The Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for valor on the battlefield, will be in the spotlight during a “Salute to Service” halftime show at the Dallas Cowboys football game against the New York Giants on Sunday, November 12, 2023, at 3:25 pm. Among the 16 recipients honored is Seattle native Lt. Col. William […]
(Missouri Independent) – Leaders of Native American tribes detailed the fentanyl crisis in Indigenous communities during a Wednesday U.S. Senate hearing. “This growing crisis is rooted in the longstanding structural inequities in Native communities,” said Sen. Brian Schatz, Democrat of Hawaii, who chairs the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Alaska GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski said […]
A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas returned an indictment yesterday charging a Texas couple for operating an illegal pyramid scheme that defrauded thousands of participants of more than $10 million. According to court documents, LaShonda Moore, 35, and Marlon Moore, 37, co-founded and ran an illegal pyramid scheme called Blessings In […]
National Crash Responder Safety Week (CRSW) is November 13-17, 2023. The Federal Highway Administration sponsors this initiative to raise public awareness and help keep roadway responders and the public safe around traffic incidents. Emergency responders, including police officers, firefighters, EMS personnel, tow truck operators, and highway workers, consistently risk their lives attending to crash scenes […]
(Missouri Independent) – U.S. Supreme Court justices during oral arguments seemed to lean toward upholding a federal law that prevents the possession of firearms by a person who is subject to a domestic violence protective order. Liberal and conservative justices appeared to side with the Biden administration’s position that the 1994 federal law is in […]
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Garret Graves (R-LA), and Representative Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY) led 66 additional House Republican colleagues in a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg opposing the Biden Administration’s allowance and encouragement of the use of airports throughout the nation […]
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) delivered remarks on the Senate floor and again called for unanimous consent on his bill, the No TikTok on United States Devices Act, which would prohibit TikTok from operating in the United States and ban commercial activity with TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. The renewed push to ban the app comes […]
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) heard testimony from Meta Whistleblower Arturo Béjar, the former Director of Engineering for Protect and Care at Facebook. The hearing took place in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, where Senator Hawley serves as Ranking Member. During his opening remarks, Senator Hawley called out Big Tech for their […]
On October 28, 2023, the community once again emptied their medicine cabinets to help dispose of old, unwanted, and expired medications. Nationwide, DEA and its law enforcement partners collected 599,897 pounds of unneeded medications at 4,675 collection sites. For more than a decade, DEA’s National Prescription Take Back Day has removed almost 17.9 million pounds […]
(Missouri Independent) – Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody enlisted the support of local and state law enforcement officials in the days before he led raids on the local newspaper office, the publisher’s home, and the home of a city councilwoman. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Kansas Department of Revenue, Marion County Sheriff’s Office and the Office […]
Tyson® Brand has initiated a voluntary recall of approximately 30,000 pounds of its frozen, fully cooked chicken “Fun Nuggets.” The recall pertains to 29-ounce packages of Tyson® Brand fully cooked “Fun Nuggets” sold to retailers. It is important to note that no other Tyson® brand products are involved in this recall. A small number of […]
A study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows that, among high school students, current (past 30-day) use of any tobacco product declined during 2022-2023 (16.5% to 12.6%), primarily driven by a decline in e-cigarette use (14.1% to 10.0%). Declines also occurred for use of […]
Two former corrections officers from the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, pleaded guilty for their respective roles in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate, identified by the initials Q.B., on March 1, 2022. Steven Nicholas Wimmer and Andrew Fleshman each pleaded guilty to conspiring with other officers to use […]
(Missouri Independent) – President Joe Biden and administration officials are launching the “Investing in Rural America” event series, beginning with a visit to a Minnesota farm on Wednesday to unveil nearly $5 billion in funding for conservation, economic development, and “climate-smart” agriculture initiatives. As Biden prepares for his 2024 reelection bid, he has been emphasizing […]
(Missouri Independent) – Justin Brown, a father of a 2-year-old who lives with his wife in the St. Louis area, has $20,000 in student loan debt. Before the pause on loan payments at the start of the pandemic in 2020, he paid $300 a month. But now that Brown has a family, his financial responsibilities […]
(Missouri Independent) – It’s hardly a question of whether the water will run out for one town on the Kansas-Oklahoma border. It’s a matter of when. The stubborn drought that has hung over southeast Kansas for close to two years has brought Caney, a town of less than 2,000 people, within weeks of reaching the […]
When the postal service works better, people are more likely to vote – according to new research. The study published in the Election Law Journal finds efficient postal service increases voter turnout regardless of a state’s mail voting laws. Some states have passed more restrictive mail-in voting laws since the false accusations of voter fraud in […]
The Drug Enforcement Administration will host its 25th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event provides an easy, no-cost opportunity for the community to anonymously dispose of unneeded medications at nearly 5,000 local drop-off locations nationwide. For more than a decade, the DEA’s National […]
The U.S. Senate passed by voice vote U.S. Senator Josh Hawley’s resolution condemning Hamas and the antisemitic student groups on college campuses that have celebrated the Oct. 7 terrorist attack against Israel. The passage of the resolution came after Democrats blocked the measure one week ago. “Mr. President, one week ago I came to this floor to try and pass this […]
The value of friendship is profoundly rooted in American society, with recent data from a Pew Research Center survey showing that 61% of U.S. adults consider having close friends crucial for a fulfilling life. This percentage surpasses the importance attributed to other factors of personal happiness, such as being married (23%), having children (26%), or […]
