The acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has left his post, marking another disruption in a year of staff and policy changes. His leadership was questioned after he delayed responding to deadly floods in Texas.
On this edition of the show, we get an update on the latest happenings at the University Police Department with Chief of Police Dr. Rich Flotron; Dr. Steven Hoffman stops by with information about SEMO's Historic Preservation Program and we meet Mardi Fievet and Claire Ward, two members of the Redhawks Equestrian Team.
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, putting together a Thanksgiving Day menu is not particularly challenging. After all, the fundamentals of the holiday meal are hardly open to debate.
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A Tennessee judge has blocked the use of the National Guard in Memphis under a crimefighting operation by President Trump but also put the order on hold, giving the government five days to appeal.
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The plan authorizes a security force in the devastated territory and envisions a possible path to an independent Palestinian state. Russia, which had circulated a rival resolution, abstained along with China on the 13-0 vote.
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Since the Gaza ceasefire began, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has received a boost from President Trump, and is gearing up to run for reelection.
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In an exclusive Washington Post story, reporter Warren Strobel describes a CIA operation in Afghanistan over the course of about a decade. The goal was to degrade the country's opium crop.
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Where might we look for inspiration for new cancer therapies? Some researchers say the bowhead whale may offer clues.
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Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Milan in February, curling superfans turn out in Sioux Falls, S.D., for trials to determine which U.S. team will compete in "chess on ice" against the world.
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Abortion is supported by three out of four Mainers, but a popular network of clinics that provides it alongside primary care is being shut out of Medicaid by the Trump administration.
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On The Menu gives you a taste of what cuisines, beverages, and other gastronomic delights are trending, interesting, worthy of discussion, or what is simply on Quantella’s mind that she wants you to ponder. New episodes air on the third Wednesday of the month. Catch up on past episodes here.
In this episode of 'Exposition', we speak with two student actors from the upcoming production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which will be presented in the Rust Flexible Theatre, beginning on November 20th at 7:30 p.m. on the River Campus.
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