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Host and archivist Haley Frizzle-Green looks at Route 66, segregation, the Green Book and Alberta's Hotel.
Jonathan Ahl
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St. Louis Public Radio
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitted that Washington helped spark recent protests in Iran by creating a U.S. dollar shortage, leading to runaway inflation.
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The far-left France Unbowed party faces a backlash after a right-wing activist was beaten to death.
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Peter Mandelson, former U.K. ambassador to the U.S., has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. He's accused of passing government information to Jeffrey Epstein.
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The war in Ukraine enters its fifth year this week, with millions of Ukrainians displaced, hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed, and little change on the battlefield.
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The Food and Drug Administration aims to evaluate treatments for rare diseases based on plausible evidence that they would work — without requiring a clinical trial first. -
A team of researchers in the Netherlands set out to decipher the rules of an ancient Roman board game, with an assist from artificial intelligence.
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Researchers followed more than 400,000 teens until they were adults. It found that those who used marijuana were more likely to develop serious mental illness, as well as depression and anxiety.
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Recent breakthroughs have accelerated worries that AI may soon replace humans in the workforce on a massive scale. Two experts talk through how and whether that could happen.
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A man with Tourette syndrome shouted a racial slur and other offensive remarks during the BAFTA awards ceremony Sunday. The BBC did not edit out his outbursts in its delayed broadcast. -
In a recent video, the Olympic skier credits her surgeon with saving her leg from potential amputation. -
Observers watching federal immigration enforcement in Maine who were told by agents they were "domestic terrorists" and would be added to a "database" or "watchlist" are now part of a new federal class action lawsuit. -
Hudson always wanted to sing, but feared it would derail her acting career. Now she's up for an Oscar for her portrayal of a hairdresser who performs in a Neil Diamond tribute band in Song Sung Blue. -
Forecasters called travel conditions "extremely treacherous" and "nearly impossible" in areas hit hardest by the storm, and air and train traffic is at a standstill in many parts of the region. -
Police have arrested Peter Mandelson, a veteran Labour Party politician who served as British ambassador to the U.S., as part of an investigation into his ties with Jeffrey Epstein.
