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Lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of Missouri attorney general’s new powers

2 months 1 week ago
A bill signed Thursday by Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe generated a lawsuit Friday challenging its constitutionality even as Attorney General Andrew Bailey wasted no time using new powers granted in the law. The bill changes the deadlines and procedure for challenging the ballot language of measures placed before voters by the General Assembly or by […]
Rudi Keller

Lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of Missouri attorney general’s new powers

2 months 1 week ago
A bill signed Thursday by Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe generated a lawsuit Friday challenging its constitutionality even as Attorney General Andrew Bailey wasted no time using new powers granted in the law. The bill changes the deadlines and procedure for challenging the ballot language of measures placed before voters by the General Assembly or by […]
Rudi Keller

Tech-related tariffs remain uncertain, but prepare for cost hikes, experts say

2 months 1 week ago
The price of technology goods and services in the U.S. will likely rise in the next few months, experts say, as the White House continues to shift its strategy on tariffs for imported electronic hardware. After initial reports that Chinese goods would receive as high as a 145% tariff, President Donald Trump said on April 13 […]
Paige Gross

A lagging broadband program faces more delays as Trump plans changes

2 months 1 week ago
The Trump administration is extending the deadline for states to submit their final proposals for a federal broadband program, further delaying an effort that’s still largely in the planning phase after more than three years. States will have an additional 90 days to submit their final plans for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program, […]
Madyson Fitzgerald

A lagging broadband program faces more delays as Trump plans changes

2 months 1 week ago
The Trump administration is extending the deadline for states to submit their final proposals for a federal broadband program, further delaying an effort that’s still largely in the planning phase after more than three years. States will have an additional 90 days to submit their final plans for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program, […]
Madyson Fitzgerald

Missouri’s Ed Martin ghostwrote attacks on a judge and still became a top Trump prosecutor

2 months 1 week ago
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.  The attacks on Judge John Barberis in the fall of 2016 appeared on his personal Facebook page. They impugned his ethics, criticized a recent ruling and branded him as a “politician” with the “LOWEST rating for a judge in Illinois.” Barberis, a state […]
Jeremy Kohler, Andy Kroll

Missouri’s Ed Martin ghostwrote attacks on a judge and still became a top Trump prosecutor

2 months 1 week ago
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.  The attacks on Judge John Barberis in the fall of 2016 appeared on his personal Facebook page. They impugned his ethics, criticized a recent ruling and branded him as a “politician” with the “LOWEST rating for a judge in Illinois.” Barberis, a state […]
Jeremy Kohler, Andy Kroll

Kansas City must be clear-eyed about spending taxpayer money to build stadiums for billionaires

2 months 1 week ago
Should a city’s love of beloved sports franchises outweigh their financial considerations? Long time Missouri sports reporter, Vahe Gregorian, wrote a moving and nostalgic piece in The Kansas City Star about the Royals, their cherished place in our collective identity, and their desire to build a baseball park downtown. The emotional pull is undeniable. As […]
Patrick Tuohey

Kansas City must be clear-eyed about spending taxpayer money to build stadiums for billionaires

2 months 1 week ago
Should a city’s love of beloved sports franchises outweigh their financial considerations? Long time Missouri sports reporter, Vahe Gregorian, wrote a moving and nostalgic piece in The Kansas City Star about the Royals, their cherished place in our collective identity, and their desire to build a baseball park downtown. The emotional pull is undeniable. As […]
Patrick Tuohey

Trump administration faces suit over withheld family planning funds

2 months 1 week ago
WASHINGTON — The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday challenging the Trump administration’s decision to withhold Title X family planning grants. The 35-page filing alleges the Department of Health and Human Services, which administers the reproductive health program with funding approved by […]
Jennifer Shutt

Missouri governor drops education board pick after criticism from senator, right-wing groups

2 months 1 week ago
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe withdrew the nomination of Tom Prater to the State Board of Education on Thursday after concerns circulated from a national advocacy group and a state senator. Prater, a Springfield eye surgeon who donated $21,000 to Kehoe’s political action committee last year, was appointed in an interim capacity following the retirement of […]
Annelise Hanshaw

Missouri governor drops education board pick after criticism from senator, right-wing groups

2 months 1 week ago
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe withdrew the nomination of Tom Prater to the State Board of Education on Thursday after concerns circulated from a national advocacy group and a state senator. Prater, a Springfield eye surgeon who donated $21,000 to Kehoe’s political action committee last year, was appointed in an interim capacity following the retirement of […]
Annelise Hanshaw

Trump signs education orders, including overhaul of college accreditations

2 months 1 week ago
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a series of education-focused orders Wednesday related to accreditation in higher education, school discipline policies, historically Black colleges and universities, artificial intelligence in education and workforce development. The executive orders are the latest in a slew of efforts from Trump to dramatically reshape the federal role in education. Last […]
Shauneen Miranda

Trump signs education orders, including overhaul of college accreditations

2 months 1 week ago
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a series of education-focused orders Wednesday related to accreditation in higher education, school discipline policies, historically Black colleges and universities, artificial intelligence in education and workforce development. The executive orders are the latest in a slew of efforts from Trump to dramatically reshape the federal role in education. Last […]
Shauneen Miranda

Tax policy, Medicaid funding cuts could scuttle Republicans’ ‘big, beautiful bill’

2 months 1 week ago
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress have a difficult few months ahead of them as they look to broker agreement within their exceptionally narrow majority on policy issues that have already begun to divide centrists from far-right members of the party. The negotiations will be the first test of the sort for Speaker Mike Johnson and […]
Jennifer Shutt, Ashley Murray

Tax policy, Medicaid funding cuts could scuttle Republicans’ ‘big, beautiful bill’

2 months 1 week ago
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress have a difficult few months ahead of them as they look to broker agreement within their exceptionally narrow majority on policy issues that have already begun to divide centrists from far-right members of the party. The negotiations will be the first test of the sort for Speaker Mike Johnson and […]
Jennifer Shutt, Ashley Murray

International students in Missouri sue Trump administration over revoked status

2 months 1 week ago
Five international college students in Missouri have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the termination of their student registrations by the Department of Homeland Security — a revocation that essentially threatens their ability to legally remain in the United States. The students believe that prior nonviolent incidents might have triggered DHS to revoke their records in […]
Mary Sanchez

Questions of discrimination raised over Missouri bill focused on campus groups

2 months 1 week ago
Disagreement over two competing versions of legislation designed to “protect ideological perspectives” in college campus-based organizations surfaced during a Senate committee hearing Wednesday. Both bills were created to prohibit public institutions taking “adverse action” against belief-based organizations. As defined in the bills text, belief-based organizations are, “any political or ideological student association or any religious […]
Hannah Taylor

Questions of discrimination raised over Missouri bill focused on campus groups

2 months 1 week ago
Disagreement over two competing versions of legislation designed to “protect ideological perspectives” in college campus-based organizations surfaced during a Senate committee hearing Wednesday. Both bills were created to prohibit public institutions taking “adverse action” against belief-based organizations. As defined in the bills text, belief-based organizations are, “any political or ideological student association or any religious […]
Hannah Taylor