(AP) President Vladimir Putin has engineered a surprise shakeup of Russia’s leadership and proposed changes to the constitution that could keep him in power well past the end of his term in 2024. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev resigned his post after Putin announced the proposed constitutional amendments. Putin kept his longtime ally in the Kremlin’s…
The Hague, Netherlands (AP) British Prince Harry and his wife Meghan’s desire to step away from royal duties have plunged the royal house into crisis. A quick look at the history of European royalty shows that some other royals have struggled to keep all their business activities above board, while others have managed just fine…
Tehran, Iran (AP) Iran’s president is warning that European soldiers deployed in the Mideast “may be in danger” after Britain, France and Germany challenged Tehran over breaking limits of its 2015 nuclear deal. Hassan Rouhani made the comment on Wednesday during a televised Cabinet meeting.It comes after the nations started a dispute process over Iran…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) 5 area residents are jailed on federal drug trafficking charges. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, 15 people were arrested yesterday, including 31-year-old Miguel Silva-Torres of St. Ann, 57-year-old Frank Stogsdill of O’Fallon Missouri, 58-year-old David Henderson of Bonne Terre, 35-year-old Royce Spann of St. Louis, and 48-year-old Randall Bryant of…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A man is in custody after becoming unruly on an American Airlines flight headed to New York. Flight 2434, which originated in Phoenix, was carrying 118 passengers and 6 crew when a 44-year-old man became unruly – forcing the plane to make an emergency landing at Lambert Tuesday. The plane landed…
(AP) Republican lawmakers have rolled out a plan that would ask Missouri voters to undo key parts of a legislative redistricting model approved by voters two years ago. A proposed constitutional amendment presented Tuesday in a Senate committee would repeal a new “nonpartisan demographer” position that is to submit new House and Senate maps to…
(AP) The House is expected to vote Wednesday to send the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate. Speaker Nancy Pelosi met privately Tuesday at the Capitol with her Democratic caucus to discuss the timetable. Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell opened the Senate on Tuesday scoffing at the House’s “bizarro” impeachment…
Baghdad, Iraq (AP) Mass protests by young Iraqis against their country’s ruling elite helped force the resignation of the country’s prime minister. But now that the focus has turned to the conflict between the United States and Iran, Iraqis pushing back against government corruption, poor services and rising Iranian influence in state affairs worry their…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A child is hospitalized after being shot in north county. The incident occurred just after 8:30 P.M. Monday night in the 10,000 block of Duke Drive. That’s where officers responded to a shooting call and found the boy, believed to be between 12 and 18 months old suffering from an apparent…
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has filed what she calls an unprecedented federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing the city, the local police union and others of a coordinated and racist conspiracy aimed at forcing her out of office. In the lawsuit filed Monday, Gardner, the city’s elected prosecutor, accuses “entrenched interests” of intentionally impeding…