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What to know about abortion access in Missouri

1 year 3 months ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Planned Parenthood wanted to resume offering abortions in several Missouri clinics on Friday, immediately after a newly passed constitutional amendment rolling back the state’s near-total ban took effect, but they remain on hold as a complicated court battle drags on. The issue is that the amendment does not specifically override [...]
HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and SUMMER BALLENTINE, Associated Press

What to know about abortion access in Missouri

1 year 3 months ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Planned Parenthood wanted to resume offering abortions in several Missouri clinics on Friday, immediately after a newly passed constitutional amendment rolling back the state’s near-total ban took effect, but they remain on hold as a complicated court battle drags on. The issue is that the amendment does not specifically override [...]
Summer Ballentine

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Comply & Demand

1 year 3 months ago
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online […]
Mike Masnick

Brewery Lights

1 year 3 months ago

The Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis consists of historic, red-brick buildings in the Germanic-Romanesque style, and this time of year, the stunning architecture is amplified by more than a million […]

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Rachel Huffman

Garden Glow

1 year 3 months ago

Garden Glow at the Missouri Botanical Garden dazzles visitors with its exquisite light displays year after year. Come to celebrate the season with more than two million twinkling lights, beautiful […]

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Rachel Huffman

Federal appeals court upholds rapidly approaching TikTok ban

1 year 3 months ago
The law Congress passed this year to force the Chinese parent company of social media giant TikTok to either sell the service or face a U.S. ban is constitutional, a panel of federal appeals judges ruled Friday. The order from a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals preserves the bipartisan law President Joe Biden […]
Jacob Fischler

Investigation Ongoing: Worden Man Faces Child Porn, Child Solicitation Charges

1 year 3 months ago
WORDEN - A volunteer firefighter from Worden faces multiple charges of child pornography and indecent solicitation of a child after disseminating child porn and more via X, formerly known as Twitter. Jared Henke, 20, of Worden, was charged with one count of child pornography (a Class X felony) and two counts of indecent solicitation of a child (both Class 1 felonies) stemming from Oct. 19, 2023. He was additionally charged with three more Class X felony counts of child pornography from offenses committed on June 12, 2023. On Oct. 19, 2023, he allegedly requested a child who he knew or should have known was under the age of 13 “to send nude photographs via the X application,” according to descriptions of the charges. He also reportedly solicited an individual under the age of 13 to perform sexual acts on multiple occasions. On June 12, 2023, Henke reportedly disseminated multiple files of child pornography via the X application, each depicting individuals he knew o

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