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Limbaugh radio program will end next month
(Local News ~ 05/28/21)
"The Rush Limbaugh Show," which has aired for more than three decades on hundreds of radio stations across the nation, including KZIM in Cape Girardeau, will be replaced next month by a new conservative talk show. Limbaugh, a Cape Girardeau native, died Feb. 17, but his three-hour syndicated radio program continued on the EIB Network with guest hosts filling in and airing "best of Rush" monologues in the months since...
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Jackson ranks high on safest cities list
(Local News ~ 05/28/21)
A recent survey by SafeWise, a home security website, recently ranked Jackson as the 30th safest city in Missouri. SafeWise calculated its rankings using 2019 crime data from the FBI. The "safest" cities were those that reported the lowest crime rates...
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Waiting on Parson's Wayfair signature
(Local News ~ 05/28/21)
It took nearly three years since a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling made it possible, but a Missouri "Wayfair" sales tax on online purchases will start to be collected in January 2023, with only Gov. Mike Parson's signature necessary to set the wheels in motion to make the levy a reality...
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Mother, young son endure deaths of close family, seek best together
(Local News ~ 05/28/21)
At 9 a.m. Nov. 30, 2019, Katrina Luttrull kissed her two stepsons, son and husband goodbye before they left for their grandmother's house. By 9:15, water had flooded the family's 2004 Ford Explorer. Katrina never saw her stepsons alive again. It's been a year and six months since the boys, who were 5 and 8 years old at the time, were fatally injured after the Luttrull's vehicle was swept into Little Whitewater Creek in Bollinger County...
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'Couldn't stay quiet': Capitol cop's mom wants Jan. 6 probe
(National News ~ 05/28/21)
WASHINGTON -- Brian Sicknick's family wants to uncover every detail about the Jan. 6 insurrection by pro-Trump rioters, when the Capitol Police officer collapsed and later died. They can't understand why lawmakers do not. Sicknick was one of the on-duty officers badly outnumbered by the mob who stormed the building, smashing windows and breaking through barriers. ...
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U.S. pipelines ordered to increase cyber defenses after hack
(National News ~ 05/28/21)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. pipeline operators will be required for the first time to conduct a cybersecurity assessment under a Biden administration directive in response to the ransomware hack that disrupted gas supplies in several states this month. The Transportation Security Administration directive released Thursday also requires that pipeline owners and operators report any cyber incidents to the federal government and have a cybersecurity coordinator available at all times to work with authorities in the event of an attack like the one that shut down Colonial Pipeline.. ...
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GOP offers $928B on infrastructure, funded with COVID aid
(National News ~ 05/28/21)
WASHINGTON -- Republican senators outlined a $928 billion infrastructure proposal Thursday that would tap unused coronavirus aid, a counteroffer to President Joe Biden's more sweeping plan as the two sides struggle to negotiate a bipartisan compromise and remain far apart on how to pay for the massive spending...
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More jobless getting aid than in past even as cutoffs loom
(National News ~ 05/28/21)
WASHINGTON -- Far more Americans are receiving unemployment benefits than the last time the jobless rate was at the current 6.1%, thanks to a major expansion of the federal safety net that has provided aid to millions of people out of work. Yet many businesses and Republican officials say all that jobless aid has contributed to worker shortages in some industries, which is why most GOP-led states are moving to cut off the federal support...
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UN rights chief: Israeli strikes in Gaza may be war crimes
(International News ~ 05/28/21)
GENEVA -- The top U.N. human rights body on Thursday passed a resolution aimed to intensify scrutiny of Israel's treatment of Palestinians, after the U.N. rights chief said Israeli forces may have committed war crimes and faulted the militant group Hamas for violations of international law in their 11-day war this month...
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Belarusians who fled crackdown fearful after diverted flight
(International News ~ 05/28/21)
VILNIUS, Lithuania -- Viachka Krasulin said he was arrested and brutally beaten all over his body by police in Belarus for attending a rally in August 2020 that challenged the results of an election keeping authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in power...
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Afghan forces struggle, demoralized, corrupt
(International News ~ 05/28/21)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Abdullah Mohammadi lost his two legs and an arm below the elbow in a ferocious battle with the Taliban. As a young Afghan soldier, he had been eager to fight for his country, but now he's furious at a government he says ignores him and hasn't paid his veteran's pension for nearly a year...
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Cyclone lashes India, Bangladesh; 6 dead, 1.1 million evacuated
(International News ~ 05/28/21)
NEW DELHI -- Heavy rain and a high tide lashed parts of eastern India and neighboring Bangladesh on Wednesday as a cyclone pushed ashore in an area where more than 1.1 million people were evacuated during a devastating coronavirus outbreak. At least six people were reported dead...
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Sheriff: Gunman appeared to target certain victims
(National News ~ 05/28/21)
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A gunman who killed nine people at a California rail yard fired 39 shots and appeared to target some of the victims, a sheriff told The Associated Press on Thursday. The shooter arrived at the light rail facility for the Valley Transportation Authority in San Jose around 6 a.m. Wednesday with a duffel bag carrying two semi-automatic handguns and 11 high-capacity magazines, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said in an interview...
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GOP: 'Mostly peaceful' for me, not for thee
(Column ~ 05/28/21)
Last summer, after months of protests and riots in response to the murder of George Floyd, the phrase "mostly peaceful," often used by the media and Democrats to describe the protests, achieved parody status thanks to a CNN clip. It showed a reporter in Kenosha, Wis., standing in front of a burning building and cars ablaze. CNN's chyron read, "FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING."...
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Expanding the child tax credit ignores historical precedent
(Column ~ 05/28/21)
Marketing is everything in politics. It explains why a tax credit that benefits 90% of American families with kids -- some of them with income higher than $400,000 -- is marketed as an anti-poverty measure. But in politics, that marketing is often an illusion that hides the hard consequences of a preferred policy...
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GOP poised to block bipartisan probe of Jan. 6 insurrection
(National News ~ 05/28/21)
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans are poised to block the creation of a special commission to study the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, dashing hopes for a bipartisan panel amid a GOP push to put the violent insurrection by Donald Trump's supporters behind them...
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Prayer 5/28/21
(Prayer ~ 05/28/21)
Lord Jesus, may we stand with courage, remembering the battle belongs to you. Amen.
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Remembering our fallen heroes on Memorial Day weekend
(Editorial ~ 05/28/21)
This weekend is the unofficial start to summer with BBQs, pool parties and summer trips all commencing. The annual 100-mile yard sale is also a local favorite. But we hope you'll consider the real meaning of the holiday. Memorial Day became an official federal holiday in 1971, but its origins date back to a period of time after the Civil War when it was known as Decoration Day. ...
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