WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved one step closer to becoming Health and Human Services secretary on Tuesday after a Senate committee favorably reported his nomination to the floor. The Finance Committee’s 14-13 party-line vote doesn’t necessarily guarantee Kennedy will receive Senate confirmation, though it signals he does have the chance despite decades of […]
Over 100 people traveled to the Missouri Capitol Monday to testify against bills that would place additional restrictions on transgender children. Some brought posters to show their opposition to the legislation. Others made more subtle gestures, like crocheting in the colors of the transgender flag. Democratic lawmakers placed blue and pink cups reminiscent of the […]
Torch Electronics and other purveyors of unregulated video slot machines that pay out cash prizes would have up to 18 months to convert to regulated lottery games or shut down under a bill approved Monday in a Missouri House committee. By an 8-5 vote, with several members saying they voted “yes” with reservations, the House […]
WASHINGTON — A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Monday, blocking the Trump administration from implementing a spending freeze on grant and loan programs that was outlined in a memo released last week, but has since been rescinded. Judge Loren L. AliKhan of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia became the […]
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union, along with immigration legal aid groups, Monday filed the first major lawsuit against the Trump administration’s proclamation of an “invasion” at the southern border to justify expelling migrants and preventing them from claiming asylum. “This is an unprecedented power grab that will put countless lives in danger,” Lee […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday punted for one month his plans to impose sweeping tariffs against Mexico and Canada after both countries agreed to act on his demands to curb drug trafficking and illegal immigration into the United States. The pauses came as Trump signed a trio of executive orders over the weekend […]
WASHINGTON — Democratic members of Congress were denied entry Monday to the U.S. Agency for International Development, after billionaire Elon Musk, empowered by President Donald Trump, worked to close the nation’s humanitarian arm. Senators and House members rallied outside the agency’s shuttered headquarters in Washington, D.C., vowing to fight Musk’s actions over the weekend. That […]
A lawsuit over $15 million in state funds, where a Fortune 500 hospital company is seeking to stop a not-for-profit provider from opening a new cancer service in its backyard, went to trial Monday in Jefferson City. Since early December, a temporary restraining order has blocked the Missouri Department of Social Services from delivering money […]
The University of Missouri is facing critical decisions about sports betting in its campus community as the practice approaches legality in Missouri. MU must decide whether to ban betting entirely for its campus community, partner with betting companies or find a middle ground. The university could also push for state regulations to restrict certain types […]
VANDALIA — Tara Carroll gave birth to her daughter in 2022 while serving a 22-year sentence in the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic & Correctional Center. Shortly after she finished laboring in the hospital, the baby was sent home with her husband while she returned to her prison cell. She didn’t leave her bed for a […]
Everything is all Trump, all the time. His overwhelming presence has blotted out the sun. But I still like to keep an eye on the lesser lights. And so, in this consequential moment, I’ve been looking for news on the senior U.S. senator from Missouri. Four years ago, Josh Hawley played a starring role in […]
Nearly two months after a voter-approved constitutional amendment legalizing abortion went into effect, the procedure remains inaccessible in Missouri. On Jan. 31, a Jackson County judge heard arguments over whether to grant an injunction requested by Planned Parenthood that would permit the organization to offer abortion services almost immediately. Last month, Jackson County Judge Jerri […]
WASHINGTON — A federal district judge issued a temporary restraining order on Friday, blocking the Trump administration from moving forward with a proposed spending freeze on grants and loans. Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island wrote in the 13-page ruling the administration’s “actions violate the Constitution and statutes […]
Regulators recently warned officials at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Blue Springs that “deficient practices” at its laboratory, including lax testing procedures and insufficient training, could endanger patients. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services informed hospital officials that they had found the lab to be in “immediate jeopardy,” the most severe level of […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to implement tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China on Saturday, potentially starting off a trade war that would likely lead to price increases on groceries and numerous other products. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a briefing Friday that Trump will place 25% tariffs on goods coming […]
There’s growing evidence that some American demographic groups need more help than others to live longer, healthier lives. American Indians in Western and Midwestern states have the shortest life expectancy as of 2021, 63.6 years. That’s more than 20 years shorter than Asian Americans nationwide, who can expect to live to 84, according to a […]
Missouri courts have expunged more than 140,000 marijuana cases since voters approved the 2022 constitution amendment to legalize recreational cannabis. And the numbers won’t climb much higher than that. Courts were mandated, as part of the amendment, to search their files for eligible marijuana-related charges and then make it as if they never existed on […]
Missouri is at the center of energy production and the debates over how it’s done. Electricity is often made in rural or agrarian areas and then much of it needs to be transported to urban areas or larger population centers. “We’re kind of caught in the crossroads of that with both the benefits and costs […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. senators said Thursday they are investigating the deadly midair collision between a commercial jet carrying 64 people and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Virginia, just outside the District of Columbia. Meanwhile, with no conclusive evidence on the cause of the worst U.S. air […]
WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s opinions about vaccine safety, both past and present, appeared likely to lead at least a few Senate Republicans to vote against his nomination following a second confirmation hearing Thursday. Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician and chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said at the end […]
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