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The University of Missouri said it’s eliminating subsidies that help pay health insurance costs for graduate students employed by the school. University officials say the change is due to a recent IRS interpretation of a section of the Affordable Care ...

Two same-sex couples in a small eastern Kentucky county got everything they wanted in a ruling from a federal judge Monday, except for one sentence. U.S. District Judge David Bunning denied Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis’ request to delay his ...

Labor activists vowed not to abandon their fight to organize college sports teams after the National Labor Relations Board blocked a historic bid by Northwestern University football players to become the first in the nation to unionize. It’s not clear, ...

Now that federal investigators have Hillary Rodham Clinton’s homebrew email server, they could examine files on her machine that would be more revelatory than the emails themselves. Clinton last week handed over to the FBI her private server, which she ...

The value of Missouri residences without insurance for earthquakes has almost exceeded the value of those with insurance. An insurance official this past week said insured houses totaled $101 billion in 2014. Properties uninsured for an earthquake of 7-7.9 magnitude ...

A federal appellate court has refused to re-examine its recent order that a Baton Rouge federal judge consider other remedies, short of air conditioning death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Three ailing condemned inmates claim the extreme ...

Short of cash and unsettled in their careers, young Americans are waiting longer than ever to buy their first homes. The typical first-timer now rents for six years before buying a home, up from 2.6 years in the early 1970s, ...

U.S. homebuilders grew slightly more optimistic about the housing market in August, putting their confidence at levels last seen a decade ago during the debt-fueled housing boom. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index released Monday rose ...

The adult ads on Backpage.com are endless — written in a sort of risque code to avoid implying something illegal, yet still obvious invitations for sex, adorned with suggestive photos and videos. Many in the fight against sex trafficking loathe ...

The St. Joseph City Council is considering an ordinance to end some court fees because of concerns that they’re no longer allowed under legislation passed in response to last year’s police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. The newly signed ...

A proposal by the Kansas City Council to boost the minimum wage faces challenges from groups opposed to the measure. The Kansas City Council adopted an ordinance in July to increase the city’s minimum wage to $13 an hour by ...