5+ day, 55+ min ago   (644+ words) Missouri’s congressional elections faced fresh uncertainty Tuesday after two courts issued dramatically different orders over which map the state should use in November. The conflicting rulings came within minutes of each other and left election officials confronting two opposing judicial…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (625+ words) Missouri officials have turned to the U.S. Supreme Court in an emergency effort to restore the state’s new congressional map before November’s midterm elections. The rapidly developing case could determine which district boundaries voters use only days before Missouri faces a…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (844+ words) Another towering figure from the Republican Party in the U.S. Senate has died. Nancy Kassebaum Baker, the pioneering Kansas Republican who became the first woman elected to the Senate without previously having a husband serve in Congress, died Friday at the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (575+ words) Another Republican icon of the U.S. Senate has passed away. Nancy Kassebaum Baker, the daughter of a Kansas governor who made history as the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without previously having a husband serve in Congress, has died at…...