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Missouri Rep. Ann Wagner (R) is endorsing Ted Cruz ahead of her state's primary March 15, praising the Republican presidential candidate as a "trusted" conservative. "Missouri families deserve a trusted conservative leader like Ted Cruz who shares our values and will fight for us in Washington," Wagner said in a statement Friday. She called on Republicans to unite behind Cruz in Missouri, which is one of five states to vote Tuesday. Cruz is second in delegates to front-runner Donald Trump.

For instance, a number of African Americans I interviewed worried that guns heightened racial tensions. I met a man named John Steen who now thinks twice about shopping at Sam's Club. Steen, a Vietnam veteran who works in Kansas City, used to stop by the wholesale megastore on his way home from his job as a home health-care provider. But that was before he saw armed white men strolling through the aisles exerting what gun proponents describe as their "unalienable" rights to carry firearms into public spaces including retail stores. For Steen and other African Americans in Kansas City, the...

An anticipated enrollment decline of 1,500 students following protests that roiled the University of Missouri has forced the college to cut general revenue budgets by 5 percent and institute a hiring freeze to help close a projected $32 million shortfall. Interim University of Missouri chancellor Hank Foley sent a memo to the campus on Wednesday detailing the moves, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported. “I am writing to you today to confirm that we project a very significant budget shortfall due to an unexpected sharp decline in first-year enrollments and student retention this coming fall,” Foley wrote in the memo. Foley’s...

Friday, March 11, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a special press conference in Palm Beach, FL from the Mar-A-Lago Club. The event is scheduled to begin at 9:00 AM EST. Friday, March 11, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in St. Louis, MO at the Peabody Opera House. The event is scheduled to begin at 12:00 PM CST. PEABODY OPERA HOUSE Friday, March 11, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Chicago, IL at the University of Illinois-Chicago Pavillion. The event is scheduled to begin at 6:00...

After a failed 37-hour filibuster by Democrats, the Missouri Senate on Thursday passed a proposal to add greater religious protections to the state constitution for some business owners and individuals opposed to gay marriage. Senators voted 23-7 along party lines to give the measure final approval after the Democratic filibuster ground work in the chamber to a halt. Division over the measure highlights national debate over how to balance civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and religious liberties following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling last summer that legalized same-sex marriages in all states. …

<p>The fallout from the fake Mizzou protests continues to destablize the University of Missouri. Today the interim chancellor of the university emailed students that the university will enroll 1500 less students than projected and faces a budget shortfall of $32 million this year.</p>

University of Missouri, one of the original flashpoints of protests at colleges across the country, is reaping a bitter harvest this coming year as freshman enrollment and retention of existing students will be down by 1500, according to an email sent by the interim Chancellor Hank Foley. Foley replaced Chancellor R. Bowen Liftin who resigned under pressure from protestors. Not only is Freshman enrollment down 20%, but upper class students are leaving the school in droves. This has created a budget shortfall of $32 million. Columbia Tribune: “I am writing to you today to confirm that we project a very...

Update at 2 a.m. Wednesday: The Missouri Highway Patrol says that Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, 40, who is suspected of gunning down five people, four of them in Kansas City, Kan., was arrested about 12:18 a.m. Wednesday in Montgomery County, Mo. Serrano-Vitorino was found lying in mud on a hill just north of Interstate 70 outside the search perimeter. He was armed with a rifle, but no shots were fired. Serrano-Vitorino Serrano-Vitorino “He looked exhausted,” said Sgt. James Hedrick of the Missouri Highway Patrol. There is a culvert that runs underneath the interstate, but it was not immediately clear if that...

Killer Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, 40, is a previously deported undocumented illegal immigrant from Mexico. Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino was captured last night in rural Missouri after reportedly killing four people in Kansas City.

A 39-hour filibuster led by Democratic legislators in Missouri ended Wednesday morning when Republicans forced a vote on a controversial measure to add more religious protections to people opposed to same-sex marriage. The bill, known as Senate Joint Resolution 39, passed 21-11 after the GOP senators broke the filibuster using a procedural move. The talk-a-thon on the Missouri State Capitol floor in Jefferson City — perhaps the longest continuous filibuster in the state's history — began 4 p.m. Monday. The Democrats took turns criticizing the hot-button bill. It proposes to amend the Missouri Constitution and prohibit the state from "penalizing...

