Fifty years after a St. Louis gospel singer says she was told that her daughter died at birth, and months after the 76-year-old woman learned that her daughter was still alive, a judge is being asked to restore the birth ...
Read More »Media groups get involved in author’s lawsuit in Montana
A pending lawsuit by “Into the Wild” author Jon Krakauer will be the nation’s first test following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2012 Obamacare ruling of whether state education officials can use the threat of lost federal funding to justify refusing public ...
Read More »NY court: Targeted killings memos can be kept secret
The U.S. government can keep secret various memos related to its legal justification for using drones to kill citizens suspected of terrorism overseas, a federal appeals court said in a decision unsealed Monday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reached its ...
Read More »$160B deal to combine Pfizer and Allergan raises outcry
A $160 billion deal announced Monday to merge Pfizer and Allergan and create the world’s biggest drug company renewed the outcry in Washington over “inversions,” in which U.S. corporations combine with companies overseas to lower their tax bill. The combination ...
Read More »Auditor finds Sunshine Law violations in closed meetings
The most common Sunshine Law violations in Missouri include closed-session discussions on issues that should be open to the public, according to a report released Monday by state Auditor Nicole Galloway. In 25 of 187 audits conducted between January 2014 ...
Read More »Pfizer, Allergan $160B deal forms world’s largest drugmaker
Pfizer and Allergan are joining in the biggest buyout of the year, a $160 billion stock deal that will create the world’s largest drugmaker. It’s also the largest so-called inversion, where an American corporation combines with a company headquartered in ...
Read More »A year after grand jury announcement, Ferguson sees progress
A year has passed since parts of Ferguson burned in the rage that followed a grand jury’s decision not to prosecute the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown. In that time, signs of hope have emerged. Some of the ...
Read More »Opponent of Japanese-Americans’ WWII treatment to be honored
Relatives of a civil rights attorney being honored posthumously this week with a Presidential Medal of Freedom for challenging the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II are alarmed by recent opposition to Syrian refugees resettling in the U.S. ...
Read More »Minneapolis protest leader shakes up civil rights politics
As days of protests unfolded following last weekend’s shooting death of a black man by Minneapolis police, one prominent leader was a woman who had already been shaking up racial politics in the city. Nekima Levy-Pounds, 39, who led a ...
Read More »Nixon, 5 past governors discuss economic development
All six of Missouri’s living governors gathered Friday to tout their administrations’ economic development accomplishments and discuss the importance of building trade relationships with foreign countries. Gov. Jay Nixon said it was the first time he had and past Govs. ...
Read More »Mizzou facing image crisis after racial issues, upheaval
With changes afoot, the University of Missouri is facing an image crisis after days of protests over concerns about the administration’s handling of racial issues and subsequent leadership resignations. Upset and embarrassed, confused graduates are calling the alumni association to ...
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