Didn't House Republicans already agree to spending guidelines for the federal budget? So why are they still haggling? Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, announced on Sunday that leaders had failed to reach a deal over the weekend because “House Republicans need more time to sort themselves out.” Speaker Mike ...continue reading "Here’s how the budget negotiations are going"
The man accused of firing the first shots at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl rally told authorities he felt threatened, while a second man said he pulled the trigger because someone was shooting at him, according to court documents.
HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER, Associated Press
Copyright is generally understood to be for the benefit of two groups of people: creators and their audience. Given that modern copyright often acts against the interests of the general public – forbidding even the most innocuous sharing of copyright material online – copyright intermediaries such as publishers, recording companies and film studios typically place […]
A reparations commission, formed by St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones last year, heard from the mayor during one of the commission’s monthly public meetings in north St. Louis Monday.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is attempting to remove contaminated dirt from north county in their Cold Water Creek Remediation project, but for one homeowner, it’s doing more harm than good.
Farmington Municipal Judge Edward Pultz ordered a woman to be arrested and fingerprinted in a case of public library books and a DVD that hadn’t been returned yet.
Today Paul Krugman discusses a new book by Paul Waldman and Tom Schaller, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy. In particular, Krugman agrees that rural areas have hemorrhaged jobs, leaving behind a loss of purpose and dignity: This feeling of a loss of dignity may be worsened because some rural Americans have long ...continue reading "White rural rage isn’t about economics"