Two inmates have been executed an hour apart during what's expected to be the single busiest month for the death penalty in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Florida executed Samuel Lee Smithers on Tuesday ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The city of St. Louis is trying very hard to avoid the legal judgments and settlements it may owe to people who ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Edited News Release/KY3)–Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced the sentence of a Camden County contractor on Friday. According to Attorney General Hanaway, Brandon ...

During oral arguments on Wednesday in Louisiana v. Callais, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson forcefully rebuked an attorney defending Louisiana’s congressional map, interrupting his claim that plaintiffs ...

Voting rights activists gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, early Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, as the justices prepare to take up a major Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act, ...

On October 15, the Supreme Court will rehear Louisiana v. Callais, which could determine whether Black voters have a meaningful chance at equal representation in Congress. The question before the ...

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While we rightly pay attention to how the Supreme Court is empowering President Donald Trump and his administration, the justices will hold a hearing Wednesday that highlights the Roberts Court’s ...

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Voting Rights Act, declaring that "today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield." But over the ...

Abortion will remain available at Planned Parenthood clinics in Missouri, the Western District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, rejecting a request by the attorney general’s office to reinstate several ...

Democrats would be in danger of losing around a dozen majority-minority districts across the South if the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act. Republicans gain 12 more seats, including ...