The Trump administration has tapped conservative groups to lead an initiative promoting civics education (Getty Images). WASHINGTON — A slew of conservative groups will lead a new coalition to spur civics education and push the subject in a more patriotic direction, the U.S. Education Department announced last month, raising alarms for some traditional civics and…
Alyssa O’Brien, a mitigation specialist at the federal defender office in the Western District of Missouri, speaks on Oct. 7 at the University of Missouri about Lance Shockley, pictured in the background. (Steph Quinn/Missouri Independent.) A man who has insisted upon his innocence in the 2005 murder of a Missouri highway patrolman is scheduled to…
Robert Thornton received personalized hospital care for COVID-19 and pneumonia in his Belvidere, Ill., home in 2024 as part of a Medicare in-home care program that expired Oct. 1 (Photo courtesy of OSF Healthcare). The federal government shutdown is forcing a reckoning for two remote health care programs because they automatically expired Oct. 1. The…
The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City, as pictured September 26, 2023 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). Politics is not getting any gentler in one of Missouri’s most contentious state House districts, where two St. Charles County Republicans are locked in a battle that features criminal charges, accusations of lying and civil lawsuits. Max Calfo, who lost…
President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Oct. 9, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday he’s prepared to cancel funding approved by Congress that he believes is going toward programs supported by Democrats, though he didn’t share any additional…
(Photo by simpson33 via iStock / Getty Images Plus) A Missouri company is taking an Iowa health care provider to court, accusing it of trying to poach dying hospice patients. National Hospice Management Inc., or NHP, is suing Moments Hospice of Davenport in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. NHP provides hospice…
The Missouri Supreme Court Building in Jefferson City (Jason Hancock/Missouri Independent). German chemical giant Bayer must pay a $600 million Missouri court judgment that found its herbicide Roundup causes cancer, a ruling the company says could hasten a decision to stop making the popular product. The Missouri Supreme Court on Sept. 30 refused to hear…
The U.S. Capitol, pictured on Oct. 8, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate failed to advance Wednesday night a resolution designed to curb the president’s power regarding military actions abroad after the Trump administration ordered four strikes on boats in the Caribbean. The resolution failed to advance 48-51. Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff of…
School buses wait in 2021 outside Thomas Hart Benton Elementary School in Columbia (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). The first charter school in Columbia could become a reality in the near future depending on the outcome of a review Thursday by the Missouri Charter Public School Commission. Job Point, a long-established career training and employment center in…
An Alaska Airlines jet lands at Newark Liberty International Airport. (Photo by Dana DiFilippo/New Jersey Monitor) The Federal Aviation Administration reported no travel delays due to staffing levels at U.S. air traffic control facilities Wednesday, following a day of some delays related to above-average absences at a handful of facilities. An FAA operational plan posted about…
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