NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair Thursday and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River, killing the pilot and a family of five Spanish tourists in the latest U.S. aviation disaster, officials said. The victims included Siemens executive Agustin Escobar, his wife, Mercè Camprubí Montal, a global manager [...]
MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ and TED SHAFFREY, Associated Press
We’ve noted for years how the “smart” TV sector is at the forefront of enshittification. It’s a sector full of companies that have doubled down on annoying ads and surveillance to the detriment of the customer. And while absolutely fixated on monetizing consumer surveillance data, it routinely fails to put anywhere close to the same […]
A major tree-planting effort in the St. Louis region has been halted due to federal funding cuts, raising concerns that other community-based environmental services could also be at risk.
Missouri’s child care crisis was debated again Wednesday, with a bill changing provisions for licensed in-home child care facilities passing through the state House.
State law allows up to two children aged 5 years or older that are related to the operator of a child care facility to be exempt from the maximum number of children for which the facility is licensed. A bill sponsored by state Rep. Jeff Farnan, a Republican from Stanberry, removes the age minimum with hope to increase space in day…
“We’re expecting payroll hiring to come close to grinding to a halt this year, which we think would push up the unemployment rate to 4.6% in the fourth quarter," Wells Fargo Senior Economist Sarah House told the bank’s clients.
Lenny Kravitz, Sublime, Sam Fender and Public Enemy are just some of the artists who will be taking the stage at the 2025 Evolution Festival.
The weekend-long festival returns to Forest Park for its third year on Sept. 27-28. Evolution announced its "diverse, multigenerational" music lineup on Thursday morning, which features over 30 national, regional and local artists that span multiple genres.
Evolution offers more than just music. The festival claims to be a celebration of St. Louis culture,…
WASHINGTON — Hundreds demonstrated outside the U.S. Capitol Thursday, urging congressional Republicans to rethink cutting programs vital to millions of Americans as a way to help extend President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. The previously scheduled rally, organized by the advocacy coalition Fair Share America, occurred less than an hour after House Republicans, by a […]
This is the first of two States Newsroom stories examining the implications of the growing need for electricity largely from artificial intelligence and data centers. Read the second here. The next time you’re on a Zoom meeting or asking ChatGPT a question, picture this: The information zips instantaneously through a room of hot, humming servers, […]
Missouri’s child care crisis was debated again Wednesday, with a bill changing provisions for licensed in-home child care facilities passing through the state House. State law allows up to two children aged 5 years or older that are related to the operator of a child care facility to be exempt from the maximum number of […]
President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have pledged to “make America healthy again.” If Congress wants to actually take a step in that direction, it should pass legislation that would allow Medicare to finally offer coverage for anti-obesity medications. Right now, our Medicare system is operating on regulations that are more […]
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