“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Smoke rises following an explosion in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Opposition to arms sales to Israel builds in the US Senate, a sign of growing unease with Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership. Illinois’ Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin back resolutions to block sales of bulldozers and bombs; Missouri’s Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt oppose. apnews.com/article/isra...
Malak Meslmani, the mother of Jawad Younes, 11, who was killed on March 27, 2026, in an Israeli airstrike, visits her son’s grave in Saksakieh village, south Lebanon, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
In the past six weeks, Israel has killed at least 168 children in Lebanon. apnews.com/article/leba...
A man sits next to charred cars and wreckage where a building was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike the previous Wednesday, in central Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Workers remove the rubble as rescuers keep searching for a missing woman and girl at a destroyed building that was hit on April 8, in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Lebanese Civil Defense workers search through rubble for the body of missing student Ali Srour, 17, at the site of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday, in central Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
A woman holds her dog as she walks past burned cars a day after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Beirut.
Pope Leo XIV delivers the Regina Coeli prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope Leo XIV pushed back Monday on President Donald Trump’s broadside against him over the US-Israel war on Iran, telling reporters that the Vatican’s appeals for peace and reconciliation are rooted in the Gospel. “I have no fear of the Trump administration.” apnews.com/article/trum...
“America and its allies have dealt with a lot of presidential imperfections and failings, but there is no precedent or even category for the institutional psychosis displayed by the second Trump administration.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/o...
The company that has pioneered the use of illegal slot machines in Missouri continues to cozy up to law enforcement. The latest move: it has hired a local police union leader as a lobbyist. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g... by @jacobbarker27.bsky.social
An Associated Press story, published in the Post-Dispatch on April 12, 1951, tells how Mrs. A.W. Hawkins of Charleston, Md., was barred by Western Union from calling President Truman a moron.
A portion of an advertisement, published April 12, 1951, in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, touting upcoming stories in Cosmopolitan magazine. The ad was colorized using Google’s Gemini.
In 1951, Western Union barred a customer from calling the hot-tempered president of the United States a “moron,” so she called him a “witling” instead. (Harry S Truman was drawing fire after he sacked Gen. Douglas MacArthur for insubordination.)
The Israeli military has demolished entire villages as part of its invasion of south Lebanon, rigging homes with explosives and razing them to the ground in massive remote detonations. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Pope Leo XIV holds a rosary as he leads a vigil for peace inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope Leo on Saturday denounced the “delusion of omnipotence” that is fueling the US and Israel’s war on Iran. “Enough of the idolatry of self and money!” Leo said. “Enough of the display of power! Enough of war!” apnews.com/article/pope...
A top business lobbying group is stepping up its opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment to replace the Missouri income tax with sales taxes, arguing Missouri is already an attractive place to do business. #moleg #mogov
Strange Abe on the banks of the Ohio.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has carried the Associated Press since it was founded by Joseph Pulitzer in 1878. That partnership is ending thanks to the guy who is going to “save newspapers in America.” apnews.com/article/news...
Indiana lays claim to the Great Emancipator with a cheesy animation at its new Black River Welcome Center on I-64, about 7 miles east of the real Land of Lincoln.
Colorized cartoon by Jean Knott, published on April 16, 1911, by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Easter on Kingshighway. #stlouis
“If your focus is on destruction as a virtue in itself, does it really matter what you blow up and who you kill?” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Hillsdale police, working for ICE, went to Ritenour Middle asking about three students www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
“I can say I’ve been drunk and ended up in a Waffle House. Don’t know how I got there. But I was there.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...
“From the start, birthright citizenship was understood as a vehicle by which ‘all persons’ born here would become full members of a newly remade democracy.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...
New York police thwart an assassination plot by a man affiliated with a pro-Israel terrorist group. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/n...
“With such a dishonest figure in the White House, the US Supreme Court should see its role as not just saying what the law is, but saying what the truth is.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump posts that he is signing an executive order to have DHS pay TSA. In effect, Trump just admitted he used the TSA as pawns and could have paid them the entire time.
Israeli soldiers are seen along the border with Lebanon in northern Israel, Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
As Israel sends ground troops deeper into Lebanon, its leaders hint at a long-term occupation modeled on the devastating conquest of much of Gaza. It could mean the open-ended displacement of over a million people, the flattening of their homes and a loss of territory. apnews.com/article/leba...
The funeral of four members of the same Palestinian famil in Tamoun village, near the West Bank city of Tubas. (Photo by Alaa Badarneh/EPA)
Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 1,100 Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank since 2020. No one has been charged in these deaths. Failure to tackle “Jewish terrorism” poses an existential threat, former Israeli security commanders warn. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Jewish supremacist Rabbi Meir Kahane, center with beard, who advocates the expulsion of all Arabs from Israel and the occupied territories, votes during the first session of the Knesset in Jerusalem, Aug. 13, 1984. Kahane, convicted of multiple acts of terrorism in the U.S. and in Israel, was assassinated in 1990. (AP Photo/Anat Givon)
“One cannot understand the Iran War without understanding the Kahanists.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor... via @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
At least seven rockets were launched from the Iraqi town of Rabi’a towards a US military base in northeastern Syria on Monday, two Iraqi security sources said, the first attack of its kind since the start of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
