St. Charles Mayor Dan Borgmeyer said an effort kicked off Wednesday to recall him is without merit and the accusations against him are unfounded.

As attention returns to DOGE, a reminder that NPR's small and mighty team also worked tirelessly to keep track of what they've been up to across the federal government. A few of our impacts: We've inspired legislation. mcclaindelaney.house.gov/media/press-...

No, he hasn’t settled seven wars: apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump, once again, lies and lies at the United Nations. Among the most preposterous lies is his claim to have "ended seven 'unendable' wars." As @markhertling.bsky.social writes for us this morning, this claim Trump loves to repeat is simply false: www.thebulwark.com/p/no-trump-h...

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants to find the causes of #autism by September. Erin McCanlies has spent the past 20yrs studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals at work affects the chance that they will have a child with the condition. RFK Jr. cut her entire lab. My latest video for @propublica.org

The FDA statement ends with a paragraph undermining its own warning. They signal parents to avoid acetaminophen. Except sometimes. And then: No “causal relationship… established” with ADHD or autism AND Alternatives to acetaminophen have “well-documented adverse impacts.”

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The DoD, which is led by a former TV host who disclosed classified war plans in a Signal chat that included a journalist, will require reporters “to pledge not to gather or use any information that had not been formally authorized for release or risk losing their credentials to cover the military.”

A Cole County judge is ordering a new ballot summary for a proposal to repeal most of a 2024 abortion rights amendment because it didn’t tell voters that it repeals much of Amendment 3.

“If the news about our military must first be approved by the government, then the public is no longer getting independent reporting. It is getting only what officials want them to see. That should alarm every American.” More from ⬇️ @pressclubdc.bsky.social

A pro-Palestinian student group at Mizzou can participate in the school’s Homecoming parade next weekend, after a federal judge ruled the university cannot exclude the group because of its viewpoints. @kcur.org reports:

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

NEW with @ximenabustillo.bsky.social and @stphnfwlr.com: The Trump administration is rushing to rent space for immigration officers conducting raids nationwide: www.npr.org/2025/09/18/g...

The announcement of health insurance companies that they’ll continue covering routine vaccinations is a huge vote of no confidence in ACIP's recommendations. It reflects a desire by insurers to avoid the cost of illnesses by having their customers vaccinated. Gift link:

Archivists: what are some things you wish journalists better understood about archives and about your work? Putting together a training in a couple weeks.

The St. Louis Port Authority Commission approved a measure to create a taxing district that will put the Jefferson Arms redevelopment in Downtown West on track to have the highest sales tax rate in the city.

NEW: Former Missouri House Speaker John Diehl pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to pandemic loan fraud.

EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Here's what we know about how the shooting of Charlie Kirk unfolded and a visual layout of where the shooter was located compared to where Kirk was speaking: reut.rs/4mi14fP

The latest from my intrepid colleagues at @cprnews.bsky.social on today's shooting: - the shooter is dead of a self-inflicted gunshoot wound - two students were injured, and one remains in critical condition - a fourth person, a student, was treated at the hospital for injuries sustained fleeing

A white supremacist "accelerationist"—ie cause race wars/chaos to bring about downfall of state and rise of a racist new order—plead guilty to attacking a power substation www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

“The government sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture or car washes…and who do not speak much if any English.” -Justice Kavanaugh

A party for the billionaires by the billionaires www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

GRANITE CITY, Ill. — The newly-acquired U.S. Steel will move the steel slab processing that's currently happening in the Metro East to the company's mills near Pittsburgh and Gary, Indiana. @stlpublicradio.bsky.social www.stlpr.org/economy-busi...

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison. But... /1

New: HHS has told all employees that they should start using ChatGPT, continuing the administration's AI-ification of everything, its trust in tools that hallucinate, and the general sense that getting things right is not important or worth trying to do: www.404media.co/hhs-asks-all...

The Missouri House has advanced a proposal to redraw the state’s eight congressional districts at the behest of President Donald Trump.

#BREAKING: With no explanation (save for a solo concurrence by Justice Kavanaugh), #SCOTUS has frozen lower-court rulings that had enjoined allegedly suspicion-less arrests as part of "roving" immigration patrols in California. Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, dissents:

NEW: Chief Justice Roberts has halted the reinstatement of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter—whom Trump fired in direct violation of federal law—while the full court considers the case. In other words, Slaughter just got booted from her job again. It's a worrisome sign for her ultimate prospects.

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

BREAKING: The Supreme Court — over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson — allows the Trump administration’s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.

1/ The documents are clear: Lee Zeldin and his wife have two principal-residence mortgages, for properties in Long Island and Washington, D.C. We’ve got the records 👇 Long Island: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... D.C.: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — After a series of break-ins at the Salvation Army this year, leading the social service provider to temporarily shut down its food pantry in town, leaders are hoping volunteers can help restore the location. @stlpublicradio.bsky.social www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

A partial list of politicians and organizations that have called for RFK Jr to resign

Ameren is planning to build its largest solar facility yet in mid-Missouri, in part to power data centers.

Strong reporting here from ProPublica, which found that three Trump Cabinet members -- at Labor, Transportation and EPA -- call multiple homes their primary residence on mortgages. That's the same move that led Trump to fire Lisa Cook from her job at the Fed. bit.ly/466yMyI

St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer announced Thursday that the city will use the remaining $12 million of Rams settlement interest funds to help residents recover from the May tornado. Here's how that money will be distributed:

America, 2025

The Trump administration filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block Illinois from providing in-state tuition and financial aid to undocumented immigrants. However, Democrats argue that immigrant, first-generation and marginalized students should not be left behind because of where they were born.

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

But he's not taking his $200k salary, so it's okay, right?

The Illinois Flash Index fell again in August to 101.7 from its 101.8 level in July. “As noted in the past, this may be the soft landing hoped for a year ago when there was fear of a looming recession,” said Fred Giertz, professor emeritus at Illinois. igpa.uillinois.edu/flash-index/...

Overall violent crime rate in Chicago at its lowest point since 1991, per @wbez.org analysis of data chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

Things are clearly worse under Trump, but this is a damning account of the failures of the Biden administration when it came to Gaza. www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page has pleaded not guilty to charges that he misused public funds on a campaign mailer ahead of the April election.

JD Vance on Trump sending troops into cities: "The president is not going out there forcing this on anybody." (Tell that to Los Angeles ... )

NEW: A whistleblower complaint alleges that Trump officials at the Social Security Administration copied the SSA's primary database of Americans' Social Security Numbers into a private server, sparking security concerns. www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...

Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.