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As Cardinal season got underway last week, a different season was already in full swing: the sprint to collect signatures to get a constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights on the Missouri ballot. If pro-choice activists can collect 171,000 signatures, Missourians will get a chance to vote this fall on whether abortion should be legal up until the point of fetal viability.  Last Thursday, as a sea of red and white streamed into Busch Stadium, we caught up with Dana Sandweiss, who runs the Access MO political action committee.

Cars were already lining up for the event at around 5 a.m., Cape Girardeau tourism officials said.

A team of researchers at UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago has performed yet another version of a familiar experiment where they send identical resumes to different companies with only one difference: some resumes have distinctively white names (Misty, Brandon) and some have distinctively Black names (Latisha, Tyrone). Then they tally up the number ...continue reading "Here are 108 companies, graded from most to least racist"

Every few years, it seems, we’re reminded of the incredible number of dependencies built into the software we all rely on. Remember kik? Or Chef Sugar? Or any number of similar situations? The xkcd comic on dependency is so well known for a reason. So, the backdoor that was discovered in xz utils a week […]

Geezer Butler has announced a live event during which he'll discuss his 2023 memoir, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath—And Beyond.The show takes place on May 22 in…

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St. Louis-based Surdex Corp., a family-owned firm that uses a fleet of aircraft to create mapping imagery and gather geospatial data, will now be part of a public company after the $44M deal.

The sun is reappearing from behind the moon as the total solar eclipse leaves North America. There won’t be another coast-to-coast spectacle on the continent until 2045. Crowds cheered from Mexico to Canada as the spectacle unfolded. The weather forecast was cloudy for many places, but viewers were able to see the eclipse in many [...]

Connect, a startup founded by Washington University students, has won the 2024 edition of St. Louis Inno’s bracket challenge.

Two men traded trash talk and eventually gunfire in Florissant, resulting in charges against one of the men.

Here are the times you need to know for Monday's solar eclipse.

Ringo Starr is ready to drop some new music.The Beatles drummer announced that the new song, “February Sky,” will be released Friday, April 12, giving fans their first taste of…

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Make sure you tune in for the FOX 2 Solar Eclipse Special. The coverage begins at 1 p.m. today and you can watch a livestream here. We'll have news crews along the path of totality, and we'll share pictures of the eclipse from across the country.

AC/DC is your 2024 March Bandness Champion!

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Max Boot says Joe Biden deserves credit for his tough but restrained response to the killing of three US soldiers at a base in Jordan a couple of months ago by an Iranian-backed militia: On Feb. 2, U.S. forces dropped more than 125 precision munitions on 85 targets in Iraq and Syria belonging to Iran’s ...continue reading "President Biden forced Iran to back down"

Daniel Riley's lawyer argued that the cumulative effects of "improper rulings by the court" denied his right to a fair trial.

While it’s understandable to desire someone be held responsible for brutal acts of terrorism, the responsibility for those actions lies with those who committed them. That’s hardly satisfying because it can be almost impossible to extract anything from the terrorists themselves, other than the limited recompense of seeing them arrested and jailed. And that’s something […]