Aimee Epley is a kindergarten teacher at Hillsboro Primary School (photo submitted). Summertime may almost be over, but for teachers like Audra Day, the work has been nonstop. Day is a kindergarten teacher at Hillsboro Primary School during the academic year, but has spent her break as a summer school teacher and mentor while also…
President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it during an indoor inauguration parade at the Capital One Arena on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned a lower court’s ruling that had required the Trump administration to spend foreign…
Ryan Kaji, center, attends the Ryan’s World Meet & Greet during the 10th Annual Bentonville Film Festival on June 14, 2024, in Bentonville, Ark. Ryan’s World is largely credited as being the first kidfluencer channel on YouTube. Some state legislators are pushing to protect child influencers (Derek White/Getty Images for Bentonville Film Festival). A couple…
Federal agents detain an individual as he exits immigration court in New York City in July. Immigrants released at the border are being targeted for arrest when they show up for court hearings (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images). Inside immigration courts around the country, immigrants who crossed the border illegally and were caught and released are…
GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs (Anna Spoerre/The Missouri Independent). The Kansas City Chiefs donated $25,000 on Tuesday to a political action committee supporting Republican candidates for the Missouri House. The donation, the first major contribution the team made in Missouri this year, comes roughly two months after the legislature…
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…
A member of the National Guard arrives at the Guard’s headquarters at the D.C. Armory on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump announced he is placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under federal control, and will deploy the National Guard to the District to assist in crime prevention in the nation’s…
Missouri Commissioner of Education Karla Eslinger reacts to a presentation on a plan to rework the Missouri Schools for the Severely Disabled during a State Board of Education meeting in May (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). Twelve state schools serving students with disabilities will close next year as part of a plan approved Tuesday afternoon by the…
The Missouri Supreme Court building in Jefferson City (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to take up Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s request to reinstate restrictions on abortion in the state, ordering him to turn to a state appeals court instead. Bailey was hoping the state’s highest court would block a temporary…
E.J. Antoni of the Heritage Foundation testifies before a U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Oct. 24, 2023 (Screenshot from C-SPAN). WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump nominated conservative economist E.J. Antoni to fill the top spot at the Bureau of Labor Statistics after abruptly firing the previous statistician following a disappointing jobs report earlier this month….
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