The top prosecutor in St. Louis, Missouri, “has lost the trust of the people and left crime victims in the dark,” says Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, adding ammunition to a court case that seeks to remove Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner from her elected position. “She has sacrificed the safety of the city of St….

Parents of a 17-year-old Tennessee athlete described to a judge the heartbreaking moment they broke the news to their daughter that she had lost both legs when a speeding vehicle crashed into her. Janae Edmondson, a volleyball and basketball player, had asked her parents if they would still love her—legless, her mother said at a…

An outside judge has been appointed in Missouri to consider whether an elected prosecutor should be removed from office. John Torbitzky, an appeals court judge for the eastern district of Missouri, will preside over the removal hearing that is to be set for St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner. Officials on Feb. 27 were still…

A pedestrian-vehicle crash in St. Louis left a visiting teen athlete Janae Edmondson a double amputee. It also sparked a public outcry—and a rare attempt to remove an elected public official from office. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey took removal action on Feb. 23. He is petitioning a court to boot St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner from…

The Missouri attorney general promises to “root out any case of child abuse” that may have occurred at a transgender clinic for youths. In a statement released late on Feb. 17, Attorney General Andrew Bailey also criticized Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital for continuing to prescribe hormones to children amid an investigation….

The Bank of England’s (BoE) quantitative easing (QE) during the COVID-19 pandemic did contribute to soaring inflation in the UK, but the impact was hard to predict at the time, the central bank’s Governor Andrew Bailey said on Wednesday. Bailey also said former Prime Minister Liz Truss and her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s so-called mini-budget has damaged the…

The Bank of England, the UK’s central bank, has raised its base interest rate to 3 percent, the highest for 14 years. All but two members of the bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted to push up interest rates by 0.75 percentage points, from 2.25 to 3 percent, during a crunch meeting on Nov. 3….

Soaring food and fuel prices have pushed the UK’s inflation to 9.4 percent in June, the highest in 40 years, official data have revealed. The inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), was up from 9.1 percent in May and exceeded the 9.3 percent expected by most economists. According to new data…

Soaring inflation will hit Britain harder than any other major economy during the current energy crisis, the head of the UK’s central bank has warned. Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England (BoE), said that the hit to the UK economy as a result of the energy price shock would likely come earlier…

The potential for further food price rises is a “major worry” for the UK and the developing world, the governor of the Bank of England, the UK’s central bank, has warned. Appearing before the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons on May 16, Andrew Bailey said that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has…