It's the first time in more than 70 years that the House has adjourned early. The session had been scheduled to end on Friday.

The decision was remarkable, signifying a retaliatory response from the Republican-controlled General Assembly after nearly 52% of voters overturned the state’s abortion ban.

The legislation repeals the entire earned sick leave portion of Proposition A as well as a portion of the minimum wage increase. Only one Republican joined all Democrats in voting no.

Democrats in the Missouri Senate vowed the procedural moves, which are rarely used, would lead to a "painful" response in the future.

Missouri voters passed a voter-led ballot initiative enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution last year.

Months after voters enshrined abortion rights in the state’s constitution, Missouri lawmakers are asking them to reconsider.

Missouri lawmakers have approved a referendum seeking to repeal an abortion-rights amendment passed by voters six months ago

Christopher “Kit” Bond, a Republican who brought billions of dollars in federal funding to Missouri during his four terms in the U.S. Senate and who was state’s the youngest person to be governor, died Tuesday. He was 86.

Bond’s political career spanned four decades, during which he went from young, relatively liberal whiz kid to born-again conservative.