The emails started showing up on Aug. 1 into the inboxes of Missouri Department of Revenue officials, signaling growing outrage from GOP officials over what they were seeing on social media. A transgender woman in Ellisville was using the women’s locker room at a private gym, and legislators wanted to know how she got a […]
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Lucas Kunce closed out his campaign with four days of television ads costing $366,000 while incumbent Republican Josh Hawley is making his final argument with $325,000 of ads during Monday night’s Kansas City Chiefs game. Kunce and Hawley are the only candidates in a statewide election who have been airing broadcast […]
A lot is riding on the outcome of this presidential election. Ultimately, it will also determine how Americans will feel about their democracy — how well it works or doesn’t work when its fundamental precept, the right and act of voting, is tested. What has occurred presents many opportunities to teach, to learn, to improve, […]
Federal officials are increasing air monitoring around a southeast Missouri lithium-ion battery plant that caught fire, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday. In a statement Friday, the EPA said it was conducting round-the-clock air monitoring for volatile organic compounds, hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide, lower explosive limit and particulate matter following the fire at […]
WASHINGTON — As the last weekend before Tuesday’s presidential election approaches, voters who want more insight on where the candidates stand on major policy issues can get up to speed through a States Newsroom Washington Bureau series. In these 10 articles, States Newsroom reported on the policy positions taken by Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris […]
As Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remain locked in a tight race according to public polling, both campaigns projected confidence Thursday. With the election just five days away, the Democratic and GOP presidential candidates are making their final pitches to voters and zooming in on swing states — with neither showing […]
Buckets of brown sink water, overflowing roach traps and photographs of clogged bathtubs lined the entrance to the leasing office at Quality Hill Towers. At their most recent rally, tenants brought their frustrations straight to management’s door. George Pacheco carried two-gallon jugs of murky water from his apartment. “I gave my daughter a glass of […]
Missouri Democrats have been slowly chipping away at the GOP legislative supermajority in recent years, culminating in 2022 when the party grew its caucus in the House to its highest total in a decade. Heading into Tuesday’s election, Republicans hold a 111-52 advantage in the House and 24-10 majority in the Senate. Whether or not […]
In the only one-on-one debate of Missouri’s 2024 U.S. Senate campaign, Republican incumbent Josh Hawley sparred with Democratic challenger Lucas Kunce over abortion rights, border security and whether the 2020 presidential election was legitimate. The abortion issue provoked some of the sharpest exchanges about 20 minutes into the debate. Hawley said he would not vote […]
Three Republican Missouri state senators — including one running for secretary of state — are once again being sued by the man they incorrectly identified in social media posts as being the shooter at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory celebration. Denton Loudermill of Olathe, Kansas, filed lawsuits Thursday against state Sens. Denny Hoskins […]
Americans are worried about the effect of artificial intelligence on the election, as polls show, but the public probably doesn’t understand the full extent of its influence on what they experience every day, an academic studying the technology says. There have been obvious examples of AI-generated misinformation, like false audio of President Joe Biden, a fake video […]
LIBERTY — Over her 25 years living in a quiet suburban mobile home park, Kristi Peterman got to know the neighbors directly next door and a few across the street. But since she and her neighbors collectively purchased the sprawling park outside of Kansas City from its longtime owner in 2021, she’s gotten to know […]
Kamala Harris won’t be campaigning in Missouri in the final stages of her too-close-to-call presidential campaign against Donald Trump. But if the Show-Me State is ever going to regain the bellwether status it once had in presidential races, it may be because of candidates like Adrian Plank. Plank, who has spent the better part of […]
Residents of a southeast Missouri town were forced to evacuate their homes Wednesday when a fire erupted at a nearby battery recycler. Madison County 911 posted on Facebook around 2 p.m. on behalf of the county sheriff’s office telling residents north and west of Fredericktown to leave the area. “If you can see or smell […]
A group associated with conservative activist Leonard Leo donated $1 million on Tuesday to a campaign opposing Missouri’s abortion-rights amendment. The Concord Fund, an advocacy organization funded by groups connected to Leo, stepped into the fight over Amendment 3 with a $1 million check to a PAC called Vote No on 3, according to filings […]
WASHINGTON — With less than a week before the polls close on Nov. 5, the U.S. Justice Department Wednesday reiterated its efforts to protect voters’ access to the ballot box through its civil rights, national security and criminal divisions. “Protecting the right to vote, prosecuting election crimes, and securing our elections are all essential to […]
In May, a CBS News reporter asked the Illinois Department of Agriculture if there were bird flu-positive dairy herds in Kane County, only to be told the department “doesn’t have any role in this testing” and was directed to the state’s health department. But an internal email from Connie Austin, the public health department’s veterinarian […]
A law enforcement investigation of the circumstances surrounding a television reporter being hit by a bullet fragment at a campaign photo op for Democrat Lucas Kunce earlier this month has determined there was “no malice, nor ill intent” by anyone involved. The case was also reviewed by the local prosecutor, who decided no charges would […]
Don’t call it early voting. It is “no excuse absentee” voting. Whatever the name, it is clearly popular in Missouri. As of late-morning Tuesday, more than 100,000 St. Louis County voters had cast ballots. That is nearly 20% of the total vote recorded in the county in the 2020 presidential race. Across the Missouri River […]
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump repeated his hard-line immigration position in an hourlong appearance from his Florida country club Tuesday, even as Democrats highlight the racist rhetoric his campaign and allies have used to describe Latinos in the closing week of the presidential race. Speaking at Mar-a-Lago, the former president made passing references to the […]
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