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Federal ruling on Missouri gerrymandered redistricting plan to come in early December
The Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in St. Louis, home of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Missouri (Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent). ST. LOUIS — A federal judge promised Tuesday that he would decide whether or not to block a referendum on Missouri’s gerrymandered redistricting map before petitions to force a vote…
Missouri House votes to bar some lawfully present immigrants from food aid
State Rep. Jamie Gragg speaks in the Missouri House this week (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). Missouri House Republicans voted Thursday to advance a bill prohibiting thousands of legally present immigrants from receiving federal food assistance, restricting what recipients can buy with those benefits and excluding most refugees and asylees from Medicaid. Much of the measure,…
Gas prices rise again as some states consider tax holidays
A driver pumps gas at a Royal Farms in Columbia, Md., as rising fuel costs put pressure on household budgets nationwide. The national average price per gallon of regular gas is now $3.96, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. (Photos by Amanda Watford/Stateline) Gas prices are climbing again across the United States — with…
University of Missouri president says he cut student groups’ funding ‘to protect the institution’
University of Missouri President Mun Y. Choi gave his State of the University Address in March 2022 (photo courtesy of the University of Missouri). UM System President Mun Choi said he was responsible for the university’s funding cuts to several multicultural student organizations, citing concerns over Department of Justice investigations into other universities in a…
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…
Lawmakers press for Epstein files briefing, as Dems release photos of his private island
Robin Galbraith, 61, of Maryland, and Donna Powell, 67, of Washington, D.C., held signs outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, ahead of a U.S. House vote on releasing the Epstein files. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is pressing Attorney General Pam Bondi for a…