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U.S. gross domestic product shrank 1.4% in the first quarter at the same time inflation continued to soar. For older Americans, that combination conjures memories of 1970s stagflation, a nightmarish combination of double-digit inflation, double-digit interest rates, soaring gasoline prices and persistently high unemployment. The entire economic mess got dumped…

ST. LOUIS — “Whitey Ball” reappeared at Busch Stadium in all its 1980s glories Thursday night.

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — Some workers at an Amazon warehouse here that partly collapsed during a tornado in December didn't remember participating in tornado drills, and others didn't know where to take cover in an emergency, according to a federal investigation released Tuesday.

The constitutional principle of separation of church and state isn’t really that complicated: Americans are free to express their religious beliefs. But an instrument of government — like, say, a public employee on a high school football field — cannot be commandeered to promote that expression. And public school kids…

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In the National Hockey League postseason, home ice actually doesn’t really matter too much.

One big question deserves to be on every police officer’s mind when pulling a motorist over for a relatively minor offense: Is this stop really worth the violent confrontation or death that could follow? Even if cops aren’t asking that question, city governments are, and they increasingly are concluding that,…

This is the story of the St. Louis Cardinal who never played for the St. Louis Cardinals.

The first time I watched “Babette’s Feast,” I was a movie critic. The second time I watched, I was a food writer.