Updated story - Biden wins Wisconsin; presidency still hangs in balance Updated at 1:05 p.m. Wednesday WASHINGTON — The fate of the United States presidency hung in the balance Wednesday as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden battled for three familiar battleground ...
Updated story - As of Wednesday morning, presidential race still too close to call; trio of northern states loom large Story updated at 11:50 p.m. Tuesday WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump won Florida, the nation’s most prized battleground state, as he and Democrat Joe Biden on ...
Story updated at 10:59 p.m. Tuesday TOPEKA (AP) — Republican Roger Marshall won the most competitive U.S. Senate race in Kansas in decades, while President Donald Trump carried the state again in the presidential race and voters elected two new Republican congressmen. The marquee race in ...
Even before polls opened Tuesday, Douglas County residents were on track to cast a record number of ballots in the 2020 general election. Strong advance voting in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic put the county above 50% voter turnout before Election Day, and it looked as if the county ...
Recent polling of national and statewide races in Kansas indicates that the Sunflower State, typically a Republican stronghold, will see closer races than it has in decades this Election Day, which is Nov. 3. Republican President Donald Trump won Kansas by 21 percentage points in 2016, but a ...
WASHINGTON — Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court late Monday by a deeply divided Senate, Republicans overpowering Democrats to install President Donald Trump’s nominee days before the election and secure a likely conservative court majority for years to come. Trump's ...
Local and state leaders hope a multimillion-dollar federal grant awarded Thursday could help create hundreds of bioscience jobs in Lawrence and help launch a new innovation district on the University of Kansas' west campus. Government officials gathered Thursday at KU's Bioscience and ...
TOPEKA — Democrat Barbara Bollier said Monday that she raised nearly $13.5 million in three months for her U.S. Senate campaign, a record for Kansas that brought her total fundraising to more than $20 million in an unexpectedly tough race for Republicans in a conservative state. Bollier also ...
An executive order issued by President Donald Trump near the end of September that seeks to end "divisive concepts" and stereotyping based on race and sex in all federally funded programs has caused a stir in recent days among higher education institutions. The broadly written Sept. 22 ...
Just over three weeks before the general election, efforts to register as many voters as possible in Douglas County have been ongoing leading up to Kansas' voter registration deadline Tuesday — specifically among a group that while eligible to do so, traditionally doesn’t vote at a high ...
Many important local and state offices will be on the ballot in the general election on Nov. 3. This voters guide will help you get to know some of the issues at stake and refresh your memory about some of the local races that were all but decided during August's primaries. To view the ...
As Kansas prepares for its most consequential and closest Senate race in a generation — one that could elect a Democrat to the seat for the first time since 1932 — two medical doctors, Democrat Barbara Bollier and Republican Roger Marshall, are both running campaigns focused on what they ...
Topeka mayor Michelle De La Isla and Kansas Treasurer Jake LaTurner will be facing off this year in Kansas’ 2nd Congressional District — a seat that was decided by less than 1% of the vote in the 2018 midterms. De La Isla, a Democrat, and LaTurner, a Republican, are vying for the U.S. ...
Story updated at 3:26 p.m. Monday BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he's leaving the military hospital where he has been treated for COVID-19 and will continue his recovery at the White House. He said he's feeling good and despite his attack the nation should not be ...
Harrisburg, Pa. — Republican governors and lawmakers in many states have followed President Donald Trump’s lead on their response to the coronavirus, declining to impose mask mandates and pushing to lift restrictions on businesses and social gatherings as swiftly as possible. Revelations ...
Story updated at 11:14 a.m. Friday WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Friday that President Donald Trump was suffering “mild symptoms” of COVID-19, making the stunning announcement after he returned from an afternoon fundraiser without telling the crowd he had been exposed to an aide ...
TOPEKA — It’s little surprise that the candidates for Kansas’ open U.S. Senate seat sharply disagree on taxes, trade, immigration and climate change. What’s unclear is who voters will most agree with in November: Republican U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall or Democratic state Sen. Barbara ...
It's been a throwaway line in presidential campaigns for years: Roe v. Wade is on the ballot. This time it is very real. The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg so close to a presidential election and the vacancy it creates on the Supreme Court, coupled with President Donald Trump's ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87. Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said. Her death ...
Four high-profile Kansas Democrats gathered virtually Tuesday to discuss what they deemed a pressing need to expand the Sunflower State's access to Medicaid — a need they said was only exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Laura Kelly; U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids; Kathleen Sebelius, who ...