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Meta's social microblogging platform has enabled a new, fundamentally important feature: the ability to look up and follow profiles from the network.

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Trump said his relationship with Long, who currently works as a business and tax adviser, dates back to 2011.

St. Louis County Republican Sen.-elect David Gregory is facing major pushback after his plan was publicized Tuesday, which proposes to pay people a $1,000 bounty for turning in undocumented migrants in Missouri.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Abortion-rights advocates on Wednesday asked a judge to overturn Missouri’s near-total ban on the procedure, less than a month after voters backed an abortion-rights constitutional amendment. Jackson County Circuit Judge Jerri Zhang did not immediately rule after the hearing. Planned Parenthood and other plaintiffs had asked her to issue a [...]

A St. Louis family received a sweet surprise that left them speechless—an all-expense-paid trip to Florida to visit all the major theme parks.

The Department of Public Safety in Des Peres is on call 24 hours a day to help residents in need. But Tuesday night, first responders were called to assist a feathered member of the community after a wounded barred owl was found struggling on the side of the road right outside the Des Peres Department building.

A driver, possibly under the influence, was caught on police dashcam crashing into a police vehicle. The driver was taken into custody after first going to the hospital.

The philanthropic arm of managed health care giant Centene Corp. said it will donate $3 million over three years to strengthen community health centers nationwide, in partnership with the National Association of Community Health Centers.

With most of the vote now counted, the big picture of the election has come into focus. If 2% of the electorate had switched their votes, Democrats would control the House of Representatives and Kamala Harris would be president. Democrats still would have lost control of the Senate, thanks to a horrible map, but by ...continue reading "Democrats lost the election by 2% of the vote"

Tennessee passed a law last year that bans trans kids from receiving medical treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy if those treatments are prescribed to help them transition. Today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether the law is constitutional. Ian Millhiser explains that the legal question at issue is whether the ...continue reading "The Supreme Court’s naked partisanship continues today"

An effort by Lambert airport officials to sign a formal agreement with a peer-to-peer rental car service ran into opposition from officials who saw the agreement as unfair to traditional rental car companies.

Former Missouri Congressman Billy Long was tapped on Wednesday evening by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Internal Revenue Service. Trump called Long — who served six terms representing a Southwest Missouri district — a “consummate people person,” adding “taxpayers and the wonderful employees of the IRS will love having Billy at the helm.” Long was one of the first elected officials to jump on the “Trump train,” a phrase he claims to have coined. When most considered Trump’s…

The new contract means Anthem members will have uninterrupted in-network access to Mercy services, the health system announced Wednesday.

We’ve talked plenty about the ways that the DMCA process specifically is wide open for fraud and abuse. There are plenty of forms this sort of thing can take, of course, but one of the more troubling among them is the use of the DMCA process specifically to disappear critical commentary that a copyright holder […]

Santa’s Magical Kingdom is unlike any other place on earth, and this year, it’s bigger, brighter and merrier! More than four million shimmering lights, electrifying special effects and whimsical worlds […]

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