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Today on TAP: A law signed yesterday mandates displaying the Ten Commandments in every classroom. First Amendment? Feh!

One of the largest banks in the St. Louis area has named a new regional president.

Hezbollah has been shooting rockets into northern Israel on a daily basis ever since the Gaza war started. An American envoy recently told Lebanon to rein in Hezbollah or face retaliation from Israel, and Atrios is unhappy about this: I know for some the only de-escalation tool they know is threats, but I submit there ...continue reading "US warns Hezbollah of possible Israeli retaliation"

on Jovi recently released their new album, FOREVER, but hasn't announced a tour due to Jon Bon Jovi's voice problems: He had major vocal cord surgery in 2022 and is still recovering.…

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Natasha Wysinger, 34, pleaded guilty Thursday on a video call from a Missouri women's prison to involuntary manslaughter in the death of her daughter, 9-year-old Janiyah Bailey.

We had a post earlier this week about the silliness of the Surgeon General’s idea for a warning on social media, and that linked to a longer piece Mike wrote about it at The Daily Beast, which talked about a similar push by former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop getting upset about video games. The […]

MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creating of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages. That’s all well and good, but it means nothing if you don’t have a firm grasp of the data types used within MATLAB. In this course you’ll cover not just data […]

'St. Louis Mom' says it's not too late to find affordable and safe summer camp options

The Supreme Court is apparently bound and determined to leave its most controversial cases until the very last week of the term. That would be next Thursday, when we'll finally get rulings on Trump's immunity, Chevron deference, and more. This week all we got was a boring tax case that no one cares much about. ...continue reading "Supreme Court sides with liberals in minor tax case"

Police in Rolla said there was no longer a threat to the public.

Housing starts were down in May, continuing a trend since the construction peak of early 2022: It's not as if housing starts have collapsed: they're now at the same level as they were right before the pandemic, following a decade-long rise after the housing bust of 2006-09. This slowdown is one of the things that ...continue reading "Housing starts continue their downward trend in May"

A new Illinois bill would make it a felony for government officials to knowingly fly an American flag upside down on government property.

Apache Lane is female, 6 years old, and weighs 35 lbs

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Paul McCartney has added more dates to his Got Back tour. The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is returning to Mexico this fall with two shows: Nov. 8 in Monterrey…

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Top Banana is a beautiful, sweet, and silly dog who loves to give and receive love. Some of her favorite things are zooming around the yard and snuggling her humans

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