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02/18/2026

02/18/2026

Missouri's lawmakers are drawing up their plans for grading public schools 'A' through 'F,' with key distinctions emerging between proposals.

02/18/2026

American sliders Elana Meyers Taylor, 41, and Kaillie Humphreys, 40, secure gold and bronze medals. Meyers-Taylor built on her record as the Black athlete with the most Winter Olympics medals.

02/18/2026

Published sixty-three years ago this week, Betty Friedan’s "The Feminine Mystique" would become one of the most popular paperbacks of the year and one of the most influential books of the century. In its pages, Friedan described the experience of millions of American women — she called it "the problem that has no name" — and helped spark the second-wave feminist movement.

"The Feminine Mystique put words around the disquiet that a lot of women of a certain class were experiencing," former National Organization for Women president Patricia Ireland told American Experience. "It called to people's attention the reality that women who were smart and educated and could do so much were confined to one role once they were married and had children, and that was mom and wife."

📸: Betty Friedan, 1960 (World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo/Library of Congress).

02/18/2026

‘We Will Not Be Sidelined Again’: Survivors Respond After DOJ Releases Epstein Files With Unredacted Names and Personal Details

02/18/2026

A major new study presented this month at America’s foremost maternal medicine conference has put hard numbers to what reproductive health advocates have warned for years: banning or restricting abortion does not make pregnancy safer. It makes it deadlier.

02/18/2026

02/18/2026

She heard three words that changed everything. Born into slavery, Mum Bet took Massachusetts to court in 1780 and won her freedom.

02/18/2026

02/18/2026

🚨ACTION ALERT🚨Our lawmakers are once again trying to undermine our votes!

Within the coming days, the senate plans to hear SB 1325. This bill allows employers to pay anyone younger than 18 years old a subminimum wage of $12.30. This contradicts the voter-approved $15 minimum wage which was won for ALL Missourians.

📢 Contact your representative and tell them to vote NO on SB 1325 and tell them equal work deserves equal pay!

Send an email here: https://bit.ly/MOProtectTheWage

02/18/2026

School pickups, diaper runs and mutual aid funds are central to how many Minnesotans are challenging the militarization of their state.