A recovery room at the Planned Parenthood Great Plains office is pictured on June 21, 2024, in Overland Park, Kansas (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent). Abortion will remain available at Planned Parenthood clinics in Missouri, the Western District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, rejecting a request by the attorney general’s office to reinstate several restrictions on the…
St. John’s Lutheran Church in Madison, Wis., is being converted into a 10-story high-rise that will combine a worship space with more than 100 affordable apartments. Lawmakers see the potential for much-needed housing on church-owned land, but opponents worry local communities could lose their authority over neighborhood development. (Video screenshot courtesy of St. John’s Lutheran…
(Getty Images). U.S. Senators have launched an inquiry into companies paid billions in taxpayer dollars to build eligibility systems for Medicaid, expressing concern that error-riddled technology and looming work requirements “will cause Americans to lose Medicaid coverage to this bureaucratic maze.” The letters, dated Oct. 10, were sent to four companies and follow a KFF…
In a 2024 AMA survey, 94% of physicians said insurance pre-approvals, often called prior authorizations, delay treatment and 29% said it led to serious adverse events such as hospitalization or permanent disability (Getty Images). In January 2026, proposed health insurance marketplace premiums in Missouri are among the steepest since about 2018, with some Kansas City–area…
Relatives and friends of hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal embrace as they learn the news of his release on Oct. 13, 2025, in Ra’anana, Israel. The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has brought an end to the two years of war that followed the attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. A condition of the deal was the…
A WIC child participant takes a WIC-approved product off the shelf in a grocery store in Seattle in September 2024 (Photo by U.S. Department of Agriculture). WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is infusing $300 million into a key federal nutrition program to keep it running through October, while a government shutdown continues without…
An aerial view shows an automated license plate reader mounted on a pole in San Francisco. California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have restricted the use of data from such camera systems. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Lawmakers in at least 16 states this year introduced bills to regulate the use…
Opponents of the death penalty protest in 2023 outside the Missouri Supreme Court building against the execution of Amber McLaughlin, the last person in Missouri to have been executed after being sentenced to death by a judge (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). A man sentenced to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday who has insisted upon his…
Marines assigned to the U.S. Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon congratulate newly promoted Gunnery Sgt. Nathan Cox, platoon sergeant, during a field event at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, on Sept. 4, 2025. (Photo by Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Brynn Bouchard/Department of Defense) WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to send paychecks to active duty…
Protesters rally outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on Feb. 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Friday it had begun mass layoffs of federal employees, a step not taken during previous…
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