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| Sep 16, 2026 | Divorce becomes next battleground as states debate family values | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Anna Claire Vollers, Stateline.org
Cerina Fairfax, a Virginia dentist and mother of two, spent nearly two years living in the same house as her husband while she was trying to divorce him.
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| Aug 4, 2026 | Missouri Amendment 4: Citizens Must Win Every District, Lawmakers Need None | By Shannon Harwood
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| May 28, 2026 | Kids keep getting stuck in hospitals, even after being cleared for discharge | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Cara Anthony, KFF Health News
Overwhelmed by the demands of caregiving, Quette dialed 911 when she found her teenage son downstairs in their kitchen struggling to breathe.
He had rolled his whee... |
| May 15, 2026 | When the helpers ‘feel helpless’: First responders get a boost in mental health support | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Amanda Watford, Stateline.org
Ty Wooten didn’t realize the weight of answering his first 911 call — until more than a decade later.
A woman had dialed 911 to report that her husband had shot him... |
| Apr 24, 2026 | Nearly 1 in 4 people seeking abortions out of state chose Illinois. Here’s why | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Stateline.org
At Family Planning Associates in Chicago, in the office where staff take phone calls from potential abortion patients, a U.S. map colored in with red and gre... |
| Apr 14, 2026 | 438 Experts Said Age Verification Is Dangerous. Legislators Are Moving Forward With It Anyway. | In early March, 438 security and privacy researchers from 32 countries signed a massive open letter warning that age verification mandates for the internet are technically impossible to get right, easy to circumvent, a serious threat to pri... |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Republican push to increase sales taxes would fall hardest on lower-income residents | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
There’s no doubt that raising sales taxes in order to lower property taxes will shift more of South Dakota’s tax burden to lower-income residents, Republican Senate Ma... |
| Mar 19, 2026 | Trump’s cuts to Medicaid threaten services that help disabled people live at home | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Tony Leys, KFF Health News
OTTUMWA, Iowa — Leisa and Kent Walker recently received a disturbing notice: The private company managing their son’s Medicaid coverage intends to cut nearly 40% of wh... |
| Feb 25, 2026 | More states are requiring insurers to cover non-opioid pain meds | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Nada Hassanein, Stateline.org
More states are requiring their Medicaid programs and health insurance companies to cover non-opioid pain medications as an alternative to opioids, which can be che... |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Congress pushes hemp crackdown after pressure from states, marijuana industry | By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
A provision significantly limiting the sale of intoxicating hemp products made its way into legislation to reopen the federal government just a day before the Senate approved the bill. Its inclusion follows yea... |
| Oct 3, 2025 | “His Audience Was Really Trump”: How New FBI Lead Used His Missouri AG Role To Wage A Culture War | This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.
After a fight with a Black student in a St. Louis suburb left a white student badly injured in March 2024, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bail... |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Deaths prompt state lawmakers to consider new hyperbaric oxygen therapy rules | By Anna Claire Vollers, Stateline.org
Just before 8 a.m. on Jan. 31, an explosion rocked a nondescript one-story office building in an affluent suburb of Detroit. Related Articles
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| Aug 27, 2025 | Extreme heat in prisons brings more legal challenges, pressure on states | The measure passed the House but did not advance in the Senate before the legislature adjourned in June.
In Virginia, lawmakers approved a bill that would have required the state corrections department to install heat and air conditioning i... |
| Aug 12, 2025 | The coming arms race on gerrymandering (Editorial) | That’s not how it works, of course, but whatever.
Democratic governors of California, Illinois and other blue states are now contemplating responding by redrawing their own district lines to give Democrats more seats from their states next ... |
| Aug 11, 2025 | Trump has said abortion is a state issue. His judicial picks could shape it nationally for decades | FILE – President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order relating to clemency for anti-abortion protesters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) ... |
| Aug 6, 2025 | New federal school voucher program poses a quandary for states: Opt in or opt out? | For progressives and education advocates who are wary of school vouchers, the decision is fraught. Opting in could draw criticism for approving what many see as a vehicle for privatization of K-12 education. But opting out could mean turnin... |
| May 4, 2025 | New tax cuts mostly favor the rich across states this year | “It is so egregious in just how grossly concentrated the benefits of the [Missouri] proposal would go to the richest people in the state and shift the state’s tax system to really privilege the owners of wealth over people who are earning a... |
| Apr 23, 2025 | States that enshrined Medicaid expansion in their constitutions could be in a bind | But because Missouri, Oklahoma and South Dakota have put Medicaid expansion in their constitutions, they can’t easily take those steps.
