CHICAGO, IL (AP) — Missouri voters who cast ballots in the midterm election were divided over the nation’s direction, according to a wide-ranging survey of the American electorate. As voters selected members of the U.S. Senate and Congress during Tuesday’s elections, AP VoteCast found that about half of Missouri voters said the country is on…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — The Latest on the midterm election in Missouri (all times local): 1:45 p.m. Marian Velder, a 59-year-old woman from Liberty, Missouri, voted for Republican Senate candidate Josh Hawley because she is “done” with Democrats. “I have had it up to here,” said Velder, while putting her hand above her head.…
WASHINGTON (AP) There were first-time voters and straight-ticket voters and some who, this go-around, switched sides. They went to the polls considering the caravan of migrants trudging across Mexico, their health insurance and their paychecks, an impotent Congress and the nation’s poisonous political culture that has divided even families and friends along party lines. More…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, his shadow hanging over midterm elections that will determine the future of his administration, used his final campaign pitch to ask voters to help preserve “fragile” GOP victories that could be erased by Democratic gains in Congress. With the monthslong fight serving as a testing ground for his nationalist…
Cape Girardeau, MO (KTRS) President Donald Trump is returning to Missouri ahead of Tuesday’s general election. The President will be in Cape Girardeau this evening to make one final push for Senate Candidate Josh Hawley and other Republicans. The campaign event is scheduled for 9 o’clock this evening at the Show Me Center, with doors…
PHOENIX, AZ (AP) — The 5,200 active-duty troops being sent by President Donald Trump to the U.S.-Mexico border will be limited in what they can do under a federal law that restricts the military from engaging in law enforcement on American soil. That means the troops will not be allowed to detain immigrants, seize drugs…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship (all times local): 2:20 p.m. House Speaker Paul Ryan says President Donald Trump can’t end birthright citizenship on his own. The top Republican tells WVLK radio in Kentucky, “Well you obviously cannot do that. You cannot end birthright citizenship with an…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — Missouri Republicans are not in danger of losing control of the state Legislature in this year’s election but said they are concerned about losing about a dozen legislative seats around the state’s metropolitan areas. If enough of those districts switch to Democrats, the Republican party could lose its super majority…
By ALLEN G. BREED, MARK SCOLFORO and MARYCLAIRE DALE , Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — The man charged in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday, as some members of the Jewish community and others objected to President Donald Trump’s planned visit, accusing him of contributing to a toxic political…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than two weeks before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a plan to lower prices for some prescription drugs, saying it would stop unfair practices that force Americans to pay much more than people in other countries for the same medications. “We are taking aim at the global…