BANGKOK (AP) — China announced Friday that it will impose a 34% tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10, part of a flurry of retaliatory measures following U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” slate of double-digit tariffs. The new tariff matches the rate of the U.S. "reciprocal" tariff of 34% on Chinese [...]
HUIZHONG WU and ELAINE KURTENBACH, Associated Press
While local corporate philanthropy was down in 2024, many companies still increased their giving — 37 of 60 firms that ranked in our Largest Corporate Philanthropists Lists increased local giving from 2023 to 2024.
WASHINGTON — Markets and business owners in the United States and around the world reeled Thursday following President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping and steep tariffs that are not “reciprocal” but rather punish many countries that U.S. importers heavily rely on, experts say. U.S. stocks plummeted, posting the worst one-day drop since June 2020, financial media […]
Antwan Liston was sentenced to 15 years in prison for first-degree kidnapping and armed criminal action. He said he'd agreed to the sentence in a deal with the prosecutor's office.
A house on the 400 block of East Central Street in Pacific, Missouri was fully engulfed in flames at 3 a.m. on Friday morning, with multiple departments responding to the call and one man escaping unharmed.
The most competitive race for St. Louis comptroller in decades is nearing the end. Voters are choosing between a 30-year incumbent and a former alderwoman and state representative who says the city needs a new set of eyes on its finances.
Evenezer Cortez Martinez wanted to pay respects to a beloved grandfather who died last fall. He ended up deported, sent back to Mexico, a country the 39-year-old Kansas husband and father left at the age of 4. “Everything was approved, and I arrived here with no problem,” said Cortez Martinez, a DACA recipient, in a […]
This week, seven members of Missouri's congressional delegation sent a letter to the Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service about "significant mail delivery disruptions" in the St. Louis area.
ST. LOUIS - Another welcome break from the rain to start our Friday, but we are far from finished with the wet weather. In fact, Friday will bring the heaviest rain of this stretch to the St. Louis region. After a dry start, the first of two waves of heavy rain and thunderstorms will move [...]