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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today questioned witnesses at Senator Mazie Hirono’s (D-HI) spotlight forum entitled “Breaking the Promise: How Relocating the IDEA Will Be Detrimental to Students and Families.” During the forum, Durbin sounded the alarm on the Trump Administration’s plans to shuffle the Department of Education’s (ED) Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) to the Department of Health and Human

EDWARDSVILLE — State Senator Jason Plummer (R-Edwardsville) sponsored legislation recently signed into law to strengthen transparency and accountability in Department of Children & Family Service (DCFS) investigations involving allegations of child abuse or neglect. “DCFS has repeatedly failed Illinois children and families, and a lack of transparency only makes those failures worse,” said Senator Plummer. “When the state makes a determination in a child abuse or neglect

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Dave McCormick (R-PA) introduced the Transit for Urban Renewal and Business Opportunities Act ( TURBO Act ), legislation that would expand and modernize a key federal financing tool used by state and local governments to deliver critical transportation infrastructure through public-private partnerships. “Far too often, roads that need repaving and transportation facilities that need revamping are left unfixed because states

"Brazen abuse by former city employees who identified the city's significant weaknesses in oversight and exploited those weaknesses."

Missouri voters have approved a ballot measure that renews a longtime parks, soils and water sales tax, according to Associated Press race call projections.

The crash was about 7:20 p.m. Tuesday at Martin Luther King Drive and North Euclid Avenue.

On August 5, 1963, the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom signed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Moscow, a major step in easing Cold War tensions. The agreement banned nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, outer space, and underwater, though it still allowed underground testing. At the time, the treaty mattered because people around the world feared radioactive fallout and the growing risk of nuclear war. It still matters today because it showed that even rival superpower

Accident Reconstruction is investigating a fatal crash that left one person dead and four others injured on August 4, 2026 in the Kingsway East neighborhood.

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The SLMPD Force Investigation Unit is investigating a shooting involving a City of St. Louis Sheriff Deputy that happened on August 4, 2026.

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Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche is one step closer to confirmation after the Republican Judiciary Committee voted to advance his appointment on a party-line vote on Tuesday, and based on promises he made to faith leaders around the country last week, that means national anti-abortion actions may be one step closer as well. In […]

Last month we reported how Meta had decided to try and sloppily nickel-and-dime its AI glasses customers. More specifically, the company decided it would be a good idea to introduce new “rate limits” to smart glasses usage, forcing customers to pony up a $20 per month Meta One Premium subscription if they didn’t want their glasses’ “conversation […]