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Republicans in statehouses are emboldened by GOP electoral successes to push a new wave of bills to restrict transgender rights and gender-affirming care
President Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving life in prison
Kansas will no longer change transgender people’s birth certificates to reflect their gender identities
A longshot Republican candidate for Missouri governor and his supporters describe his use of a flamethrower at a recent “Freedom Fest” event outside St. Louis as no big deal
New regulations in Nebraska require trans youth seeking gender-affirming care to wait seven days to start puberty blocking medications or hormone treatments
The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas has resigned, days after he was suspended from his post
It took only a week for the central Kansas police chief who led an August raid on the local newspaper to go from looking like he had enough support at city hall to keep his job to resigning
A homeless man has been charged with murder and rape in the killing of a 5-year-old girl in Topeka, Kansas
Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline for two weeks a “security incident.”
A Kansas judge has put a new state law on medication abortions on hold and blocked the state from enforcing older abortion restrictions
The governor of Kansas is bowing to criticism of a new state license plate and halting production of a design that many people consider ugly and dull
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is more aggressive and openly political in pushing to expand Medicaid in Kansas as the Republican-controlled Legislature prepares to open its annual session
More than a dozen states have given themselves the power to override local zoning restrictions that block large-scale renewable energy projects
Hundreds of U.S. communities have enacted “crime-free” laws encouraging and allowing landlords to evict tenants after repeated calls to police or for emergency services
Hundreds of communities across the U.S. have for decades tried to reduce crime, fight gangs and tackle noise and other neighborhood problems through the use of “crime-free” or “public nuisance” laws encouraging and allowing landlords to evict renters when police or emergency crews are repeatedly called to the same addresses
Kansas’ attorney general is telling public schools that they’re required to tell parents their children are transgender or non-binary even if they’re not out at home
Kansas legislatore are moving to impose tougher prison sentences for harming or killing police dogs
Jacob Gooch was hanging out with his wife and children and friends in the happy crowd of fellow Kansas City Chiefs fans at the parade celebrating their Super Bowl victory
Court records show that a man who died after fatally shooting two police officers and a firefighter in a wooded Minneapolis-area neighborhood wasn’t legally allowed to have guns
A recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are legally protected children is highlighting how support for the idea that a fetus should have the same rights as a person underpins far less dramatic laws and proposals from abortion foes across the U.S. Lawmakers in at least six states have proposals to allow women to seek child support back to conception
Efforts in Republican-led states to write definitions of male and female into law are leading to outcry that the measures deny transgender people legal recognition
The parents of hundreds of thousands of U.S. children with physical or intellectual disabilities are waiting for state-covered services designed to foster independence and job skills for adulthood
Kansas would require abortion providers to ask patients why they’re terminating their pregnancies and report the answers to the state under a measure moving through the Republican-controlled Legislature
Republican lawmakers in Georgia and Kansas have shot down attempts by Democrats to expand Medicaid in their states
The Kansas House has taken an unusual step this year to add transparency to its legislating and make it easier for the general public to know who's pushing what
Estimated 24.6 million TV viewers watched inauguration coverage, smallest audience since 2013
Mother on trial in West Virginia denies locking adopted teens in shed
Extreme cold and snow across the South isn't a threat to most native plants and animals, experts say
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Ichiro Suzuki headlines 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame class, receiving 99.7% of the vote
The facts about Trump's Stargate AI announcement
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