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Congress struggles with questions about ethics investigations after 3 members resign

6 days 9 hours ago
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republican leaders Tuesday defended the secretive process used in that chamber to investigate allegations of wrongdoing, though they did confirm referring a complaint made against Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego to the Ethics Committee. ā€œAt the beginning, we always start very, very privately to protect members because we don’t want to […]
Jennifer Shutt

Bill to shield Missouri businesses from ADA website lawsuits heads to governor

6 days 9 hours ago
A bill that will protect Missouri’s small businesses from frivolous lawsuits now awaits the governor’s signature after gaining final approval from the legislature on Tuesday. The Act Against Abusive Website and Web Content Litigation addresses an issue that legislators say has harmed small businesses in Missouri and across the country. A growing number of businesses […]
Sophia Gromowsky

In Medicaid fraud crackdown, feds now looking to audit all 50 states

6 days 9 hours ago
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said Tuesday that the Trump administration will require every state within 30 days to turn in a plan to revalidate the health care providers that participate in their Medicaid programs. The Trump administration has pledged to root out what it calls […]
Shalina Chatlani

On sentencing reform, Missouri can be the Show-Them State

6 days 9 hours ago
Missouri’s moniker as the Show-Me State is said to originate from a Congressman who said that his midwestern roots preferred evidence over eloquence. ā€œI am from Missouri,ā€ he is purported to have said. ā€œYou have got to show me.” Now, 127 years later, Missouri can show other states — and the federal government — how […]
Patrick Tuohey

Missouri AG leading court fight to preserve Donald Trump’s mail-ballot order

6 days 23 hours ago
A dozen Republican state attorneys general are moving to defend President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail ballots from legal challenges mounted by Democrats. The GOP officials, led by Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, argued in multiple court filings Monday and Tuesday in response to Democratic lawsuits that theĀ March 31 order provides states with ā€œoptional […]
Jonathan Shorman

Fed chair nominee says he will be independent of Trump, though Dems see a ā€˜sock puppet’

1 week ago
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, vowed Tuesday the central bank would remain ā€œstrictly independentā€ if he’s confirmed to the top spot, even as the president has broadcast his demand for the new Fed chair to lower interest rates. Warsh, a former Fed board governor, faced questions during […]
Ashley Murray

Plan to replace Missouri income tax with expanded sales tax heads to voters

1 week ago
Missouri voters will decide later this year whether to grant lawmakers power to increase and expand the sales tax in order to raise revenue needed to eliminate the income tax. The Missouri House voted 95-59 Tuesday to send a proposed constitutional amendment directing future legislatures to cut personal income tax rates as state revenue increases. […]
Rudi Keller

Republicans in US Senate unveil road map for 3 years of immigration crackdown

1 week ago
WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Congress appeared to be on the same page Tuesday about how to fund immigration activities for the next three years as they released a party-line measure that will pave the way for a special process known as budget reconciliation. But they weren’t unified about another problem — when to clear […]
Jennifer Shutt

Trump’s DOJ sued over campaign to amass data on millions of voters

1 week ago
Voting rights groups launched a legal challenge Tuesday against the Trump administration’s effort to sweep up sensitive data on millions of Americans with the aim of identifying noncitizen voters, arguing that the U.S. Department of Justice is building a dangerous centralized national voter list ahead of the midterm elections in November. TheĀ federal lawsuit, filed in […]
Jonathan Shorman

Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces US DOJ criminal probe

1 week ago
A grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, which alleges payments the organization made to informants in extremist groups functioned as financial support for them. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters in Washington, D.C., on […]
Ralph Chapoco

Missouri treasurer’s office posted MOScholars student data on its website for nearly a year

1 week ago
The Missouri State Treasurer’s Office inadvertently posted a directory of students enrolled in the state’s private school voucher program on its website for almost a year, even as it repeatedly denied lawmakers’ requests for the same information. The data, which covered the first three years of the MOScholars program, included students’ names, their parents’ email […]
Annelise Hanshaw

If pregnancy centers get public money, they should meet medical standards

1 week ago
You live in rural Missouri. A home pregnancy test turns positive — it’s your first pregnancy. The nearest maternity care is over an hour away. Then you see a building nearby labeled ā€œPregnancy Center.ā€ It looks like a clinic, so you walk in. They perform an ultrasound and reassure you that everything looks normal. Two […]
Priya Pal

Bill requiring sex-based restrooms, dorms clears Missouri House

1 week ago
The Missouri House passed a bill Monday that would force entities receiving state funding to restrict usage of restrooms, changing areas and sleeping accommodations based on biological sex and codify definitions for ā€œfemale,ā€ ā€œmaleā€ and ā€œsexā€ throughout state statute. State Rep. Becky Laubinger, a Republican from Park Hills, pitched the legislation as a ā€œvital protection […]
Annelise Hanshaw

Lori Chavez-DeRemer out as secretary of the US Department of Labor

1 week ago
WASHINGTON — Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will step down from her post, the Trump administration announced Monday, following multiple reports alleging work misconduct including misuse of funds and more. Chavez-DeRemer, a Republican from Oregon who lost her U.S. House reelection bid in 2024, will take a role in the private sector, White House Director of […]
Ariana Figueroa

Missouri House forges ahead with bill targeting AI deepfakes and youth social media use

1 week ago
The Missouri House passed a bill Monday aimed at curbing minors’ access to social media, banning the distribution of ā€œdeepfakesā€ and setting new requirements for social media platforms and some artificial intelligence developers. The legislation, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Wendy Hausman of St. Peters, combines bills offered by at least 10 lawmakers. And while […]
Steph Quinn

Businesses line up for $166B in refunds from Trump’s illegal tariffs

1 week ago
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Customs and Border Protection tariff refund system went live Monday, marking what small business advocates call a ā€œcomplexā€ first step for entrepreneurs to recoup $166 billion in import taxes accrued under President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in February.Ā  Importers and brokers can now upload […]
Ashley Murray

Evictions fell slightly in 2025, but some areas saw upticks, report finds

1 week 1 day ago
Eviction filings fell in 2025 for the second straight year in the cities and states tracked in a new report — areas home to roughly a third of the country’s renters — though some of those places saw increases. Landlords filed more than 1.23 million eviction cases in the 10 states and 38 cities where […]
Robbie Sequeira

Federal Medicaid rule targeting abortion providers set to expire

1 week 1 day ago
A controversial rule enacted last year that denies federal Medicaid funding to abortion providers is likely to expire this summer, despite anti-abortion pressure on Republicans to renew it. Leaders in Congress in recent days have insisted that a new federal spending bill needs to be as stripped down as possible and focused on funding related […]
Sofia Resnick

Missouri bid to end judge-imposed death sentences faces Senate roadblock

1 week 1 day ago
A bipartisan push to end a Missouri law allowing judges to impose the death penalty when jurors can’t agree has moved further through the legislature this year than at any point in at least a decade. But opposition from Senate leaders makes it unlikely to pass. Missouri and Indiana are the only states that allow […]
Steph Quinn