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Claims that "billions" or even "trillions" of cicadas will hit cities in Illinois and Missouri are overblown, experts said.

Five Years Ago This week in 2019, as quickly as it went away, Article 13 was back in the EU. And now somehow the Copyright Directive was even worse than before, but still not bad enough for the copyright industries. Meanwhile, we wrote about the failings of YouTube’s ContentID, the ongoing fight to make PACER […]

In the last few days before her death, former U.S. Sen. Russ Carnahan said, she told her family she was ready to go. “And of course, mom had a file for this day,” he said.

I've already said that Special Counsel Robert Hur was out of bounds in his final report when he made derogatory remarks about President Biden's memory, which had nothing to do with the actual case he was investigating. But it turns out it's much worse than that. Marcy Wheeler lays out the problem at length here. ...continue reading "Robert Hur’s final report is worse than I thought"

A man died in a crash on Friday after trying to drive between two cars, side-swiping one of them, flipping his car and hitting a tree.

A man was shot and killed by his neighbor Friday afternoon at an apartment in the city's Midtown neighborhood.

Tens of thousands came out to see the Mardi Gras festivities. One of the highlights of the St. Louis Mardi Gras is the Grand Parade, which features colorful floats, marching bands, dance groups, and costumed participants making their way through the streets of Soulard. The parade attracts spectators from across the region and is a beloved tradition for many St. Louisans.

Yesterday I put up a chart showing that average GDP growth under Donald Trump was 4.1% while Joe Biden's has been more than double that at 8.3%. How come no one ever shows this comparison? The answer is simple: it's not adjusted for inflation. Here are the real numbers: I had two points to make. ...continue reading "Revisited: GDP growth under Trump and Biden"

The biggest party weekend in St. Louis starts Friday night at the 22nd Mayor’s Mardi Gras Ball at Union Station.

If this is confirmed it's big trouble for UNRWA: Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s armed forces say served as an important communications center and intelligence hub for the Islamist militant group. ....Israeli military officials assert ...continue reading "Israel says Hamas center was hidden directly below UNRWA headquarters"

My memory has always been the Sargasso Sea of storage devices, but I got a disturbingly concrete reminder of this a few days ago. Like many of you (probably) I enjoyed Cixin Liu's trilogy The Three-Body Problem. So when I saw that Amazon had made a series out of it I headed right over. It ...continue reading "My memory sucks"

The greenback is strengthening again after a bumpy 2023, as Wall Street accepts that interest rate cuts are coming later than previously expected. Check out how the economy is performing in St. Louis.