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Daring Squirrel Mom Draws Gasps at the Saint Louis Zoo [VIDEO]

2 years 3 months ago
Kali the polar bear may be one of the most popular attractions at the Saint Louis Zoo, but he recently found himself upstaged by a mama squirrel on a mission. A bystander captured a video just outside the zoo's polar bear enclosure that showed one very determined squirrel getting her baby back to the nest. The video shows Mama attempting to whisk her smaller (but relatively large) youngster high up a tree.
Sarah Fenske

Missouri Pastor Says Autism Is 'Demonic," Can Be 'Cast Out'

2 years 3 months ago
A pastor in rural Missouri has discovered a groundbreaking new treatment to cure millions of people affected by a disorder previously thought incurable. Rick Morrow, lead pastor of Beulah Church in the Ozark town of Richland, Missouri, knows just what to do to cure autism. One must simply cast the demons out.
Monica Obradovic

U.S. prisons chief insists to Senate panel there’s been ‘visible change’ in the system

2 years 3 months ago

WASHINGTON — The head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Wednesday outlined to the Senate Judiciary Committee how she has sought improvements in the nation’s troubled prison system, and fielded questions from Republicans about transgender inmates. “Developing meaningful change throughout the agency is not something that happens in a moment,” Colette Peters, the director […]

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Ariana Figueroa

AT&T Once Again Wants ‘Big Tech’ To Pay For Broadband Upgrades

2 years 3 months ago
For decades AT&T has sought to shovel its broadband network upgrade costs on to the shoulders of other companies. It was the primary catalyst for the net neutrality wars, after AT&T made it clear it wanted to (ab)use its monopoly over broadband access to force companies like Google to pay an extra troll toll if […]
Karl Bode

This is what a UAW strike could look like for workers in Wentzville

2 years 3 months ago
Nearly 4,000 United Auto Workers union members in Wentzville could go out on strike at 11 p.m. Thursday if a contract is not reached by union officials negotiating with Big 3 automakers in Detroit. If there is a strike, UAW Local 2250 members have a list of things to do when the deadline passes. They include third shift shutting equipment down, setting up pickets at plant gates and assembling kitchen duty to help process food for members' families. At the GM Wentzville Assembly Center, a replica…
Alex Fees

White House slams ‘baseless’ House GOP impeachment inquiry as ‘political stunt’

2 years 3 months ago

WASHINGTON — The White House is lambasting the House GOP’s decision to open an impeachment inquiry into unproven allegations that President Joe Biden profited from his son’s international business scheme during his time as vice president in the Obama administration. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday that he directed several of the chamber’s committees to […]

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Ashley Murray