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A three-judge federal panel struck down Texas’ new congressional map on racial gerrymandering grounds. Challenges to Missouri’s map don’t involve the same type of claim.

From tiny Curaçao, to troubled Haiti's remarkable comeback, discover how some of the smallest nations in the world are defying the odds to qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

“Faith, Family, and Flag” explores how Branson, Missouri, became America’s capital for conservative entertainment.

Firefighters and army helicopters battled a fire that burned through old wooden houses in a fishing town in southwestern Japan.

Federal food assistance has started to flow again after the government reopened. But the charitable food system is planning for continued need through the end of the year.

The State Board of Elections voted 4-4 along party lines as to whether Senate President Don Harmon should pay a nearly $10 million fine for allegedly violating state campaign finance laws in 2024.

More than 30 Metro East veterans made a last-ditch appeal for more funding at the St. Clair County Board's Finance Committee meeting this week. The full board will vote next week.

'Struggling artists' isn't a trope, according to a new report. The survey asked more than 2,600 artists about everything from hours worked to housing.

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective subjectivity, to the inner life of a country in the throes of deep pain and uncertainty.

Nov. 19 is World Toilet Day — officially declared by the United Nations to bring attention to the 3.4 billion people who live without "safely managed sanitation."

The artist's 1940 painting, El sueño (La cama), was expected to sell for $40 to $60 million on Thursday night. It sold for $54.7 million.

For years, the state’s Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals annual totals for the first time.