A rendering for a starter home being constructed is on display during a groundbreaking ceremony in Plain City, Utah, in 2024. High prices and low availability of starter homes is increasingly driving young would-be buyers out of the market (Katie McKellar/Utah News Dispatch). Young homebuyers have been priced out of the market even more than…
A store displays a sign accepting Electronic Benefits Transfer, or EBT, cards for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program purchases for groceries on Oct. 30 in New York City (Spencer Platt/Getty Images). President Donald Trump backtracked Tuesday on a pledge by his administration in court filings to partially fund November food assistance during the government shutdown, posting…
Volunteers with the Capital Area Food Bank distribute items to furloughed federal workers in partnership with No Limits Outreach Ministries in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Oct. 28 (Ashley Murray/States Newsroom). This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate Tuesday failed for the 14th time to advance a stopgap spending bill to fund the government,…
French wine on display in a District of Columbia shop on March 13. The Supreme Court will hear a case on Nov. 5, 2025 challenging President Donald Trump’s tariffs and one of the plaintiffs is a wine importer (Ashley Murray/States Newsroom). WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear one of the first major cases…
Boeing Defense workers on strike rally on Oct. 1 at the IAM Union Hall in Hazelwood (Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent). Boeing’s decision to use replacement workers to complete fighter jet projects in St. Louis has once again put the company at odds with members of the U.S. Senate. Three months after union workers walked off the…
A father holds his son’s hand during the Disability Pride Parade in New York City. Advocates fear changes made, or proposed, by the Trump administration will strip away crucial federal oversight and deny vulnerable children the educational services they’re guaranteed under law (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images). In its quest to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education,…
WASHINGTON — A panel of District of Columbia Court of Appeals judges Monday heard oral arguments from the Trump administration defending the president’s move to end asylum claims at the southern border through an executive order. Civil rights and immigration advocacy groups sought to make permanent a District of Columbia District Court’s July injunction that…
Protesters gather in the Missouri Capitol rotunda Sept. 10 in opposition to a gerrymandered congressional district map (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). A hearing that was to be the first of at least three this month deciding the fate of Missouri’s newly gerrymandered congressional map was postponed Monday due to a judge’s illness. Cole County Circuit Judge…
A sign in a convenience store along Barlowe Road in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, advertises that it accepts SNAP benefits. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom) This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will pay about half of November benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP,…
When we completely understand biology, said Dr. Roy Jensen, vice chancellor and director of the University of Kansas Cancer Center, we will understand cancer. “They’re so intertwined,” he said. “Life is cancer and cancer is life” (Suzanne King/The Beacon). Every year, the University of Kansas Cancer Center must file a report with the National Cancer…
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