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When St. Louis County resident Joshua Danrich was little, he disassembled Hot Wheels and put them back together. He daydreamed of owning a Bugatti, Lamborghini, or Corvette.

It doesn't get much better than this if you're a St. Louis baseball fan.

Democrats blamed the oil industry, Republicans blamed President Joe Biden and oil executives blamed global market forces at a U.S. House hearing Wednesday on how to reverse a dramatic increase in gas prices. Over nearly six hours, members of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and executives from six oil companies […]

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A new book explores one of my favorite topics: the overlap of urbanization, capitalism, and disasters. Think our bad habit of developing in flood plains, then acting shocked when levees results in flooding elsewhere. The term “disaster capitalism” is very appropriate. Over half the world’s population lives in urban regions, ...

For 30 years, the debate has largely ignored the soaring costs of inaction.

A Phoenix-born freelance writer is the latest convert to St. Louis’ favorite pizza cheese.

A Phoenix-born freelance writer is the latest convert to St. Louis’ favorite pizza cheese.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - A cool dry start this morning will turn to spotty showers this afternoon. Expect a windy and chilly day with temperatures in the 50s and gusts up to 30 mph. Tonight's showers may also produce some light snow but no accumulations are expected. Chilly, windy with spotty showers will continue Friday [...]

Could nuclear power help break Europe's dependency on Russian gas?

Family members of an Indiana couple that had been missing for more than a week are trying to figure out how they got lost in Nevada's high desert.

Environmental regulators are "trying to do the bare minimum by throwing something through Google Translate,” one advocate said.

The Clash will mark the 40th anniversary of the band's classic 1982 album Combat Rock with a special expanded reissue titled Combat Rock/The People's Hall that will be released on…

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It turns out voters hate it when you snatch away hundreds of dollars a month. Who knew?

The rot at the core of the Senate turns Supreme Court confirmation hearings into gratuitous distractions—or frequently, worse.

The NLRB can—as originally intended—quickly facilitate worker organization. But workers need to act fast before the Supreme Court cancels their efforts.

Adrian Vermeule has a new constitutional theory that hides its religious foundations.

Few figures in American history ignite passions quite like Thomas Jefferson. Even in his own time, he was a man who had fierce defenders and passionate detractors. Those passions haven’t cooled, even today, almost 200 years since his death. In part, these passions are fueled by the contradictions of Jefferson’s character. For many people, he …

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