Responsibility for school mask mandates is shifting back to local leaders, who are caught in the middle of one of the most divisive issues of the pandemic. Some school officials around the country welcomed the state-imposed mandates to spare them from having to make unpopular decisions, especially early in the pandemic. But many superintendents say…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House review has found credible evidence that top scientist Dr. Eric Lander violated its “Safe and Respectful Workplace Policy,” but the administration plans to keep him on the job after giving him counseling. Lander is the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and science adviser to President…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia accused the West of “whipping up tensions” over Ukraine and said the U.S. had brought “pure Nazis” to power in Kyiv as the U.N. Security Council held a stormy and bellicose debate on Moscow’s troop buildup near its southern neighbor. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield shot back that Russia’s growing military…
From the National Weather Service: …WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY EVENING THROUGHTHURSDAY EVENING FOR THE ENTIRE ST. LOUIS AREA… WHAT…Heavy mixed precipitation possible. Total snowaccumulations between 6 and 9 inches and sleet accumulationsaround one quarter of an inch. Ice accumulations up to one-quarterof an inch are possible in southeast Missouri and southwestIllinois. WHERE…Portions…
BOSTON (AP) — Residents and officials in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. are bracing for a powerful winter storm expected to produce blizzard conditions Friday and Saturday. The National Weather Service says heavy snow and strong winds were forecasted to begin in parts of the Carolinas and Appalachia on Friday evening. The…
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia says it won’t start a war in Ukraine but warned that the U.S. and NATO have ignored its demands and left little room for compromise in the crisis. The Kremlin President Vladimir Putin told French President Emmanuel Macron that the West has failed to consider Russia’s key conditions of halting further…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police are searching for a suspect after a woman was found stabbed to death on the front porch of a St. Louis day care facility. Police say officers were called to the Greater Ville neighborhood around 7:20 p.m. Thursday and found the woman dead from puncture wounds. Police have not released…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, giving President Joe Biden an opening he has pledged to fill by naming the first Black woman to the high court. The 83-year-old Breyer has been a pragmatic force on a court that has grown increasingly conservative in recent years, trying to forge majorities…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man who St. Louis police union officials say was released from jail after being diagnosed with COVID-19 is back in jail. Interim Public Safety Director Dan Isom said Monday that the man’s release was a poor decision and that an internal investigation has begun. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world’s biggest and most powerful space telescope has reached its final destination 1 million miles away. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope fired its rocket thrusters Monday, one month after launching on a quest to behold the dawn of the universe. The maneuver put the $10 billion observatory into orbit…