The clearest path for Democrats to return to the White House runs straight through the upper Midwest, fueling debate over who is best positioned to recapture the region’s working-class voters who broke for President Donald Trump in 2016. Though the ...
Read More »Beyond liberal base, some Democrats pitch to party moderates
As the first wave of Democratic presidential candidates unveil plans for taxing wealth and universal government-provided health care, John Hickenlooper is making a narrower pitch of beer and bipartisanship. The brewpub magnate and former Colorado governor recently swung through the ...
Read More »After bankruptcy, PG&E headed back to court over wildfires
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will be back in a U.S. courtroom a day after declaring bankruptcy, as it tries to convince a judge not to order dramatic steps to try to prevent its equipment from causing more wildfires. U.S. ...
Read More »Parson’s plan for Missouri adult tuition grants questioned
Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s proposal to offer scholarships for adults to study high-demand fields received bipartisan pushback from state senators Tuesday. Members of the Senate Education Committee questioned whether a new scholarship is needed, why the state should pay ...
Read More »‘Catch-up for years’ as backlogged immigration courts open
The nation’s immigration courts were severely backlogged even before the government shutdown. Now it could take years just to deal with the delays caused by the five-week impasse, attorneys say. With the shutdown finally over, the courts reopened Monday morning ...
Read More »5 House freshmen get seats on panel probing Trump’s WH
It’s known as “the theater committee” for its high profile, high-drama role investigating President Donald Trump’s White House. And now, five of the fieriest Democratic freshmen in the House are players on that stage. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Katie Hill, Rashida Tlaib ...
Read More »DOJ’s Whitaker says Russia probe ‘close’ to being completed
The special counsel’s Russia probe is “close to being completed,” the acting attorney general said in the first official sign that the investigation may be wrapping up. Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s comments Monday were a departure for the Justice ...
Read More »Missouri lawmakers look to limit cellphones behind the wheel
Missouri lawmakers have introduced at least six separate proposals since last month to restrict the use of cellphones while driving. Missouri has seen the numbers of cellphone-related traffic crashes increase by 35 percent since 2014. Cellphone use is “one of ...
Read More »Missouri pushes again to end economic border war
Some Missouri lawmakers are pushing legislation that could end a long-running economic border war between their state and Kansas that has prompted both states to spend millions of dollars in the last decade to lure businesses in the Kansas City ...
Read More »Military recruits getting Made-in-the-USA athletic trainers
Thanks to congressional intervention, military recruits are going be outfitted in Made-in-the-USA goods right down to their sneakers used for physical fitness training. New Balance in New England, along with two companies based in Texas and Missouri, is producing Made-in-the-USA ...
Read More »Water park’s attorneys want charges in boy’s death dismissed
The case against defendants charged after a 10-year-old boy was decapitated at a Kansas water park should be dismissed because the Kansas attorney general’s office abused the grand jury system and presented flimsy evidence to obtain criminal indictments, defense attorneys ...
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