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In the only one-on-one debate of Missouri’s 2024 U.S. Senate campaign, Republican incumbent Josh Hawley sparred with Democratic challenger Lucas Kunce over abortion rights, border security and whether the 2020 presidential election was legitimate. The abortion issue provoked some of the sharpest exchanges about 20 minutes into the debate. Hawley said he would not vote […]

Three Republican Missouri state senators — including one running for secretary of state — are once again being sued by the man they incorrectly identified in social media posts as being the shooter at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory celebration. Denton Loudermill of Olathe, Kansas, filed lawsuits Thursday against state Sens. Denny Hoskins […]

Americans are worried about the effect of artificial intelligence on the election, as polls show, but the public probably doesn’t understand the full extent of its influence on what they experience every day, an academic studying the technology says. There have been obvious examples of AI-generated misinformation, like false audio of President Joe Biden, a fake video […]

LIBERTY — Over her 25 years living in a quiet suburban mobile home park, Kristi Peterman got to know the neighbors directly next door and a few across the street. But since she and her neighbors collectively purchased the sprawling park outside of Kansas City from its longtime owner in 2021, she’s gotten to know […]

Kamala Harris won’t be campaigning in Missouri in the final stages of her too-close-to-call presidential campaign against Donald Trump. But if the Show-Me State is ever going to regain the bellwether status it once had in presidential races, it may be because of candidates like Adrian Plank. Plank, who has spent the better part of […]

Residents of a southeast Missouri town were forced to evacuate their homes Wednesday when a fire erupted at a nearby battery recycler. Madison County 911 posted on Facebook around 2 p.m. on behalf of the county sheriff’s office telling residents north and west of Fredericktown to leave the area. “If you can see or smell […]

A group associated with conservative activist Leonard Leo donated $1 million on Tuesday to a campaign opposing Missouri’s abortion-rights amendment.  The Concord Fund, an advocacy organization funded by groups connected to Leo, stepped into the fight over Amendment 3 with a $1 million check to a PAC called Vote No on 3, according to filings […]

WASHINGTON — With less than a week before the polls close on Nov. 5, the U.S. Justice Department Wednesday reiterated its efforts to protect voters’ access to the ballot box through its civil rights, national security and criminal divisions. “Protecting the right to vote, prosecuting election crimes, and securing our elections are all essential to […]

In May, a CBS News reporter asked the Illinois Department of Agriculture if there were bird flu-positive dairy herds in Kane County, only to be told the department “doesn’t have any role in this testing” and was directed to the state’s health department. But an internal email from Connie Austin, the public health department’s veterinarian […]

A law enforcement investigation of the circumstances surrounding a television reporter being hit by a bullet fragment at a campaign photo op for Democrat Lucas Kunce earlier this month has determined there was “no malice, nor ill intent” by anyone involved.  The case was also reviewed by the local prosecutor, who decided no charges would […]

Don’t call it early voting. It is “no excuse absentee” voting. Whatever the name, it is clearly popular in Missouri. As of late-morning Tuesday, more than 100,000 St. Louis County voters had cast ballots. That is nearly 20% of the total vote recorded in the county in the 2020 presidential race. Across the Missouri River […]

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump repeated his hard-line immigration position in an hourlong appearance from his Florida country club Tuesday, even as Democrats highlight the racist rhetoric his campaign and allies have used to describe Latinos in the closing week of the presidential race. Speaking at Mar-a-Lago, the former president made passing references to the […]

The recent decline in overdose deaths hides a tremendous disparity by race: Deaths have fallen only among white people while continuing to rise among people of color, according to a new Stateline analysis of federal data. Health experts in nonwhite communities say they’re finding strategies that work in their areas, but that they still struggle for […]

WASHINGTON — A pro-democracy organization warned Monday that disinformation and violent rhetoric could make the weeks that follow Election Day especially fraught, pushing the country past the upheaval that arose four years ago during the last presidential transition. The comments from three members of the Defend Democracy Project came just days before voting ends on […]

An effort to legalize abortion in Missouri has raised nearly 10 times more than the political action committees seeking to stop it.  Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, the campaign behind Amendment 3, which would legalize abortion up until the point of fetal viability, has raised more than $30.9 million since launching its campaign in 2023, according […]

Cynara Velazquez became familiar with Michael Halow over the summer.  Velazquez is an organizer with the California nonprofit called Cannabis Education Project that San Diego County hired in March to implement its social-equity cannabis program. The group largely helps people who were imprisoned for cannabis apply for a license to sell or grow marijuana.  That’s […]

After trying to convince voters that legalized sports betting would boost Missouri education funding, the campaign for Amendment 2 is now focused on the fact that residents already bet in large numbers and allowing it in the state will capture some of the revenue, a spokesman said Monday. Winning for Missouri Education, the committee promoting […]

WASHINGTON — Democrats have increasingly cried out for new rules for the nation’s highest court, and the 2024 presidential election reflects a clear party divide over how Supreme Court justices should behave and whether they should remain on the bench for life. The erasure of a nearly 50-year-old national right to abortion, the granting of […]

Early one morning last year, as state Rep. Josh Bray left his small town of Mount Vernon in southeastern Kentucky to make his way to the Capitol in Frankfort, he decided to count how many drivers he saw texting or distracted by something else. He quit counting after 24 when he saw a truck driver […]

Physician David Mehr addressed a dozen voters gathered Saturday morning at the Columbia headquarters of Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, the coalition behind a proposed amendment would enshrine the right to abortion in Missouri’s constitution. Meanwhile, physicians greeted volunteers in St. Louis County, and still more gathered in Kansas City, as part of the coalition’s final […]