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A House investigatory committee has expanded its membership for a special session to determine whether to impeach Gov. Eric Greitens. House Speaker Todd Richardson has added three members to what had been a seven-person panel consisting mostly of attorneys and ...

Judge Aaron Persky says he has no regrets. The Northern California judge says he would handle the sexual assault case of former Stanford University student Brock Turner the same way today as he did almost two years ago, though it’s ...

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri on Saturday defended her vote against President Donald Trump’s pick for CIA director, although she said the specific reasons were classified. McCaskill was one of the few Democrats facing a difficult re-election this fall ...

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge to Virginia’s decades-old ban on uranium mining. The state has had a ban on uranium mining since 1982, soon after the discovery of a massive uranium deposit in the state’s Pittsylvania ...

Ameren Missouri plans to build a 400-megawatt wind farm in rural northeast Missouri, creating enough power to serve 120,000 homes within two years, the company said Monday. St. Louis-based Ameren said its High Prairie Wind Farm near Kirksville will be ...

A Missouri prosecutor said Friday that he won’t be filing any charges against Gov. Eric Greitens for the way his campaign reported the receipt of a charity donor list used for political fundraising. The decision by Cole County Prosecutor Mark ...

It’s a good news-bad news situation for small businesses when interest rates rise. The Federal Reserve says that the economy is doing well, so it has raised its key rates recently and is expected to do so again in the ...

The Trump administration will resurrect a Reagan-era rule that would ban federally funded family planning clinics from discussing abortion with women, or sharing space with abortion providers. The Department of Health and Human Services will announce its proposal Friday, a ...

A glut of legal marijuana has driven Oregon pot prices to rock-bottom levels, prompting some nervous growers to start pivoting to another type of cannabis to make ends meet — one that doesn’t come with a high. Applications for state ...

A new poll finds that half of Americans approve of legal sports betting. The Fairleigh Dickinson University poll conducted shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for states to legalize sports betting found that 50 percent of Americans ...

Supporters of the nation’s strictest abortion law are hoping a lawsuit filed against the Iowa measure will bring the issue back before the U.S. Supreme Court, however constitutional experts say that’s unlikely because of a legal maneuver by abortion-rights groups. ...