Brian Moline

Former Northview Village nursing home workers have reached a proposed $365,000 settlement over the facility’s abrupt 2023 closure. The payout would cover 184 employees, a fraction of the $1.9 million in damages cited in a 2025 default judgement.

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Stunning comeback. President Lula came 2nd in the first round and has now won with a convincing result in the runoff. Analysts are saying this is the first time in Brazil this has happened. Also maybe it just feels surprising in this climate to see an incumbent win!? www.npr.org/2026/10/25/n...

Huge event. Failed Jared Kushner/Trump luxury hotel project planned for Belgrade played a role in starting expanded protests against Vucic.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Nobody tell Joe about RAGBRAI, which has only been around since before I was born.

After historic coverage gains under the Biden administration, key policy changes have driven the uninsured rate up to 11.2% in 2026.

second time in two years that the president authorized billions of dollars in bailout money for farmers harmed by his administration’s own policies www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/b...

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Homeland Security to NOT conduct election-related field operations that could involve U.S. citizens in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin

Three people were killed in two attacks on an Aramco oil field and an airport in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, the latest deadly strikes on the kingdom as its conflict with the Iran-backed Houthis drags on www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

He took a knee to the head. Totally unintentional, but it didn’t look good.

US pending home sales fall to record low as mortgage rates surge www.ft.com/content/42ed...

I thought this was a great read about Meyers Leonard, a player I covered at Illinois, and his relationship with Damian Lillard. Worth ten minutes of your time. www.nytimes.com/athletic/769...

The purchase of several aircraft by the DHS during the final days of former Secretary Kristi Noem’s tenure is tied to an “ongoing criminal law enforcement investigation,” the department’s Privacy Office told The Washington Sun.

NEW: Hegseth's chaotic secret evacuation of a US base in Bahrain left military families in harm's way. “They’re not telling the truth. They’re not telling the full story. They’re not telling how much damage there really was." www.ms.now/news/militar...

Ask St. Louis what it's like for the "states to handle disasters on their own." (Spoiler alert: REALLY POORLY: www.npr.org/2025/11/16/n...)

After what we saw in St. Louis after the tornado last year, this doesn’t surprise me.

A large underwater wave moved up the West Coast, raising sea levels. Scientists say it's driven by El Niño and it's going to happen again. n.pr/4Bl830k

Tommy wasn’t a a random concerned citizen. He’s a former staffer for Missouri U.S. Senator Josh Hawley.

My initial reaction to that viral exchange between senate candidate Abdul El-Sayid and a young man named "Tommy." This is an excerpt from our Monday newsletter. Subscribe here for free: www.lni.media

NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

@citizencohn.bsky.social on the White House claiming Trump is the first president to actually lower prescription drug prices: "That is just not true."

Yeah, that’s not the law in Maryland, or anywhere else for that matter.

There is no evidence that Katie Zacharia was admitted to practice law in a single state or Washington, D.C. trib.al/oUhc5dW

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Bill Odenkirk’s new play asks whether we’re alone in the universe. Aliens are the subject of We Interrupt This Program, a play at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois. Actors include Bob Odenkirk and Jill Talley. There will also be an analysis with Avi Loeb and Ahmed Best.

NEW: How MAGA's attack on James Talarico fell apart imploded. We've got the FULL audio of the call in which a right-winger lied to an Ohio mental health treatment center to try to get them to admit that Talarico was, or had been, there (he hadn't been). www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-james...

"Rigged election" rumors typically mislead in one of six ways. The rumors swirling around the election worker view fall in the "misinterpreted evidence" category. The video is real, it just doesn't show what the rumors suggest it's showing.

Over on X, the “rigged election” crowd is pushing rumors around a video livestream clip of election workers, working late at night, allegedly doing something nefarious. Maricopa officials have explained that the workers are just… doing their jobs. But rumors around the video continue to swirl.

I remember having feelings the first time I heard “Even Flow” on the classic rock station. But that’s been almost 15 years ago now…

Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says

The three fired workers say OpenAI punished them for being outspoken about safety. The company disputes the claims and says they were fired over mishandling sensitive information. n.pr/4jOjWW7

Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?

The U.S. is routinely deporting human beings to Haiti, where it’s not safe to play a soccer match

Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85

The Cahokia Federation of Teachers announced Wednesday night that members overwhelmingly voted to ratify a contract after months of negotiations with Cahokia Unit School District 187 over teacher salaries, benefits and lesson plans.

Paul J. Essel has been a Grants Accounting Manager at Missouri State since 2019. He is originally from Ghana. Greene County Jail records indicate Essel was detained by ICE in Springfield Wednesday afternoon.

The U.S. is experiencing its worst measles outbreak since 1991. These graphics show the scale of the crisis.

Good visual reminder that war not only has large human and economic costs, it can have environmental impacts as well.

The Archdiocese of St. Louis is suing over visitation rules at the Ste. Genevieve County Detention Center, saying they restrict priests from meeting ICE detainees face-to-face. The lawsuit alleges the policy violates religious freedom protections.

I can't believe it's been 20 years since we lost Buck O'Neil. How do you possibly sum up a life that great?

Pritzker asked about partial closure of Choate: ‘We saw repeated instances of people abusing their roles’

Gasoline prices were briefly sky-high under Biden, in the immediate aftermath of Putin's Ukraine invasion. Then they came down, well before his term ended. Gas is up +39.4% from a year ago. Diesel it at ALL TIME high prices, up +67.0% from a year ago.

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NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.

"But a majority of economists agree that stadiums, no matter their location, do not deliver an economic boon to cities."

An Alabama state representative and the former president of the Satsuma City Schools Board of Education were arrested Friday on charges of attempted human trafficking.

I could have spent a lot longer on it, but I’ll go with this.

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