COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Republican Josh Hawley will serve on the Judiciary, Armed Services and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committees when he takes office in the U.S. Senate next month. Hawley announced the committee assignments Wednesday. He also will serve on the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the Special Committee on Aging.…
By ALAN FRAM , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan is bemoaning America’s “broken politics” in a farewell speech in which he calls Washington’s failure to overhaul costly federal benefit programs “our greatest unfinished business.” “Our complex problems are solvable,” Ryan says in excerpts of remarks he plans to deliver Wednesday at…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he’ll be introducing a stopgap measure to continue funding the government until Feb. 8 to avert a government shutdown. McConnell says the Senate will vote on the bill Wednesday. He calls it “a simple measure” to show that Republicans are governing. Congress faces a Friday deadline…
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and TERRY TANG , Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s governor on Tuesday appointed U.S. Rep. Martha McSally to replace Sen. Jon Kyl in the seat that belonged to the late John McCain, sending the GOP congresswoman back to Washington just a month after she lost a tight race for the state’s…
By JIM SALTER , Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Supporters of criminal justice reform are questioning a move by assistant prosecutors in St. Louis County to join a police union, as well as the timing of the vote just weeks before a change-minded prosecutor takes office. Assistant prosecutors and investigators voted Monday to join…
By ERIC TUCKER and CHAD DAY , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge Tuesday abruptly postponed the sentencing of President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, declaring himself disgusted and disdainful of Flynn’s crime of lying to the FBI and raising the unexpected prospect of sending the retired Army lieutenant general…
CRYSTAL CITY, Mo. (AP) — The parents of an eastern Missouri infant who died earlier this year are accused of allowing the child to starve to death. Kanaan Compton was born on Christmas Eve 2017 and died on Feb. 10. He weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces at birth and weighed 5 pounds when he died.…
By JAKE COYLE , AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Penny Marshall, who starred in “Laverne & Shirley” before becoming one of the top-grossing female directors in Hollywood, has died. She was 75. Marshall’s publicist, Michelle Bega, said Marshall died in her Los Angeles home on Monday due to complications from diabetes. Marshall starred alongside…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Vatterott College abruptly closed its doors nationwide, citing financial difficulties. On Monday, students at the college’s Berkeley campus were left locked out after seeing a posted sign that read ‘School closed as of 4 p.m. today.’ In a letter sent to students, the for-profit college pointed to a U.S. Department of Education…
By LISA MASCARO, MATTHEW DALY and CATHERINE LUCEY , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The fight over President Donald Trump’s $5 billion wall funds has deepened, threatening a partial government shutdown in a standoff that has become increasingly common in Washington. It wasn’t always like this, with Congress and the White House at a crisis…