into a wall and then pushed her to the ground has been “relieved of his current duties,” an ICE official said Friday. The incident was caught on camera
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By Zoe Sottile, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools — Iowa’s largest school district – was detained Friday morning by immigration agents, according to the Department of Homeland Security, which said the educator was in the country illegally and had existing weapon possession charges. Superintendent Ian Roberts – an
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COLUMBIA, (KMIZ) A man has been charged with a felony and three misdemeanors after he is accused of threatening the lives of multiple people at a distillery on Thursday morning as he poured himself a beer. Ashraf Habimana, 39, of Columbia, was charged with first-degree burglary, two counts of misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and a count
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Cooper, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Transportation is imposing new limits to “drastically restrict” people from outside the United States from getting commercial driver’s licenses, and is threatening to withhold highway funds from states that don’t agree to comply. “The process for issuing these licenses is absolutely, 100%, broken,” Transportation Secretary Sean
Continue ReadingBy Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — Owners of nearly 200,000 BMWs should not park in the garage because the vehicles could short circuit and catch fire, according to a recall notice. The fire risk is related to a problem with the engine starter, which can affect cars that are both parked and in motion,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri’s annual security and fire safety report showed sharp declines in reported rapes and liquor arrests in 2024 from the previous year. The report was shared by the university on Friday. The report shows there were nine reports of rape in 2024, which is half the total of 2023’s
Continue ReadingBy Tal Shalev, Jennifer Hansler, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out on Friday at Western countries’ recent recognition of Palestinian statehood, accusing world leaders of “buckling under the pressure of a biased media, radical Islamist constituencies and antisemitic mobs.” Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, Netanyahu rejected
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By Alaa Elassar, Norma Galeana, Ed Lavandera, Ashley Killough, CNN Dallas (CNN) — The wife of one of the detainees shot in the attack on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas earlier this week says her husband is nearly unrecognizable: unconscious and ravaged by bullets as machines do the work of keeping him
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By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Doha (CNN) — CNN interviewed a key Hamas negotiator and member of the militant group’s political bureau, Ghazi Hamad, this week, at a key moment in the war with Israel. Two weeks earlier, Hamad had survived an attack on the Hamas delegation in Doha, the capital of Qatar, which has been
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Political action committees on the opposite ends of Missouri’s abortion debate each reported large fundraising totals to end the week. Stop the Ban Missouri, a coalition aimed at defeating Amendment 3 in November 2026, announced in a news release on Friday that it has raised more than $800,000 since its formation
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By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana (CNN) — Assata Shakur, the Black Liberation Army member and fugitive with a $2 million FBI reward on her head, died in Havana where she had received political asylum from Fidel Castro, the Cuban Foreign Ministry announced Friday. According to the short announcement, Shakur, who was also known as Joanne
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CNN By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump told reporters he expects other political opponents to be prosecuted after the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. “It’s not a list, but I think there will be others,” Trump told CNN’s Kevin Liptak on Friday as he departed the White House for the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 are back open, after a crash in Columbia closed them Friday morning. Sgt. Kyle Green, of MSHP’s Troop F, told ABC 17 News just after 8 a.m. that all lanes are back open. The alert, sent out at 7:24 a.m., states that a crash in the
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been corrected to say the riders were wearing helmets. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people were hurt – one seriously – after a motorcycle crashed into a deer in Miller County just before 2 a.m. Friday, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report states that a
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