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UM System President Mun Choi spoke to the MU Faculty Council about the upcoming academic year. -
Lawmakers are making it more difficult to take water out of Missouri. -
The Missouri legislature approved a law that would prohibit the sale of multiple invasive plants, including burning bush and Callery pear. -
Backers of paid sick leave and minimum wage increases say they may pursue a constitutional amendment, which lawmakers couldn't repeal. -
The session had been scheduled to end on Friday. It's the first time in more than 70 years that the House has adjourned early. -
More than three-fourths of K-12 teachers say they have considered leaving the field since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent survey of mostly Missouri teachers.
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Powerful storms and tornadoes tore through Midwestern and Southern states overnight Friday, leaving carnage and flattened buildings in their wake. -
NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the discovery that what Harvard University thought was a copy of the Magna Carta is actually an original. -
Hollywood's plummeting film and TV production levels have studio executives and grassroots groups pushing for better incentives to keep business in California.
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