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Past secretaries, union leader call for probe into Education Department slashing

1 month 2 weeks ago
WASHINGTON — Three former U.S. Education Department secretaries and the union representing agency workers on Tuesday urged the department’s top watchdog to investigate the cost and impact of mass firings last year.  Former U.S. Education Secretaries Arne Duncan and John B. King Jr., who led the department during the Obama administration, and Miguel Cardona of the […]
Shauneen Miranda

Bernie Sanders Tries To ‘Help’ Fix AI By Complaining With Steve Bannon, ‘Banning Superintelligence’

1 month 2 weeks ago
In an ideal world it’s certainly possible that the U.S. federal government could implement meaningful guardrails for AI development that protect innovation, national security, consumer privacy, public safety, and labor/creatives, while preventing market monopolization by the sector’s biggest players. But we don’t live in that ideal world. We live in a country where an historically […]
Karl Bode

Bill to set rules for college sports clears first procedural vote in US Senate

1 month 2 weeks ago
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday moved forward on a sweeping bipartisan bill that would set national standards for college athletes’ compensation. The measure breezed through its first procedural vote that needed 60 senators to advance, 74-24.  The legislation is the latest congressional push to overhaul the college sports landscape, which continues to wrestle with […]
Shauneen Miranda

Wak’a Garden

1 month 2 weeks ago

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

Woman injured after being struck by train in Robertsville

1 month 2 weeks ago
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Mo. - A woman was injured after being struck by a train early Wednesday in Robertsville. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP), the incident occurred shortly after 1 a.m. on the BNSF railroad tracks under Highway O at Circle Drive and Yaeger Street. MSHP said the train was traveling westbound on [...]
Nick Gladney

Pedestrian struck, killed Tuesday night on Interstate 170

1 month 2 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS - Police are investigating after a pedestrian was struck and killed by a Tuesday night on Interstate 170. According to Dallas Thompson from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the incident occurred around 11 p.m. on northbound I-170 north of I-70. A man was killed in the crash. Details on the crash are unknown. [...]
Nick Gladney

Missouri Republicans ask federal court to revive gerrymandered map, block referendum

1 month 2 weeks ago
Secretary of State Denny Hoskins wants the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to remove a congressional redistricting referendum from the Missouri ballot and order the state to hold the November election under the gerrymandered map Republicans muscled through the Legislature last year. In a filing Tuesday afternoon, state Solicitor General Lou Capozzi, writing on […]
Rudi Keller