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Record rent increases, low wages are driving an eviction crisis, U.S. Senate panel told

2 years 10 months ago

WASHINGTON — Witnesses in a Tuesday hearing detailed to a U.S. Senate committee how investors and stagnant wages are driving an eviction and housing crisis across the U.S. The chair of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, said that families are being priced out of buying homes, and rising […]

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Ariana Figueroa

Angry Airline Passenger Refusing to Wear Mask Gets Jail Time, Fine

2 years 10 months ago
A federal judge has ordered a New York man to spend 40 days in jail and pay $8,000 in restitution after the man caused an American Airlines to cut a flight to Las Vegas short and land in St. Louis. James Maloney of Honeoye, New York, lunged at a flight attendant during a 2020 flight to Las Vegas, causing the flight to divert to St. Louis.
Monica Obradovic

What the Kansas Abortion Vote Means for Missouri

2 years 10 months ago
This reporting was supported by the International Women's Media Foundation's Reproductive Rights Reporting Fund. Kansas voters showed full-throated support for a woman's right to choose yesterday, voting 58 to 41 to keep the right to an abortion in the state constitution, unofficial, preliminary results show. Money poured in on both sides for the first statewide vote on abortion since Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the federally protected right to an abortion.
Ryan Krull