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CybersecurityStudent hackers get revenge on final exams as ‘ShinyHunters’ takes down nearly 9,000 schools study software
By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated PressMay 8, 2026

Law‘Highly qualified White, Asian, and other students were denied admission’: DOJ accuses UCLA of discrimination
By Heather Hollingsworth, Collin Binkley and The Associated PressMay 6, 2026

Politics‘This utter lack of communication and consultation flies in the face of federal law’: states push against immigration detention plans
By The Associated Press and Heather HollingsworthApril 9, 2026

PoliticsAt least 20 communities with large warehouses are stealth targets for massive ICE detention centers. ‘There was absolutely no warning’
By Heather Hollingsworth, Morgan Lee and The Associated PressFebruary 21, 2026

By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated PressJanuary 15, 2026

LawMonkeys are on the loose in St. Louis, and AI-generated jokes are just slowing down animal control’s primate chase
By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated PressJanuary 12, 2026

Cybersecurity13-year-old girl attacked a boy showing an AI-generated nude image of her. She was expelled
By Heather Hollingsworth, Jack Brook and The Associated PressDecember 22, 2025

LawMissouri is trying to collect on a $25 billion court judgment over what caused the pandemic. China sued in response
By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated PressDecember 17, 2025

LawJudge fond of wearing Elvis Presley wig in court agrees to resign after letter accused him of violating ‘order and decorum’
By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated PressNovember 23, 2025

Law‘People are exceptionally panicking’: SNAP disaster leaves many Americans unable to feed their pets, let alone pay their bills
By Heather Hollingsworth, Stephen Smith and The Associated PressNovember 8, 2025

FinanceA judge once called Leavenworth’s federal prison a ‘hell hole.’ CoreCivic will get $4.2 million per month to reopen the long-shuttered facility to hold thousands of migrants arrested by ICE
By Heather Hollingsworth, John Hanna and The Associated PressJune 16, 2025

PoliticsHer 12-year-old son has autism and epilepsy and was kicked out of class. Now she waits for answers with the Education Department in limbo
By Heather Hollingsworth, Collin Binkley, Annie Ma and The Associated PressFebruary 22, 2025

HealthMissouri judge to consider overturning state’s near-total abortion ban after voters back abortion-rights amendment
By Summer Ballentine, Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated PressDecember 4, 2024

By Stephen Smith, Kate Payne, Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated PressSeptember 29, 2024
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