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Fresh off the launch of legalized sports wagering in Missouri, the talk of the gambling industry has shifted to emerging prediction markets that remain unregulated by states.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Online influencer Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers, was facing allegations of sex trafficking women in three countries when he and his brother left their home in Romania to visit the United States. “The Tates will be free, Trump is […]

A shake-up may be coming to the Dome at America's Center, as the board that oversees the facility is taking steps toward a large-scale restructure.

A state lawmaker wants to remove the Missouri Department of Transportation’s immunity from lawsuits following Monday's winter weather response.

EDWARDSVILLE – A historic building in downtown Edwardsville is one step closer to its transformation into the future home of the Edwardsville Arts Center . Edwardsville City Council members unanimously approved a Professional Services Agreement with Gray Design Group for improvements to 246 North Main Street. The city announced in October that the former Edwardsville Frozen Foods Building at the site is set for a major renovation into the new Edwardsville Arts Center location.

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is pressing Attorney General Pam Bondi for a briefing this week to review the contents of the Epstein files ahead of the Justice Department’s legally binding public release date later this month. Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., and Reps. Thomas […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. House GOP leadership pulled a bill from the House floor Wednesday that would set a national framework for college-athletes’ compensation.  The Student Compensation and Opportunity through Rights and Endorsements, or ‘‘SCORE” Act, would bar student-athletes from being recognized as employees and provide broad antitrust immunity to the NCAA and college sports conferences.  The […]

More than $40 million in new federal funding has been approved to help accelerate long-running cleanup efforts in Coldwater Creek.

One worker was seriously injured after a Ferguson city snow plow truck overturned Wednesday morning.

A Missouri lawmaker has introduced a bill that would officially declare artificial intelligence (AI) systems as non-human and prevent them from receiving any sort of human rights, responsibilities or legal status. In the state, this would prevent AI from owning any property, getting married to a human, or being your boss at your job.

CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul with a bipartisan coalition of 50 attorneys general, today launched the second phase of Operation Robocall Roundup, an effort by the multi-state Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force to crack down on robocalls across the country. As part of an ongoing investigation, Raoul and the task force sent letters to Inteliquent, Bandwidth, Lumen and Peerless directing each company to stop transmitting suspected illegal robocalls across their networks. “Today’s

The auditor's office served Francis Howell with a subpoena this week after it "impeded" an investigation into the school district's separation with former Superintendent Mike Dominguez.

A Warrenton, Missouri, man will spend nearly two years in federal prison for temporarily blinding a police helicopter pilot with a laser pointer.

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The federal appellate court for the D.C. Circuit recently affirmed a ruling requiring investigative journalist Catherine Herridge to disclose the sources for her reporting on scientist Yangping Chen’s alleged ties to the Chinese military while an online college Chen founded received federal funds.

The court got it wrong by holding Herridge in contempt for not burning her sources, and Herridge is rightly seeking a rehearing. Worse yet, the misguided ruling was informed by documents about the FBI’s investigation of Chen that were filed under seal, even though the investigation is over and the documents aren’t classified. The appellate court even held a portion of its hearing to decide whether to order Herridge to testify in closed court.

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), represented by Schaerr | Jaffe LLP, filed a motion to intervene and unseal the documents and hearing transcript yesterday.

The following statement can be attributed to Seth Stern, director of advocacy for FPF.

“Journalist-source confidentiality is about safeguarding the public’s right to be informed. Its fate should not be decided in secret hearings about secret documents. Americans deserve to know whether the damages Chen claims to have suffered were because of alleged leaks to Herridge or because of the outcome of the government investigation she reported on. If the latter, it raises the question of whether the court is ordering Herridge to out her sources to aid Chen in pursuing a baseless lawsuit. Surely the bar for compelled disclosure of journalistic sources must be higher than that.

“Opponents of the reporter’s privilege often dream up convoluted hypothetical scenarios to call it a national security risk. But here we see someone suspected of ties to a foreign military able to use the courts to try to find out who in the government U.S. reporters are talking to and the content of those conversations. It goes to show that the real national security risk is the lack of a statutory privilege, which allows courts to issue misguided rulings. Congress should step up and reintroduce and pass the PRESS Act.”

H. Christopher Bartolomucci, a partner at Schaerr | Jaffe, added:

“Public access and government accountability are fundamental to the rule of law, and the notion of ‘secret law’ is anathema to our system of justice. By denying the public access to important judicial records in this case, the court is keeping members of the public from judging for themselves the strength or weakness of the court’s reasoning.”

You can read FPF’s motion here.

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Hawley introduces bill requiring Afghans allowed into U.S. since 2021 to be interviewed in person, with federal benefits withheld until vetting process is done

National Park Service officials are asking for help locating a St. Louis woman missing for more than two weeks at Olympic National Park in Washington State.