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Amendment 4 puts rural Missouri at center of fight over ballot power

1 week 4 days ago
Supporters of Amendment 4 say it would give rural Missouri a stronger voice. Antwann Rhodes says it would take one away. Rhodes lives in Waynesville, a Pulaski County town of about 5,600 just outside Fort Leonard Wood, where he settled after retiring from the U.S. Army. He is a Realtor in south-central Missouri and treasurer […]
Jason Hancock

Halal, Arabic and French among the skills Kansas town honed to be good hosts to the Algerians

1 week 4 days ago
LAWRENCE — Bidding for a spot as a host city seemed nearly impossible. Until itĀ wasn’t. The University of Kansas, Explore Lawrence,Ā Rock Chalk Park, and Lawrence city government teamed to argue that Ā their small city could play, or host, on the World Cup Stage. Their bidding preparation startedĀ before Kansas City wasĀ announced as a host city in […]
Emma Noble

15 states sue Trump administration to block school mental health funding cuts

1 week 6 days ago
Fifteen states on Friday sued the Trump administration to prevent millions of dollars in cuts to school-based mental health funding. The new lawsuit is part of an ongoing legal battle between Democratic-led states and the U.S. Department of Education over a mental health grant program that Congress established following the 2018 school shooting at Marjory […]
Anna Claire Vollers

Housing bill becomes law without Trump’s signature

2 weeks ago
President Donald Trump said Friday morning he would not sign federal legislation aimed at lowering the cost of housing, but the bipartisan package became law at 12:01 a.m. Saturday anyway. In a post to his social media site, Trump again said that as a protest against Congress not passing an elections bill known as the SAVE […]
Jacob Fischler

Trump guts election commission in move seen as increasing his sway over midterms

2 weeks ago
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s latest shot in a relentless war on how elections are conducted has triggered enormous concern among voting rights activists. As of Thursday night, the U.S Election Assistance Commission has no members. The White House in an email dismissed Democrats Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland. Republican Christy McCormick resigned, and GOP […]
David Lightman

Missouri homebuilders report dwindling business amid national housing slump

2 weeks ago
The housing industry saw a sharp drop in construction starts nationwide in May, both compared with the previous month and with the same period a year earlier. The broader Midwest region showed resilience, but Missouri builders still reported weaker business activity during this time. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, privately owned housing starts across […]
Misbahul Haque

Food stamp changes will cost states billions, raising fears about SNAP’s future

2 weeks ago
Upcoming funding shifts in the federal food stamp program are poised to cost states billions of dollars, heightening fears that more Americans will lose access to the nation’s largest food assistance program. Last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act made major changes to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, including new eligibility and work […]
Kevin Hardy

Trump administration targeting states’ DHS grants to force voting changes, House Dems say

2 weeks ago
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s guidelines to states on how to request funding under counterterrorism grant programs include potentially illegal demands related to election administration, Democrats on the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee said Thursday. The Department of Homeland Security, which includes FEMA, sent states last month notices of available federal funding for non-disaster grants […]
Jacob Fischler

Smithsonian rejects Trump ā€˜anti-American’ charge, noting nonpartisan history

2 weeks 1 day ago
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s latest attack on the Smithsonian Institution represents an attempt to replace a shared American history with his own ideology, academics said as the Smithsonian defended its longstanding position as a nonpartisan actor. A July 4 White House report accused the Smithsonian Institution and its National Museum of American History of promoting […]
Amelia Twyman

Gun homicides declined in 2024 as firearm suicides hit record high, data shows

2 weeks 1 day ago
Firearm homicides in the United States fell sharply in 2024, but gun suicides reached a record high, according to a new analysis of federal mortality data by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. The report, based on newly released data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that […]
Amanda Watford

A $100 million fund could spell more affordable housing in Kansas City

2 weeks 1 day ago
The math of buying or renting a home in the Kansas City region has gotten increasingly out of hand. Since 2010, home values in the area have risen nearly twice as fast as household incomes, Mid-America Regional Council Director of Economic Research Frank Lenk told the region’s leaders at a May board meeting. On top […]
Thomas White

US Olympian canoeist pleads not guilty to charges of damaging Reflecting Pool

2 weeks 1 day ago
WASHINGTON — The former U.S Olympian charged with damaging a section of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool pleaded not guilty during a brief court hearing Thursday and was released on his own recognizance.  D.C. Superior Court Associate Judge Carmen Guerricagoitia McLean, who is presiding over the felony case against David C. Hearn, scheduled a status […]
Jennifer Shutt

Republicans in Congress struggle with internal squabbles as time runs out on 2026

2 weeks 1 day ago
WASHINGTON — Republicans are campaigning to keep control of Congress for another two years, but their message about being the ā€œgrown-upsā€ in the room keeps getting overshadowed by public feuds that have sidetracked work on major legislation.Ā  After enacting large swaths of their agenda during the last year and a half, GOP lawmakers can’t seem […]
Jennifer Shutt