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2 days ago | kcur.org | Brian Ellison

Sen. Josh Hawley spent his first time in office building up his reputation as an arch-conservative — and in the Jan. 6 insurrection linked himself to President Trump and the MAGA movement. But in several ways, the Missouri senator is also positioning himself as a champion of the working class. Robert Draper, domestic politics reporter for the New York Times, joined Steve Kraske on Up To Date to discuss the sometimes perplexing policy positions of Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley.

2 days ago | kcur.org | Hector Arzate |Héctor Alejandro Arzate

A recent executive order signed by President Donald Trump requires all commercial truck drivers in the United States to be proficient in English. There’s already a federal rule that mandates commercial drivers must understand English well enough to read traffic signs, among other criteria, but the new directive calls for previous guidance from 2016 to be rescinded in place of more rigorous proficiency standards.

3 days ago | kcur.org | Sarah Fentem |Will Bauer

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV’s path to the Vatican made an early stop in St. Louis. The Roman Catholic Church's cardinals on Thursday elected the 69-year-old native Chicagoan after a two-day conclave in Vatican City. Born Robert Prevost, the first American pope lived in St. Louis in the 1970s while studying to become a priest. In 1977, he entered a novitiate of the Order of St. Augustine at a parish near the present-day St. Louis University medical campus.

3 days ago | kcur.org | Martin Rosenberg

Arrowheads, skinning knives, spearheads pulled from Kansas City fields and prehistoric woven fibers teased from centuries-cold fire pits sit on the floor of a closed wing of the Wyandotte County Historical Museum. They are now under a yearlong review to comply with strict federal guidelines designed to give Native American tribes greater control of the items’ fate. Few area residents know about the small museum nestled downwind of the Kansas Speedway.

4 days ago | kcur.org | Blaise Mesa

Stacy Crow made sure to check the outdoor cameras at Shirley Crow’s house in Wichita every now and again. Stacy lived five hours away from her 85-year-old mother-in-law, and the video check-ins were necessary because Shirley had Alzheimer’s disease and needed regular medication. “We did like to just see her out on her porch drinking coffee and know she’s doing well,” Stacy said.