Commentary: Missouri’s CAFO policy is built to multiply pollution, not prevent it
(Photo by Kent Becker, U.S. Geological Survey) Missouri’s refusal to establish setback spacing requirements between concentrated animal feeding operations, to…
Democrats flip 16 Missouri House seats, ending Republican supermajority
Democrats won 17 seats in the Missouri House on Tuesday, breaking the Republican supermajority (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). The blue…
Missouri Republicans suffer biggest electoral setback in a generation
By a preliminary count, Democrats won 68 of the 163 Missouri House seats, a gain of 16 from 2024 (Getty…
NASA’s Swift telescope has burned up, months after a robot sent to save it failed – here’s why it’s so hard to boost a satellite
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory orbits above Earth in this illustration. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (KBRwyle) NASA’s Neil…
Democrats won Congress. Now they have to figure out how to deal with Trump.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a press conference at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee headquarters on…
‘We’ve got to listen’: Missouri Republicans confront fallout from historic election losses
State Rep. Darin Chappell of Rogersville, right, speaks Wednesday with state Rep. John Simmons of Washington and state Rep-elect Tony…
The police crashed into a bar. St. Louis taxpayers paid $4.2 million for it.
Twenty-two seconds. That’s how long it took a St. Louis police officer to put a bar owner in handcuffs on…
Missouri voters approve constitutional protections for county sheriffs
Sen. Jill Carter, a Republican from Granby, studies the day’s business on the first day of the 2024 legislative session…
As a potential Democratic wave looms, Trump’s DOJ angles for last-minute power over midterms
President Donald Trump rallied with Iowa Republicans at the Five Flags Center in Dubuque on Sunday (Robin Opsahl/Iowa Capital Dispatch).…
Commentary: Art isn’t a luxury. It’s what helped me through my hardest times.
The House Lounge on the third floor of the Missouri Capitol, home of Thomas Hart Benton’s mural “The Social History…
Trump Administration Delays Awards Slated To Improve Rural America’s Health
Federal leaders overseeing a $50 billion rural health fund missed a critical deadline to announce how much they’ll give states…
IVF Patients, Doctors Navigate Fetal Personhood Laws’ Unknowns
In the summer of 2022, Allison Mertzman and her wife, Leanne, asked their fertility clinic to destroy their embryos. The…
Stuck in Shelters for Months, Some Migrant Children Abandon Hopes of Staying in US
One morning this summer, a 9-year-old girl from El Salvador picked through colorful markers at a Houston-area shelter for migrant…