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Multivehicle crash closes portion of Iowa Street briefly

A multivehicle crash on the South Lawrence Trafficway on Saturday shut down a portion of Iowa Street for about an hour, according to a social media post from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies, troopers and Lawrence police responded to a crash on U.S. 40/Kansas Highway 10 near ...

Davids urges House vote on extending health insurance tax credit

TOPEKA — U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas joined five dozen colleagues requesting a House vote on legislation extending federal tax credits set to expire at the end of December that were implemented to moderate Affordable Care Act insurance costs. In the letter signed by 59 lawmakers and ...

Supreme Court weighing Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court met in private Friday with a key issue on its agenda — President Donald Trump 's birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. The justices could say ...