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Panera has faced at least three lawsuits over its Charged Lemonade drinks.

The new subdivision would consist of 39 houses, according to plans filed by the builder.

Legal filings alleged that Panera failed to accurately advertise its charged lemonade as an energy drink, putting consumers at risk — and that it knew the drink could cause harm.

A complaint filed Monday alleges widespread abuse from 1996 to 2017 at nine youth detention centers.

St. Louis-based architecture, planning, urban design and interiors firm Trivers has moved from its previous home on the 18th floor of the Broadway Tower to a new office on the ground floor of The Victor in Downtown West. “This is not just an opportunity for our space to better support our people and our work; […]

This is a little out of left field, but does anyone know why Jim Jordan is never mentioned as a possible running mate for Donald Trump? The guy is a total attack dog; he's super conservative; he's an election denier and overall Trump sycophant; he's a winner, election-wise; and he looks the part, something we ...continue reading "Is Jim Jordan on Trump’s list of VP candidates?"

The St. Louis-based specialty coffee roaster on Friday opened its new headquarters and roasting facility in the 39th Street property.

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Press freedom advocates widely condemned Israel’s ban of news service Al Jazeera from operating within its borders. But Israel isn’t the only country empowering its government to silence the press.

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Advocacy Director Seth Stern wrote for The Guardian that the episode could portend future abuses in the U.S., where a flurry of bills and court cases — from the TikTok ban to the Julian Assange prosecution — make it easier for officials to censor and intimidate journalists. 

“[President] Biden and many other Democrats constantly warn that Donald Trump would behave like an authoritarian in a potential second term. Yet they insist on continuing to hand him new powers to abuse, particularly against his favorite scapegoat: the press. 

“Anyone who doubts that Trump or future presidents will abuse those powers should view the weekend’s events in Israel as a cautionary tale.” 

Read the full op-ed here. 

Beatles fans are getting another preview of the documentary Let It Be before it premieres Wednesday, May 8, on Disney+.The latest clip revolves around Ringo Starr, showing him joking around in the…

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The self-taught singer took the world by storm on NBC's "The Voice" and was part of Reba McEntire's team.

Montez Montgomery, of East St. Louis, admitted in February to providing the weapon to two of his high school friends and then hiding the deputy's car and throwing away some of his possessions after the carjacking.

What doesn’t kill you tastes amazing — and may still be dangerous.  St. Louis Bread Co., better known as Panera to the rest of the world, announced that the chain will phase out its controversial (but again, delicious) charged lemonade following two highly publicized deaths of people who’d consumed the beverage.  College students facing finals (and exhausted journalists everywhere) can still buy the drink, but not for long.

Vox reports that CRISPR gene editing technology is great, but it has a problem: Most of the available reference genomes are representative of white Europeans. That’s a problem because not everybody’s DNA is identical: Recent sequencing of African genomes shows that they have 10 percent more DNA than the standard reference genome available to researchers. ...continue reading "Race is a social construct except when it’s not"

A coalition of press freedom, civil liberties, and human rights groups is urging President Joe Biden to release a new report to Congress about U.S. military aid and human rights to the press and the public. Joe Biden by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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A coalition of press freedom, civil liberties, and human rights groups sent a letter to President Biden today, calling on his administration to make public a new report to Congress on U.S. military assistance to foreign countries and those countries’ compliance with international human rights law.

The report is due tomorrow, on May 8. But the administration hasn’t yet made clear whether it will be made available to the public or the press. It should be.

Caitlin Vogus, deputy advocacy director at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), said, “The public has a profound interest in understanding how the U.S. ensures that its military aid doesn’t go to human rights abusers.”

Vogus added, “If the Biden administration can stand behind its decisions about defense assistance, it should have no reason to withhold the report that members of Congress will see from the press and the public.”

In addition to FPF, the letter was signed by Amnesty International USA, Defending Rights & Dissent, National Press Photographers Association, Radio Television Digital News Association, and Reporters Without Borders.

In February, Biden issued a national security memorandum known as NSM-20 that’s intended to ensure that foreign recipients of U.S. military aid are following international humanitarian law by requiring them to provide assurances of their compliance to the U.S. NSM-20 authorizes the president to take measures against noncompliant countries, up to and including suspending military assistance.

The Biden administration created the NSM-20 process in the wake of significant pressure from Democrats in Congress about whether Israel was complying with international law during the Israel-Gaza war and whether it may be using U.S. weapons and other military assistance in ways that violate human rights.

There have been numerous allegations that Israel has used U.S. assistance in a manner that violates international and U.S. law, and claims that Israel is violating human rights more broadly, including by intentionally targeting journalists. An internal State Department memorandum that recently leaked to the press shows that some U.S. officials believe Israel is violating international law in Gaza.

But NSM-20 isn’t just about Israel. It requires the U.S. to assess all of the countries to which it provides defense articles, and evaluate assurances those countries have provided about their compliance with international law.

The press and the public must have access to the Biden administration’s report to Congress under NSM-20, so it can evaluate elected leaders’ decisions on foreign military aid and the thoroughness and accuracy of the assessments the U.S. will conduct under this new process.

Read the full letter here or below.

Meatpacking sludge storage lagoons that have drawn the ire of rural neighbors because of their foul stench would face stricter state regulations under legislation that passed the Missouri Senate Tuesday.  Senators voted 30-1 to require the facilities to obtain water pollution permits, be set back from nearby homes, follow certain design requirements and monitor groundwater […]

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The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children‘s CyberTipline is a central component of the fight against child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online, but there have been a lot of questions about how well it truly works. A recent report from the Stanford Internet Observatory, which we’ve published two recent posts about, provides an extremely […]

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin on Tuesday filed a lawsuit with five other states, including Missouri, against the U.S. Department of Education’s change to Title IX that codifies protections for LGBTQ students. The federal rule, announced in April, protects students and employees from sex-based discrimination, requires schools to offer support for people who make complaints, […]

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The victim was rushed to a hospital for emergency life-saving treatment, but he died.

A St. Louis man was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for fatally shooting his friend, stripping the friend of his clothes and then burning his car to hide physical evidence in 2022.