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Former President Trump announced his indictment Thursday evening and is due in federal court in Miami on Tuesday to be arraigned. While many Democrats are celebrating the indictment, GOP politicians in Missouri and Kansas are supporting Trump.

The Clay County Judge ruled that the case against Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old white man who shot 17-year-old Ralph Yarl, be sealed so that he receives a fair and impartial trial. Judge Louis Angles cited the harassment, media coverage and threats Andrew Lester has faced.

Three officers on the Kansas City Police Department’s SWAT team are recovering in the hospital after being shot while serving a search warrant on Tuesday night. A nearly day-long standoff on Blue Ridge Boulevard ended with three people taken into custody.

The passenger train, which departed from Kansas City Tuesday morning, was headed to Chicago via St. Louis and crashed just north of Pleasant Hill. No passengers or staff aboard were injured.

The investigation comes after The Kansas City Star reported earlier this year on allegations of racism and harassment of Black officers in the department.

Queen Elizabeth, who reigned for 70 years as Britain's monarch, died Thursday at Balmoral, her estate in the Scottish Highlands. She was 96. Her son Charles, 73, is now king.

Passengers were aboard the Southwest Chief, which left Kansas City around 11 a.m. The train left the tracks near Mendon, Missouri, after hitting a dump truck at a public crossing. Four people are confirmed dead.

At least 10 school districts in the Kansas City area announced they were canceling all summer school activities Wednesday after the Blue Springs Police Department was alerted to the threat of an "unspecific mass shooting."

Weir squeaked out a second-place finish in last week’s primary election, trailing behind Missouri Rep. Rory Rowland, who is set to become Independence’s next mayor.

In the end, a committee moved to allocate a third of the TIF funds to the city’s Housing Trust Fund.

The case was detected in a St. Louis resident who had recently traveled within the United States, according to the St. Louis Department of Health.

Johnson & Johnson said that when it gave study participants a second jab after six months, their antibody levels were nine times higher than they were 28 days after a first dose of the COVID vaccine.