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On college campuses and in workplaces, across social media and in deference to non-binary people, gender-neutral pronouns are more than just a new wave of political correctness. They’re the focus of debate that stretches back hundreds of years. Early word-coiners ...

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson will no longer block users on his social media accounts as he did when he served as lieutenant governor, according to the new governor’s staff. Parson and former Gov. Eric Greitens were the only Missouri statewide ...

AT&T has completed its $81 billion takeover of Time Warner, one of the biggest media deals ever. A federal judge approved the combination just two days earlier despite objections by the Justice Department that it would hurt consumers. The merger ...

Google barely raised the number of women and under-represented minorities among its ranks, while it got less white and more Asian in the past year, according to the search giant’s fifth annual diversity report. The report released Thursday comes a ...

Thousands of anti-poverty activists have launched a campaign in recent weeks modeled after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. Like the push 50 years ago, advocates are hoping to draw attention to those struggling with deep ...

Kansas City police shot and killed two men who were fighting in a downtown square less than an hour after city officers fatally shot a woman reportedly seen brandishing a sword, raising concerns about police tactics and how the investigations ...

The private attorneys who represented former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ office against potential impeachment proceedings won’t be paid by the state for more than $180,000 of legal bills, a top official decided Thursday. Office of Administration Commissioner Sarah Steelman said ...

One of the country’s premier nuclear-weapons labs now has the capability to disable drones or any other unauthorized unmanned aircraft systems flying over its restricted airspace in a swath of northern New Mexico. Officials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory ...

Missouri’s voter ID law is facing a legal challenge from a national progressive organization alleging it creates undue burdens for voters who lack the required photo identification. The Democratic-aligned Priorities USA filed the lawsuit on behalf of 70-year-old Mildred Gutierrez ...

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he’s not comfortable with a Trump administration policy that separates children and parents at the southern border, as House Republicans, under increasing pressure to address the humanitarian crisis, raced to finish a new immigration ...

Long-term U.S. mortgage rates jumped this week after two straight weeks of declines, reaching their second-highest level this year. Against a backdrop of rising interest rates in the economy, long-term loan rates have been running at their highest levels in ...