File photo of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, which is among the nation’s largest Hispanic-serving institutions. Hispanic-serving institutions and other colleges and universities serving students of color will lose funding under a recent U.S. Education Department decision. (Photo by Hugh Jackson/Nevada Current) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education announced it will withhold $350…
John Diehl during his time in the Missouri House of Representatives (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). John Diehl, a former speaker of the Missouri House who was forced to resign in disgrace in 2015 when it was revealed he’d been sending sexually inappropriate text messages to an intern, pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal wire fraud…
Anthropic Co-Founder & CEO Dario Amodei speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 at Moscone Center on Sept. 20, 2023 in San Francisco. Anthropic is the first major AI company to reach a settlement in multiple lawsuits by authors alleging tech companies used copyrighted material to train their systems. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch)…
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer speaks during a news conference with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal demanding the release of the Epstein files at the U.S. Capitol on July 30, 2025. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday stopped a Democratic amendment to the annual defense authorization bill that would…
Senate Minority Leader Doug Beck, D-Affton, speaks against proposed Senate rule changes Wednesday during the special session for redistricting (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). Just hours after hearing from President Donald Trump during a caucus meeting, Republicans in the Missouri Senate showed they are ready to please him by shoving a new congressional district map to passage…
Assembly mechanic Christy Williams strikes outside of her employer, Boeing aerospace company, in Berkeley, Mo. She joined 3,200 other union members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers who went on strike at midnight on Aug. 4 to get better wages and retirement plans (Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent). The 3,200 Boeing mechanics and workers…
Protesters gather in the Missouri Capitol rotunda in opposition to a proposed congressional district map that passed the House (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). While Republicans continue their push to gerrymander Missouri’s congressional map, opponents are already eyeing a plan to ask voters to overturn it. And looming over the debate are approaching deadlines for Missouri ballots…
U.S. Marshals and Homeland Security Investigations agents take a man into custody at the intersection of 14th and N streets NW in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 3 (Ashley Murray/States Newsroom). WASHINGTON — A siren blared down one of Washington, D.C.’s busiest thoroughfares. And then, a loud noise. Residents in nearby apartment buildings peered through windows…
Secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 24, 2025. (John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout) WASHINGTON — The Trump administration released its strategy to Make America Healthy Again on Tuesday, which officials hope…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday said the Trump administration can temporarily hold on to $4 billion in foreign aid funding approved by Congress, overturning a lower court’s order and continuing a struggle over who controls the nation’s purse strings. …
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