Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the spring of 1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet Robinson Scott thought they had a chance at freedom. They lived in Missouri ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction ...

As the country celebrates its 250th birthday, we turn to an essential question - what does it mean to be an American? In a landmark ruling last week, the Supreme Court said almost all babies born on U ...

In a highly anticipated decision, the Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, reaffirming that children born in the United States are citizens under the ...

With only an afternoon and evening to explore St. Louis before my six-day Wilderness Voyageurs bike trip on the Katy Trail across Missouri, I immediately set out from the 21c Museum Hotel for Gateway ...

The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." So it was a surprisingly close decision, given this text, when ...