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Soccer legend Lionel Messi announced a big career decision earlier this week, one that has many American soccer fans scrambling to find the first date he might be coming to a pitch near them.

What a bizarre story: Trump uses Democrat Matt Damon's voice in post-indictment video When I read this I thought it was yet another bit of AI fakery. But no. The Trumpies literally lifted a Matt Damon monologue from the movie Air and used it as narration for a campaign video. I guess they figure that ...continue reading "Trump steals Matt Damon’s voice for campaign video"

Earlier today Paul Krugman plugged the Stone Center, which recently created The GC Wealth Project, a cross-country database of wealth and wealth inequality. I decided to go play with it, but I didn't look much at inequality. I mostly looked at average wealth in half a dozen advanced economies: As recently as 2012, every country ...continue reading "Raw data: Wealth around the world"

It goes without saying that the coronavirus pandemic sparked a wave of uncertainty across myriad industries, and no other market has quite felt its impact like that of real estate. The pandemic became a driving force behind the continued real estate boom, with high demand for vacation homes and a limited supply of housing that [...]

The former West End Service Station in Edwardsville has been rebranded as a Route 66-inspired site known as the new Mother Road Museum and Welcome Center.

A toddler was fatally struck by a driver backing up Friday afternoon in southern Missouri.

Gerard Craft says that restaurant operations are in a new era following the pandemic. “I don’t think we can really call it a ‘recovery phase’ anymore. I just think there are a lot of things that have changed, and now we’re in that changed world,” said Craft, chief executive of St. Louis-based Niche Food Group.

A precautionary boil advisory was lifted Saturday afternoon for several neighborhoods in south St. Louis, the day after a water main break impacted their water service.

Dot Foods, an Illinois-based food industry redistributor, plans to move an annual trade show from St. Louis to Denver starting next year due to crime concerns.