Opponents of abortion are increasingly focusing on restricting access to pills, which are the most common way to end a pregnancy in the U.S. This month, the Texas attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit against a New York doctor, saying she violated Texas law by prescribing abortion pills ...
The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday. The U.S. Department of Housing and ...
At age 90, Freda Pickman finally received a Christmas gift she never got as a little girl: a much longed-for doll. The gift came this week courtesy of her 21-year-old granddaughter, Lola Niccum, of Lawrence, who had heard her grandma say that she had always wanted a doll as a kid, but only ...
Douglas County still has a poverty rate above national and state averages, but over the last five years, its poverty number has posted the second largest decline of any county in Kansas, new data from the Census shows. Douglas County finished 2023 with an overall poverty rate of 13.3%, ...
A new analysis from a University of Kansas education scholar recommends giving students more control over their education and finding ways to use technology to support this approach. The schooling system has largely run on a "deficit model" for over 200 years — that is, focusing on what ...
TOPEKA — On Jan. 1, 2025, Kansans will no longer pay state sales tax on groceries. They will still pay city- and county-imposed taxes, but the current state tax of 2% will be reduced to zero. A 2022 law set out a three-year plan to reduce the state’s sales tax on groceries, which was at ...