“Legislators cannot change that law without going back to voters for a whole other campaign to change th... |
| Apr 5, 2025 | The Medicaid Tightrope: Balancing Cuts and Care for America's Seniors | In the complex world of healthcare, Medicaid stands as a lifeline for millions. It’s the safety net that catches those who fall through the cracks of Medicare and private insurance. Yet, as political winds shift, this vital program faces th... |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Medicaid cuts could hurt older adults who rely on home care, nursing homes | The additional financial burden could blow billion-dollar holes in state budgets, forcing state lawmakers to slash health benefits or restrict who’s eligible for them. Nearly a fifth of Americans rely on Medicaid, and the percentage is even... |
| Mar 20, 2025 | Encrypted messaging apps promise privacy. Government transparency is often the price | An Associated Press review in all 50 states found accounts on encrypted platforms registered to cellphone numbers for over 1,100 government workers and elected officials.
It’s unclear if Maui officials actually used the app or simply consid... |
| Feb 16, 2025 | Commentary | Opinion: Maya Sen: Why federal courts are unlikely to save democracy from Trump’s and Musk’s attacks | By Maya Sen
State governments, community groups, advocacy nonprofits and regular Americans have filed a large and growing number of federal lawsuits opposing President Donald Trump’s barrage of executive orders and policy statements. Some o... |
| Jan 9, 2025 | Eighth Circuit Upholds Denial Of Immunity To Gov’t Officers Who Fired Staffer For Politely Asking About Masking Protocols | Having lost twice in a row, a handful of Missouri state clerks will now be using taxpayers’ money to pay a former government employee who had the temerity to recommend a mask mandate during the height of the COVID pandemic. (via Short Circu... |
| Dec 10, 2024 | Business | Growth of sports betting may be linked to financial woes, new studies find | “Our results ultimately suggest that gambling legalization does harm consumer financial health,” the report said.
A 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling opened the door for states to authorize sports gambling.
That paper did not assess specific s... |
| Nov 9, 2024 | The Trump Administration's Immigration Strategy: A High-Stakes Game of State and Federal Dynamics | The immigration landscape in the United States is a battleground. The stakes are high, and the players are many. At the center of this conflict is former President Donald Trump, who is poised to re-enter the White House with a controversial... |
| Nov 4, 2024 | National Politics | Trump’s mass deportation plan could rely on state cooperation | “It’s not going to be successful, as long as we have sanctuary cities and states that refuse to allow local and state police departments to work with ICE,” Morgan said in an interview with Stateline.
Over the past year, more than half a doz... |
| Jul 9, 2024 | Health | As bird flu spreads on dairy farms, an ‘abysmal’ few workers are tested | The CDC and USDA have advised dairy farms to monitor for the virus in cattle and humans, but testing remains voluntary, except for herds moving across state lines.
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| Jun 28, 2024 | National Politics | Despite GOP headwinds, citizen-led abortion measures could be on the ballot in 9 states | Two more states, Maryland and New York, have abortion rights ballot measures that were referred by their state legislatures, though New York’s is currently tied up in litigation.
In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled the constitut... |
| May 23, 2024 | National Politics | A comment from Trump and GOP actions in the states put contraceptive access in the 2024 spotlight | Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has said he wants a vote as soon as next month on a bill to protect access to contraception that is similar to one the U.S. House passed in 2022 when Democrats controlled the chamber. Even if th... |
| May 16, 2024 | Health | Paid sick leave sticks after many pandemic protections vanish | In a nation that was sharply divided about government health mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, the public has been warming to the idea of government rules providing for paid sick leave.
Before the pandemic, 10 states and the District o... |
| May 9, 2024 | Paid sick leave sticks after many pandemic protections vanish | Bill Thompson's wife had never seen him smile with confidence. For the first 20 years of their relationship, an infection in his mouth robbed him of teeth, one by one.
"I didn't have any teeth to smile with," the 53-year-old of In... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | National Politics | Freedom Caucuses push for conservative state laws, but getting attention is their big success | Elaine S. Povich | Stateline.org (TNS)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — When a Republican colleague threatened to read aloud from a 2-foot stack of books — including a biblical guide to leadership and a tome by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist — to p... |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Olivia Rodrigo concert hands out free morning-after pills in Missouri, a state where abortions are illegal | Entertainment Olivia Rodrigo concert hands out free morning-after pills in Missouri, a state where abortions are illegal
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| Nov 9, 2023 | Politics | Ohio voted on abortion. Next year, 11 more states might, too | Bram Sable-Smith | (TNS) KFF Health News
UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. — As activists parse the results of Tuesday’s vote to protect abortion rights in Ohio, Jamie Corley is already well on her way to putting a similar measure in front of Missouri v... |
| Sep 13, 2023 | When Student Anxiety Gets in the Way of Attending School | Since the pandemic, mental health strains on youth have been put in the spotlight.
