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The 6-3 ruling halted a challenge that would have eliminated health insurance subsidies in at least 34 states for individuals and families buying coverage through the federal government's marketplace.

Missouri lost 6,000 workers across nursing and residential care facilities during the coronavirus pandemic, and the state ranks 51st in hours of care nursing home residents receive from nurses. Experts and advocates say inadequate staffing endangers residents.

The last new Kansas measles cases were reported during the week of July 6. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 1,356 confirmed cases of measles as of last week.

According to county data, COVID positivity is now 6.1%, compared to 2.2% a month ago, but officials caution that's likely an undercount, given that most testing is now being done at home and people may not be reporting their results.

Fewer than 2% of people in Missouri who have tested positive for the virus died as of October, compared with more than 6% in May, according to data from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Doctors say younger people with healthier immune systems are getting sick.

The tennis player won first Olympic gold medal in Puerto Rico's history — and underlined the political tensions in its nebulous status as neither a sovereign nation or an American state.

Kunce's campaign revolves around his message that for too long, the interests of corporations and billionaires — not working people — have steered policy in the U.S. In a state that has been trending toward Republicans for a generation, the former Marine Corps member thinks he'll resonate with voters who have left the Democratic Party.

Belton, Grandview, Kearney and Park Hill school districts join others receiving waivers to stop relying on the Missouri Assessment Program.

Two Marine Corps generals have been asked to resign over an incident in Afghanistan a year ago. Taliban insurgents made their way onto a sprawling base and attacked NATO forces. Two Americans died and six Marine fighter jets were destroyed. The two generals reprimanded in the matter were found to bear responsibility for underestimating the threat to base security.

One of the nation's top economists explores the past and future of work in cities. He finds that opportunities for workers without a college degree are drying up.