Missouri Republican officials filed a last-chance appeal late Friday night to get the U.S. Supreme Court to allow this year’s congressional elections to be held in districts gerrymandered in 2025. The application to Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who oversees the Eighth Judicial Circuit, was filed just before midnight Friday. No immediate action was taken. The application […]
President Donald Trump’s executive order placing new restrictions on mail-in voting would assign state officials a Herculean task to reach compliance before the crucial midterm elections. The order directed the U.S. Postal Service to strictly regulate the envelope design of mail-in ballots and to collect voter data from each state through an online portal, among […]
Three states this year have enacted laws that require or allow schools to use mobile, wearable, wireless or silent panic alarms to quickly summon emergency responders. The new laws in Illinois, Virginia and West Virginia bring the number of states with such laws to 13, with 10 of them acting since 2023. Another dozen states […]
Women on parole report higher rates of housing instability, poor health and serious mental health and substance use disorders than men on parole and women who weren’t on parole, according to a new analysis from the nonpartisan think tank Council on Criminal Justice. For people leaving prison, parole is a period of transition that can […]
Missouri educators voiced concerns Thursday that the state is rushing to roll out an “A” through “F” report card system for public schools without fully considering its provisions. In the second of four feedback sessions the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is holding to meet with stakeholders about the proposal, public school leaders peppered […]
An effort to restrict the legislature’s ability to rewrite laws and constitutional amendments approved by voters through the initiative process will be on the Nov. 3 ballot, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled Thursday. In a unanimous decision overturning Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green, the court ruled Secretary of State Denny Hoskins improperly declared the […]
Missourians will vote in November on the gerrymandered congressional map muscled through the Legislature in 2025, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday. The court also ruled the congressional districts used in Missouri’s August primary cannot be used in the Nov. 3 general election. The decision puts a congressional plan before voters for the […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said earlier this year he’d “do anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections” this fall, declining to rule out sending the National Guard or federal law enforcement officers to polling locations throughout the country. Those comments came a few months after Trump casually and briefly mentioned canceling the […]
WASHINGTON — As public opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court flags amid decisions that have roiled the nation, Democrats renewed calls ahead of the midterms to expand the high court, while House Republicans attempted but failed to pass a constitutional amendment this week that proposes to cap the number at nine. Just Monday, the court […]
BOONE, Iowa – Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said this week that a U.S. decision to lower certain tariffs on ground beef imports has highlighted the importance of working to bring more U.S. food production on-shore. While at the Farm Progress Show in Iowa on Tuesday, Rollins announced a U.S. Department of Agriculture data modernization […]
A Republican legislative candidate in Joplin plotted to plant cocaine and Adderall on his primary opponent in an effort to derail her campaign, federal prosecutors allege. Thomas Ross, who won the Republican nomination for Missouri’s 161st House District by only 32 votes, was charged Wednesday with conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. A criminal complaint […]
A federal judge in Maryland Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s second attempt to redefine birthright citizenship. In a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman barred the Trump administration from carrying out the president’s executive order that would deny citizenship to babies born in the United States to parents deemed part of a designated terrorist […]
A steady downpour soaked Midtown on a recent sultry afternoon. Still, customers patiently stood by the CreoleKC food truck parked near 33rd and Main streets, content to wait for the Haitian cuisine “born from the streets of Port-au-Prince.” CreoleKC’s menu includes staples like plantains with pikliz (pickled relish), griot (fried pork), tassot cabrit (goat braised […]
Thomas Ross, the Republican nominee for Missouri’s 161st House District, is being held without bond in the Joplin City Jail after being arrested Wednesday on an “unspecified warrant,” according to the city’s public safety portal. Missouri Republican Party Chairman Peter Kinder called on Ross to “immediately withdraw his candidacy” in a social media statement Wednesday. […]
Whether Missourians will vote on a measure making voter-initiated laws and constitutional amendments harder to change is in the hands of the Missouri Supreme Court. The court on Wednesday heard arguments to overturn the decision of Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, who on Aug. 4 declared the initiative that would be Amendment 6 to be […]
Judges of the Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday repeatedly pressed attorneys defending Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to explain why voters should not see a referendum on congressional redistricting on the November ballot. The case over the gerrymandered congressional redistricting plan forced through by Republicans in a 2025 special session is the final legal battle […]
WASHINGTON— More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant youth remain at risk of losing their legal representation, one month after the Trump administration ended a federal contract with an organization that provided legal services to migrant children, advocates and attorneys said Tuesday. Most of those children who initially had attorneys through funding provided by Congress still have […]
The U.S. Postal Service rushed the development of electronic tools to comply with a Trump administration policy placing new restrictions on mail-in voting, and defied a court order to stop work on the system, according to an explosive whistleblower complaint published Tuesday by Democratic U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal. The unnamed whistleblower predicted the result could […]
A federal judge ruled Monday that New York cannot enforce its landmark “climate Superfund” law, a measure that sought to charge fossil fuel companies $75 billion over 25 years to help the state deal with the costs of climate change. While the legal battle is far from over, the ruling could give pause to lawmakers […]
A children’s Christian residential facility whose director has spent three years urging Missouri lawmakers to allow unlicensed religious organizations to care for foster children in state custody is being sued in federal court by former residents who allege they were subjected to forced labor and sexual abuse. Three lawsuits filed against Show-Me Christian Youth Home […]
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