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In an annual move timed for the holidays, a credit union has distributed $1.03 million to its members.

Three men accused of keeping a 20-year-old college student from India in slave-like conditions at a home in Defiance, Missouri, appeared in court today. Their attorneys had the difficult job of arguing that their clients facing a combined 17 felonies — human trafficking-related charges among them — ought to be allowed out of jail pending their day in court.

St. Louis lawmakers on Friday passed new rules governing the retention of workers under certain city contracts.

Other killers, such as heart and kidney disease, as well as deaths caused by vehicles and firearms, increased between 2021 and 2022.

The Rolling Stones just shared a new live video to coincide with the digital release of Hackney Diamonds (Live Edition).  The video is a performance of “Whole Wide World,” which was shot…

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The Italians are the new Israelis… at least in terms of hawking phone exploits and other spyware. NSO Group crashed hard following leaks showing its customers (many of which were, shall we say, questionable) were targeting political rivals, dissidents, human rights activists, journalists, lawyers, and religious leaders with powerful exploits that completely exposed the contents […]

On an annual basis, the United States supplies about 12% of Israel's military budget. That's the equivalent of topping up the US military budget by $100 billion per year.

The Complete Python Programmer Bundle has nine courses to help you learn more about programming. This bundle starts with fundamental Python functionality such as arithmetic, conditional statements, and working with basic data structures. It then expands upon your working knowledge of data structures to work with full-blown datasets in the Pandas package. You’ll learn all […]

TikTok and Instagram get all the attention, but YouTube remains by far the most popular social media app among American teens: On YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, Hispanic teens report using them "almost constantly" at rates more than three time higher than white teens. Among teens, generally speaking, social media is most heavily used by Hispanics, ...continue reading "YouTube remains the national champion of teen social media sites"

A little boy diagnosed with leukemia is set to receive a warrior's escort back home, celebrating his triumph over cancer at just 4 years old.

How are our family farms doing? The USDA's annual survey reports good news: As in previous years, the median total income of all U.S. family farm households ($95,418) was greater in 2022 than the median income of all U.S. households ($74,580). The median total household income for all family farms in 2022 increased from $92,239 ...continue reading "Fact of the day: Most family farms make no money"

Today on TAP: A key member of the supposedly independent redistricting commission has a flagrant conflict of interest. Will he recuse himself?

In the case, involving a Jefferson County father, the victims were unrelated to the father and the crimes to which he pleaded guilty occurred before the child was born.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (CST) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations and Innovation—issued the following statement after the Biden Administration’s Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service announced a notice regarding the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) tax credit requirements created in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 : “After months of pushing the Biden Administration to adopt Argonne National Lab’s GREET model—the gold standard for analyzing the lifecycle greenhouse gases impacts of renewable fuels—in their SAF tax credit guidance, I appreciate the Biden Administration taking our concerns into account as we work to reduce our nation’s carbon footprint and transition to a greener economy. We are making progress toward this goal, but we must ensure that American SAF continues to lead the

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), with U.S. Representatives Robin Kelly (D-IL-02), Delia Ramirez (D-IL-03), Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL-04), Mike Quigley (D-IL-05), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-08), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-09) and Bill Foster (D-IL-11) today called for more involvement from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to assist in the completion of the nationally-important O’Hare Terminal Area Program (TAP). In a letter to DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the members are requesting DOT help facilitate a path forward between and convene all O’Hare stakeholders to reaffirm a shared commitment to increase gate capacity by at least 25 percent, reduce projected costs and secure additional federal investment, working together to complete this project like 2018’s O’Hare Modernization Program. “To maximize the return on investment from ORD runway modernization,

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Police said the victim suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his legs.