AP-US-Virus-Outbreak, 2nd Ld-Writethru Nov 23, 2020 12:39PM (GMT 18:39) Despite emphatic warnings from public health authorities to stay home for Thanksgiving, millions of Americans are crowding the nation’s airports ahead of the holiday, many of them unwilling to miss out on seeing family and convinced they can do it safely. More than 3 million people…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to close out major unfinished business on lowering prescription drug costs. Two regulations issued Friday promise savings for Medicare recipients. One would tie payments for drugs administered in a doctor’s office to lower prices paid abroad. The second would require that drugmaker rebates for pharmacy medications…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his allies are taking increasingly frantic steps to subvert the results of the 2020 election, including summoning state legislators to the White House as part of a longshot bid to overturn Joe Biden’s victory. Trump also has personally called local election officials who are trying to rescind their…
(AP) Catholics split almost evenly between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the presidential election. Now they’re divided over a declaration by the head of the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference that Biden’s support for abortion rights presents the church with a difficult dilemma. Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez made that statement near the close of…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Mike Parson says Missouri’s hospitals are struggling to cope with rising coronavirus cases. The Republican governor said Thursday that he’s extending the state of emergency in Missouri through March. He says hospitals face staffing shortages and that the state is considering sending in the military and asking for help from…
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have nominated Nancy Pelosi to be speaker once again, this time as the leader who guides them as Democrat Joe Biden becomes president. But the California congresswoman also is seeming to suggest that these would be her final two years in the leadership post. She’s already the first woman to…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson says she won’t run for another term next year. Krewson said Wednesday that she made the decision after celebrating her 68th birthday last weekend. Krewson says she wasn’t influenced by racial justice advocates’ calls for her to resign. She came under fire in June after she…
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — A hearing on the Trump campaign’s federal lawsuit that seeks to prevent Pennsylvania officials from certifying the vote results remains on track. It is scheduled for Tuesday in Williamsport and it may feature Rudy Giuliani. The former New York City mayor and the president’s personal attorney filed Tuesday morning to represent…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis is the latest city with plans for a village of tiny homes to help provide shelter for the homeless. Mayor Lyda Krewson on Tuesday announced plans for 50 tiny homes on property near downtown that was previously the site of an RV park. Krewson said she will seek $600,000…
(KTRS) – The Missouri Restaurant Association is joining several locally-owned restaurants in challenging Doctor Sam Page’s order that halted indoor dine-in service at restaurants and bars at midnight Tuesday. The MRA argues that the directive was issued without due process or an opportunity for public comment as would have been the case if the matter…