The Missouri Capitol Building in Jefferson City on May 12 (Jason Hancock/Missouri Independent). A Missouri bill awaiting action from Gov. Mike…

President Donald Trump looks on during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on May 27, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Win…

State Sen. Lincoln Hough, a Republican from Springfield, speaks on the Senate’s budget proposal on April 22 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). The…

Plumes of smoke rise following an explosion on March 5, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Democrats in the U.S. Senate on May…

WASHINGTON — Following a dismissal of criminal charges the Trump administration lodged against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the wrongly deported Maryland resident…

The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday heard a case questioning whether Gov. Mike Kehoe had the authority to call lawmakers into…

Connor Champion, president of Austin Christian University in Texas, addresses students at the school. Some of the nation’s biggest megachurches are…

In this 2023 photo, a Honduran migrant is overcome with emotion as he describes the extortion and threats that he says…

Vice President JD Vance, center, arrives at a roundtable anti-fraud meeting with Republican attorneys general in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building…

A campaign called Stop the Ban is focused on defeating a proposed amendment that would again ban nearly all abortions in…

A classroom at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in South Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps/Utah…

A protester listened to U.S. Rep. Analilia Mejia, D-N.J., at a rally on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, as…

An anti-abortion group last month sued seven Utah fertility clinics, including Utah Fertility Center, claiming their disposal of embryos as part…

State Rep. Tim Taylor of Bunceton, chairman of the Missouri House Special Interim Committee on Property Tax Reform, listens during testimony…

Eric Schmitt answers questions during a press conference after filing to run in the Missouri Senate primaries on Feb. 22, 2022…

Amare Thomas #0 of the Houston Cougars gives a stiff arm to Tamarcus Cooley #0 of the Louisiana State Tigers in…

A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland challenges a portion of the incoming federal student…

A work crew fills potholes on Perring Parkway in Baltimore. Crews filled at least 32,000 potholes from late February through mid-March,…

A bill sponsored by state Sen. David Gregory, a Chesterfield Republican, seeks to protect schools with a new type of guard…

Pregnant patients experiencing miscarriage who live in states with abortion bans have fewer options for healthcare management, according to a new…