The rush to redraw America's congressional maps has put a historically Black neighborhood in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and a mostly white farming community 100 miles away in the same district.

Missouri's Republican-led House has passed a plan to redraw the state's congressional districts at the urging of President Donald Trump.

Some Missouri residents are denouncing a plan to redraw the state's congressional districts at the urging of President Donald Trump.

Christopher “Kit” Bond, a Republican who was Missouri’s youngest governor before serving four terms in the U.S. Senate, was remembered as a beloved statesman who helped train a generation of leaders.

Housing advocates are raising the alarm about House Republicans’ plan to dramatically cut the federal deficit to raise the debt ceiling.

Reaction to the death of Hall of Fame quarterback and broadcaster Len Dawson came in from around the NFL and Kansas City, where he starred for the Chiefs before becoming a mainstay on TV and radio.

Aspiring Republican candidates are jumping at two open Missouri U.S. congressional seats.

President Joe Biden is rebranding his bipartisan infrastructure package with the new slogan “Building a Better America.”.

In a single week, fractious congressional Democrats have coalesced significantly around President Joe Biden’s domestic ambitions.

WASHINGTON D.C. – The new year rang in the 117th Congress of the United States and people are buzzing about the opening prayer, rather than the politics. The prayer to open the 117th Congress ended with "amen and a-women." It's not a gendered word. Amen is commonly used after a prayer or formal statement to express ratification or agreement, according to dictionary.com. It isn’t a gendered word but that didn’t stop them from being insane.

It took a high-stakes Senate race and a Trump-era cultural debate to thrust Ebenezer Baptist Church into the center of the current political debate. “The Republican attack is not just against Warnock, it’s against the Black church and the Black religious experience,” said the Rev. ”It’s bigger than any individual.”Loeffler has responded, saying in a tweet last month that she isn't attacking the Black church. Since before the abolition of slavery, the Black church has played a role in brokering congregants' relationship to political power. It’s not uncommon for politicians, most often Democrats, to campaign from Black church pulpits.

Now Warnock is the politician running for office and the one under attack for his sometimes impassioned words from the pulpit. His opponent, Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, has blasted his rhetoric and proposals as “radical,” socialist and out of step with Georgia residents. At the Georgia Capitol in 2014, he was arrested while protesting the refusal of state Republicans to expand Medicaid. Warnock said he was trying to make sure young people had lawyers or family present when questioned by authorities. Warnock is right to keep focusing on his platform of a living wage, expanded health care options and voting rights, said the Rev.