3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1421+ words) Secretary of State Denny Hoskins speaks with reporters in the Missouri Supreme Court Building on Thursday (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent).The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday found Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt for directing local election officials to…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (513+ words) Aside from the latest revisions to the data center ordinance, a number of amendments passed and were discussed during the Perryville board of aldermen’s September 1 meeting. Police Chief Dustin Miller approached the board with a suggestion to update the city’s…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (685+ words) All 47 members of the U.S. Senate Democratic Caucus, 199 current House Democrats and 15 former House Republicans signed the friend-of-the-court brief opposing President Donald Trump’s policy to add several requirements to mail ballots. The U.S. Constitution “is unambiguous” in empowering states to run…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1256+ words) Had Clark not acted, Kavanaugh’s denial would have left the state court order in place and Missouri on course to use the 2022 map for the November election. The dueling orders created immediate confusion, with Attorney General Catherine Hanaway issuing a…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1724+ words) But as the Trump administration has stripped those humanitarian protections for nearly a million people, the Salvadoran national is uncertain if his own legal status will remain in place next week. “I’m going day by day,” Palma, who lives in…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (431+ words) The Republican attorneys general of Florida and Texas filed a lawsuit against the FDA last December seeking to permanently revoke the agency’s initial approval of mifepristone from 2000, along with subsequent decisions over the years that eased access for patients. Florida…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (796+ words) In an opinion from the conservative super-majority, the justices wrote that historic preservationists who sued to stop the project likely do not have standing and that the administration would be irreparably harmed by halting the construction. National security officials, including…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (495+ words) The 14-day order published Aug. 27 was not appealable, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani wrote in a brief order Monday. But even if the order could be appealed, the administration would lose on the merits, Talwani wrote. “It is likely that the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (390+ words) The one-page order from Chief Justice John Roberts allows the justices more time to consider the legal arguments as to whether the president can continue with construction. The National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, a nonprofit Congress…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1713+ words) The high court in its 2026 term delivered blows to Trump’s core campaign promises to upend a constitutional provision governing who becomes a U.S. citizen at birth and to swiftly address the growing national debt with “trillions of dollars” raised by taxing…...