Recent crackdowns targeting the sex-for-hire industry have reduced commercial ads on the internet and helped fight online trafficking. Activists and police say, however, the efforts may have had unintended consequences — landing women and girls back on the streets, where ...
Read More »Will American Airlines bar customers from changing a ticket?
American Airlines is threatening to prohibit customers from making changes to nonrefundable tickets if Congress makes good on a proposal to crack down on what critics call unreasonable airline fees. American CEO Doug Parker says that his airline would be ...
Read More »AT&T fires back in bid to preserve Time Warner deal
Fighting to defend its $81 billion takeover of Time Warner from a government challenge, AT&T is arguing the Trump Justice Department has failed to show that the merger will raise prices for pay-TV programming and for the consumers who watch ...
Read More »Economy keeps growing despite rising oil prices
America’s rediscovered prowess in oil production is shaking up old notions about the impact of higher crude prices on the U.S. economy. It has long been conventional wisdom that rising oil prices hurt the economy by forcing consumers to spend ...
Read More »Carolinas farms could take billions in losses from Florence
Hurricane Florence is testing the resolve of farmers in the Carolinas, who could face billions of dollars in agricultural damage while still feeling the sting from Hurricane Matthew almost two years ago. After the storm’s high winds and rain measured ...
Read More »Lawsuit: 84-year-old woman repeatedly raped at nursing home
The daughter of an 84-year-old woman with dementia alleges in a lawsuit that her mother was repeatedly raped at a suburban St. Louis nursing home. Vivian Colette Green says in the lawsuit filed Thursday in St. Louis County Circuit Court ...
Read More »Path forward for Kavanaugh could be like Clarence Thomas’
When Clarence Thomas arrived at the Supreme Court in 1991 after a bruising confirmation hearing in which his former employee Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, fellow justice Byron White said something that stuck with him. “It doesn’t matter ...
Read More »Immigration roundups increasingly net noncriminals
A daughter who never returned home, a son gunned down point-blank, a mom who was brutally attacked — all deaths at the hands of immigrants in the country illegally, all gripping stories the White House has been eager to share. ...
Read More »Trying to hold state Trump won, McCaskill feels pull to left
The college students and neighbors gathered at a St. Louis coffee shop seemed like one of the friendlier crowds Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill might face campaigning in heavily Republican Missouri. But the audience on a recent night came armed with ...
Read More »Sentencing options for Cosby include prison, jail, probation
Bill Cosby could be sent to prison next week for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004 in what became the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. Cosby is due in court Monday for ...
Read More »Lawmaker: US Senate, staff targeted by state-backed hackers
Foreign government hackers continue to target the personal email accounts of U.S. senators and their aides — and the Senate’s security office has refused to defend them, a lawmaker says. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said in a Wednesday ...
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