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During Lance Shockley’s final moments in Missouri’s execution chamber in October 2025, he wanted his daughter, an ordained minister, by his side as his spiritual adviser.  A few years earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court had expanded religious rights for the condemned, saying spiritual advisers could accompany them into the execution chamber and could touch them […]

Abortion is legal, and we’re providing care in Missouri. As physicians and Missourians, we remain grounded in our work based on what we see in exam rooms every day: people making deeply personal decisions, supported by evidence-based care. Even with a constitutional right in effect for more than a year, restoring care while navigating the […]

Leer en español. An ICE officer fatally shot a 37-year-old woman driving an SUV through her car window in south Minneapolis on Wednesday morning. The deadly confrontation immediately ratcheted up the intensity of what was already a brutal crackdown on Minnesota and its immigrants by the Trump administration — and in a community with raw […]

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday he will meet with Danish officials next week, following a recent push from the Trump administration to annex or even use the military against Greenland — a course of action questioned by several Republican senators. Senators sat through a closed, classified briefing Wednesday with Rubio about […]

Missouri lawmakers returned to work Wednesday to kick off the 2026 legislative session, with Republicans determined to eliminate the state income tax and Democrats vowing to oppose any effort to replace it with increased taxes on sales or services.   Missing from the first day were the partisan fireworks that defined the end of last year’s […]

The questions argued Wednesday at the Missouri Supreme Court involved abstract points of law, but the answers the judges deliver will decide who controls the ballot language voters see and how challenges to state law proceed. Last year, lawmakers revised the process for challenging ballot language and, in the same legislation, gave the attorney general […]

PORTLAND, Ore. — One year into President Donald Trump’s second term, Democratic attorneys general have filed 71 lawsuits against the administration. There’s more to come in 2026. The lawsuits are part of a coordinated legal strategy by Democratic AGs in 22 states and the District of Columbia to resist the ever-widening power of the executive […]

WASHINGTON — Five years after a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, the struggle to define the event and assign blame carried on in events across the city Tuesday that remained nonviolent, though still disturbing. A crowd of no more than a few hundred of President Donald Trump’s supporters commemorated the deadly attack with a […]

Respect for and upholding the rule of law is part of the job requirement of our public officials. They take an oath to do just that. Unfortunately, it seems some of our statewide officials have decided that they simply can declare what the law is and we are all expected to follow. They did not […]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is considering options to acquire Greenland, including possible military operations, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday, renewing a push for the Danish territory that follows the stunning U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro without congressional approval over the weekend. Trump and his top officials have professed a […]

Signatures on only two-thirds of the petition pages submitted to force a statewide vote on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map will go through the verification process, new filings in a Cole County court case show. Secretary of State Denny Hoskins delivered 33,068 pages to local election authorities out of 49,773 pages with signatures collected by a […]

SEADRIFT, Texas — Aboard an aluminum skiff or one of her five kayaks, fourth-generation shrimper and fisherwoman Diane Wilson often plies the coastal bays and streams near her tiny hometown of Seadrift, Texas. But instead of fishing for shrimp, black drum or blue crabs, these days the 77-year-old is an environmental activist looking for “nurdles”— […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. California Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa has died and Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Baird was injured in a car accident, President Donald Trump said Tuesday.  Speaking to a meeting of House Republicans at the Kennedy Center, Trump said he wanted to express “our tremendous sorrow” following LaMalfa’s death and said the congressman was […]

At 11:30 a.m. on the first Monday of the new year, the parking lot of Aging Best in Jefferson City is full, a temporary red canvas sign flapping in the breeze to identify the senior center’s new location since February. People are trickling in for lunch, served every weekday to Missourians 60 and older for […]

Missouri’s largest state employee pension fund can’t recover losses from investments in Ontario-based capital funds, a Cole County judge ruled last month as he closed out a five-year court battle. The Missouri State Employees Retirement System, or MOSERS, spent at least $21 million pursuing the case accusing Catalyst Capital Group Inc. of mismanaging $175 million […]

The deal to lure the Kansas City Chiefs across the state line to Kansas, announced by Gov. Laura Kelly with glee just a few days before Christmas, may represent the largest public subsidy in the history of American professional sports. Is it a wise investment? No, but it follows a recent Kansas trend of abandoning […]

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department will attempt to downgrade Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly’s retirement rank and pay, seeking to punish him for making a video along with other Democrats in Congress, who told members of the military they didn’t need to follow illegal orders.  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth originally threatened to recall Kelly from […]

Nearly $7 million that supports nursing education and research in Missouri is at risk under federal proposals to eliminate key Title VIII workforce programs. The U.S. House Appropriations committee, responsible for regulating government expenditures, proposed in September to eliminate the National Institute of Nursing Research and all Nursing Workforce Development programs, except the Nurse Corps. […]

Dr. Heather Skanes opened Alabama’s first freestanding birth center in 2022 in her hometown of Birmingham. Skanes, an OB-GYN, wanted to improve access to maternal health care in a state that’s long had one of the nation’s highest rates of maternal and infant mortality. Those rates are especially high among Black women and infants. Skanes’ […]

Missouri Republicans played power politics in 2025, crushing Democratic opposition in the Legislature on major issues from abortion to congressional redistricting. The consequences of those moves will be felt this year. Voters in November will ultimately determine if Republicans went too far as they steamrolled measures to passage. Missouri GOP senator slams party leaders for […]