Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed a measure Thursday that would have made Missouri the 26th right-to-work state, and it’s unclear whether proponents will be able to muster enough support in the Republican-led Legislature to override the veto. The governor, a ...
Read More »Missouri officials want I-70 to become innovation lab
Facing limited funding and a cross-state highway in need of vast improvement, officials from the Missouri Department of Transportation announced a crowdsourcing approach Wednesday to get ideas on how to make a 200-mile stretch of Interstate 70 a high-tech “highway ...
Read More »Judge grants new trial in death of intern Chandra Levy
A judge on Thursday formally granted a retrial for the man convicted of killing Chandra Levy, the Washington intern whose case became a national sensation after she was romantically linked to a married congressman. D.C. Superior Court Judge Gerald Fisher ...
Read More »Jury hears openings in New Jersey ‘gay conversion’ trial
A nonprofit that promised to turn gays heterosexual instead offered “junk science” and lies, an attorney for four young men told jurors Wednesday during opening statements in a fraud trial involving so-called gay conversion therapy. But an attorney for the ...
Read More »Texas inmate, 67, executed for slayings 31 years ago
A 67-year-old man convicted of killing four men more than three decades ago was executed Wednesday, making him the oldest of the 526 Texas prisoners put to death since the state resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. Lester Bower ...
Read More »Analysis: NSA bill barely touches the agency’s vast powers
The surveillance law enacted this week stands as the most significant curb on the government’s investigative authorities since the 1970s. But it’s practically inconsequential in the universe of the National Security Agency’s vast digital spying operations, a technical overhaul of ...
Read More »Why World Cup sponsors aren’t bailing out
How much scandal is too much scandal? With billions of dollars at stake and few other ways to tap into the global love of soccer, FIFA sponsors like Adidas, Coke and McDonald’s are likely to hang onto their marketing deals ...
Read More »After so many hints, Jeb Bush is in the race for president
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will run for president in 2016, according to several senior aides, who confirmed Thursday that the Republican would formally announce his widely expected decision in Miami later this month. As the son of one president ...
Read More »Grants aim to help inmates find work before leaving jail
The federal government is trying to help inmates improve their job prospects before getting released from local jails, through a $10 million program announced Thursday. The Department of Labor already administers a grant program designed to help ex-inmates find work, ...
Read More »Two North Carolina brothers pardoned
Two brothers, one of whom spent three decades on death row, were pardoned Thursday in the 1983 rape and killing of a girl, clearing the way for them to receive $750,000 in compensation from the state of North Carolina. Gov. ...
Read More »McConnell’s role in surveillance bill bewilders his friends
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, generally seen as a master congressional deal-maker, walked into a legislative dead end on domestic surveillance that left some of his friends bewildered. The Kentucky Republican had repeatedly insisted on continuing the government’s bulk collection ...
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