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Today on TAP: The half-point rate hike will make little difference in dealing with the causes and cures of rising prices.

The “I’m Comin’ Over” singer will headline Saturday's festivities at the new country music festival.

A new podcast about wrongful convictions focuses on the case of a Missouri grandmother imprisoned for the past 36 years.

The Ferguson-based company acquired Metran for $18 million in 2004. Now, as Russia's war with Ukraine rages on, it's looking to divest itself of the business.

The 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees have been announced, and among this year's honorees are Pat Benatar, Judas Priest, Duran Duran and Eurythmics. Benatar, Duran Duran and…

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This year, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is more like the MTV Hall of Fame: The newly minted inductees in the Performer category include '80s pop icons Pat…

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The festivities will take place at Padrinos and nearby Ritz Park from 11am to 9pm.

A few hundred protestors peacefully gathered outside the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse Tuesday night to voice opposition to the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft opinion to overturn abortion rights. News broke Monday that the Supreme Court drafted a ruling to overturn federal legal access to abortion, a right that the landmark decision Roe v. Wade established in 1973. As previously reported by the RFT, Missouri has a “trigger law” that gives the state the authority to prohibit abortions, except in medical emergencies, upon the repeal of Roe v. Wade.

Over 10,000 companies were reviewed and around 2,000 were given a diversity score, which takes into account surveys of a firm’s diverse employees and its publicly disclosed information about representation, according to Forbes.

Congressional candidates throughout Missouri are not sure about the areas they could eventually be representing. Lawmakers still haven’t approved a congressional map. Whether the legislature breaks the months-long impasse could have big consequences for the impending election cycle.

ST. LOUIS - Fire officials said a woman was inside of a south St. Louis home with boarded-up windows when a fire started Wednesday morning. The fire at the two-story brick home in the 4100 block of Nebraska Avenue started just before 6 a.m. Firefighters said a woman jumped from the second-floor window to escape [...]

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday pledged a new vote codifying the right to an abortion after publication of a draft court ruling that showed the Supreme Court on track to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision. Democrats, who likely won’t have the votes to advance that bill, also predicted that abortion […]

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A conversation with collector and St. Louis native C.C. Lowery, whose shop is located in the Warson Woods Antique Gallery.

How the U.S. military’s toxic burn pits are poisoning Americans — overseas and at home

Conservation efforts in Kenya displaced hundreds of Indigenous people. Can there be justice for stolen lands and culture?

ST. LOUIS - IDOT will host an open house meeting Wednesday detailing the plan to replace the Chain of Rocks Bridge between north St. Louis and Madison County, Illinois. The project calls for two new twin bridges to be built side by side replacing the current Chain of Rocks Bridge that was built in 1966. [...]

Climate change is making heat waves more frequent and intense, experts say.

The leaked Court decision is the logical consequence of our systemic bias against majorities.