A state legislator is proposing that student athletes should lose their scholarships if they go on strike, a response to a threat by University of Missouri football players not to play over criticism of the administration’s handling of campus racial ...
Read More »Auditors: EPA broke law in social media blitz on water rule
The Environmental Protection Agency broke the law in a social media campaign intended to generate public support for a controversial rule to protect small streams and wetlands from development and pollution, congressional auditors said Monday. The EPA’s campaign violated restrictions ...
Read More »US looking at ways to better screen would-be immigrants
The Obama administration is reviewing procedures for vetting would-be immigrants, with an eye toward examining applicants’ online presence, to close security gaps in the U.S. visa system, the White House said Monday. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the Homeland ...
Read More »High court says DirectTV can cut off class action lawsuit
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that satellite provider DirecTV can avoid a class action lawsuit in California over early termination fees and force customers into private arbitration hearings instead. In a 6-3 opinion, the justices said that DirecTV’s contracts can specifically ...
Read More »Agency gets more than 1,000 child sexual behavior complaints
Missouri officials say the state Children’s Division has received more than 1,000 reports of juveniles with sexual behavior problems since late August. According to state Social Services department’s spokeswoman Rebecca L. Woelfel, the division has logged 1,270 reports between Aug. ...
Read More »Supreme Court blocks Alabama court order in adoption case
The United States Supreme Court on Monday sided with a lesbian mother who wants to see her adopted children, blocking, at least temporarily, an Alabama court’s order that declared the adoption invalid. The justices issued an order in a case that ...
Read More »Crunch time again for health law; Tuesday sign-up deadline
Rising premiums and shaken faith among insurers have cast a cloud over sign-up season for President Barack Obama’s health care law, and now it’s crunch time again. Tuesday is the deadline for millions of uninsured procrastinators to sign up in ...
Read More »Missouri bill would prevent abortion for Down syndrome
A Missouri state senator is proposing a bill that would prevent abortions solely because a test indicated the baby has or could develop Down syndrome. The bill, pre-filed by Sen. David Sater, R-Cassville, also would require doctors who perform abortions ...
Read More »Trump’s idea of a Muslim ban has legal experts divided
There’s no legal or historical precedent for closing U.S. borders to the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, but neither is there any Supreme Court case that clearly prevents a president or Congress from doing so. Legal experts are divided over how the ...
Read More »5 months after Chattanooga, feds quiet on any terror links
It took about two days for the FBI to announce it was investigating the Dec. 2 attack that killed 14 in San Bernardino, California, as an act of terror. Nearly five months after the killing of five military personnel in ...
Read More »Missouri agency: Money can’t be used for Civil War monument
Missouri lawmakers have set aside $375,000 to make repairs to a Civil War monument at a Mississippi historic site, but state Department of Natural Resources officials say the money is coming from the wrong fund and can’t be used for ...
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