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US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump order

2 weeks 2 days ago
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday struck down President Donald Trump’s attempt to redefine the constitutional right to birthright citizenship. In the decision, a majority of the justices upheld the country’s long understanding of automatic citizenship by birth on American soil, regardless of the immigration status of a newborn’s parents. The majority opinion, written by […]
Ariana Figueroa

Supreme Court upholds state bans on transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports

2 weeks 2 days ago
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday kept in place state laws banning transgender athletes from participating on women’s and girls’ sports teams. The decision stems from challenges to bans in Idaho and West Virginia and marks a major setback for transgender rights across the country. The opinion also came as President Donald Trump’s administration has pursued a broad anti-trans agenda that […]
Jacob Fischler, Shauneen Miranda

Lawsuits challenge Missouri attorney general crackdown on gambling machines

2 weeks 2 days ago
Two lawsuits filed in Cole County accuse Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway of unlawfully using threats of criminal prosecution to force bars and gas stations to shut down slot machine games. The latest case, filed Friday by an entity founded last year called the Missouri Licensing Advocacy Group based in Osage Beach, argues Hanaway and […]
Rudi Keller

25 Democratic-led states sue Trump administration over Medicaid work requirements

2 weeks 2 days ago
Twenty-five Democratic-led states plus the District of Columbia have sued the Trump administration over its new work requirements for people who get their health insurance through Medicaid. At issue is a “medically frail” designation that the states say is too narrow and will make it too difficult for ill and disabled people to remain on Medicaid. […]
Anna Claire Vollers

Trump’s sharpened focus on investigating elections raises fears of midterm meddling

2 weeks 2 days ago
President Donald Trump was speaking to supporters at a Pennsylvania rally June 23 when he made an extraordinary admission about an election a continent away. Trump and his allies had spent several days in June savaging California over its slow vote counting and baselessly alleging its contests were fraudulent. But now the president divulged that his […]
Jonathan Shorman

Why Trump chose a deal over a wider Iran War, and what it means for Missouri

2 weeks 2 days ago
When President Donald Trump moved from a stance of military confrontation with Iran to seeking a ceasefire and engaging in diplomatic talks, many commentators highlighted the political motives behind this change. Some viewed it as a retreat, whereas others questioned the administration’s genuine intentions. Nonetheless, an even more significant reason might be driving this shift: […]
Mamoun Benmamoun

High court issues split decisions on Trump’s control of executive board members

2 weeks 3 days ago
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump both a win and a loss Monday in allowing his firing of Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, but ruling that he cannot remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s board of governors. The 6-3 decision in Trump’s favor in the Federal Trade Commission case essentially expands […]
Ashley Murray

US Supreme Court says police need warrants for cellphone location data

2 weeks 3 days ago
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that law enforcement searches for the location history of cellphones near crime scenes are covered by the Fourth Amendment, requiring warrants to obtain the data. But the high court left unsettled when searches for the information are reasonable — likely meaning the justices will eventually weigh in again on […]
Jonathan Shorman

Former Oklahoma trooper nominated by Trump to head up ICE

2 weeks 3 days ago
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has nominated a former Oklahoma state trooper to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency tasked with carrying out the president’s mass deportation campaign.  Richard “Lance” Schroyer’s nomination on June 27 comes on the heels of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed the Trump administration to strip legal status […]
Ariana Figueroa

Missouri could be on the hook for $150 million in food benefits due to error rate

2 weeks 3 days ago
Missouri will be required to cover 10% of federal nutrition assistance starting in 2027 — roughly $150 million —  if it doesn’t improve the accuracy of benefit payments to low-income residents, according to data released last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed by Congress last July will […]
Steph Quinn

Police use of artificial intelligence grows as rules lag behind

2 weeks 3 days ago
Hundreds of people fill a downtown street for a protest, waving signs and chanting as they march past businesses and government buildings. Overhead, a police drone records video of the crowd. Nearby traffic cameras and license plate readers capture faces, vehicles and movements along the route. With artificial intelligence, experts say, hours of footage can […]
Amanda Watford

FCC adopts new rules as states transition to Next Generation 911

2 weeks 3 days ago
The Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules designed to improve the reliability of Next Generation 911 systems as states continue replacing decades-old emergency call infrastructure with internet-based networks. The rules require companies that operate critical parts of Next Generation 911 systems, known as NG911, to adopt reliability and redundancy measures intended to reduce service […]
Amanda Watford

What Amendment 5 ad gets wrong about Missouri data centers

2 weeks 3 days ago
There’s a television ad making the rounds for Amendment 5, and it would like you to be angry at a hum. “That hum is the sound of big tech making money from online gambling, from porn,” a narrator says over footage of server racks. Data centers, the ad goes on, are “money machines making millions […]
Jason Hancock

Older Missourians who are homeless for the first time point to weaknesses in support systems

2 weeks 3 days ago
When outreach workers with CoMo Mobile Aid surveyed people experiencing homelessness in Columbia, Missouri, earlier this year, one finding stood out — many were older Missourians experiencing homelessness for the first time. The survey, conducted by CoMo Mobile Aid and a research team at the University of Missouri, found that 59% of those surveyed were […]
Meg Cunningham

Former Trump adviser John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling sensitive documents

2 weeks 6 days ago
John Bolton, a national security adviser to President Donald Trump in his first term, pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge of mishandling classified information, the Department of Justice said in a news release Friday. The plea resolves an 18-count indictment against Bolton, who lives in Bethesda, Maryland. He has agreed to pay a $2.25 […]
Jacob Fischler

College sports bill making headway in US Senate but obstacles remain

2 weeks 6 days ago
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan bill to set national standards for college athletes’ compensation has cleared a major legislative hurdle but still faces roadblocks, including opposition from the largest college sports conferences, to becoming law.  The bill, which supporters say would “restore order in college athletics” after a chaotic few years following an explosion of payments to athletes, […]
Shauneen Miranda

States show their stuff: The Great American State Fair opens in D.C.

2 weeks 6 days ago
WASHINGTON — Visitors from across the United States traveled to the National Mall Thursday for the opening day of the Great American State Fair, a days-long event that is part of President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 celebration of the nation’s semiquincentennial. States and territories showed off cultural and agricultural exports at exhibits stretching nearly a […]
Ashley Murray