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Racers in the MR340 attempt to paddle the length of the lower Missouri River from Kansas City to St. Louis in under 85 hours.
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The couple's 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother's body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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State Sen. Rick Brattin, R-Harrisonville, wants to know how the staff at the Daniel Boone Regional Library planned Saturday’s LGBTQ+ themed reading event for toddlers and preschoolers.
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A Planned Parenthood clinic began providing medication abortion Monday while also expanding pain management for IUD placements and biopsies
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For the past several days, parts of Missouri have been under an extreme heat warning with high temperatures and heat indexes well above 100 degrees.
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Animal rescue leaders say new rules meant to prevent the spread of the livestock parasite make sense. But they are also costly for overcrowded shelters in Texas, which transfer many pets to other states.
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French authorities ordered 4,000 more people evacuated from tourist sites along its Atlantic coast, widening what may be France's largest peacetime evacuation.
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Temporary protected status was given to Haitians after the 2010 quake because Haiti was deemed too dangerous for a safe return. In June, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to end TPS.
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A Nevada judge ruled on Tuesday that the recording of an interview the man accused in the killing Tupac Shakur gave to police in 2008 could be used at his upcoming trial.
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