U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies before the House Appropriations Committee’s Defense Subcommittee on June 10, 2025. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate and House Armed Services committees will open bipartisan inquiries into U.S. military strikes on suspected drug-running boats in the Caribbean Sea, with a focus on an alleged follow-on…
Cattle graze at a ranch near Tahlequah, Oklahoma, on March 4, 2024 (Ben Felder/Investigate Midwest). Last month, President Trump directed the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the nation’s largest meatpacking companies for potential collusion and price fixing. “Action must be taken immediately to protect consumers, combat illegal monopolies and ensure these corporations are not…
Unlike states such as New York that have medical boards to review deaths behind bars and mandate policy changes, coroners provide the only guarantee of outside scrutiny when someone dies in a Missouri prison (Juan Bernabeu for The Marshall Project). When Alan Lancaster died in January 2023 at South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri,…
Missouri nonprofits and community health workers who serve undocumented women who are pregnant or postpartum say many clients are skipping doctor’s appointments out of fear of deportation (Getty Images). Oscarina spent the first week of her son’s life moving between his bassinet in the neonatal intensive care unit and her small apartment to care for…
In early November, the South Carolina Department of Public Health opened a pop-up mobile vaccine clinic in a library parking lot in Boiling Springs. Dozens of people in South Carolina’s Upstate region have been diagnosed with measles this fall. (Photo by Lauren Sausser/KFF Health News) This article first appeared on KFF Health News. BOILING SPRINGS,…
With the help of a now-defunded program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Travis Jones and Makeesha Munro spend almost 15 hours a week traveling to various farmers markets and selling their culinary mushrooms to other buyers in Sedalia, Joplin and Springfield (Meg Cunningham/The Beacon). When Makeesha Munro and her partner Travis Jones started their…
A California Highway Patrol officer talks to a driver during a traffic stop in October. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants access to state driver’s license data as it builds a powerful citizenship verification program (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images). The Trump administration wants access to state driver’s license data on millions of U.S. residents as…
A sticker reads, “7:1 is the compromise,” at a rally held Feb. 7, 2022, where several Republican officials urged attendees to continue to push for a 7-1 Congressional map (Tessa Weinberg/Missouri Independent). In American politics, we’re familiar with gerrymandering — when a political party redraws district lines to gain an electoral advantage. But what happens…
The cost of essentials is increasingly out of reach for many Kansas City families as costs outpace wages (Naomi O’Donnell/The Beacon). Chris Meyers is a federal employee who was working without a paycheck during the government shutdown. The former co-owner of Crane Brewing swallowed his pride to buy reduced-priced $6 meals at a local grocery…
Director of Programs for the Missouri State Treasurer’s Office Trent Blair answers questions about the MOScholars program during a trial challenging the constitutionality of Missouri’s funding of school vouchers Monday in the Cole County Courthouse (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). More than 98% of scholarships administered by the MOScholars program this school year are funded by Missouri…
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