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KSGF (Springfield): Mornings with Nick Reed: Congressman Eric Burlison on Iraq, midterm elections, Vitae Foundation event, I-44

KC Star: Congressional delegation reacts to Trump’s beef plan

KSHB (Kansas City): President Trump’s plan to lower beef prices draws sharp criticism from Missouri rancher; statements from offices of Congressman Mark Alford, departing Congressmen Sam Graves and Emanuel Cleaver

KCUR (Kansas City): El Salvador alien complains about deportation, wants to return to KC

Reuters: Boeing awarded $131 billion contract for F-15 work to be done in St. Louis

KBIA (Columbia): Department of Energy leaders visit Jefferson City

St. Louis Magazine: Missouri AG asks the court to force Cori Bush’s Politivist Power to turn over records

St. Louis Magazine: Mercedes-buying Missouri minister goes on trial this week for pandemic fraud

KCMO (Kansas City): Pete Mundo in the Morning: Faughn Media’s (The Missouri Times, Jefferson City News Tribune, Fulton Sun, California Democrat) Scott Faughn on State Fair winners and losers and the future of Missouri

Nexstar (Fox 2 St. Louis, Fox4 KC, KOLR 10): Local school leaders caution against oversimplification as Missouri schools prepare for new A-F grading system

SNL: Improvements coming to I-44 include more lanes, better interchanges

P-D: Suit: ‘Illegal’ abortion conducted by St. Louis Planned Parenthood led to executive’s firing (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

97.1 FM (St. Louis): Marc Cox Morning Show: Missouri AG Catherine Hanaway on kratom enforcement, federal anti-crime operations, and consumer price gouging investigations

JCNT: Missourians donate more than 800k meals to families in need

P-D: Former St. Louis water employee alleges division falsified its water-quality records to stay within Missouri DNR and U.S. EPA guidelines (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: Missouri reports more than 2,000 cyclosporiasis cases as curve flattens, outbreak slows

Missouri Independent: Missouri military family needed IVF. Starbucks offered better coverage than the Army

KC Star: Kansas City admits, then backtracks claim that mayor ordered audit of The Star’s bias

KC Star op-ed: U.S. Rep. Mark Alford: We need more hamburger helper, but imports aren’t the answer (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

KC Star’s David Hudnall: Missouri ranchers buck Trump’s beef plan

Salon op-ed: ProPublica’s Jeremy Kohler: Missouri Republicans are trying to repeal abortion rights by leaning into anti-trans sentiment

Yesterday’s (Monday, August 24, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

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