Politics & Policy

In retrospect, there was perhaps nothing surprising about Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. The outcome is up for grabs. Vladimir Putin’s intentions were, after all, hiding in plain sight and signaled in ...

As the election season heats up, author and pastor John Piper cautions Christians against what he calls “political flag waving.” In a recent episode of the “Ask Pastor John” podcast, Piper, who ...

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas continues to spar with Missouri’s governor over the shooting at last week’s Super Bowl rally. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, who attended the event, said, “We can’t let ...

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley criticized the Biden-Harris campaign for joining TikTok despite banning it from most federal devices. “Hey, by the way, we just joined TikTok,” the campaign’s post on X read ...

The He Gets Us commercials that aired during Sunday’s Super Bowl have drawn both local and national criticism but the producer is not backing down. Jason Vanderground of BrandHaven, the marketing firm ...

Amid the usual promotions for beer, fast food and cars, a commercial during Sunday evening’s Super Bowl encouraged the release of hostages taken during the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. In ...

Valentina Gomez may not be known by Missouri voters, but she certainly knows how to attract attention to her campaign for Secretary of State. Earlier this week, she posted a campaign video ...

Members of the Missouri National Guard will be deployed to Texas to help with the crises on the southern border. Gov. Mike Parson visited the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend., where he ...

Shouting “Cease-fire now,” protesters disrupted a joint session of the Missouri legislature while Israel Consul General-Miami Maor Elbaz-Starinsky spoke Tuesday. At least 30 people in the upper galleries continued to scream as ...

Move over Taylor Swift, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has hit number one on the charts with a conservative rap song. “America’s no. 1 rapper,” reads Ben Shapiro’s Twitter profile. The song “Facts” ...

Jean Carnahan, the first woman to represent Missouri in the Senate after her husband Mel’s death in 2000, has died. On Tuesday, her family announced that Carnahan passed away at a St. ...

Missouri’s Rep. Cori Bush, who represents the St. Louis area, is under a federal criminal investigation. The U.S. Department of Justice served the House sergeant at arms, William McFarland, with a grand ...

The number of illegal immigrants who evaded authorities (known as gotaways) at the southern border last year is equal to the combined population of Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri. The revelation ...

Missouri lawmakers have found a bi-partisan issue: making it harder for minors to access porn sites by requiring websites to verify the age of users. Several bills have been proposed by Democrat ...

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) reportedly instructed banks to monitor Americans’ online transactions involving the purchase of Bibles and Christian books. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the ranking Republican ...

Political pundits say the abortion issue will favor Democrats in the 2024 elections. But a new poll separates fact from fiction on Americans’ opinions on pro-life issues. The 2024 Knights of Columbus-Marist ...

Kanas Senator Roger Marshall said this week the US should discontinue gain-of-function research and stop funding similar Chinese research. “I think number one is we have to have a moratorium on gain ...

The Biden administration has reclassified the Houthi rebels as terrorists just days after attacking the group’s positions in Yemen. The move comes after an upsurge of attacks on one of the busiest ...

Kansas Congressman Jake LaTurner is concerned about a Chinese technology firm planning to build in Johnson County. In a January 8 letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, ...

A famous statue of William Penn, for whom Pennsylvania is named, will not be removed by the National Park Service after bi-partisan opposition. Penn is known for establishing religious freedom in the ...

Small business owners continue to say it sure looks like we’re headed into a recession. A reliable marker of how businesses are feeling has been released by the National Federation of Independent ...

Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who has been critical of President Donald Trump and the events of Jan. 6, says the Biden administration’s Justice Department is going overboard on prosecuting people who ...

A California law that stripped physicians of their medical licenses if they disagreed with the stated Covid policy has been revoked. Medical organizations are calling it a victory for doctors’ First Amendment ...

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson this week issued an executive order prohibiting foreign countries considered American adversaries from purchasing land near military facilities in the state. The order will block entities from China, ...

The Biden Administration, through the FTC, is ramping up legal action against the nation’s largest Christian universities. The move has been described by some as an unfair attack costing the schools millions ...