In Missouri and states across the country, testing and accountability stand at a crossroads. While states still administer annual assessments and hold schools accountable for their students’ performance, there are growing calls to reduce testing and deemphasize accountability. Last summer, Missouri received approval from the federal government to pilot a new way to test students […]
Sam Lee has spent years helping draft and promote a Missouri version of the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.” But on Monday, the longtime anti-abortion advocate and lobbyist with Campaign Life Missouri sat before the House Children and Families Committee and declined to support the bill in its current form. The problem, Lee said, was […]
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday extended a highly anticipated stay blocking an appellate court’s pause on telehealth abortion access until May 14. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approved medication-abortion regimen remains available via telehealth until then, following a week of uncertainty among abortion patients and providers. “With this critical temporary administrative stay extended, […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Cameron Hamilton to run the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a former acting chief who was fired in 2025 shortly after he told a congressional panel FEMA should continue to exist. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will likely schedule a hearing in the coming weeks […]
WASHINGTON — The man who allegedly attacked the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last month pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court to four criminal charges, including attempting to assassinate the president of the United States. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of California, appeared before U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden in Washington, D.C., to be arraigned on […]
Editor’s note: This is the second article in The 50 vs. The One, an occasional series examining the current fraught moment and what evolving — and often deteriorating — state-federal ties mean for the country. Read the first article here. President Donald Trump is wielding power in unprecedented ways to bring states to heel, marking […]
As President Donald Trump tries to assert power over U.S. elections, he has raged on social media, cajoled Republican lawmakers and unleashed the Department of Justice on his political enemies. What has he accomplished with all that effort? Not a lot. Six months before the November midterm elections, the Trump administration’s quest to exercise authority […]
After years of budget chaos, Republican infighting and historically low productivity, Missouri lawmakers are entering the final week of session with something that has often been missing from the Capitol: a sense of normalcy. State Sen. Stephen Webber, a Columbia Democrat who served in the Missouri House from 2009 to 2017, said this year’s session […]
Energy demand has been growing and is expected to shoot even higher in the coming years, but the debate over how to pay for new nuclear power plants is likely stalled in the Missouri legislature for now. As electricity demand has increased, so have utility bills — which has caught the attention of customers and […]
Bolstered by a justice system that has unabashedly taken off its blindfold, national and state Republican leaders are moving full-speed ahead to disenfranchise Black Americans, and their meaningful participation in the political process. Denying and diluting the power of the Black vote in Missouri and in many states has taken on new life. The recent […]
The University of Missouri Health Care’s Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment unveiled a 74,000 square-foot building Friday its leaders say will pave the way for better autism care in Missouri. In a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Columbia, the center’s top advisors and staff joined state officials to showcase the facility and the launch of the […]
A Jackson County judge on Friday denied Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s attempt to immediately stop Kansas City-based CBD American Shaman and several affiliated companies from selling kratom products. The motion for a temporary restraining order, which was filed alongside the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, took particular aim at the more potent […]
TOPEKA — Evergy and one of its contractors agreed to pay $2.6 million to employees to settle a class-action lawsuit filed over how company retirement funds were managed. Evergy will pay $1.7 million and SageView Advisory Group, which contracted with Evergy to manage its 401(k) retirement plans, will pay $900,000, according to a preliminary settlement […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s trade agenda faced another major setback Thursday when the U.S. Court of International Trade handed a win to two small businesses and the state of Washington after they challenged the president’s 10% global tariffs, imposed after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down his previous emergency tariff regime. In a 2-1 […]
Advocates and opponents of abortion access say they’re wondering what happens next in a critical telehealth medication case that created chaos and confusion over the past week after an appeals court blocked nationwide access to the drug and, days later, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a temporary stay. Alito’s stay preserves telehealth access […]
A bill intended to connect Missourians in need with community resources passed the Missouri House Thursday, setting up a final vote in the state Senate that would send it to Gov. Mike Kehoe. The bill, sponsored by Republican state Sen. Jill Carter of Granby, would direct the Missouri Department of Social Services to set up […]
After years of protests and a hard-won court battle, anti-nuclear activists in Kansas City will get a chance this week to tell the federal government why they oppose a plan to ramp up production of plutonium pits — the bowling-ball-sized cores of nuclear weapons. The National Nuclear Security Administration, a division of the Department of […]
WASHINGTON — Attorneys for the Trump administration argued before a federal appeals court Thursday the Pentagon should be able to reprimand Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly for reminding members of the military they can refuse illegal orders, and for criticizing the Defense Department. Lawyers from the Justice Department told the three-judge panel that even though […]
WASHINGTON — The federal student loan system is set to see a dramatic overhaul beginning this summer, and critics warn it likely will make loans more expensive and difficult to obtain for borrowers — driving them to private lenders or altering their plans for higher education. Among the major changes are new loan limits for […]
Charlotte Cravins’ son Landry turned 2 in January. He’s a smiley little boy who loves singing “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and recently got his first pair of glasses. Landry was born with Down syndrome and has impaired vision. He receives publicly funded therapies that have helped him learn to crawl, to pull himself up to stand, […]
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