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Several Republican-led states rebrand Pride Month

2 weeks 4 days ago
A half dozen Republican governors are pushing alternative labels for June, which is widely recognized in the United States as Pride Month. Without explicitly tying their efforts to a replacement of Pride Month — which celebrates the LGBTQ+ community — GOP governors in states including Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Nebraska, Tennessee and Utah have labeled June […]
Anna Claire Vollers

PHOTOS: Damage from Sunday's storms, reported tornado

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JEFFERSON COUNTY, IL. - A series of tornadoes touched down across southern Illinois on Sunday afternoon, leaving two people dead and several homes destroyed in Jefferson County, Illinois. According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, agencies received multiple 911 calls Sunday reporting home damage, downed trees and power lines, and missing people. Jefferson County Sheriff [...]
Nick Gladney

Wak’a Garden

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Begin Again: Wak'a Garden is the second installment in Laumeier’s Begin Again series, honoring the Park’s 50-year history of collaborating with artists and supporting new commissions and exhibitions. The organic, amphitheater-shaped sculpture, built […]

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Myranda Levins

Man shot, killed in north St. Louis Sunday night

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ST. LOUIS - Police are investigating after a man was killed Sunday night in north St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD), the shooting occurred shortly after 11:30 p.m. in the 5000 block of W. Florissant Ave., near the Bellefontaine Cemetery, in the city's Mark Twain neighborhood. When officers arrived on [...]
Nick Gladney

Childbirth left a Missouri mother paralyzed. Childcare access helped her heal

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The birth of Danielle Stewart’s daughter thrust her into advocacy. She tells the story often. “Imagine walking into a hospital to have your first child,” Stewart said. “And leaving on a stretcher alone, paralyzed from your waist down.” Stewart says a failed epidural left her paralyzed from the waist down — a claim at the […]
Anna Spoerre

Mildly blue or a blue tsunami? 9 states will decide if Dems flip control of U.S. Senate

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Democrats are growing hopeful they can recapture the U.S. Senate in this fall’s midterm elections amid President Donald Trump’s plummeting approval ratings.  But they still need nearly everything to break their way against a map that put them at a starting disadvantage, analysts and campaign officials say. At the outset of this election cycle, Republicans […]
Jacob Fischler, Jonathan Shorman

How is America doing on her 250th birthday?

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As we pause to celebrate America’s 250th birthday, we should take the time to evaluate her well-being. All is not well in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Why isn’t it? The leaders whom we have entrusted with her care — her very lifeline — are not doing what it […]
Janice Ellis