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Missouri Democrats flipped the two seats needed in the state Senate as well as 16 seats in the House. Republicans have held at least a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers since 2012.
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Missouri Independent
After losing 16 House seats and their legislative supermajority, some Missouri Republicans blamed their own unpopular agenda while others pointed to national headwinds. Every major policy initiative put before voters by Republicans since Gov. Mike Kehoe took office has gone down to defeat.
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Kansas News
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Linda O'Nelio Knoll
The striking and solidarity movement for southeast Kansas coal miners in the early 1900s had a national impact.
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Kansas News Service
Chris Mann and Kris Kobach's campaign
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The killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during the ICE surge in Minneapolis last winter was a pivotal moment for the country. After Democrats' sweeping wins this week, their deaths at the hands of immigration agents will likely be the targets of renewed investigations. -
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Google, Meta, and TikTok have sued California to block the enforcement of a state law meant to protect children from getting addicted to social media.
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Ancient Egyptian mummy remains were once marketed as medicine. Research finds at least some of these products came from real human remains and that mummy materials keep bodies preserved for millennia.
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The change in the Senate's majority party means that starting Jan. 3, Democrats will run federal judicial appointments and may continue to until at least 2030.
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