Pandemic closures provided some students with a chance to notice how stressed they are at school, says Jayne Demsky, founder of School Avoidance Alliance, an... |
| Jul 17, 2023 | Editorials
Editorials | Editorial: Ruling in case against Biden shows why protecting disinformation is dangerous | What’s wrong with protecting disinformation by blocking a bunch of Biden administration agencies and officials from communicating with social media companies about it?
The answer to that question is found right in the 155-page memo issued l... |
| Apr 12, 2023 | The Missouri official refusing to comply with the ATF has past experience with the bureau. His brother's gun shop was previously raided by the feds. | An ATF agent lifts crime scene tape at a scene in DeSoto, Texas in August 2013. LM Otero/AP
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A Missouri official who is refusing to comply with the ATF has previous experience with the federal bureau.
Ike Skelton's brother, Jim, h... |
| Apr 9, 2023 | Missouri officials refuse to work with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, saying all federal 'so-called' gun laws are unconstitutional | Guns for sale at a store in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images
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Officials in Camden County, Missouri are refusing to cooperate with the ATF, according to local reports.
The ATF asked for zoning information for people applyi... |
| Feb 9, 2023 | States are flush with cash. It's setting off "tax cut fever." | Even as the U.S. economy shows signs of slowing down, many states around the U.S. are flush with cash, with their so-called rainy day funds estimated to reach a record high of $136.8 billion this fiscal year.
And lawmakers in more than half... |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Missouri bill aims to outdo Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' by banning school staff from discussing sexual orientation with students | The Missouri Senate chamber in January 2021. AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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A Missouri bill would stop school staff talking to children about LGBTQ issues without parental consent.
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| Jan 29, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Andrew Stokes: COVID deaths in the U.S. continue to be undercounted, despite claims of ‘overcounts’ | By Andrew Stokes, Dielle Lundberg, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, and Yea-Hung Chen
Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020, a recurring topic of debate has been whether official COVID-19 death statistics in the U.S. accurately cap... |
| Nov 22, 2022 | Student loan repayment pause extended by White House amid legal battles over relief plan | WASHINGTON — The Department of Education announced on Tuesday it is extending the pandemic-era pause on federal student loan repayments until June 30 while legal challenges to the administration’s student debt relief program are fought over... |
| Nov 10, 2022 | Record-setting number of women elected as governors in midterms | Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly was reelected Tuesday to a second term in office. Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
WASHINGTON — The United States’ ceiling for female governors was shattered this week, with voters in 12 states electing women to the ro... |
| Nov 2, 2022 | Missouri Senate race shows just how hard it is to campaign on abortion in the heartland | KANSAS CITY, Mo. – If any Senate race should be a referendum on abortion access it’s the one in Missouri.
The Republican official running to represent the Show Me State, Eric Schmitt, used his previous post as Missouri’s attorney general to... |
| Nov 2, 2022 | Missouri hospital the first confirmed federal investigation of denied emergency abortion | President Joe Biden’s administration told hospitals in July they must provide emergency abortions when necessary even in states with strict bans in place.
And here in Missouri, a Joplin hospital is apparently the first in the nation to be i... |
| Oct 26, 2022 | Program meant to help farmers in trade war overspent, lacked transparency and compliance checks | This article was produced in collaboration with Investigate Midwest and Gray Television’s InvestigateTV.
A U.S. Department of Agriculture program touted as relief for lost trade during the Trump-era trade war with China spent unprecedented ... |
| Oct 25, 2022 | Missouri Attorney General Appears To Be Using Open Records Requests To Intimidate His Critics | Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is involved in some questionable use of the state’s public records laws. Following the AG’s dubious decision to sue schools over what he called “illegal” mask mandates, he raised his controversy level ... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | Stopgap spending bill advances in U.S. Senate after Manchin pulls his energy plan | WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate advanced a catchall spending package Tuesday that would provide billions to aid Ukraine’s war effort, help communities throughout the country recover from natural disasters and keep the federal government funded... |
| Sep 21, 2022 | Clash over climate change funding emerging in farm bill debate | WASHINGTON — As lawmakers begin envisioning the next farm bill, some U.S. House Republicans are wary of making climate change a priority for farmers and ranchers.
The pushback from Republicans at a Tuesday hearing came as the Biden administ... |
| Aug 11, 2022 | Farm bill season arrives: What’s the outlook for 2023? | WASHINGTON — Over the course of the next year, lawmakers on the U.S. House and Senate Agriculture committees will draft a new federal farm bill that will shape food, farm, conservation and nutrition programs across the country for the next ... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | A Democratic US Senate candidate in Missouri pledged to 'stand up' to health insurers. Records show she personally invests in CVS Health, Humana, and UnitedHealth Group. | This July 12, 2019 file photo shows the UnitedHealthcare headquarters in Minneapolis. Jim Mone, File/AP Photo
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A Democratic US Senate candidate in Missouri has pledged to "stand up" to health insurers.
