For several years we’ve noted how most of the calls to ban TikTok are bad faith bullshit made by a rotating crop of characters that not only couldn’t care less about consumer privacy, but are directly responsible for the privacy oversight vacuum TikTok (and everybody else) exploits. Right on cue, Texas Senator Marco Rubio and […]
The St. Louis County Council on Tuesday passed bills that comprise roughly a $1 billion budget for 2023, while policymakers warn of threats to key reserve funds.
To complete the budget, the council tapped the county's reserve funds to help cover a $40 million deficit, St. Louis Public Radio reports. Policymakers are warning that elected officials need to find a way to close the deficit, which threatens to eventually exhaust the county's reserve funding, according to the report. By year's end, St.…
A woman dropped off a holiday card at Hinchcliffe Elementary School in O'Fallon, Illinois. It had $200 in it and an unsigned note to use the money for lunch debt.
When inmates in Missouri’s prisons pose a security threat, they sometimes are served a loaf-like concoction that one state lawmaker says she wouldn’t feed to a dog.
ST. LOUIS — The judge presiding over the effort to overturn Lamar Johnson's conviction and life sentence said Tuesday that the testimony of a star witness in Johnson's murder trial nearly 30 years ago was "almost a textbook case of…
Members of a U.S. House committee disagreed at a Tuesday hearing about whether more aggressive federal regulation would have protected customers from the collapse of cryptocurrency firm FTX and the alleged fraud of its founder, Samuel Bankman-Fried. Lawmakers at the four-hour House Financial Services Committee hearing appeared to view the unfolding scandal around Bankman-Fried, arrested […]
Beyond drinks and comfy seating, the new movie theater is a place to revel in film culture—an interactive space created to bring together cinephiles, curious moviegoers, friend groups, and families alike.
It’s like stepping straight into a Hallmark movie, circa the 1850s. A horse-drawn carriage brushes past, clippety-clop, clippety-clop. The smell of roasted chestnuts fills the air.