Is that true? Keep up with NPR's live fact checking of the Trump-Clinton debate
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton face off in the final presidential debate Wednesday night at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. NPR's politics team, with help from reporters and...
View ArticleInauguration Day: Follow events in DC with NPR's live blog
Today is the momentous day. The day every four years when this country experiences a peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next. Whether you've been looking forward to Donald Trump's...
View ArticleOfficials: St. Louis would be worse place without immigrants
St. Louis leaders are decrying the Trump administration’s executive order that bars refugees from coming to the United States for 120 days. The order also prevents those from seven Muslim-majority...
View ArticleMurrow submission: Continuing coverage - Winter flooding of 2016
The rain started at the very end of 2016. By Jan. 1, the rivers were just cresting, overflowing the banks of the Mississippi, Missouri and Meramec Rivers. The floods caused more than 20 deaths, forced...
View ArticleOne safe prediction about Tuesday's election: most people won't bother voting
On March 7, the city of St. Louis held its primary, where voters selected Democratic and Republican candidates for mayor. It was the first election in 16 years where the current mayor, Francis Slay,...
View ArticleEditor's note: The words we use matter
It feels like we’ve been here before. Three years ago, the region and the nation witnessed the passion and furor of protesters in Ferguson who came out to decry the shooting death of Michael Brown, an...
View ArticleKrewson postpones town hall meeting, says discussions are happening and she...
Updated 4:55 p.m. with more from news conference — St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson canceled a town hall meeting Tuesday, instead holding a news conference to discuss the ongoing protests . She said she...
View ArticleDay 9 after Stockley verdict: Protesters show solidarity for those arrested
It wasn’t so much of a protest as a vigil on Sunday as demonstrators gathered at the Justice Center in Clayton to wait for the release of the people arrested Saturday at a protest in the Galleria. By 5...
View ArticleHere are the lawsuits filed against St. Louis in response to the Stockley...
In the weeks since a judge found former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Anthony Lamar Smith, protesters have taken to the streets nearly every...
View ArticleNo meeting of the minds: Krewson talks, struggles to resonate with...
During a frequently contentious forum Wednesday at Harris-Stowe State University, people who have been protesting for the past three weeks had choice words and asked pointed questions of St. Louis...
View ArticleEditor's note: Scandals may be fun, but they aren't always journalism
A few weeks ago, our political reporters caught wind of rumors about Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens and an extramarital affair. We pursued the issue, but, without reliable sources to verify the rumors, we...
View ArticleStockley protests. Ongoing coverage entry for PRNDI
This is the audio mix of St. Louis Public Radio's ongoing coverage of the protests and unrest following the not-guilty verdict of former police officer Jason Stockley in the shooting death of Anthony...
View ArticleObituary: Gerry Rohde, longtime evening host at St. Louis Public Radio dies...
St. Louis Public Radio is mourning the loss today of one of our own. Gerry Rohde, our longtime evening host has died. He was 55. His body was discovered this morning in the stockroom at the biology...
View ArticleEditor's Note: Creating a more diverse newsroom is a never-ending journey
The messages about the need for diversity in our neighborhoods, region and workplaces keep coming, and they are important. So I was glad to hear them last week during a day-long seminar on diversity...
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