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| Jun 25, 2022 | Missouri becomes first state to ban abortion following the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade | Pro-choice supporters and staff of Planned Parenthood hold a rally outside the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center in St. Louis, Missouri, May 31, 2019. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
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| Feb 14, 2022 | Missouri's Governor Still Insists Reporter Is A Hacker, Even As Prosecutors Decline To Press Charges | Last autumn, you may recall, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an article revealing that the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) was leaking the Social Security numbers of teachers and administrators, past a... |
| Jan 21, 2022 | The Governor Who Thinks Examining HTML Is Criminal Hacking Is Now Working To Make Missouri's Public Records Laws Worse | Missouri Governor Mike Parson is perhaps best known these days for trying to convert a right-click menu option into criminal hacking with his relentless (and relentlessly uninformed) desire to turn the people who exposed a security flaw in ... |
| Jan 21, 2022 | The Governor Who Thinks Examining HTML Is Criminal Hacking Is Now Working To Make Missouri's Public Records Laws Worse | Missouri Governor Mike Parson is perhaps best known these days for trying to convert a right-click menu option into criminal hacking with his relentless (and relentlessly uninformed) desire to turn the people who exposed a security flaw in ... |
| Dec 23, 2021 | A ‘populist’ Senate candidate wants to ban members of congress from holding and trading stocks — and throw them in jail if they don’t comply | Lucas Kunce is running for Senate in Missouri on a ‘populist’ platform. Courtesy/Lucas Kunce for Missouri
Democratic Missouri Senate candidate Lucas Kunce wants to ban members of congress from trading stocks.
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| Dec 21, 2021 | Several states, cities, and companies resume paying people to get vaccinated and boosted | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
The wildfire-like spread of the Omicron variant has spurred some municipalities and corporations to once a... |
| Oct 14, 2021 | Governor Wants to Prosecute Journalist Who Clicked ‘View Source’ on Government Site | Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.
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| Oct 14, 2021 | Político persegue “hacker” por acessar código HTML em site do governo | Um repórter foi chamado de hacker após revelar uma falha de segurança que expõe dados de professores em um site do estado de Missouri, nos Estados Unidos. Segundo o governador Mike Parson — que claramente não entende muito sobre tecnologia ... |
| Mar 20, 2021 | A handful of states have refused to expand a life-saving healthcare program for years, denying millions of Americans health coverage. They're finally out of excuses. | Protesters in Livingston, Montana call for expansion of Medicaid in 2017. William Campbell-Corbis/Getty Images
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| Missouri Senate candidate Lucas Kunce said Democrats must deliver on abortion rights instead of continuing to treat it only as a campaign issue | Democrat Lucas Kunce, a Marine veteran and antitrust advocate, is running for US Senate in Missouri. Courtesy Lucas Kunce campaign
Missouri was the first state to ban abortions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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| Advocacy groups ask FTC to expand Biden administration efforts to rein in junk fees | President Joe Biden devoted 19 sentences of his State of the Union speech to “junk fees,” which includes credit card late fees, service fees for concert tickets and airplane seating preferences that he said strain families’ budgets. Biden d... |
| Election officials risk criminal charges under 31 new GOP-imposed penalties | Second in a two-part series. See part one here.
Since the 2020 election, Iowa has enacted one new felony and two new misdemeanor offenses targeting election officials.
The state’s omnibus election law, passed in 2021, criminalizes election ... |
| USDA to spend $500 million extending high-speed internet to rural America | The U.S. Department of Agriculture will send more than $500 million in loans and grants to telecommunications providers to bring high-speed internet to rural areas across 20 states, Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday.
The department will ... |
| Reclusive billionaire who owns $425M Hamptons estate ordered to stand trial in lead-poisoning case | Reclusive billionaire Ira Rennert, owner of the largest estate in the Hamptons, could soon face the spotlight over alleged lead poisoning at a Peruvian mine – a lawsuit he has tried to get tossed for nearly two decades.
The 90-year-old foun... |
| Attempt to help states ease banking for marijuana businesses stumbles in Congress | The annual Defense Department policy bill members of Congress released late Tuesday did not include measures to loosen federal marijuana restrictions, to the disappointment of advocates.
That leaves few avenues to pass marijuana measures th... |
| Missouri Republicans are running attack ads against their own Senate candidate, Eric Greitens, who was accused of assaulting his wife and blackmailing his mistress. Trump has called him 'smart' and 'tough.' | Former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, who resigned in 2018, is attempting a political comeback with a run for US Senate. Michael Thomas/Getty Images
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