In 1957, after a riot at the Missouri State Penitentiary left four men dead and 50 wounded, state lawmakers created a bipartisan committee to keep watch over the prison system. The 12 members of the Joint Committee on Correctional Institutions and Problems had two important duties — inspect every prison at least twice a year […]
When the allegation came to light in 2018 that then-Gov. Eric Greitens had abused a woman, Missouri Republicans forced him out of office. They conducted an investigation. They documented the awfulness in a report. Even Josh Hawley, our Attorney General at the time, called for the governor to resign. Greitens nevertheless ran for the U.S. […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday night issued sweeping pardons for nearly all Jan. 6 defendants, erasing accountability for those who violently tried to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election results on that date in 2021. Behind the desk of the Oval Office, Trump told reporters he signed a pardon for nearly 1,500 […]
WASHINGTON — Just hours into his second term, President Donald Trump signed some of his first executive orders as an arena crowd of thousands cheered a U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and a mandate for federal workers to return to the office full-time. Trump scrawled his signature on nearly 10 portfolio-bound documents at a […]
WASHINGTON — On the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency, the U.S. Senate Monday passed a bill that would require the expansion of mass detention for immigrants charged or arrested for property crimes. In a 64-35 vote, 12 Democrats joined Republicans to send the bill, S. 5, known as the Laken Riley Act, back to the House […]
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office for the second time Monday during an inauguration ceremony inside the U.S. Capitol rotunda. The swearing-in marked the culmination of a four-year journey for Trump, whom many Republicans distanced themselves from following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, but nonetheless supported during his third […]
WASHINGTON — Hours before his four-year term ended, President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons early Monday to several officials and lawmakers who have been the target of incoming President-elect Donald Trump’s threats of retaliation as well as several members of his family. Biden pardoned retired Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, members and staff of […]
MEMPHIS — At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis one September day, tourists pause solemnly before a group of life-size statues, some crafted in Tennessee National Guard uniforms, others with red and white signs draped around their necks that proclaim, “I Am a Man.” The visitors are of all ages. […]
Today is a day of reckoning. Today, resurgent white supremacy takes the oath of office on a day meant to commemorate a Black man who, 61 years before, stood at the other end of the National Mall and dreamt of Black liberation. The stark contrast of today forcefully reminds us that Martin Luther King Jr. […]
Christian summer camp Kanakuk Ministries and its insurer are not liable after allegedly concealing knowledge of sexual misconduct at its camp, a judge in Christian County Circuit Court ruled Friday. The case was brought by Logan Yandell, a survivor of sexual abuse by Kanakuk Ministries’ former camp director Pete Newman. Yandell alleged the camp’s CEO […]
Removing radioactive waste from the West Lake Landfill will cost nearly $400 million after federal officials discovered the contamination was far more widespread than previously known, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday. In a press release, EPA officials announced they had significantly expanded the portions of the suburban St. Louis landfill that will require […]
While it won’t drop off electricity to substations in Kansas, the Grain Belt Express transmission line will bring savings and improve reliability for residents, developers of the project said Thursday. Representatives from Invenergy, the Chicago-based company developing the Grain Belt Express, appeared before committees of the Kansas Senate and House to answer questions about the […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Friday that he would commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. Biden — who has just three days left in the Oval Office — has granted a sweeping number of pardons and commutations throughout his term. With Friday’s total, he has now issued more individual pardons […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden released a statement Friday saying he believes the Equal Rights Amendment should be added as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution, despite a statement from the archivist of the United States that it cannot. Biden’s three-paragraph announcement did not explain why he waited until the last few days of his […]
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday he will move his inauguration inside the U.S. Capitol building, instead of holding it on the terrace overlooking the National Mall, citing weather forecasts for frigid temperatures. The inauguration was scheduled to begin around 11:30 a.m. Eastern on Monday, but it wasn’t immediately clear if that would change […]
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday he will sign an executive order as soon as he takes office that would delay a law that banned the popular social media app TikTok unless its parent company sells it. “I’m asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark!” Trump said on his TruthSocial account. “ I […]
WASHINGTON — As President-Elect Donald Trump is set to be sworn in for a second term next week, immigration advocates said Thursday they are prepared to combat the incoming president’s campaign promise of enacting mass deportations of undocumented people. Additionally, those immigration advocacy groups are ready for an onslaught of executive orders and a return […]
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Treasury secretary appeared on track for Senate confirmation after a wide-ranging hearing Thursday that included substantial debate on tax policy and how tariffs would affect everyday Americans. Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager whom Trump announced as his pick in November, repeatedly deferred to the incoming president’s policies during […]
Missouri cannabis consultant John Payne appeared on 329 social-equity license applications last year as the designated contact — the person who handles all communications with state regulators. Amanda Kilroe, an attorney with the Michigan-based group CannaZoned, was listed on another 94. Arizona-based cannabis investor Michael Halow is associated with at least a dozen designated contacts […]
The day he was sworn in as speaker of the Missouri House, Jon Patterson declared that defining fetal viability could be a difficult task. A surgeon serving his fourth term in the legislature, Patterson said despite the vagueness of the medical phrase, the decision by voters to overturn Missouri’s abortion ban means lawmakers have no […]
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