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Missouri AG files first lawsuits in promised crackdown on unregulated slot machines

10 hours 50 minutes ago
Five retail shops in Dunklin County were sued Tuesday by Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, who alleges the businesses are operating illegal gambling machines on their premises. The businesses — Discount Spirits and Tobacco, Kennett Liquor and Tobacco, and Laura’s Mini Mart in Kennett; and Dixie Package and Swindle’s Quick Shop in Malden — are […]
Jason Hancock

Republicans on US House Homeland panel defend immigration tactics at tense hearing

13 hours 37 minutes ago
WASHINGTON — The head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement declined during a U.S. House hearing Tuesday to apologize to the families of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, the victims of fatal shootings by immigration officers in Minneapolis last month. Top Trump administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, had said both Minneapolis residents […]
Ariana Figueroa

All Democratic governors bow out of White House dinner after Trump snubs several

13 hours 37 minutes ago
WASHINGTON — Democratic governors headed to an annual bipartisan gathering in the nation’s capital will not participate in a traditional White House black-tie dinner after President Donald Trump disinvited several Democrats from the event. A joint statement Tuesday from the Democratic Governors Association said the state leaders “have a long record of working across the […]
Ashley Murray

Sending money abroad could require proof of legal status under Missouri bills

17 hours 15 minutes ago
Two bills that target immigrants who send money out of the country are currently moving through the Missouri House and Senate. Legislation sponsored by state Rep. Ben Keathley, a Republican from Chesterfield, and state Sen. Nick Schroer, a Republican from Defiance, seeks to require financial institutions verify the immigration status of individuals sending electronic money […]
Abigail Didonna, Peter Pynadath

Health care workers want ICE out of hospitals, and blue states are responding

18 hours 15 minutes ago
Last month, the parents of a 7-year-old girl whose nose wouldn’t stop bleeding took her to Portland Adventist Health in Portland, Oregon, for urgent care. Before the family could get through the doors, federal immigration agents reportedly detained them in the parking lot and took them to a detention center in Texas. At Hennepin County […]
Shalina Chatlani

Breast cancer survival rates higher in Medicaid expansion states, study finds

19 hours 16 minutes ago
Women with breast cancer living in states that expanded Medicaid eligibility were less likely to die from the disease — but not everyone benefited equally, according to a recent study published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open. Researchers from Howard University, the University of Alabama, Henry Ford Hospital in Michigan, and others looked at […]
Nada Hassanein

Missouri Senate bill would ban keeping lists of privately-owned firearms

20 hours 16 minutes ago
Twenty states have enacted laws prohibiting the use of unique merchant category codes to distinguish firearm purchases, and Missouri could be the 21st. State Sen. Jill Carter, a Republican from Granby, presented legislation to a Senate committee Monday that would create the “Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act.” The bill prohibits government entities from keeping a […]
Erin Hynes

Missouri lawmakers scour for savings to shield disability, health programs from cuts

22 hours 21 minutes ago
Missouri lawmakers scrounged for unspent or underutilized funds that could be cut from next year’s budget Monday, vowing to protect programs they said are vital to the health of Missourians. Republican state Rep. Darin Chappell of Rogersville vowed during a presentation of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to minimize proposed cuts to […]
Steph Quinn

Missouri attorney general wants to rewrite history and redefine who counts in the Census

22 hours 26 minutes ago
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway has filed a lawsuit seeking to require the Census Bureau to “redo” the $14 billion 2020 Census to exclude the persons she doesn’t consider persons. The U.S. Constitution requires that every 10 years “the whole number of persons in each state” be counted for the purpose of apportioning representatives.  Hanaway’s […]
Bridgette Dunlap

Missouri secretary of state wants to keep portions of ballot language for redistricting referendum

1 day 10 hours ago
Attorneys for Secretary of State Denny Hoskins spent most of Monday afternoon trying to salvage some of the language he used to describe the impact of a referendum on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map. After conceding that some of the ballot summary Hoskins prepared for the referendum is flawed and should be revised, Kathleen Hunker from […]
Rudi Keller

States that once led in child vaccination fall as they expand exemptions

1 day 15 hours ago
States that were leaders in childhood vaccination before the pandemic are among those losing ground as exemptions and unfounded skepticism take hold, encouraged by the Trump administration’s stance under U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Expanded exemptions for parents are likely to drop both Mississippi and West Virginia from the top […]
Tim Henderson

Trump shuts out Democratic governors from traditional White House gatherings

1 day 15 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump decided to exclude Democratic governors from a traditional annual meeting at the White House and to disinvite several others from a black-tie dinner, according to the White House, the governors and the National Governors Association. The National Governors Association organizes the bipartisan winter gathering that usually includes a working meeting […]
Ashley Murray

States move to ban NDAs that silence survivors of child sexual abuse

1 day 16 hours ago
Editor’s note: If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org. Cindy Clemishire was 12 years old on Christmas night in 1982 when a traveling evangelist staying with her family first abused […]
Anna Claire Vollers

Demand grows for doulas who can help moms with addiction

1 day 18 hours ago
“Don’t give me narcotics.” Emmalee Hortin, a doula, recalled one of her clients delivering that message to hospital staff. Doctors were operating on the woman to clear tissue after a miscarriage. But despite her patient’s pleas, clinicians still administered fentanyl via IV to manage pain, Hortin said. Her client had substance use disorder and had […]
Nada Hassanein

In the next decade, states will see a surge in obesity

1 day 20 hours ago
Over the next decade, obesity rates across the nation could surge to close to half of U.S. adults, a new study published in the medical journal JAMA estimates. Researchers at the University of Washington conducted the analysis using body mass index data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and self-reported weight data from […]
Nada Hassanein

Missouri budget cuts threaten plan to show grade-level performance on state tests

1 day 22 hours ago
A law passed last year to add a measure for grade-level equivalency as part of Missouri’s standardized test reports may be scrapped as a casualty of the state’s budgetary woes. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education requested $1 million to add grade-level equivalency to the Missouri Assessment Program, which would largely be a one-time […]
Annelise Hanshaw

Missouri may finally be done looking the other way on gray-market slot machines

1 day 22 hours ago
If you ever want to know what’s really heating up in the Missouri Legislature, skip the floor debates and committee hearings. Check the lobbyist registrations at the Missouri Ethics Commission. A prime example is the push to legalize video lottery terminals — aka, those slot machines you see at gas stations. This isn’t just a […]
Jason Hancock