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is projected to win the Idaho primary. NBC News called the race for Cruz just before midnight Eastern — less than an hour after polls closed in the state. Fox News called it moments later. The state’s result was in great doubt leading into Tuesday's primary because of a lack of polling in the state. Most pundits had shied away from making a prediction. The Texas senator was endorsed by Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), an influential member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. Idaho awards 32 delegates on a proportional basis.

The debate started with a bleep, when Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, D-St. Louis, questioned Republican Sen. Dan Brown of Rolla, the bill's Senate carrier. "Senator, you know, out of all due respect, this is some bull (expletive)," Nasheed said. Brown disagreed, and Nasheed was chastised for not maintaining decorum. "Senator, what you're doing right now — what you're doing is trying to undermine and do away with unions as we know it. That's what you're doing."

From Michigan to Louisiana to California on Friday, rank-and-file Republicans expressed mystification, dismissal and contempt regarding the instructions that their party's most high-profile leaders were urgently handing down to them: Reject and defeat Donald J. Trump. Their angry reactions, in the 24 hours since Mitt Romney and John McCain urged millions of voters to cooperate in a grand strategy to undermine Mr. Trump's candidacy, have captured the seemingly inexorable force of a movement that still puzzles the Republican elite and now threatens to unravel the party they hold dear. In interviews, even lifelong Republicans who cast a ballot for Mr....

From Michigan to Louisiana to California on Friday, rank-and-file Republicans expressed mystification, dismissal and contempt regarding the instructions that their party’s most high-profile leaders were urgently handing down to them: Reject and defeat Donald J. Trump. Their angry reactions, in the 24 hours since Mitt Romney and John McCain urged millions of voters to cooperate in a grand strategy to undermine Mr. Trump’s candidacy, have captured the seemingly inexorable force of a movement that still puzzles the Republican elite and now threatens to unravel the party they hold dear. In interviews, even lifelong Republicans who cast a ballot for Mr....

From Michigan to Louisiana to California on Friday, rank-and-file Republicans expressed mystification, dismissal and contempt over the instructions that their party’s most high-profile leaders were urgently handing down to them: Reject and defeat Donald J. Trump. Their angry reactions, in the 24 hours since Mitt Romney and John McCain urged millions of voters to cooperate in a grand strategy to undermine Mr. Trump’s candidacy, have captured the seemingly inexorable force of a movement that still puzzles the Republican elite and now threatens to unravel the party they hold dear. In interviews, even lifelong Republicans who cast a ballot for Mr....

Thirteen states hold primaries or caucuses over the next two weeks. Of them, Trump is leading polls in nine, according to the RealClearPolitics average, including some of the most important, winner-take-all states. The other states — Hawaii, Maine, Idaho, and Missouri — don't have any recent polls listed on the site. They're also the three states with the fewest delegates to award. And in Maine, Trump has the endorsement of Gov. Paul LePage.

The New York Times greets people at newsstands today with huge headlines, usual reserved for wars and other historic events. "Romney ... Trump ... Nation in peril." And, yet, before the ink is even dry, the Romney-led #NeverTrump movement is visibly a flop. And the Romney speech is a non-story. A. RNC Chairman Priebus: The rules of the nominating process are “no different today than 100 years ago. Which is you have a process. And whatever candidate gets a majority of the delegates is going to get the support of the party. That’s how it works,” Reince Priebus said on...

How panicked should we be about the rise of Donald Trump? A professor at Harvard, Danielle Allen, recently published a widely shared op-ed piece in the Washington Post likening his rise to that of Hitler... ...such Hitler hype has happened before, and been unwarranted. Steven Hayward, author of “The Age of Reagan,” recalls the rhetoric: Democratic Rep. William Clay of Missouri charged that Reagan was “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.”

Melissa Click, an assistant mass media communications professor at the University of Missouri, is currently suspended for assaulting a student journalist during a protest and calling for "muscle" to push the journalist out of the way. But, this was not the first incident involving the professor and the profession of free speech. Let's take a look at what has happened the past four months regarding Professor Click: • On November 9, 2015, Click called for "muscle" at a protest on the college campus, which was caught on video and went viral. • She resigned from a courtesy position in the...