The Boston Red Sox have “Sweet Caroline,” the Chicago Blackhawks have “Chelsea Dagger” and the old Hartford Whalers had “Brass Bonanza.” The St. Louis Blues? They have “Gloria,” the 1982 hit song for Laura Branigan that has improbably become the ...
Read More »Ex-Congressman Weiner leaves halfway house
Former Rep. Anthony Weiner left a New York City halfway house on Tuesday after completing his prison sentence for illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl. “It’s good to be out,” the disgraced former congressman said, according to the New ...
Read More »AP source: Barr launches new look at origins of Russia probe
Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was “lawful and appropriate,” according to a person familiar with the issue. Barr appointed ...
Read More »Missouri’s freshman senator taking on Candy Crush
Missouri U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley is taking on the tech industry, including apps and tools aimed at children. Hawley last week introduced legislation that would ban “pay-to-win” apps like Candy Crush that he said are targeted at children. The Kansas ...
Read More »Data: Kansas City’s schools are segregated, costly
The Kansas City district has found that its public and charter schools are increasingly racially segregated, expensive to operate and losing high school students. The district released new analysis showing that the city’s school system is more segregated now than ...
Read More »Supreme Court says 1 state can’t be sued in another’s courts
The Supreme Court decided Monday that one state cannot unwillingly be sued in the courts of another, overruling a 40-year precedent and perhaps, foreshadowing an argument over the viability of other high court decisions. The outcome left one dissenting justice ...
Read More »Trump’s foreign policy challenges mounting around the world
New North Korea missile tests. A trade standoff with China. Fresh nuclear tensions with Iran. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy challenges are mounting around the world, showing the limits of his self-touted ability to make a deal and perhaps the ...
Read More »Federal judges have a way to make investigations disappear
The fastest way for federal judges facing investigation by their peers to make an inquiry go away is to utter two words: “I quit.” That’s how appellate judges Maryanne Trump Barry and Alex Kozinski ended investigations into complaints that Barry ...
Read More »Parents can’t delete what kids tell Amazon voice assistant
Amazon met with skepticism from some privacy advocates and members of Congress last year when it introduced its first kid-oriented voice assistant, along with brightly colored models of its Echo Dot speaker designed for children. Now those advocates say the ...
Read More »Barr contempt citation heats up House’s dispute with Trump
The House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, escalating the Democrats’ extraordinary legal battle with the Trump administration over access to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia report . The vote Wednesday capped a ...
Read More »Arkansas company buys remainder of Branson duck boat fleet
The company that originally owned a duck boat that sank on a Missouri lake last summer, killing 17 people, has sold the remainder of its fleet to an Arkansas-based investment company. Stacy Roberts, who owns DUKW Arkansas, LLC, said that ...
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