(AP) — Tropical Storm Beta has stalled out along the Texas coast, flooding streets in Houston and Galveston hours after making landfall amid an unusually busy hurricane season. The storm made landfall late Monday just north of Port O’Connor, Texas, and...
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Who’s a hypocrite? GOP, Dems debate past comments on court
(AP) — The “H” word — hypocrisy — is suddenly in vogue at the Capitol as lawmakers debate how quickly to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court following the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed th...
Read More »Parson signs two violent crime bills into law
Governor Parson officially signs two bills from the violent crime special session into law. One measure, House Bill 46 allows St. Louis cops to live outside the city. St. Louis already has more murders this year than in all of 2019 (194). The other mea...
Read More »CDC changes, then retracts, web posting on how virus spreads
(AP) — The top U.S. public health agency stirred confusion by posting — and then taking down — an apparent change in its position on how easily the coronavirus can spread from person to person through the air. But officials at the Centers for Disease C...
Read More »Feds threaten funds to NYC, Seattle and Portland over unrest
(AP) — The Justice Department identified New York City, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle as three cities that could have federal funding slashed under a memorandum by President Donald Trump that sought to identify localities that permit “anarchy, violence...
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