From the Wire

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Leaders of a Tennessee abortion clinic calculated driving distances and studied passenger rail routes as they scanned the map for another place to offer services if the U.S. Supreme Court lets states restrict or eliminate abortion rights.

The Missouri Supreme Court denied a request by U.S. Senate candidate Mark McCloskey and his wife to give free legal advice to a conservative activist group as a condition of their professional probation, but McCloskey said Thursday he'll try to find another right-wing organization to represent.

In the five months that Jennifer Anne Hall was a respiratory therapist at Hedrick Medical Center, the rural Missouri hospital experienced 18 "code blue" incidents -- an alarming increase in sudden cardiac arrest events for a hospital that historically averaged one of them a year, according to a police investigator.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The city of St. Louis will pay a St. Louis assistant police chief nearly $162,000 to settle his federal discrimination lawsuit in which he alleged he was passed over for the city's top police job because he is white.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signed new U.S. House districts into law Wednesday that are expected to shore up Republican strength in the state's most competitive congressional district ahead of this year's elections.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Tyler O'Neill had the simplest of goals in the ninth inning of a tied game.

Administrators at a Missouri school district that is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation failed to protect a Black teen from repeated racial taunts that culminated with him being threatened with a lynching, a lawsuit alleges.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Several mainstream Republican Senate candidates are drawing on the "great replacement" conspiracy theory once confined to the far-right fringes of U.S. politics to court voters this campaign season, promoting the baseless notion that there is a plot to diminish the influence of white people in America.

The day's first caller begged for help to cross state lines and end her pregnancy. "Please," the woman from Texas said in her voicemail. "Anything would be greatly appreciated."

Workers at a public library system based in Columbia are voting this week on whether to become the only active public librarians union in the state.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 16, 2022.

LATHROP, Mo. (AP) -- A man who was recently released from prison has been charged with kidnapping and other felonies after authorities said he threatened to kill and severely beat a woman he met on a dating site, keeping her imprisoned for two days at his father's home in northwestern Missouri.

POTOSI, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri prosecutor is seeking to vacate the conviction of a man who spent nearly two decades behind bars for the 1998 death of his mother -- a crime he and others insist he did not commit.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- An 11-year-old girl is the fifth person to die from her injuries in a crash caused by a vehicle that police had tried to stop in the minutes before it hit a van carrying seven family members, authorities said.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Criminal defendants in Oregon who have gone without legal representation for long periods of time amid a critical shortage of public defense attorneys filed a lawsuit Monday that alleges the state violated their constitutional right to legal counsel and a speedy trial.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- With upcoming data showing traffic deaths soaring, the Biden administration is steering $5 billion in federal aid to cities and localities to address the growing crisis by slowing down cars, carving out bike paths and wider sidewalks and nudging commuters to public transit.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A Missouri man has been acquitted of murdering a 19-year-old man and the woman who witnessed that shooting in 2020.

MAPLEWOOD, Mo. (AP) -- A woman who operated a day care center from her St. Louis County home has been sentenced to prison for causing the death of an infant.

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana (AP) -- An attorney arguing for 24 states urged a federal judge Friday to block Biden administration plans to lift pandemic-related restrictions on migrants requesting asylum, saying the decision was made without sufficient consideration on the effects the move could have on public health and law enforcement.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri lawmakers passed few bills during the 2022 legislative session, in part because of gridlock in the Republican-led Senate.

GENEVA -- The international Red Cross says it has been visiting prisoners of war on "all sides" since the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine almost three months ago.

BERLIN (AP) -- Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder plans to leave the board of directors of Russian state energy company Rosneft as a backlash over his ties with Russia and its energy sector mounts.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nina Jankowicz, like so many millennials, was excited to share a social media post announcing her new job on Twitter late last month when she was named executive director for a new disinformation board established by the Department of Homeland Security.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- President Joe Biden hopes to use his visit to Asia to confirm his belief that long-standing friendships can afford to become even friendlier -- and pay dividends. He opened the trip in South Korea on Friday and will end in Japan next week at a time when world events are resetting the foundations of the global order.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street pointed toward gains before the opening bell Friday after a surprise interest rate cut from China lowered, at least temporarily, the anxiety over a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) -- Eleven soldiers were killed and nearly two dozen injured by jihadis targeting a military base in eastern Burkina Faso, the government said.

KOENIGSWINTER, Germany (AP) -- The Group of Seven leading economies and global financial institutions are providing $19.8 billion in aid to bolster Ukraine's public finances, Germany's finance minister said Friday.

BERLIN (AP) -- Police in Germany say two French nationals died after their motorized paraglider was caught by a strong gust of wind and crashed in a field in the center of the country.

KOENIGSWINTER, Germany (AP) -- German finance minister: G7 countries, global financial institutions are providing $19.8 billion in aid to Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukrainian authorities said Friday that their troops repelled a Russian attack in the east, as Moscow struggled to gain ground in the region that is now the focus of the war even as it intensified its campaign there.

GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. is warning that 18 million people in Africa's Sahel region face severe hunger in the next three months, citing the impacts of Russia's war in Ukraine, the coronavirus pandemic, climate-induced shocks and rising costs.

BEIJING (AP) -- China is holding military exercises in the disputed South China Sea coinciding with U.S. President Joe Biden's visits to South Korea and Japan that are largely focused on countering the perceived threat from Beijing.

NEW YORK (AP) -- For some survivors, the sounds are a part of what still haunts them. People screaming. Car tires screeching. An engine revving.

LONDON (AP) -- As more cases of monkeypox are detected in Europe and North America, some scientists who have monitored numerous outbreaks in Africa say they are baffled by the unusual disease's spread in the West.

GENEVA (AP) -- The United Nations' top human rights official will visit China next week on a trip that will take her to the Xinjiang region, where rights groups and some Western governments allege the Chinese government is committing genocide and serious abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.

CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian authorities have transferred a prominent political activist from a maximum-security prison where he was allegedly tortured and denied basic rights to a new correctional facility, his family said on Thursday.

Being in debt feels like you're always a step behind. It doesn't help that debt is spoken about as something that's your fault -- too much online shopping, or too many pricey pitchers of mimosas at brunch.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- New legislation introduced in the Senate would require the Justice Department to establish guidelines for the federal Bureau of Prisons and state correctional systems to notify the families of incarcerated people if their loved one has a serious illness, a life-threatening injury or if they die behind bars.

SRINAGAR, India (AP) -- Rescuers have found the body of one worker in Indian-controlled Kashmir after part of a tunnel collapsed in the Himalayan region and are continuing to search for nine others who are trapped, officials said Friday.

LONDON (AP) -- U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing criticism from the leader of Northern Ireland's biggest unionist party after saying Congress won't approve a trade deal with the U.K. if Britain scraps the agreement governing post-Brexit trade on the Irish island.