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Supreme Court To Consider Whether Politicians Can Block You on Social Media

Plus: Missouri attempts to ban gender transition treatments for adults, another bad social media bill hits Congress, and more...

Reason

Missouri judge to weigh transgender health care rules

A Missouri judge will decide whether a first-of-its-kind rule placing strict regulations on gender-affirming care in Missouri kicks in Thursday

The Independent UK

It’s not just trans kids: Republicans are coming after trans adults like me, too

This move by Missouri’s attorney general is the first attack on gender-affirming care for transgender adults – and it won’t be the last

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NFL draft a boon for cities, teams since it hit the road

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will step to the podium on Thursday on a giant stage in front of Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, to announce the No. 1 pick

The Independent UK

ACLU sues to block Missouri rule on transgender health care

The ACLU is suing to block new Missouri restrictions on both adults and children seeking gender-affirming health care

The Independent UK

Missouri to restrict gender-affirming care for trans adults this week

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey has issued a rule that severely limits adults and youth from receiving gender-affirming care. The rule, the first of its kind, is scheduled to take effect Thursday.

WEKU

Father dies in Missouri jail after arrest for failure to pay child support

Realtives said Ryan Everson couldn’t afford the $50 child support instalments that a judge had ordered him to pay.

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GOP lawmakers push for state control of St. Louis police

Republican lawmakers in Missouri are pushing for a state takeover of the St. Louis police department

The Independent UK

Book bans are soaring in US schools, fueled largely by new laws in Republican-led states

Fearing criminal penalties, public schools throughout Missouri removed hundreds of books from their libraries after state lawmakers last year made it illegal to provide students with “sexually explicit” material — a new law that carried punishment of up to a year in prison.

Los Angeles Times

Missouri man arrested for holding gun to grocery store worker’s throat while demanding steaks

Larry Gene Gay, 70, brandished a loaded semi-automatic pistol inside a Price Cutter store in Republic

The Independent UK

Editorial: Biden isn’t banning gas stoves. But facts don’t stop Missouri and Kansas GOP outrage

It’s not a surprise anymore when prominent politicians focus their energies on rabble-rousing culture war battles instead of doing the hard stuff of governing, but we still feel compelled to point out when Kansas and Missouri leaders actively mislead their constituents.

Tribune News Service

Why wasn’t man accused of shooting black teen charged with a hate crime? Experts point to gap in Missouri law

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In explaining his decision not to file a hate crime charge against the 84-year-old man accused of shooting Ralph Yarl, Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson said Monday he did not want to risk double jeopardy.

Tribune News Service

After Ralph Yarl shooting, Black people in Kansas City’s Northland keep fighting racism

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Before Theo Davis moved from Washington, D.C., to help pastor a church in Kansas City’s predominantly white neighborhoods north of the Missouri River, a Black church elder called him with a warning:

Tribune News Service

Missouri's Recreational Weed Market Faces Product Shortage: This Week in Cannabis Investing

The Show Me State's recreational weed market has been red hot, but now demand is exceeding supply.

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Los Angeles Times

Wrong-place shootings put 'stand your ground' laws in the spotlight

They were shot after pulling into the wrong driveway, ringing the wrong doorbell, getting into the wrong car in a parking lot.

The Independent UK

Ralph Yarl rang the wrong doorbell and was shot by Andrew Lester. These key questions remain unanswered

As Ralph Yarl begins a long road to recovery and Andrew Lester faces the possibility of a life sentence on felony charges, Io Dodds explains what we still don’t know about the shooting

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Rural Kansas and Missouri need food stamps. GOP can’t say hunger’s just a city thing

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives want to make big cuts to the federal budget as a condition of raising the national debt ceiling. Where do they want to start? Food stamps, of course. And that could have a big impact on Kansas and Missouri.

The Independent UK

August execution date for man who killed St. Louis-area girl

The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday set an execution date for a man who sexually assaulted and killed a 6-year-old St. Louis County girl in 2002

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Tribune News Service

Democrat Lucas Kunce focuses on Josh Hawley’s Jan. 6 actions in Senate campaign. It’s paying off

WASHINGTON — Democrat Lucas Kunce easily outraised Sen. Josh Hawley in his first three months after declaring that he would take on the incumbent Missouri Republican in the 2024 Senate race, centering his campaign around Hawley’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Gwyneth Paltrow and Kim Kardashian voice outrage over shooting of Black teen Ralph Yarl

Celebrities Naomi Campbell, Halle Berry, and Viola Davis have also voiced support as outrage grows over the shooting and the treatment of the man responsible

The Independent UK

Ralph Yarl GoFundMe tops $3.2m after Black teen shot in the head by white homeowner

Donations have been flooding in to help Ralph Yarl and his family pay for his medical bills and recovery after Kansas City shooting

The Independent UK

Ralph Yarl rang the wrong doorbell and was shot by Andrew Lester. These key questions remain unanswered

As Ralph Yarl begins a long road to recovery and Andrew Lester faces the possibility of a life sentence on felony charges, Io Dodds explains what we still don’t know about the shooting

The Independent UK

Andrew Lester: What we know about white homeowner charged with shooting Ralph Yarl

An 84-year-old man is charged with the shooting of Black teen Ralph Yarl – a shooting prosecutors believe had a ‘racial’ element. Graeme Massie and Rachel Sharp report

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Gov. Parson, not President Biden, is who made the Ralph Yarl shooting political

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson should know better. Accusing President Joe Biden of politicizing the shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Yarl is rich, after Parson stayed mum about the incident for almost a week.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri secretary of state predicts transgender restrictions won't stand

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — At least one top Missouri Republican isn't defending Attorney General Andrew Bailey's rules on transgender medical care, which advocates say would make Missouri the first state to restrict treatments for adults.

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