Being the revenge president goes two ways. First, you have to screw your enemies. Second, you have to make sure your friends have impunity to break the law. After two weeks, here is Donald Trump's scorecard: Dropped prosecution of former Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry for lying to the FBI. Dropped charges against his pals in ...continue reading "A scorecard so far of the Trump revenge presidency"
Carol Jean Rucker (nee Wischmeyer) of the Willows at Brooking Park, passed away peacefully at the age of 91 surrounded by her daughters. Born on the 26th of September 1933 in St. Louis, MO to Janice Laura (nee Weber) and…
94, passed Thursday, January 30, 2025. Wife of the late Willam C. Becker, Jr. Mother of Robert (Laura), Thomas (Molly), Linda (Keith) Tomazi, and Carl (Carol), grandmother of 9, great-grandmother of 9. SERVICES: Hutchens Mortuary, Visitation Feb. 3, 2025 from…
We’ve said before that by extracting a guilty plea to Espionage Act violations from WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, the Biden administration set up its successor to punish journalists who expose government secrets. But President Donald Trump’s also got oligarchs to protect.
Not to worry — former President Joe Biden handed him a road map to censoring corporate secrets too, by prosecuting Florida journalist Tim Burke under computer crime laws for exposing Fox News outtakes of Ye’s unaired, antisemitic rant to Tucker Carlson.
Our Director of Advocacy Seth Stern explains in Lawfare that Burke’s prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and federal wiretap laws “could create new precedent that opens the floodgates for the second Trump administration to prosecute any digital journalist who publishes news that authorities would rather keep secret by simply asserting that they ‘exceeded their authorization’ by finding what others failed to hide.”
Frustration is growing among Vashon High School students, parents, and athletes as strict game attendance rules remain in place for a second home game.
Hidden Valley Ski Resort opened before Christmas this season thanks to cold temperatures, and they had some help from Mother Nature in January. Despite the milder weather as of late, things continue to look promising as we head into a new month.
Charges were never filed against the two officers over the 2015 deadly shooting of Mansur Ball-Bey. Friday, a jury awarded millions of dollars in the civil lawsuit.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother and four others aboard crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff Friday evening, exploding in a fireball that engulfed several homes. Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, which operated the Learjet 55, said in a statement: “We cannot confirm any survivors.” There was [...]
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Nader Qasem is part of the family-owned iDeal Furniture store on Camp Jackson Road in Cahokia Heights. The business is less than a mile from Interstate 255.
One of the more annoying ways that Sony insists on handing itself losses for no reason whatsoever has been its insistance on requiring a PlayStation Network account for cross-platform titles. The company has done this with a bunch of these titles, perhaps most famously so when it did so with Helldivers 2, an early access […]
One man is in custody and police continue an investigation into another individual following a pursuit that ended in the River Des Peres in south St. Louis Friday afternoon.
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