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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review the case of a Missouri death-row inmate who says his rare medical condition could cause him to choke on his own blood during an execution. The justices said they would hear the appeal ...

The U.S. economy slowed to a moderate 2.3 percent annual growth rate in the first quarter as consumer spending turned in the weakest performance in nearly five years. Still, the January-March increase came in better than expected, supporting hopes for ...

U.S. private-sector workers received the biggest pay raise in 11 years in the first three months of the year, a sign that the tight job market is slowly lifting wages. The Labor Department said Friday that its employment-cost index shows ...

Missouri senators on Wednesday adopted a budget proposal that would give more money to public K-12 schools in the upcoming fiscal year, but not as much as recommended by their House colleagues. Senators voted 25-8 in favor of the spending ...

A Missouri judge has ruled that corporations cannot contribute money to political-action committees that they create. The decision by Cole County Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce comes on a constitutional amendment passed by voters in November 2016 that imposed new limits ...

The widow of maverick automaker John DeLorean has alleged in a lawsuit that a Texas company illegally received money from the “Back to the Future” movies that used his iconic car. The sleek, angular car with gull-wing doors known simply ...

Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods rose 2.6 percent in March, but a key category that tracks business investment spending fell for the third month out of the past four. The big rise in orders for durable goods, which followed an ...

Bill Cosby was convicted Thursday of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, completing the spectacular late-life downfall of a comedian who broke racial barriers in Hollywood on his way to TV ...

A lawyer for Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens argued Thursday that Attorney General Josh Hawley should be barred from investigating the governor because of critical comments that he suggested were partly motivated by Hawley’s candidacy for the U.S. Senate. During a ...

The Missouri House is advancing a proposal to ban public contractors from protesting Israel. House lawmakers gave the bill initial approval in a voice vote Tuesday. If enacted, it would prohibit state and local governments from contracting with companies boycotting ...

Kansas City Power & Light is warning customers it is seeing a dramatic increase in the number of scams directed at customers. The electric company said Wednesday that it has tracked 326 attempted utility-collection call scams in the first quarter ...