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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launches 2024 GOP presidential campaign to challenge Trump

2 years 3 months ago
MIAMI (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis entered the 2024 presidential race on Wednesday, stepping into a crowded Republican primary contest that will test both his national appeal as an outspoken cultural conservative and the GOP’s willingness to move on from former President Donald Trump. The 44-year-old Republican revealed his decision in a Federal Election [...]
STEVE PEOPLES, ADRIANA GOMEZ and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE, Associated Press

St. Louis 'Basketball Wives' Star Pleads Guilty to Tax, Insurance Fraud

2 years 3 months ago
Reality TV star and St. Louis native Brittish Williams pleaded guilty in federal court today to a slew of charges related to bank, insurance, tax and pandemic-relief fraud. The 33-year-old Clayton High School graduate has been featured on VH1's Basketball Wives and Marriage Bootcamp: Reality Stars.
Ryan Krull

The Global Race to the Bottom

2 years 3 months ago
Today on TAP: Will the Biden administration help Big Tech undermine consumer regulation by the EU and Asian nations?
Robert Kuttner

Missouri Supreme Court to decide whether school districts can jail parents for absent students

2 years 3 months ago

The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over whether two single mothers should have been sentenced to jail time because their children missed more days of school than the local district allowed. The case centers on Missouri’s compulsory school attendance law, which states that a parent must ensure their child attends “the academic program on […]

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Annelise Hanshaw

Celebration marks completion of $1.2 billion NBAF lab for studying animal-to-human pathogens

2 years 3 months ago

MANHATTAN, Kansas — National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility researcher Lisa Hensley’s career took her from laboratory to laboratory and country to country to study the alphabet soup of ghastly pathogens such as SARs, monkeypox, MERs and Marburg. But she said an Ebola outbreak in the West Africa country of Liberia brought home what it meant […]

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Tim Carpenter