U.S. Supreme Court

What's at stake for Kansas City content creators if the popular social media app TikTok gets banned? The internet is watching an impending U.S. Supreme Court decision closely, and wondering what the Trump administration might do.

Video creators around Kansas City are concerned about their livelihoods and Congress' ability to limit free speech if the Supreme Court upholds a ban of the video-sharing app TikTok. Up To Date spoke with @Andr3wsky and the brothers behind @Twinsauce about their future if the social media app disappears.

Lawrence, Kansas, educator Matt Beat, who goes by the name Mr. Beat and produces videos about American history, will be in Kansas City on Thursday to discuss his book "The Power of Our Supreme Court."

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey had argued that the rights of Missouri voters to hear from presidential candidates were being violated by the New York criminal proceeding.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that cities can punish people for sleeping in public areas, and while Kansas City does not have a “no camping” ordinance in place, some residents fear the decision could spark local backlash against homeless people.

The decision likely ensures that the case against Trump won’t be tried before the election, and then only if he is not reelected.

The decision could have an impact on Missouri, where the GOP-led legislature in 2022 passed a law banning sleeping on public land. Critics said the Missouri law essentially criminalized homelessness, although it was later overturned on a technicality.

In a 6-3 decision, the court found that Missouri Attorney General and other plaintiffs did not have any standing to sue the Biden Administration and failed to prove that social media platforms acted due to government coercion.

The court said that the challengers, a group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, had no right to be in court at all. It's a loss for the Missouri and Kansas attorneys general, who had both joined the lawsuit seeking to remove mifepristone nationwide.

The University of Missouri filed a petition to remove the racial and ethnic criteria on at least 53 donated scholarships and funds across its four campuses. It follows a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that race cannot be used as a factor in the admissions process of universities receiving federal assistance.

Shefali Luthra's new book "Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America" tells real stories of Americans seeking abortion care in an era when the legality of the procedure differs state to state.

The landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that outlawed racial segregation in public schools may have played out differently if it hadn’t been for a tenacious group of women in Johnson County, Kansas, who led their own integration lawsuit five years earlier. The case centered around a two-room schoolhouse and included a lengthy boycott, big-shot NAACP lawyers, FBI surveillance — and six very brave children.