The Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment executive director Connie Brooks cuts a ceremonial ribbon with the center’s founders Bill and Nancy Thompson to open a new building in Columbia on Friday. State officials, such as former governor Mike Parson, joined in the celebration (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). The University of Missouri Health Care’s Thompson Center…
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). A Jackson County judge on Friday denied Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s attempt to immediately stop Kansas City-based CBD American Shaman and several affiliated companies from selling kratom products. The…
Evergy and one of its contractors, SageView Advisory Group, will settle a class-action lawsuit for $2.6 million after the court gives final approval. The lawsuit was filed last year about the company’s failure to remove underperforming funds from the company’s 401(k) retirement plan. (Photo by Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — Evergy and one of its…
Shipping cranes stand above container ships loaded with shipping containers at the Port of Los Angeles on Feb. 20, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. The U.S. Court of International Trade on May 7, 2026, handed a win to small businesses that challenged the president’s blanket Section 122 tariffs. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) WASHINGTON —…
Mifepristone, one of two drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to terminate a pregnancy before 10 weeks’ gestation, can be dispensed without an in-person visit to a healthcare provider under FDA regulations. Whether that provision will remain is the subject of a battle that may play out before the U.S. Supreme Court…
State Sen. Jill Carter, a Granby Republican, sponsored a bill that would create a program to improve access to communication services for Missourians who are deaf, deaf-blind or hard of hearing (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). A bill intended to connect Missourians in need with community resources passed the Missouri House Thursday, setting up a final vote…
Ann Suellentrop, vice chair of PeaceWorks Kansas City, with other protesters outside the Kansas City National Security Campus at 14520 Botts Road in south Kansas City (photo submitted). After years of protests and a hard-won court battle, anti-nuclear activists in Kansas City will get a chance this week to tell the federal government why they…
Rep. Brian Seitz, a Branson Republican, speaks during House debate on Feb. 11 (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). The “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” remains Missouri Republicans’ signature piece of abortion legislation this year as they work to fast-track it to passage before the legislative session ends next week. A state Senate bill passed late Wednesday…
Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson, a Memphis Democrat, speaks to a crowd of protesters on May 5, 2026, the first day of a special legislative session called by Republican Gov. Bill Lee to redraw Tennessee’s congressional districts. (Photo by Cassandra Stephenson/Tennessee Lookout) The day after the U.S. Supreme Court crippled the federal Voting Rights Act,…
Firefighters leave after extinguishing a 2017 house fire in the Bronx borough of New York City that killed at least a dozen people. Behind such emergency calls are first responders facing repeated exposure to trauma, long hours and mounting pressure — factors experts say can take a toll on their mental health. (Photo by Amir…
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