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Missouri
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 27 stories to Missouri since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Missouri.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Missouri
10 storiesFor the third time this month, Supreme Court blocks Missouri's House map meant to add a Republican seat, saying the election "has already started."
No public dissents from any justice
Some Missouri county clerks tell absentee voters to wait if they can, as the Supreme Court weighs a third appeal over the Trump-backed House map.
No way to recast ballots
Springfield, Missouri, police arrest a woman speaking against Flock cameras at a council meeting, after the mayor blocked public comment on reviewing them.
Ticket cites "middle finger to mayor"
JAMA study finds miscarriage patients in 14 abortion-ban states get less effective treatment as doctors avoid mifepristone over criminal liability fears.
Expectant management raises hemorrhage risk
South Carolina Senate rejects Trump-backed redistricting push to eliminate Clyburn's seat, hours after Missouri Supreme Court upholds new Republican map.
5 SC Republicans broke ranks
FOIA records show 180+ polluters got Clean Air Act exemptions through email requests with no EPA scientific review.
70 had recent EPA enforcement actions
Virginia Supreme Court strikes down voter-approved Democratic congressional map 4-3, ruling legislature passed referendum during early voting period.
Three million votes from April invalidated
Missouri waiting on $25.7 million in federal child care payments as advocacy group reports no state has received funding approval this week; daycares can't make payroll.
90% of program is federal funds
Federal appeals court reinstates Missouri's Trump-backed map favoring Republicans in seven of eight House seats, delaying it a week as absentee voting begins.
Military ballots already mailed using old map
Missouri Senator Hawley says former majority leader McConnell owes voters an explanation for a month-long absence as Republicans hold a slim Senate majority.
Fall, brief unconsciousness, then pneumonia
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesSupreme Court blocks Missouri's Trump-encouraged congressional map for November as the state's high court holds its election chief in contempt for telling counties to use it.
Primary was run under blocked map
Missouri Supreme Court unanimously blocks the Trump-backed congressional map for November, ruling it "has never been the law" until voters decide a 305,000-signature referendum.
Republicans call it "constitutional crisis," vow appeal
CNN, Politico and MS NOW sue Trump over their White House ban, as NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox refuse to film Trump in CNN's place.
Judge who restored Acosta's pass presiding
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