The next Supreme Court justice will join the bench at a time when the public has more confidence in the high court than in Congress or the presidency. A Gallup survey in June found 37 percent of Americans have a ...
Read More »Interest rates highest in decade at weekly Treasury auction
Interest rates on short-term U.S. Treasury bills rose in Monday’s auction to their highest levels in a decade. The Treasury Department auctioned $48 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 1.945 percent, up from 1.940 percent last week. ...
Read More »Kavanaugh would replace swing vote with conservative voice
President Donald Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh, a solidly conservative, politically connected judge, for the Supreme Court, setting up a ferocious confirmation battle with Democrats as he seeks to shift the nation’s highest court ever further to the right. A favorite ...
Read More »Missouri Democrats face question of abortion stance
Missouri’s Democrats are facing a conversation about their abortion-rights stance after the party recently adopted an amendment aimed at welcoming anti-abortion candidates. The party added an amendment to its platform June 30 stating it welcomes “all Missourians who may hold ...
Read More »Kids as young as 1 in US court, awaiting reunion with family
The 1-year-old boy in a green button-up shirt drank milk from a bottle, played with a small purple ball that lit up when it hit the ground and occasionally asked for “agua.” Then it was the child’s turn for his ...
Read More »Kansas City firm picked for $169M Chicago industrial park
The city of Chicago has announced plans for a $169 million industrial complex on the Southeast Side that it hopes will serve as a Midwest epicenter for transportation and logistics. A Sunday statement from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office says Kansas ...
Read More »In Senate, McConnell doing his part to remake judiciary
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was upbeat the night after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced he was retiring from the Supreme Court. The Kentucky Republican had already led the Senate in confirming more circuit court judges in the first year of ...
Read More »Mountain lions may reappear in Missouri
Mountain lions may be reappearing in Missouri after being declared extinct in the state in the 1920s. Genetic material left behind on a dead elk in Shannon County confirmed the presence of a mountain lion. The material matched a mountain ...
Read More »Starbucks, citing ocean threat, is ditching plastic straws
Starbucks will eliminate plastic straws from all of its locations within two years, citing the environmental threat to oceans. The coffee chain becomes the largest food-and-beverage company to do so as calls to cut waste globally grow louder. While plastic ...
Read More »Gov. Parson expands drug take-back programs in Missouri
Gov. Mike Parson has expanded drug take-back programs in Missouri. The measure was signed into law Friday during a tour of Springfield. It will make it easier to discard unfinished prescriptions year-round by dropping them off at authorized sites such ...
Read More »How the trade war is changing minds in a Senate battleground
Jimmy Tosh’s sprawling hog farm in rural Tennessee is an unlikely battleground in the fight for control of the U.S. Senate. Yet his 15,000 acres two hours west of Nashville showcase the practical risks of President Donald Trump’s trade policies ...
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