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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has approved a roughly $48 billion state budget while cutting $500 million for tax refunds. Parson signed the budget Thursday. But he also slashed funding that lawmakers had …
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By SUMMER BALLENTINE
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6/30/22
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The Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden administration properly ended a Trump-era policy forcing some U.S. asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico. The justices’ 5-4 decision for the administration …
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By JESSICA GRESKO
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6/30/22
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Amazon is limiting how many emergency contraceptives consumers can buy, joining other retailers who put in place similar caps following the Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade. A company …
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By HALELUYA HADERO
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6/29/22
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A large Missouri hospital chain briefly stopped providing emergency contraception amid confusion over whether the state’s abortion ban could put doctors at risk of criminal charges for providing …
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By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER
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6/29/22
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has signed a law enacting a photo identification requirement for voters in advance of the November election. The photo ID requirement will take effect Aug. 28, meaning it …
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By DAVID A. LIEB
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6/29/22
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Authorities have identified the four people killed when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a dump truck earlier this week in rural Missouri. Two were from Kansas and two were from Missouri. The …
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6/29/22
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An attorney who held key roles in the George W. Bush administration and was a senior investigator for the U.S. House committee probing the Jan. 6 insurrection is running for a Missouri U.S. Senate …
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6/29/22
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The Supreme Court's ruling allowing states to regulate abortion has set off a travel scramble in some parts of the U.S., as abortion providers redirect patients to states that still allow the …
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and LINDSEY TANNER
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6/29/22
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Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are in Missouri trying to determine how an Amtrak train carrying more than 200 people slammed into a dump truck, killing two train …
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By SUMMER BALLENTINE
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6/28/22
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An Amtrak passenger train struck a dump truck Monday at an uncontrolled crossing in a rural area of Missouri killing two people on the train and one in the truck. Others were injured. The crash …
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By The Associated Press
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6/28/22
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A state lawmaker has been convicted in a fraud scheme involving her medical practice in southwest Missouri. Tricia Derges, a Nixa Republican, was convicted Tuesday of 22 federal counts including wire …
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6/28/22
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Kansas City Star. June 24, 2022.
Editorial: After abortion ban, do you think Missouri and Kansas right-wingers will stop there?
The U.S. Supreme Court — untethered to facts, precedent, the …
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By The Associated Press
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6/28/22
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Kansas City Star. June 24, 2022.
Editorial: After abortion ban, do you think Missouri and Kansas right-wingers will stop there?
The U.S. Supreme Court — untethered to facts, precedent, the …
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By The Associated Press
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6/28/22
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An Amtrak train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago derailed in Missouri after colliding with a dump truck. Spokeswoman Kimberly Woods says initial reports are that some people were injured when …
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6/27/22
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Three women killed when an Amtrak commuter train smashed into their car in Northern California were headed to a fundraiser at a vineyard for a Brentwood resident who died less than a week ago. The …
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6/27/22
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The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years — a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. …
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By MARK SHERMAN
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6/24/22
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The Associated Press is making available the full text of the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the nationwide right to abortion. Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the final opinion issued Friday that …
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By The Associated Press
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6/24/22
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Most abortions are now illegal in Missouri following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended a constitutional protection for abortion. A 2019 Missouri law prohibits abortions “except in cases of …
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6/24/22
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The lawyer for the ex-wife of Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens says the family has been subjected to “serious threats” in the days since Greitens released a violent campaign video in …
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By DAVID A. LIEB and JIM SALTER
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6/23/22
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A man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting a woman as she rode an all-terrain vehicle on a south Kansas City street two years ago. The Kansas City Star reports that …
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6/23/22
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