Catherine Hanaway

Twelve states lead by Republicans are defending President Donald Trump's executive order on mail ballots from legal challenges mounted by Democrats.

Young people are at risk for kratom abuse, said PreventED’s Jenny Armbruster. Missouri’s attorney general called the kratom compound 7-OH “deadly.”

The machines have been a flashpoint in Missouri public policy circles for years.

Cole County Judge Brian Stumpe ruled that the plaintiffs in the case did not have standing to file suit.

Missouri voters enshrined the right to an abortion in 2024, but several abortion restrictions remain state law. A Jackson County judge temporarily blocked those laws, and Planned Parenthood is now seeking to permanently strike those laws to ease abortion access.