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Europe’s new AI code of practice could set regulatory standard for American companies

12 hours 18 minutes ago
American companies are split between support and criticism of a new voluntary European AI code of practice, meant to help tech companies align themselves with upcoming regulations fromĀ the European Union’s landmark AI Act. The voluntary code, called the General Purpose AI Code of Practice, which rolled out in July, is meant to help companies jump-start […]
Paige Gross

When hospitals buy physician practices, prices go up

16 hours 41 minutes ago
As more hospitals have gobbled up private physician practices, costs for childbirth and other services have gone up, according to a new study. Since the early aughts, the share of physicians in the United States working for hospitals has nearly doubled, according to the study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit […]
Anna Claire Vollers

Why congressional redistricting is blowing up across the US this summer

21 hours 12 minutes ago
WASHINGTON — Fueled by President Donald Trump’s aims to bolster the U.S. House’s razor-thin GOP majority in the 2026 midterm elections, aĀ rare mid-decade redistricting fight in Texas grew increasingly bitter in recent days and engulfed other states. As Democratic legislators in the Lone Star State fled to block a new congressional map, a handful of […]
Shauneen Miranda, Jacob Fischler

States scramble to complete renewable energy projects before tax credits expire

1 day 12 hours ago
The abrupt termination of tax credits for clean energy projects is perhaps the most drastic blow that President Donald Trump has struck in his campaign against wind and solar electricity. As states brace for the uncertainty ahead, they are scrambling to get pending projects off the ground before the tax credits expire. ā€œThe real opportunities […]
Alex Brown

Missouri agency seeks dismissal of lawsuit alleging it punished a whistleblowerĀ 

1 day 16 hours ago
The Missouri attorney general’s office is asking a Cole County judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging a state agency violated competitive bidding laws to steer lucrative technology contracts to a well-connected company. The lawsuit, filed in May by a longtime state employee named Rodney Rice, alleges ā€œdeliberate biasā€ toward St. Louis-based World Wide Technology in […]
Jason Hancock

Federal cuts to health care research and quality agency make Missouri hospitals less safe

1 day 21 hours ago
The Trump administration recently slashed funding for the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), an agency that works to improve our health care system. Such budget cuts threaten to make Missouri hospitals less safe, less effective and potentially more prone to devastating medical errors. While not as well-known as other federal health care […]
Robert Weiner, Coby Rinke

US House panel subpoenas DOJ’s Epstein files, Bill and Hillary Clinton

2 days 10 hours ago
WASHINGTON — The House Committee on Oversight issued subpoenas Tuesday for testimony from former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, among other ex-government officials from both Democratic and Republican administrations, regarding knowledge of Florida sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Committee Chair James Comer of Kentucky alsoĀ subpoenaed the U.S. Department of Justice for […]
Ashley Murray

Lee’s Summit schools serve growing number of English language learners

2 days 11 hours ago
It might be easy to miss, but the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District is changing. English Language Development Coordinator Melisha Otero is in her sixth year with the district. In that time, she’s seen the number of English language learner (ELL) students increase dramatically. During the 2020-21 school year, the number of ELL students hit […]
Maria Benevento

Trump pledges overhaul of school fitness tests

2 days 12 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is bringing back a physical fitness test to public schools after over a decade, but details of the new test, including timing and implementation, remain to be seen. Trump signed an executive order July 31 that reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test — a source of both fear and achievement among youth […]
Shauneen Miranda

Decision to unfreeze migrant education money comes too late for some kids

2 days 15 hours ago
Victoria Gomez de la Torre doesn’t know when — or if — the migrant children she serves are going to get the education help they’ve come to rely on. Gomez de la Torre oversees the migrant education program for 12 central Florida counties. The federally funded service helps the children of migrant agricultural workers, who […]
Nada Hassanein

Trump administration moves to end veterans’ abortion access in cases of rape, incest and health

2 days 20 hours ago
The Trump administration has taken its first step toward restricting access to abortions for veterans who are covered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ medical benefits, reversing aĀ 2022 rule. Former Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration enacted the rule following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which ended federally protected access to abortion. More than […]
Kelcie Moseley-Morris

Insured without care: How Missouri law failed 90,000 patients

2 days 21 hours ago
On April 1, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield terminated its contract with University of Missouri Health Care, stripping in-network coverage from more than 90,000 patients. That’s one in every 70 Missourians suddenly cut off from their doctors, clinics and hospitals. Some patients lost access to cancer follow-up care, prenatal visits or stroke rehabilitation mid-treatment. Lawmakers […]
Abby Ehrhardt

Nonprofit hospitals spend millions on stadium naming rights, raising eyebrows

3 days 10 hours ago
Nonprofit hospital systems across the country are spending millions to plaster their names on sports stadiums and arenas, even as federal Medicaid cuts and economic uncertainty cloud their financial futures. Health care systems and hospital groups have bought naming rights at ballparks and arenas in states such as California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, New York, North […]
Anna Claire Vollers

Justice Department demand for state voter lists underscores their importance

3 days 10 hours ago
Alabama resident Roald Hazelhoff treasures his newly won right to vote. When election officials flagged the naturalized U.S. citizen’s voter registration for possible removal last August, the Dutch native fought back. Hazelhoff, then a 67-year-old college instructor, sued to stop Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, a Republican, from seeking to kick him and more […]
Jonathan Shorman

Former Irish Republican Army soldier in Missouri self deports, afraid he’ll die in ICE cell

3 days 17 hours ago
Trump administration officials aim to pressure some noncitizens into self-deporting. It worked on Matthew Morrison. In mid-July, the 69-year-old former psychiatric nurse supervisor quietly fled the United States. Morrison had been threatened by an aggressive government before. When he was a teenager, he fought against what he and others in the Irish Republican Army saw […]
Jesse Bogan