The Latest Breaking News from Missouri

While watching college football on Saturday, keep your eye on these prospects

Monday, the Fifth Circuit panel that decided Missouri v. Biden—which held that some federal government actions improperly "coerced or significantly encouraged" platforms to restrict certain user speech—issued an order saying that it granted a petition for rehearing. This meant that the panel would likely reconsider the decision, though it wasn't…

The Bears lost their 13th consecutive game with a Week 3 loss to the Chiefs (in front of Taylor Swift, no less). Take a look at the action:

Hundreds of school systems around the country have adopted four-day weeks in recent years, mostly in rural and western parts of the U.S. Districts cite cost savings and advantages for teacher recruitment

Missouri officials struck back at one of the clinics that unsuccessfully challenged new state restrictions on gender affirming care by filing a new lawsuit accusing the clinic of failing to provide proper care for transgender minors even before the new law took effect last month

Missouri biologists say the recent sighting of a mountain lion in Shannon County was only the 117th known sighting in the state since 1994.

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

A longshot Republican candidate for Missouri governor and his supporters describe his use of a flamethrower at a recent “Freedom Fest” event outside St. Louis as no big deal

A viral video that has been viewed millions of times shows two Republican state senators supposedly burning books in Missouri. It could seem credible, in a US state that has begun banning books deemed inappropriate from school and libraries. However, it’s not actually books being burnt, as we explain in…