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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Wednesday signed a bill that brings Missouri’s law on deadly force into compliance with a Supreme Court ruling from more than 30 years ago. Nixon also signed measures that create new sentencing guidelines for minors ...

Donald Trump called Wednesday for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to resign for saying publicly that she feels he is unfit to be president. Lashing out, Trump said the 83-year-old justice’s “mind is shot.” “Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. ...

A federal judge who has been a target of Donald Trump’s unending scorn must decide whether to release videos of the presumed Republican presidential nominee testifying in a lawsuit about the now-defunct Trump University — images that Trump’s attorneys worry ...

A $25 million gift in October helped push fundraising at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus to a record high despite several months of turmoil stemming from the administration’s response — or perceived lack thereof — to racial incidents. The ...

A federal trial for the man charged in the slayings of nine black church members is unlikely to deliver the death penalty and he should be tried in state court first, where there is a better chance for capital punishment, ...

Rising tensions after the deadly ambush of police officers in Dallas and subsequent protests nationwide have led Cleveland and Philadelphia to adjust security plans for the national political conventions this month. Cleveland, where the Republican National Convention is to begin ...

A federal appeals court has rejected Tom Brady’s attempt to get a new hearing on his “Deflategate” suspension. Brady was asking for the full 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to hear the case. In April, a three-judge panel said ...

A search warrant for surveillance video from the store where a black Louisiana man was killed by white police officers a week ago says that officers saw “the butt of a gun” in Alton Sterling’s pocket during the arrest and ...

Kansas election officials must throw out potentially thousands of votes in state and local races from people who’ve registered without providing proof of their U.S. citizenship under a new, temporary rule approved Tuesday by a state board. The State Rules ...

Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to order former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to serve his entire 14-year prison term when he returns to court for resentencing next month, but his attorneys want about nine years lopped off his sentence. ...

Former high-ranking U.S. officials are criticizing an attack ad accusing Republican Missouri attorney general candidate Josh Hawley of working for terrorists. In statements released Monday to The Associated Press from Hawley’s campaign, a former U.S. attorney general and former assistant ...