From 2019 to 2023, 340 Missourians died while pregnant or within a year after pregnancy. Of those, 108 deaths were classified as pregnancy-related — meaning caused or aggravated by the pregnancy itself — and nearly 80% of them were preventable. The findings were part of the sixth annual Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review, published this month by […]
The Trump administration claimed a rare court victory for its embattled immigration detention policy when an appeals court, covering three states with large detention centers, agreed to stay court rulings that freed three Texas immigrants during an appeal. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a terse July 21 ruling, agreed to stay three […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans passed a measure to curb stock trading by members of Congress that was packaged with an unrelated voter ID bill, part of President Donald Trump’s push for major federal involvement in elections. The legislation passed by a vote of 232-198. All Republicans and 13 Democrats voted in favor. The bill faces […]
Last month I wrote a feature for The Verge exploring how Republicans had hijacked the Biden-era infrastructure bill to redirect billions of dollars away from next-generation fiber, and instead funnel it into the pockets of billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — in exchange for congested, expensive, satellite broadband service they’d already planned to deploy. […]
WASHINGTON — Republicans in the U.S. House on Wednesday approved their outline for the third party-line budget measure of the second Trump administration, though they won’t be able to begin work on that package until they reach agreement with their Senate colleagues on a plan forward. The 216-214 vote on a budget resolution sets up […]
For weeks, the city attributed the disruption to "server issues." On Wednesday, communications manager Jared Jones told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that UCity's network was targeted with "malicious intent."
WARREN COUNTY, Mo. - Emotions could run high Thursday night as a crowd is expected to attend a Board of Aldermen meeting focused on an asphalt plant that could be built in the area. Some residents are upset that city leaders approved the facility to be built near their homes. As it stands now, the [...]
ST. LOUIS - A new report indicates St. Louis is among the large American cities seeing declines in crime. The 26-page report was released by the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan think tank focused on criminal justice policy. The report examines 13 different types of crime across 36 U.S. cities. In St. Louis, the [...]
SIKESTON — Not everyone at Lloyd Gilmore’s funeral knew him well. One woman, who had ironed her clothes two days in advance, said she just wanted to be there for his family. School-age children, guided by their parents, approached his open casket in the sanctuary of Cornerstone Baptist Church and peeked inside. Other people looked […]
More than 200 American mayors are calling on the federal government to reverse changes that will cost states billions and push millions of people off the food stamp program. This week, the United States Conference of Mayors asked the U.S. Senate’s agriculture committee to reconsider the deep cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or […]
CARSON, Calif. (AP) — Lukas MacNaughton and Marcel Hartel scored four minutes apart late in the first half to break open St. Louis City's 3-1 victory over the LA Galaxy on Wednesday night. Simon Becher scored in the second half after Galaxy defender Emiro Garcés was sent off in the 49th minute with his second [...]
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