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We’ve noted repeatedly how the hyperventilation about TikTok privacy is largely just a distraction from the U.S.’ ongoing failure to pass even a basic privacy law or meaningfully regulate data brokers. We haven’t done those things for two reasons. One, the dysfunctional status quo (where companies mindlessly over-collect data and fail to secure it, resulting […]

Freshly divorced and effectively destitute, former homemaker Marianne (Juliette Binoche) arrives in the northwestern French coastal city of Caen seeking a fresh start. She haunts employment offices and job fairs, looking for an employer who will take a chance on a middle-aged woman with a 23-year gap in her résumé.

Emergency crews are responding to a house fire in north St. Louis on Friday morning.

Some of us are lucky to have a home with working air conditioning during this oppressive heat wave. Others aren’t so lucky.

Construction is underway on a new apartment complex in St. Charles County, funded with low-income housing tax credits.

As the heat index soared toward an expected high of 114 degrees, the region’s electric grid appeared on track to possibly tie or even surpass its previous record for peak energy usage Thursday.

The Evolution Festival will feature headliners the Black Keys and Brandi Carlisle, plus a focus on local barbecue. Producers are counting on a strong first year in the hopes of creating a signature event in St. Louis.

The seventh annual 'Bommarito Automotive Group 500' is this Sunday at World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois. 

He goes by Moon. On stage, on the radio, among his friends, when approached by fans — he’s Moon.

A family in southeast Missouri filed a lawsuit this week against Tyson Foods over the company's decision to shutter its plant in Dexter, Missouri.

Are the two diametrically opposed? Or does one emerge from the other?

So you’re heading to the Evolution Festival this weekend in St. Louis, and you picked up a “music festival fanny pack” stuffed with pre-rolled joints, vapes, THC-infused mints, and the works at Hippos dispensary in Chesterfield.  Now that recreational marijuana is legal, you’re thinking you can roll right through the gate with your Barbie-pink fanny […]

The post Can I bring my weed into the music festival at the public park? appeared first on Missouri Independent.

The Pomme de Terre River’s status as an impaired waterway is poised to set up a fight between environmentalists and a meatpacking plant in Southwest Missouri. Missouri Prime Beef Packers has requested permission from the state to discharge treated wastewater from its facility near Pleasant Hope directly into the river. It currently applies the water […]

The post Southwest Missouri river’s listing as polluted may set up fight over meatpacker permit appeared first on Missouri Independent.

The man was found lying in the street. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is gearing up for a fall vaccination campaign that not only includes updated COVID-19 boosters, but the annual flu shot and the newly approved RSV vaccine. “We’re going to be encouraging Americans to get their COVID-19 vaccine in addition to their annual flu shot, as well as the immunizations for […]

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With the Super Bowl happening at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas next year, some fans may be expecting added glitz to the halftime show. But if Nevada's governor had his way,…

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The trip had begun as we crossed the Ambassador Bridge into Canada as we left Michigan. It was June of 2002, and 9/11 was seemingly just a moment away in the past, the horror of it all was etched so deeply in all our minds and hearts.