Two “no-chance” gambling machines await customers in 2021 at a Columbia convenience store (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). A lawyer for a company hoping to break into Missouri’s gambling market told a state Senate panel Wednesday that unregulated slot machines are siphoning millions from schools and that lawmakers should respond by legalizing video lottery games. Matt Hortenstine,…
A voter drops off a ballot in a drop box at the Salt Lake County Government Center in Salt Lake City on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) Democrats sued over President Donald Trump’s executive order clamping down on mail ballots on Wednesday, signaling the start of…
If approved by voters, the amendment would gradually reduce the top income tax rate as state revenue grows, while giving lawmakers three years to broaden the sales tax base and eliminate exemptions to replace the money now raised by the income tax without another statewide vote (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector). As Missouri Republicans push a constitutional…
A Lawrence Township police vehicle sits near traffic cones in New Jersey. The state had one of the lowest rates of police killings in 2025, at 0.08 per 100,000 people, according to a new report from Campaign Zero, a research group that advocates for the end of police violence. (Photo by New Jersey Monitor) For…
A mail ballot drop box is seen at a polling station on Nov. 4, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that attempts to restrict mail-in voting, a White House priority certain to face significant legal challenges. The order directs the U.S. Department…
U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, a Missouri Republican, is chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (photo submitted). The first Republican primary without an incumbent in 26 years in Missouri’s 6th Congressional District opened Tuesday with a clash over an endorsement that is likely the foreshadowing of a summer-long slugfest between top contenders. The final…
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announces the state’s lawsuit against American Shaman in a press conference outside her office March 31, 2026 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Kansas City-based CBD American Shaman and several affiliated companies, demanding an immediate halt to the company’s advertising and sale of…
Federal agents on patrol in Minneapolis in January. A coalition of 22 states says the Trump administration appears to have violated a court order limiting the types of health data that can be shared with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation proceedings. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer) A coalition of 22 states told a…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, seen at a luncheon following the inauguration of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, wrote the majority opinion in the Colorado “conversion therapy” case. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a conservative Christian counselor who argued that Colorado’s…
A message promoting the 2026 FIFA World Cup is shown after a qualifier match between Belgium and Liechtenstein in November in Liege, Belgium. Staging the planet’s most popular sporting event is never easy, but this year the conflict in the Middle East and the congressional impasse over funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security…
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