When President-elect Donald Trump announced his pick for U.S. solicitor general, he tapped one of the leading anti-abortion lawyers in Missouri: D. John Sauer. Sauer was solicitor general of Missouri from 2017 through 2022 under Republican Sens.

A late report adding nearly 10,000 votes to Christian County’s election results has narrowed the margin for Missouri’s sports betting amendment and put it in range for a possible recount.

Abortion rights have been a major issue in the 2022 midterm election and this year's election after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the summer of 2022, which ended the U.S. constitutional right to abortion and left the issue up to the states.

Missouri voters on Tuesday approved a ballot measure aimed at banning ranked-choice voting in the state, Decision Desk HQ projects. The proposed amendment to the state constitution will bar

Missouri voters are set to decide whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. A measure to end the state’s near-total abortion ban goes before voters Tuesday.

Sen. Josh Hawley will be returning to D.C. in January. The Associated Press called the Senate race with about half of Missouri votes counted.

Following the election, there is new leadership in Missouri's upper chamber, making history in the Show Me State.

Every political committee must have a name, but there are no rules that it relate in any way to the interest or candidate being promoted.

While many of us have reacted in horror to the results of this election, the policy agenda of the second Trump administration is one progressives in red states are used to fighting back against. Missouri was the first state to enact a near-total abortion ban after the Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v.

D. John Sauer, who previously served as Missouri solicitor general, and Will Scharf, who ran for attorney general, will have jobs on Trump's team.

President-elect Donald Trump tapped two Missouri members of the legal team for jobs in the new administration, naming D. John Sauer solicitor general and Will Scharf assistant to the president and White House staff secretary.

The Missouri Family Health Council says requests for emergency contraception kits rose from 17 a day to about 90.