At the rape crisis center where I was trained in Chicago, we didn't refer to the criminal justice system. We called it the criminal legal system: because justice, while aspirational, is rarely achieve...

For pregnant women living north of Interstate 70 in central Missouri, there weren't many places to deliver a baby. Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall was one of them.

Sorry, not sorry to wake you. 2.3 million U.S. adults purchase prescription medications from outside the U.S. in a year. New customs requirements could disrupt....

WASHINGTON -- The House Freedom Caucus is poised to look very different next year, with several stalwarts of the hard-line conservative bloc moving on.

State residents express anger at Republicans who allowed chaotic voting maps saga to unfold ahead of the midterms

Your president is a Russian asset, and you’re complicit, cowardly, and spineless. He was going to let the American military blow a man’s brains out...

As an elected official, you are insubordinate, incompetent, feckless. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial: "Members of Congress have a constitutional duty to act ...

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A retired Springfield attorney criticizes Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway for her handling of the Republican-drawn redistricting maps.

Councilwoman Hazley explains why Prop A’s 2025 congressional map splits Kansas City along Troost Avenue and undermines fair representation — she urges a No vote.

Democrats and Republicans are in a race to the bottom—and the worst consequences will extend far beyond next month’s midterms.

State residents express anger at Republicans who allowed chaotic voting maps saga to unfold ahead of the midterms

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That’s all I need to know about you in a nutshell.

ALT: Human Chess Game on a Live Board

Alt: Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory spraying air freshener, “Whew, someone cut the cheese.”

Diligent news consumers might have noticed a story recently about a MAGA Missouri senator who humiliated himself before the nation by spinning a slanderous and easily debunked lie against a prosecutor...

In late August, Texas and Florida became the latest states to limit the use of Flock cameras, an artificial intelligence-powered network of automated traffic surveillance devices, in response to growi...

WASHINGTON -- The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding his colleagues across the aisle apologize to former special counsel Jack Smith after Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt...

Pete Hegseth calls it a “no-brainer.” On December 3, the Pentagon plans to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, scheduled for the same weekday and hour as his 2009 a...

The case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”

What the history books call the coup could happen in the next 27 months. This is what they’re preparing for.

Last month, the U.S. Department of Education posted an image to Facebook styled like an old woodcut print, with President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon above the words MEGA and "M...

Know your rights and options if you're sexual harassed at school, including reporting, supportive measures, and Title IX protections.

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Alt: Mighty Mouse: Here I Come to Save the Day!

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Every year, October 15 is recognized as Pregnancy Loss Awareness Day—a day to honor the grief of families who have experienced the loss of a pregnancy or young child. This year, we are marking that da...

For more than 35 years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has surveyed American high school students every two years about their health and behavior.

Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife, Tammy Faye, built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all in a sex scandal and financial crimes, has d...

One fact became clear at our press conference with Epstein Survivors: this election is about more than just Donald Trump.

Kalshi, Polymarket and the Coalition for Prediction Markets have spent at least $3 million this year on lobbying and campaign contributions across the federal and state levels, according to a new repo...

A court battle that began when conservative-led states sued to block protections for transgender people has ended in a rollback of protections for people with disabilities — a result disability advoca...

Last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) claimed during an interview on Fox Business that opposition to data centers is a “Chinese psyop.” Johnson said, “I really believe that.

Rape culture in our society is a moral injury

Alt: Sopranos: “Sharp as a fucking Cue Ball”

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Why the hell haven’t you talked the president out of taking his sledgehammer to home- and community-based care for people living with disabilities??? Sure, you....

Nearly 100 community-based organizations have lost their federal HIV-prevention grants this week as the Trump administration redirects dollars to state and local health departments. The funding change...