TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate voted Tuesday to clamp down on public school protests by requiring students to secure parental permission to participate and by imposing penalties on districts complicit in organizing protests or meek in disciplining student offenders. Sen. Michael Murphy, a ...
Lawrence’s Community Building will remain free to use for a few more months, city leaders decided on Tuesday night. The Lawrence City Commission voted Tuesday for a three-month extension of the building’s free access trial program, which has been going on since the city started charging ...
There was “angst,” talk of “dogwhistles” and “inflammatory language,” and a tense roll-call vote at the Lawrence City Commission’s meeting on Tuesday on something that normally passes without any discussion at all – resolutions to issue debt to pay for a slate of building ...
Voters in two major Texas counties were turned away at polling locations and directed to different precincts Tuesday, after a recent change in how the primary is conducted created confusion and frustration. In Dallas County, a judge ordered polls to remain open for two hours past the ...
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A large immigration detention camp in Texas has been closed to visitors and attorneys due to a measles outbreak, a lawmaker said Tuesday. There are 14 active measles cases at the detention center on the Fort Bliss Army base and 112 people are being isolated, said U.S. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions flared as questions mounted at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday over the Trump administration's shifting rationale for war with Iran as lawmakers demand answers over the strategy, exit plan and costs to Americans in lives and dollars in what is quickly becoming a ...
