Major Historical Events 1513: Balboa sees the Pacific from the Americas On September 25, 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached a height on the Isthmus of Panama and saw the ocean beyond it. He is generally credited as the first European to see the Pacific from the American mainland. Indigenous peoples had, of course, known and traveled its shores for generations. For Europeans, the sighting confirmed that another vast body of water lay beyond the lands they were
In all, prosecutors say, he had hundreds of videos of unsuspecting women dating back to 2021. Prosecutors have identified some of the victims, but many remain unknown.
For more than 35 years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has surveyed American high school students every two years about their health and behavior. The Youth Risk Behavior Survey, established in 1991, draws a nationally representative sample of students in grades 9 through 12 at public and private schools. Over the years, […]
(Legal Newsline) — Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway has issued cease-and-desist letters to six prediction market operators accused of offering unlicensed sports wagering to Missouri residents through sports “event contracts.”
New federal rules likely will force three dozen states to reduce their annual Medicaid payments to doctors and hospitals by a total of more than $50 billion — potentially shrinking the number of providers willing to see Medicaid patients, according to a new analysis. The analysis in the peer-reviewed Health Affairs estimates that the 17 […]
The final trailer for Clayface is here. Warner Bros. Pictures has released a brand-new trailer for its upcoming horror thriller starring Tom Rhys Harries as the titular cult favorite DC…
State Sen. Angela Mosley wants $1 million in damages, alleging Facebook posts falsely accused her of entering the county executive race to hurt Brian Williams.
I’ve written a lot this year about how Republicans hijacked the $42.5 billion Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program (created by the 2021 infrastructure bill) and immediately set about weakening oversight standards, eliminating enforcement of stuff like broadband affordability, speed, and equitable deployment, and making it a priority to heavily subsidize Elon Musk for […]
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration Thursday made an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to allow for rapid third-country deportations of noncitizens to continue, after an appeals court blocked the policy last week. In a brief, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the high court to temporarily halt the appeals court’s order. The […]
St. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - A man was hospitalized after a crash early Friday in Sunset Hills. The crash occurred around 12:45 a.m. near Sappington Road. The vehicle appeared to have overturned and sustained significant damage. The man was conscious after the crash and was taken to a hospital with what appeared to be non-life-threatening [...]
Since 2017, a D.C.-based nonprofit called the Fairness Project has poured more than $13 million into Missouri campaigns. Every campaign it backed that has reached Missouri voters has won. And now it is making its biggest investment yet in the state. In 2024, The Fairness Project gave more than $4.5 million to a citizen-led ballot […]
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