2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1380+ words) Vanessa Melendez had been going back and forth with the state over her family’s Medicaid and food assistance applications for months when the Houston mom learned she was pregnant with her third child. She submitted a new application for Medicaid…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1333+ words) In a state once considered one of the most affordable places in the country, candidates have popped up at barbershops and in voters’ homes vowing to tackle a new problem for Texas: its cost-of-living woes.In ads, they’re holding bags…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (805+ words) A new survey released Thursday shows more Missourians disapprove of President Donald Trump and Gov. Mike Kehoe’s job performance than approve.For Trump, it is the first negative approval rating in the six-year history of the St. Louis University/YouGov…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1737+ words) A sheriff’s deputy opens the door of an Idaho farmhouse where a newborn baby has just died. It’s almost 10 p.m., but the house is filled with adults and children seated anywhere they can find a spot: in reclining chairs,…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (915+ words) Just when you thought state politics could not possibly get sleazier, Hope Florida comes roaring back from the dead, putrid yet powerful, casting a light on the breathtaking arrogance and corruption of Florida’s government.Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General James…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (45+ words) A MAGA activist who tried to remove thousands of Georgia voters from the rolls now has a state job investigating elections.Jason Frazier was quietly hired as an investigator by Georgia’s Republican-controlled State Election Board after flooding Fulton County with…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (372+ words) More than 40 Haitians in Springfield have been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after President Donald Trump revoked their legal status earlier this summer.Faith leaders recently spoke out against the ICE activity that has been taking place in the…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (476+ words) A bipartisan group of Ohio lawmakers is urging the state’s Director of Transportation to take down automated license plate readers on state roads. They also urged state transportation officials to reject future permits and publicly share data about any camera…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (538+ words) Just 10 days ago, Steven Rogers says he would have predicted Missourians were set to reinstate an abortion ban this November.Then the latest polling results landed in his inbox. Now the professor of political science at Saint Louis University says…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (47+ words) A federal judge on Friday shot down a Republican effort to eliminate the only Black-majority judicial district in Mississippi, Democracy Docket reported.In early July, a group of white voters filed a suit that took aim at the sole majority-Black…...