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The Story: Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tx) has offered his take on the Senate race in Missouri, where an incumbent, Roy Blunt (R), is retiring. The...

The Story: Eric Greitens was elected Governor of Missouri in 2016 and inaugurated the following January. He resigned in June 2018, in the midst of...

Rachel Maddow reports on the sudden change of heart by Randall Williams, director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, ending his insistence on mandatory, medically unnecessary pelvic exams after three weeks of public outcry. » Subscribe to…

Missouri moved closer to becoming the first state without an abortion provider when its health department rejected a license renewal for the St. Louis Planned Parenthood location. #CNN #News

The state’s top-ranking Democrat is on her way out of elective politics, taking with her the last vestiges of Missouri’s former status as a “purple” state. Sen. Claire McCaskill’s exit is a loss not only to Missouri, which has enjoyed responsible and effective representation from her during her dozen years in the Senate, but to our national political system as well. As one of the few remaining moderates in an increasingly polarized Congress, McCaskill’s voice of reason will be missed. McCaskill, 65, a two-term senator, lost her bid for a third term in November to Republican Josh Hawley and delivered her farewell address to the Senate on Thursday. McCaskill told the Post-Dispatch’s Chuck Raasch that she won’t seek elective office again, ending speculation about a possible gubernatorial bid. But she vowed to remain politically active in supporting roles, potentially including working with Democratic legislative candidates. “I am not going to disappear,” she said. That’s good to know. But what ultimately tripped her up was the political story of these times: the ideological polarization of the country, separating Americans person by person, region by region, state by state. It is a longtime battleground state that in a few short years has shifted tectonically to its current status as solid-red Republican.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., speaks during the Senate Democrats news conference on tax reform in the Capitol on Nov. 28, 2017.Bill Clark / CQ Roll Call via Getty Images In her farewell speech on the Senate floor, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri on Thursday blasted the body's dysfunction, criticized her colleagues for being afraid to take tough votes, and said there are "too many embarrassing uncles in the United States Senate." "We have too many embarrassing uncles in the United States Senate. Lots of embarrassing stuff." Dec. 13, 201801:42 McCaskill added: "The United States Senate is no longer the world's greatest deliberative body. And everybody needs to quit saying it until we recover from this period of polarization and the fear of the political consequences of tough votes." I believe that we all know well that this is not a normal time, that the threats to our democracy from within and without are real, and none of us can say with confidence how the situation that we now find ourselves in will turn out." Flake, who did not run for re-election after becoming the most prominent GOP senator to routinely criticize President Donald Trump, did not mention the president by name in his address. "I sat there in Africa and read Havel’s speech — an encomium to democracy, a love letter to America, literary and inspiring — and I was overcome by his words," he said. In some ways, that man knows your country better than you do." Flake then turned his attention to some of today's dilemmas.

The Story: Yesterday, while Americans voted, the US Supreme Court heard arguments about the meaning of the constitutional phrase "cruel and unusual punishment," in a...

Sean Hannity defied his own words on Monday, appearing on stage at President Donald Trump's final election rally after having said he wouldn't.

Cape Girardeau, Missouri - Special guests Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Lee Greenwood will be in attendance at President Trump's last campaign rally for the 2018 midterm elections. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to…

The president boards Air Force 1 at Joint Base Andrews en route to his upcoming rally in Columbia, Missouri. Catch tonight's rally LIVE here: https://youtu.be/rlv_74rmHbw FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news…