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Healing Action supports survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation 

1 year 7 months ago
(KTVI) It is a dubious distinction for St. Louis - the city ranks 16th in the United States for human trafficking. A local organization is helping survivors through peer support, basic needs assistance, and trauma therapy. Fox 2’s Jasmine Huda spoke with the co-founders of St. Louis-based Healing Action about how it is helping those [...]
Jasmine Huda

Honor Flights to include more Vietnam veterans 

1 year 7 months ago
(KTVI) A local organization is making sure veterans who served in Vietnam get their due. The Greater St. Louis Honor Flight is kicking off its 2024 season, flying veterans to and from Washington, DC in a single day to visit the national memorials created in their honor. The flights recognize those who served in World [...]
Jasmine Huda

U.S. Supreme Court to hear oral arguments Tuesday on abortion pill limits

1 year 7 months ago

WASHINGTON — The same U.S. Supreme Court that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion will hear oral arguments Tuesday over access to mifepristone, a pharmaceutical used in both medication abortion and miscarriage care. The nine justices will then decide whether to leave access to the drug intact or require the U.S. Food and Drug […]

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Jennifer Shutt

The Machine Crumbles

1 year 7 months ago
Andy Kim has not only pulled off a major upset. He may have transformed the political culture of an entire state.
David Dayen

The New ‘Sports Illustrated’ Promises To Still Do ‘In-Depth Journalism’ Despite Being A Hollowed Out Husk Now

1 year 7 months ago
As the Vice and Messenger collapse just got done illustrating in glorious technicolor, the problem with online U.S. journalism isn’t that it’s inherently unprofitable. The problem is usually that the worst, least competent, shallowest people imaginable routinely fail upward into positions of management, then treat the brands they acquire like disposable napkins. That’s certainly been the case over at Sports […]
Karl Bode

SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods Dropped on Their Street

1 year 7 months ago
A pair of AirPods and what lawyers say was some shoddy police work resulted in an innocent middle-class Ferguson family having their front door smashed in by the St. Louis County SWAT team last May. Around 6:30 p.m. on May 26, Brittany Shamily was at home with her children, including an infant, when police used a battering ram to bust in her front door. “What the hell is going on?” she screamed, terrified for herself and her family.
Ryan Krull

In Her Own Words: Whitney Kenter takes consultancy Glowe very personally

1 year 7 months ago
The phrase “objects in mirror are closer than they appear” applies to careers as well as motor vehicles. Whitney Kenter’s work to create Glowe Collective evolved directly from the work she did to turn her life around. "I founded Glowe Connective in 2020 because traditional business is broken. "Employees on average are disengaged. According to Gallup, only 36% of employees were engaged in 2020 (actually a result of numbers that had been trending up!) and have since fallen again. "In a 2022…
Ellen Sherberg