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St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum: Missouri’s redistricting fight in turmoil as U.S. Supreme Court and federal orders clash

AP: Competing court orders add confusion to Missouri congressional elections

NY Post: Federal judge rules Missouri can use GOP-friendly map in midterms – for now – after Supreme Court declines to hear case

Roll Call: Federal judge orders Missouri to use map eliminating Cleaver

POLITICO: Missouri’s redistricting in flux after dissonant court rulings

NBC: Conflicting court rulings leave Missouri’s congressional map in limbo

Reuters: Courts issue conflicting rulings on Missouri’s Republican-drawn congressional map

NY Times: Dueling court rulings leave Missouri’s congressional races in chaos (avoid NY Times paywall by reading archived version here)

The Guardian (UK): Missouri congressional maps thrown into chaos after conflicting court rulings

P-D: US Supreme Court declines to block Mo. high court’s ruling against GOP redistricting (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

KC Star: Federal judge orders Missouri to use revamped map after SCOTUS denial (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

KC Star: U.S. Supreme Court rejects Missouri’s push to overturn revamped map ruling (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

KSDK (St. Louis): Map challengers ask Missouri Supreme Court to hold Hoskins in contempt as federal order revives the new districts

SCOTUSblog: Justice Kavanaugh turns down request from Missouri to use congressional map expected to aid Republicans

KCTV (Kansas City): Show-Me State Showdown: Missouri Supreme Court orders Hoskins to appear in court over map dispute

KCMO (Kansas City): Pete Mundo in the Morning: AG Catherine Hanaway on redistricting cases (recorded Tuesday morning)

This Week in Missouri Politics #TWMPDaily: Missouri Senate Majority Caucus General Counsel Bryce Beal on Missouri redistricting (recorded Tuesday morning)

Missouri Independent: Missouri Supreme Court orders Denny Hoskins to answer on contempt charge

St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis postal worker Armond Paige accused of dumping at least 30,000 pieces of mail

KSDK (St. Louis): Urban postal worker dumped 30,000 pieces of mail over two years, feds say

P-D: Judge says Missouri pastor enabled $1.2 million pandemic federal loan fraud scheme at black church (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

KC Star: Missouri abortion rights groups launch first TV ads to halt proposed ban in November (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

JCNT: Missouri August general revenue collection jumps 4 percent over last year

93.9 The Eagle’s Wake Up Missouri (Columbia, Springfield, Cape Girardeau): NFIB’s Brad Jones on August jobs report and Missouri’s economy

St. Louis Magazine: SLU-based workforce academy gets caught in Missouri budget cuts

Columbia Daily Tribune: State Treasurer Vivek Malek’s unclaimed property auction sets record

Missouri Independent: Hemp THC businesses brace for ban in November, drinks get one month of relief

The Beacon (Kansas City): New Medicaid requirements likely to put stress on KC hospitals

St. Louis Public Radio: As state intervention looms, task force leader says St. Louis County schools need regional overhaul

Brownfield Ag News: Expanding drought creates mounting challenges for Missouri cattle producers; insights from Missouri Department of Agriculture’s Tony Hancock

Joplin Globe: Missouri Department of Conservation to hold landowner meetings to develop new hunter-led, localized management effort to address CWD (avoid Joplin Globe paywall by reading archived version here)

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KC Star’s Toriano Porter: It’s clear who caused Missouri gerrymandering legal chaos. Now they own it 

P-D’s Tony Messenger: Victims of Missouri ‘squatter’s law’ seek justice, and a place to stay (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

KC Star op-ed: Saint Louis Uni­versity’s School of Edu­ca­tion’s Collin Hitt: Education is changing in Missouri. Here’s how it affects your student

Missouri Independent op-ed: Judy Young: Missouri schools deserve better than a single letter grade

Columbia Missourian op-ed: Coalition for a Prosperous America’s Andrew Rechenberg: Missouri’s aluminum jobs are downstream – but nearly got sold down the river

Yesterday’s (Tuesday, September 8, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

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