Americans are a sick people. Among their economic peers they expect to live shorter lives, experience higher rates of chronic disease, and spend more on their care and upkeep. The baseline necessities for maintaining a healthy human body over the course of a lifetime are often a luxury. Nevertheless, one …
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Amid a decisive rejection of the Democratic Party, there was, on Tuesday, a small glimmer of hope for the next four years emanating from the heart of the Bible Belt. In Missouri, a majority of voters chose to enshrine the right to an abortion in their state’s constitution, overturning a …
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In the years since the federal right to abortion was struck down by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority in 2022, no measure seeking to protect abortion (or to reject new restrictions) had ever lost at the ballot box. That winning streak ended on Tuesday, as Amendment 4, which would have …
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Despite objections from the St. Louis County prosecutor’s office, jurors involved in his trial, and the victim’s family, Marcellus Williams was executed Tuesday evening in Missouri at Potosi Correctional Center. Hours before the execution was set to take place, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the stay of execution, with the …
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Conservative Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley claimed Friday he opposes a “nationwide ban” on abortion, before immediately saying he wants to see “reasonable federal restrictions.” One such federal restriction, he said during a Missouri Senate candidate debate on Friday, should be “when the baby is capable of feeling pain” — a …
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Arizona and Missouri will join a growing group of states holding ballot measures this November to codify the right to abortion into state law. On Monday, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes certified that advocates had gathered 577,971 signatures in favor of the Arizona For Abortion Access Act, a proposed …
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A “pro-White” candidate — who was photographed in 2019 giving a “Nazi salute” next to a man in Klan robes in front of a burning cross — will appear as a GOP candidate for governor on Missouri’s primary ballot this year. A state judge has ruled that Missouri’s Republican Party …
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As part of Olivia Rodrigo’s partnership with the National Network of Abortion Funds, the singer’s St. Louis show on Tuesday featured the dispersion of free condoms and emergency contraceptive pills to concertgoers in Missouri, a state where abortion rights are currently under attack following the repeal of Roe vs. Wade. …
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Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s attempt to justify his ludicrous threat to have President Joe Biden removed from the state’s electoral ballot spiraled into chaos over the most basic of questions: “How so?” During a Monday interview with CNN’s Boris Sanchez, the Republican was asked how he justified his …
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Ralph Yarl’s classmates gathered for a unity walk Tuesday, April 18, to show their support for the Black 16-year-old, who was just released from the hospital after being shot twice by a white man last week. Per KSHB 41 in Kansas City, about 1,500 students and some staff marched around …
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