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 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice launched an appeals process Friday that will likely put a landmark decision about access to medication abortion in front of the Supreme Court.  The notice of appeal was filed less than three hours after a federal judge in Texas revoked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-decade-old approval […]

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Well, the idiot judge in Texas did it: A federal judge in Texas issued a preliminary ruling invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, an unprecedented order that — if it stands through court challenges — could make it harder for patients to get abortions in states where abortion ...continue reading "Abortion pill banned, then unbanned hours later"

The last day for the fish fries around St. Louis is Friday. The Lenten season ends with Easter this Sunday.

The new permit requires companies to cap speeds and limit the number of scooters in one area, among other changes.

Call-A-Ride provides transportation for people with disabilities.

ST. CHARLES — Failure of the city and Ameren to reach agreement on giving the utility access to the city’s drinking water well field has delayed further cleanup of contamination there, federal officials say.

A controversy over transportation for those with disabilities is going to the Department of Justice.

The suspect was wanted in two separate incidents in the Fenton area.

Daniel Riley's attorney said he still has not received evidence from St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's Office on the case.

Bob Dylan fans have been waiting a long time for the planned Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet in the lead role, and it sounds like it’s finally closer to happening.  The film’s director, James Mangold, broke…

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St. Louis and St. Louis County leaders on Friday lifted the COVID-19 emergency declarations that have been in place for three years.

The numbers reaffirm that Missouri is on pace to achieve $1 billion in annual sales, which could make it the fastest state to reach the milestone.

But one activist questioned whether Tuesday's fatal chase — which started with the theft of laundry detergent from a Dollar General — was justified under the department's own policy.

A St. Louis police union on Friday fired back against allegations by the city prosecutor's office that detectives were the reason the court had to postpone a manslaughter trial.

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer David Crosby passed away January 18, and now his Crosby, Stills & Nash bandmate Graham Nash has revealed that he passed away after contracting COVID-19. “He was rehearsing for a…

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When NSO Group began making the wrong kind of headlines all over the world, suddenly lots of governments began at least feigning an interest in caring about what third-party tools their intelligence and security agencies were using to conduct surveillance. The problem wasn’t just NSO Group. True, the Israel-based firm was more than happy to […]

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