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A new effort to force states to affirm the Trump administration’s views on DEI, transgender athletes and immigration when signing contracts with the U.S. Forest Service is threatening millions of dollars in wildfire grant funding and fire reduction projects on federal lands. Some liberal states can’t sign the documents because the policies clash with state […]

Massachusetts and Rhode Island are considering dropping GLP-1 drugs for obesity treatment from their Medicaid programs, continuing a trend of states that have stopped coverage of these expensive medications.  Thirteen state Medicaid programs are covering GLP-1 drugs for the treatment of obesity this year, down from 16 last year.  Medicaid programs in California, New Hampshire, […]

President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to capitalize on a U.S. Supreme Court decision weakening the federal Voting Rights Act as he urged one governor to gerrymander his state and praised another for suspending an approaching primary. The court’s decision on Wednesday struck down Louisiana’s congressional map as unconstitutional and empowered other Republican states to break […]

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley has opened a new front in the fight over medication abortion, pushing legislation to revoke federal approval of mifepristone, urging the Justice Department to investigate its manufacturer and helping launch a national political group aimed at reshaping abortion debates after a string of losses on the ballot. The push has made […]

The Missouri House voted down a bill Thursday that would have expanded the rights of parents in their child’s school or doctor’s office. The bill faced robust debate Tuesday, which ended with the House signaling its approval with a vocal vote. However, the bill was unable to cross the threshold of votes needed Thursday for […]

When Missouri voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2022, the constitutional amendment they approved carried forward a limit meant to prevent any single company from controlling too much of the market. But one key phrase from the state’s medical marijuana law was gone. The constitution’s medical marijuana provision barred the state from issuing more than five […]

A Missouri appeals court on Thursday rewrote the ballot summary for a proposed referendum on the state’s newly gerrymandered congressional map, ruling Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ description still included unsupported claims about the map approved by lawmakers last year. The Western District Court of Appeals reversed part of a Cole County ruling and certified […]

The Missouri House gave final approval to a bill creating a state-run appellate body to oversee decisions made by the Missouri State High School Activities Association, passing the measure in a 92-39 vote Thursday despite criticism that it was an example of “government overreach.” The legislation calls for a five-member board appointed by the governor […]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a bill Thursday that will fund almost every agency in the Department of Homeland Security for the next five months, ending the shutdown that began in mid-February.  The House approved the bill, which doesn’t include additional spending on Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Border Patrol, on a voice […]

WASHINGTON — Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus raised serious concerns Thursday about the impact of a recent Department of Justice decision that will make it easier to deport hundreds of thousands of people brought into the country unlawfully as children, referred to as Dreamers.  Texas Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro said the April 24 decision from the Department […]

The U.S. House approved, 224-200, a five-year farm bill Thursday as members of Congress attempt to update major agriculture and nutrition policy after three years of extensions. The bill would authorize subsidy and nutrition assistance programs through fiscal 2031. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated an earlier version of the bill would not meaningfully affect discretionary federal […]

WASHINGTON — State officials say they need more information from the Trump administration before they can fully implement new requirements for Medicaid, according to a survey released Thursday by KFF and the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law made several changes to the state-federal health program for lower income people and […]

After facing costly heating bills this winter, consumers shouldn’t expect relief for the summer months, according to new projections for household utility costs.  The National Energy Assistance Directors Association projects the average electricity cost to cool homes between June and September will reach $778 this summer. That’s a $61 — or 8.5% — increase from […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans adopted their budget resolution Wednesday night, clearing the way for the party to pass a bill in the coming weeks that will provide tens of billions in additional funding for immigration enforcement.  The 215-211 party-line vote unlocks the complicated budget reconciliation process that will allow the GOP to fund Immigration and […]

The Missouri General Assembly passed a sweeping public safety bill Wednesday that Democrats say would correct errors in legislation signed by Gov. Mike Kehoe three weeks ago. The legislation also combines bills aimed at clarifying the state’s sex offender registry law, establishing procedures for court-ordered outpatient treatment of people with severe mental illnesses, allowing lifetime […]

A quarter of immigration arrests since August were labeled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as “collateral,” a type of arrest and detention that’s been challenged in court as an end run around civil rights. Public outrage and lawsuits over the arrests may be tamping down the large-scale sweeps that foster them, but tens of […]

The proposed $1.9 billion Royals ballpark at Crown Center could end up being the fourth-most expensive Major League Baseball stadium so far. At that price, even adjusted for inflation, it would be more than double the cost of Truist Park, which opened in 2017 in Atlanta. It would nearly quadruple the cost of Coors Field, […]

A bill that would establish masked intimidation as a crime was passed by the Missouri Senate Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee on Wednesday morning. The legislation, sponsored by Republican state Rep. David Dolan of Sikeston, would establish the new misdemeanor and outline its punishments. Masked intimation occurs when a person intentionally harasses, intimidates […]

The suspect in the attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night was prepared for a mass casualty event, prosecutors said in a document filed in federal court early Wednesday. Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and three assistants in her office signed a memorandum asking a judge to […]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve was one step closer to the job Wednesday after North Carolina Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis cast the deciding vote to advance Kevin Warsh’s nomination to the full Senate. Lawmakers on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs voted 13-11 along party […]