Never mind the economy. The real inflation is coming from government agencies seeking to justify their waste of taxpayers’ money. While not otherwise occupied killing state residents with electric grid mismanagement or passing laws restricting their speech, Texas governor Greg Abbott has been touting the success of his personal border surge program — one he […]
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Supreme Court dominated by conservative justices could fundamentally reshape the college admissions process later this year when it takes up two landmark cases challenging affirmative action in higher education. The court recently agreed to hear two cases that challenge race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, the nation’s oldest private and […]
A video of Don McLean performing his classic acoustic ballad "Vincent" last month at the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit in Los Angeles debuted today in commemoration of World Bipolar Day,…
Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has offered a new image from his graphic novel The Antibody, which is being released as a multi-part NFT collection via the NFT marketplace YellowHeart.…
It takes four days to make Commonwealth's Starry Night dessert — 96 hours of painstaking, technical work and patient waiting, where if even the smallest detail goes amiss, the entire thing falls apart.
ST. LOUIS -- Homicide investigators with the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis are working to find out the circumstances leading to the death of a 65-year-old man in Overland.
The Scorpions, who recently launched their "Sin City Nights" Las Vegas residency, will head to New York City in May to headline a concert at Madison Square Garden celebrating the…
A preliminary settlement was approved. The city is accused of jailing people who couldn't pay excessive fines. Poor and Black people were targeted, attorneys say.
ST. LOUIS--Deidre Pujols, the wife of St. Louis Cardinal slugger Albert Pujols, announced on Instagram that she was undergoing brain surgery Wednesday for a tumor first discovered last fall. The surgery comes on the same day that Albert Pujols made his spring training debut with the team after signing as a free agent on Monday. [...]
Go Vote On the Elite 8! The inaugural Techdirt Legal Misunderstanding March Madness is getting to crunch time. In the Sweet 16 we had our first number 1 seed fall to a challenger. Here’s the latest bracket: In the Sweet 16 the first major upset happened when HIPAA lost (just barely) to Free Speech. HIPAA […]