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After months of courtship, German drug and farm chemical maker Bayer AG has finally reached an agreement to buy U.S. seed and weedkiller company Monsanto, in a deal that is valued at $66 billion and which will keep the merged ...

A central Missouri prosecutor said Wednesday she’s reviewing all cases her office has handled since 2013 involving items kept in a sheriff’s department evidence room that was found to be frequently improperly secured. Osage County Prosecutor Amanda Grellner said the ...

A Missouri state senator has refused to stand while her colleagues recited the Pledge of Allegiance in the state Capitol. Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, a St. Louis Democrat, says her silent protest Wednesday on the Senate floor was intended to show ...

A judge has denied self-defense claims from one of four men charged in a fatal gunfight at a suburban Kansas City. De’Anthony Wiley, of Kansas City, Missouri, claimed that he was wounded and trying to surrender when Jon Bieker was ...

House conservatives on Tuesday formally introduced a long-shot, election-year resolution to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. Two lawmakers, backed by several of their colleagues, offered the measure under special procedures that put the House on track to vote Thursday on ...

One of the four men charged with first-degree-murder in the killing of a suburban Kansas City gun store owner is arguing that he acted in self-defense. The Kansas City Star reports that De’Anthony Wiley, of Kansas City, Missouri, says he ...

Three witnesses ordered to testify Tuesday before a House committee investigating Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server asserted their constitutional rights against self-incrimination and did not appear or refused to answer questions. Bryan Pagliano, the former State Department ...

The head of a Texas company building the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline told employees Tuesday that it is committed to the project despite strong opposition and a federal order to halt construction near an American Indian reservation in North ...

Hard-hitting novels about fractured families, a fractured Europe and the fractured state of race relations in the United States are among six finalists announced Tuesday for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. Bookies’ favorites to take the $66,000 fiction prize include ...

The last time a Democrat won statewide office in Texas, Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson were newlyweds and “Friends” would soon make “The Rachel” haircut a thing. If you didn’t understand the pop culture references, you couldn’t just Google ...

Donald Trump criticized Hillary Clinton for her characterization that half of his supporters belonged in “a basket of deplorables,” denouncing the comment as “an explicit attack on the American voter” and suggesting that it makes her unfit for the presidency. ...