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Body found in St. Charles County drowning

1 year 10 months ago
Multiple agencies have responded to Walnut Hill Court near Weldon Springs for a drowning. Metro West Dive and Rescue are on the scene, preparing to head back into the water to look for a missing male.
Liz Dowell

‘Time for a reckoning.’ Kansas farmers brace for water cuts to save Ogallala Aquifer

1 year 10 months ago

JETMORE, Kan. — An inch or two of corn peeks out of the dirt, just enough to reveal long rows forming over the horizon. Sprinkler engines roar as they force water from underground to pour life into dusty fields. Thunder cracks. The wind whips up dirt as a trail of dark storms looms. The crashing […]

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Kevin Hardy

Trump claims ‘great unity’ after talks with congressional GOP 

1 year 10 months ago

WASHINGTON — In his first visit to Capitol Hill since leaving office in January 2021, former President Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, mapped campaign strategy with GOP lawmakers and projected party unity ahead of the November elections. Trump said the meetings brought “great unity.” Surrounded by Republican senators who were smiling and applauding him […]

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Ariana Figueroa

Biden’s Title IX transgender protections blocked in federal court

1 year 10 months ago

A federal judge has temporarily halted enforcement of new rules from the Biden administration that would prevent discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty of Louisiana issued a temporary injunction Thursday that blocks updated Title IX policy from taking effect Aug. 1 in Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi and Montana. In […]

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Greg LaRose

Big Telecom Still Pushing Hard For Broadband Tax On Big Tech

1 year 10 months ago
Telecom lobbyists have been working overtime for years in both the US and EU, trying to get policymakers to support the idea of “Big Tech” paying “Big Telecom” billions of additional dollars for no coherent reason. This taxation effort always involves some variant of the claim that popular tech services are getting a “free ride” on the Internet, […]
Karl Bode

I-70 groundbreaking begins $2.8B expansion to 6 lanes across Missouri

1 year 10 months ago
(The Center Square) – As campaigning escalates before Missouri’s August primary election, Republican Gov. Mike Parson asked citizens on Thursday to look away for a moment. With Interstate 70 in Columbia, Missouri, as a backdrop, Parson said the ceremonial groundbreaking to begin the $2.8 billion expansion of the highway to six lanes across the state displayed good government. “It affects everybody,” Parson said as he was joined by current and former local, federal and state legislators…
Joe Mueller