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Pete Crow-Armstrong and Christopher Morel each homered twice to lead the Chicago Cubs to an 8-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Tomas Nido and Ian Happ also homered for the Cubs, who split the four-game set against their NL Central rivals. Alec Burleson homered for St. Louis. Crow-Armstrong hit solo homers in the third and fifth innings. He also stole his 17th bases of the season.

One man is dead following a crash late Saturday on eastbound Interstate 64 in downtown St. Louis.

Here's a look at some of the assassinations and attempted assassinations that have occurred over the decades.

A new study is out that provides a variety of estimates of the number of US adults who identify as trans. All of the estimates have something in common: In one year, between 2020 and 2021, the number of young people identifying as trans nearly doubled. The effect is more pronounced among some groups than ...continue reading "Did the number of young trans people double in 2021?"

WASHINGTON (AP) — The 20-year-old nursing-home employee from suburban Pittsburgh who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was a registered Republican who packed explosives in the vehicle he drove to the campaign rally an hour from his home. Law enforcement officials were working Sunday to learn more about Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday appealed for the country to “unite as one nation” after the attempted assassination of his predecessor, Donald Trump, and said he was ordering an independent security review of how such an attack could have happened. Biden delivered short afternoon remarks from the White House after receiving a [...]

Prominent conservatives were all over Twitter yesterday blaming Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. But were prominent Democrats acting just as badly? A real glimpse from @kadiagoba at the extent to which deeply conspiratorial thinking is pretty widespread among Democratic elites https://t.co/oAlJj5aE7O — Ben Smith (@semaforben) July 14, ...continue reading "A single unknown Democrat suggested the Trump attack was staged and has apologized"

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden Sunday called for unity and pledged an independent review following the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday where former President Donald J. Trump was shot and injured. “An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for as a nation,” Biden said in remarks from the White House, adding […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shannen Doherty, the “Beverly Hills, 90210” star whose life and career were roiled by illness and tabloid stories, has died at 53. After years with breast cancer, Doherty died Saturday, according to a statement from her publicist, Leslie Sloane. “The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend was surrounded by her loved [...]

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment about Gina Carano’s lawsuit against Disney, in response to another commenter asserting that “all she’s asking for is consistency”: What makes you think she’s entitled to it? Disney is not bound by her subjective personal view of what she said. In […]