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The results of the Missouri Assessment Program come in four categories: advanced, proficient, basic and below basic. Grade-level equivalence, which is required to be reported in next year’s results, contains scores in the basic and proficient ranges (Getty Images). Students are showing “positive momentum” on state standardized tests, state education officials said Tuesday, though the…
New U.S. law to hold TSA accountable on breast milk and formula policies
The Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Enhancement Act became law on Nov. 25, 2025. The bipartisan legislation aims to strengthen protocols for Transportation Security Administration employees handling breast milk, formula and related items. (Getty Images) After years of advocacy efforts, a bipartisan measure became law last week to make travel easier for parents who encounter…
Shutdown forces Medicare patients off popular telehealth and hospital-at-home programs
Robert Thornton received personalized hospital care for COVID-19 and pneumonia in his Belvidere, Ill., home in 2024 as part of a Medicare in-home care program that expired Oct. 1 (Photo courtesy of OSF Healthcare). The federal government shutdown is forcing a reckoning for two remote health care programs because they automatically expired Oct. 1. The…
Trump and RFK Jr. are making claims about autism. What do medical experts say?
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, President Donald Trump, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Education Secretary Linda McMahon attend an event for a new Make America Healthy Again Commission report in the East Room of the White House on May 22, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) WASHINGTON —…
80 years later, Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech in Missouri still offers lessons
Winston Churchill delivers the lecture he called “The Sinews of Peace,” better remembered as the “Iron Curtain” speech, on March 5, 1946, in the gymnasium at Westminster College in Fulton (Photo courtesy of Westminster College). FULTON — What is leadership? That was the question Fulton Middle School eighth grader Kendall Acton posed Thursday to Winston Churchill…