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Police investigating after man injured in shooting in north St. Louis

3 months 1 week ago
ST. LOUIS - Police are investigating after a man was injured in a shooting early Wednesday following an interaction with two men in north St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD), the shooting occurred around 4:45 a.m. in the 4200 block of Maffitt in the city's The Ville neighborhood. Police responded [...]
Nick Gladney

The Corrupt, Xenophobic Hysteria Behind The ‘TikTok Ban’ Will Soon Be Mirrored Across U.S. AI Policy

3 months 1 week ago
You might recall how the press and a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers suffered a four-year embolism about the purported privacy and national security threat of TikTok, before “fixing” the problem by ultimately offloading TikTok to Trump’s billionaire friends. You know, the exact sort of authoritarian-friendly people keen on doing everything critics had previously accused ByteDance […]
Karl Bode

Republicans in US House approve stopgap spending bill ahead of Oct. 1 deadline

3 months 1 week ago
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House approved a stopgap spending bill Tuesday that would keep the government up and running through the fall, sending it to the Senate, where lawmakers expect to rework the measure. Congress must pass a government funding bill before the new fiscal year starts on Oct. 1 in order to avoid a […]
Jennifer Shutt

ICE arrests reach new high

3 months 1 week ago
Immigration arrests reached 1,593 per day in early July in a new push to detain and deport immigrants that has led to deaths in traffic stops. There were more than 43,000 arrests in June, the highest recorded by the Trump administration, according to statistics released Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reflecting new bookings […]
Tim Henderson

Illinois police conducting statewide speeding crackdown Wednesday

3 months 1 week ago
ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. - Officers across Illinois are taking part Wednesday in a major statewide crackdown on speeding. Illinois officers are participating in Speed Awareness Day, an initiative officials describe as a two-pronged effort combining education and public outreach with high-visibility enforcement operations. The Illinois State Police (ISP) has promoted the initiative for several [...]
Nick Gladney

Thousands of immigrant kids risk losing legal aid after Trump administration delays funds

3 months 1 week ago
WASHINGTON — As many as 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children are at risk of losing their federally funded legal representation due to the Trump administration withholding appropriated funds, immigration attorneys warned Tuesday. For more than six months, the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Refugee Resettlement has not released $65 million Congress appropriated for legal […]
Ariana Figueroa

Missouri lawmakers fight utility bid to bypass competition on new power lines

3 months 1 week ago
Electric companies in the Midwest say new large scale powerlines are needed to get more energy onto the grid to serve big power consumers such as artificial intelligence data centers. Now, the utilities argue reducing competition is the fastest way to do it. A group of nine electric transmission utilities, including Ameren and Evergy, is […]
Jana Rose Schleis