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Why Hot Weather Makes People Slow Down

11 hours 17 minutes ago
Your body can quietly cut your pace without asking your permission. Tasks feel heavier. Patience gets shorter. Even small decisions can seem oddly expensive. What looks like laziness is often biology doing exactly what it was built to do. People often notice this shift in themselves. Work feels slower. Exercise takes more effort. The couch becomes more appealing. It is easy to blame motivation or routine. But humans slow down for real reasons. Heat changes how the body uses energy, how the brai

July 29 in History: From the Founding of NASA to the Arc de Triomphe Inauguration

11 hours 26 minutes ago
July 29 is tied to major shifts in power and identity. In 1567, James VI was crowned king of Scotland after the forced abdication of his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots. He was still an infant, so the country was ruled through regents, but his reign proved historically important. James would later become James I of England in 1603, joining the crowns of Scotland and England under one monarch. That union did not erase the two kingdoms, but it changed the future of the British Isles and helped shape

Campaign spending accelerates as Missouri primary election draws near

11 hours 27 minutes ago
Ballot measure campaigns raised almost $40 million through the third week of July as they paid for ads and direct mail appeals bombarding Missourians ahead of Tuesday’s primary election.  Early voting is underway and the primary election is Aug. 4. The final full financial disclosure statements for state campaigns were due Monday to the Missouri […]
Rudi Keller

Courts issue conflicting rulings on Trump executive order restricting vote-by-mail

12 hours 38 minutes ago
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the federal government can continue implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting vote-by-mail, reaching the opposite conclusion that another appeals panel decided over the weekend. The conflict appeared to make it even more clear the issue will have to be settled by the U.S. Supreme Court, which already […]
Jacob Fischler

SIUE to add First Community Credit Union ads to jerseys

12 hours 41 minutes ago
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) sports teams are set to feature ads on jerseys under a new partnership with First Community Credit Union. The partnership comes after the NCAA Division I Cabinet approved a new policy allowing Division I sports programs to place commercial logos or patches on uniforms, equipment and apparel [...]
Nick Gladney

Former FCC Officials Line Up To Blast Brendan Carr’s Lawless Censorship Of ABC

12 hours 58 minutes ago
A bipartisan roster of former top-level FCC officials have submitted a filing to the Trump FCC blasting the agency’s ongoing violations of the First Amendment and urging it to terminate its phony “investigations” into ABC — including the unprecedented early ownership review of the company’s broadcast licenses. In the filing, former FCC officials allied under […]
Karl Bode