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We are pleased to inform the wizards and witches of the St. Louis area that they have a place at Clementine’s Naughty and Nice Creamery (Multiple locations including 4715 Macklind Avenue, 314-896-4500) for National Ice Cream Day on July 17. The creamery has launched its Wizard collection in celebration of the world-famous wizard’s birthday on July 31, and the popular series' 20th anniversary. Flavors such as the Chocolate Frog — lime and coconut with a chocolate fudge swirl — or the Fizzie Whizzle Bees — vegan coconut with pineapple, orange blossom, lemon, sugar and natural vegan coconut butter-coated pink Poprocks — aim to make St. Louisans feel like they’re on the train to Hogwarts.

Parson promoted Craig Higgins to circuit judge and named Rochelle Woodiest an associate circuit judge.

One person was arrested Friday afternoon after a shooting at an Arby's in Maryland Heights.

Let me get this straight. In the Pennsylvania Senate race we have one guy who lives in New Jersey running against another guy who had a stroke and hasn't been seen in public since. Am I missing anything here?

Through its Startup Exit Awards, St. Louis Inno celebrates St. Louis' later-stage startup successes and the individuals who have made huge contributions to the startup industry. It includes awards for Exits of the Year, Top Equity Funding Transaction and Lifetime Achievement.

The sinkhole opened up July 4 after a water main break beneath the street surface, Illinois American Water said.

Progress requires sacrifice, and much of St. Louis is going to have to sacrifice quick highway drive times over the weekend because some construction is coming to Highway 44. All lanes of the interstate will be closed at Big Bend starting at 11 p.m. tonight as MoDOT moves to the next step in replacing the bridge.

Beau Rothwell, 31, was sentenced Friday to life in prison after being convicted of killing his pregnant wife in 2019.

Over the last year and a half, we’ve had plenty of stories about how various state legislators are shoving each other aside to pass laws to try to regulate speech online. Of course, that’s generally not how they put it. They claim that they’re “regulating social media,” and making lots of (highly questionable) assumptions insisting […]

If you’re looking to get a job in IT or advance your career in the field, the 2022 CompTIA, AWS, And Cisco Certification Prep Bundle is an easy way to prepare for certifications that’ll help you stand out from the crowd. The courses included in this bundle cover a range of topics from cloud computing […]

Researchers discovered an effective drug to treat a rare, genetic liver disease after years of research.

The St. Charles County prosecutor was accused of driving while intoxicated.

Toast, an album that Neil Young recorded with his frequent backing band Crazy Horse in 2001, finally got its release day Friday. The seven-track collection, which was recorded at Toast Studios in…

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Since 1962, only 154 known cases have been identified in the U.S., and the only other case identified in a Missouri resident occurred in 1987, officials said.

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For years now, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has been abusing the Espionage Act – the 100+-year-old law meant for spies – to prosecute the sources of journalists who disclose newsworthy information to newspapers in order to inform the American public.

We’ve written a lot about how the draconian law is incredibly unjust and leads to unfair show trials for brave whistleblowers who take great risks to expose the truth. For example, the Espionage Act does not allow a defendant to tell the jury why they spoke with a reporter (even if their reason was to expose illegality or unconstitutional programs). They also cannot argue that the information they disclosed to a journalist was improperly classified, or that the disclosure caused no actual harm to national security.

Recently, the DOJ — first under President Trump and continued under the Biden administration — has taken the Espionage Act an ominous step further and is attempting to wield the law against publishers. It’s a dangerous gambit that could potentially criminalize national security journalism at the nation’s largest and most influential newspapers.

But that all could potentially change if Congress adopts Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s excellent new amendment to Congress’s annual National Defense Authorization Act.

This amendment is by far the best reform we’ve seen come through Congress since we’ve been tracking this issue. As our friends at Defending Rights & Dissent explain, this bill proposes several vital reforms to make sure whistleblowers and journalists aren’t unjustly persecuted, while still enabling the Espionage Act to be used against actual spies:

• Requires the government prove specific intent to injure the United States
• Requires that the information exposed was actually properly classified
• Permits a defendant charged under the Espionage Act to testify as to their purpose for disclosing the information
• Creates a public interest defense.
• Additionally, the amendment would undermine the government’s effort to prosecute Julian Assange - or any future publisher or journalist - under the Espionage Act by excluding journalists, publishers, and members of the general public from its jurisdiction.

Please follow this link to tell your member of Congress they need to support this bill! The next few days will be critical in determining whether this amendment will make it into the final version of the NDAA.

Our sincere thanks to Rep. Tlaib and her staff for crafting such a vital and thoughtful bill that could do more to help journalists and whistleblowers than anything Congress has passed in decades.