TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly says Kansans wouldn’t have elected her if she were the type of politician who screamed the loudest and relied on bullying others to get her way. She said during her annual State of the State speech Tuesday night it was a certainty Kansas would have suffered in ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared ready to deal another setback to transgender people and uphold state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams. The court's conservative majority, which has repeatedly ruled against transgender Americans ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death was announced Tuesday by the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation. Ashley D. Roseboro of the ...
0MINNEAPOLIS — Federal officers dropped tear gas and sprayed eye irritant at activists Tuesday during another day of confrontations in Minneapolis while students miles away walked out of a suburban school to protest the Trump administration's bold immigration sweeps. Meanwhile, the fallout ...
A Douglas County judge will soon decide whether to order a man to stand trial for child abuse after a store's video camera captured him striking a young boy repeatedly with a belt. The state at Tuesday's preliminary hearing for the man portrayed the incident as a violent felony, while the ...
KU is seeking approval to add $135 million in debt for projects as far away as a cancer center in Kansas City and as near as an apartment complex on the edge of the Lawrence campus. The Kansas Board of Regents at its Wednesday meeting will consider approval of a resolution authorizing new ...
