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When Kelli Knapp went to vote during the Aug. 4 primary, she was surprised to find a long line of people waiting outside Hawthorn Hill Elementary School in Lee’s Summit. Her husband, who was ahead of her in line, texted her after about 20 minutes of waiting that the poll workers had run out of […]

WASHINGTON — For years, Jose Palma has advocated for immigrants with Temporary Protected Status who hail from countries deemed too unstable for return. But as the Trump administration has stripped those humanitarian protections for nearly a million people, the Salvadoran national is uncertain if his own legal status will remain in place next week.  “I’m […]

Cuts to the nation’s largest food assistance program will likely spill over into schools, causing students to lose access to free breakfast and lunch. More than 1 million American children have lost access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, following a recent federal law. Now, as schools gear up for a new term, […]

President Donald Trump has announced a temporary plan to suspend tariffs on up to 300,000 metric tons of imported ground beef over 90 days. The administration hopes the additional imports will increase supply and bring down record-high beef prices. For families facing record-high beef prices, any meaningful relief at the grocery store would be welcome. […]

Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s chief litigator on Sunday accused the state Supreme Court of adopting “a legal fiction” when it ruled that putting the state’s new congressional map to a referendum means Missouri must use its previous district lines in November. In a federal court filing, Solicitor General Lou Capozzi asked U.S. Chief Judge Stephen […]

Labor union membership continues to climb in the United States, though the increase remains sharply divided by the politics of individual states. Last year, the nation added more than 411,000 union members — the largest annual growth since 2008, according to a study published just ahead of the Labor Day holiday by the Illinois Economic […]

Attorney General Catherine Hanaway opened her response to Thursday’s Missouri Supreme Court decision with a quote from Benjamin Franklin “A republic, if you can keep it.” Things went downhill from there. Hanaway declared Missouri to be in a “full-fledged constitutional crisis,” accused the court of disenfranchising every voter in the state and promised an immediate […]

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will consider Louisiana’s arguments for tightening federal policy around a common abortion and miscarriage drug this week. The primary target of Louisiana v. Food and Drug Administration and similar lawsuits against mifepristone is to end a Biden-era policy allowing abortion pills to be prescribed without an in-person visit […]

The U.S. Supreme Court appeal filed late Friday by Missouri Republicans could be the surprise plot twist that results in a GOP triumph or an epilogue to a saga of a goal that stayed tantalizingly out of reach. In the filing, Republicans surrendered on the question of whether Missourians will see a referendum on the […]

Economists, policymakers and journalists have been puzzling over why so many workers between 25 and 54 have been leaving the labor force over the past two years. An Ohio data analyst has identified one cause that could be a warning sign for the overall economy. About 720,000 Americans seemingly stopped looking for work between May […]

In Minnesota, an elementary schooler has gone without surgery to treat a rare, life-threatening neck infection that isn’t responding to antibiotics. Another young child can’t use their hearing aids because the family ran out of batteries and hasn’t come to get replacements. Yet another child’s cochlear implant surgery was delayed by several months.  These patients’ […]

State leaders are breathing a sigh of relief that the Trump administration’s threats to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency have subsided.  But experts say there’s still confusion about President Donald Trump’s decisions to approve or deny disaster declarations, leaving states with uncertainty about whether they can expect federal recovery funds. “The foundation (at FEMA) […]

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 […]