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Missourinet: Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt’s viral Congressional Baseball Game catch has everyone talking

The Hill: Schmitt’s diving catch in baseball game makes ESPN’s top plays

P-D’s Joe Holleman: Eric Schmitt makes ESPN with diving catch in Congressional baseball game (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Fox News: Schmitt shares the heartwarming backstory about his special baseball glove

Fox News: Schmitt goes in-depth on diving catch & changes to college athletics on ‘Ruthless Podcast’

Fox News: The Ingraham Angle: Schmitt details diving catch that left him bloodied

Nexstar (Fox 2 St. Louis, Fox4 KC, KOLR 10): Josh Hawley’s child trafficking enforcement plan signed into law

St. Louis Public Radio: Event promo: Come learn how to use anti-ICE database to track local immigration enforcement

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KC Star: Trump administration threatens to pull KC-area schools’ funding in Title IX dispute

P-D: Missouri exploring whether to add foster kids to new Trump savings accounts (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Nexstar (Fox 2 St. Louis, Fox4 KC, KOLR 10): AG Hanaway blasts appeals court for Amendment 5 rewrite

Joplin Globe: Joplin officials hear more on Amendment 5 question (avoid Joplin Globe paywall by reading archived version here)

Gray Media (KY3, KCTV, KMOV, KFVS): Missouri’s potential budget crisis calls income tax cut plan into question

Missouri Independent: Missouri courts keep rewriting ballot language as fights over initiative petitions intensify

KSIS (Sedalia): Gov. Kehoe, state lawmakers attend campaign event for Brad Pollitt

KC Star: Missouri Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick warns of looming deficit. Could governor slash spending?

Warren County Record: Missouri state Sen. Ben Brown (R-Washington) and Rep. Jeff Myers (R-Warrenton) field questions on schools, taxes in aftermath of legislative session

KC Star: We asked 18 KC leaders how World Cup is safe with rally shooters free. What they said

Amazon.com: KC’s 2026 World Cup games: Official FIFA merch, clothing, collectibles, kids’ stuff and keepsakes (note: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.)

JCNT: Missouri municpalities, Ameren lock horns in Rush Island case

St. Louis Public Radio: Push to ban large-scale data center development in St. Louis fails as zoning rules head to aldermen

P-D editorial: At Francis Howell, an avoidable hiring blunder followed by outrageous secrecy (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio intern St. Louis Annisyn Krebs-Carr and Midwest Newsroom “immigrants and immigration” content creator Steph Conquest-Ware: St. Louis World Cup watch party is a celebration amid immigration policy unease

Missouri Independent op-ed: Patrick Tuohey: PortKC’s oversight failures are now Missouri lawmakers’ problem

P-D letter: Springfield’s Traci Goldstein says Post-Dispatch’s Aisha Sultan misrepresented Missouri’s new antisemitism law (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Yesterday’s (Thursday, June 11, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

Amazon.com: John Combest: Stalking, Harassment, Internet Trolling: A Guide to Recovering and Rebuilding After Online Attacks – available in paperback and Amazon Kindle (note: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.)

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