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Third Annual Great Rivers & Routes Craft Beverage Festival Is Sept. 12, 2026

10 hours 32 minutes ago
ALTON - Tickets are on sale now for the third annual Great Rivers & Routes Craft Beverage Festival celebrating local beverage producers and restaurants Saturday, Sept. 12 from Noon to 5 p.m. at Grafton Winery The Vineyards, 21028 Eckert Orchard Rd., Grafton. New this year is a VIP Experience which provides VIP ticketholders with early access to the event and signature event swag including a wine tote filled with a bottle of wine from Grafton Winery, a small jar of Ecker’s apple butter

July 23 in History: Egypt's 1952 Revolution and Other Turning Points That Shaped the World

10 hours 54 minutes ago
On July 23, one of the most important events in modern world history took place in 1952, when Egypt’s Free Officers Movement began the revolution that ended the rule of King Farouk. The uprising was led by a group of young military officers, including Gamal Abdel Nasser and Muhammad Naguib, who believed the monarchy had become ineffective, corrupt, and too closely tied to foreign influence. At the time, the revolution mattered because it reshaped Egypt’s government and power structure.

Missouri maternal deaths remain mostly preventable, sixth state report finds

10 hours 58 minutes ago
From 2019 to 2023, 340 Missourians died while pregnant or within a year after pregnancy. Of those, 108 deaths were classified as pregnancy-related — meaning caused or aggravated by the pregnancy itself — and nearly 80% of them were preventable. The findings were part of the sixth annual Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review, published this month by […]
Anna Spoerre

Trump administration claims court victory in mandatory detention

11 hours 59 minutes ago
The Trump administration claimed a rare court victory for its embattled immigration detention policy when an appeals court, covering three states with large detention centers, agreed to stay court rulings that freed three Texas immigrants during an appeal.  The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a terse July 21 ruling, agreed to stay three […]
Tim Henderson

US House approves joint measure to curb Congress’ stock trading, require voter ID

12 hours 28 minutes ago
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans passed a measure to curb stock trading by members of Congress that was packaged with an unrelated voter ID bill, part of President Donald Trump’s push for major federal involvement in elections. The legislation passed by a vote of 232-198. All Republicans and 13 Democrats voted in favor. The bill faces […]
Ashley Murray

Dem Texas AG Candidate Vows To Investigate Musk’s Starlink Grant Grift

12 hours 31 minutes ago
Last month I wrote a feature for The Verge exploring how Republicans had hijacked the Biden-era infrastructure bill to redirect billions of dollars away from next-generation fiber, and instead funnel it into the pockets of billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — in exchange for congested, expensive, satellite broadband service they’d already planned to deploy. […]
Karl Bode

US House GOP pushes through budget blueprint for Iran war funding, farm aid

12 hours 39 minutes ago
WASHINGTON — Republicans in the U.S. House on Wednesday approved their outline for the third party-line budget measure of the second Trump administration, though they won’t be able to begin work on that package until they reach agreement with their Senate colleagues on a plan forward.  The 216-214 vote on a budget resolution sets up […]
Jennifer Shutt

Residents to demand answers on approved Wright City asphalt plant

13 hours 5 minutes ago
WARREN COUNTY, Mo. - Emotions could run high Thursday night as a crowd is expected to attend a Board of Aldermen meeting focused on an asphalt plant that could be built in the area. Some residents are upset that city leaders approved the facility to be built near their homes. As it stands now, the [...]
Nick Gladney

St. Louis among large U.S. cities seeing crime declines, report says

13 hours 28 minutes ago
ST. LOUIS - A new report indicates St. Louis is among the large American cities seeing declines in crime. The 26-page report was released by the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan think tank focused on criminal justice policy. The report examines 13 different types of crime across 36 U.S. cities. In St. Louis, the [...]
Nick Gladney