WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington's leading performing arts center as the Trump Kennedy Center, the White House said, in a move that made Democrats fume, saying the board had overstepped its legal authority. Congress named the center ...
JERUSALEM — In a video message recorded weeks before he was killed, Hollywood icon Rob Reiner urged Holocaust survivors participating in a Hanukkah ceremony on Thursday to "be resilient" during difficult times. Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found stabbed to death Sunday at their home ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that inches closer to what many states have done. The switch would move marijuana away from its ...
TOPEKA — Rep. Troy Waymaster says a preliminary review of state university spending in Kansas exposed a curious $99,000 expenditure for an economic development program in Colorado. “Which I have to say is questionable,” said Waymaster, the Republican chairman of the House Appropriations ...
Republican state lawmakers are questioning whether Kansas universities should review classroom content and materials as part of their efforts to remove diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs. State universities have closed offices and ended programs to comply with a state law ...
Despite having an earlier interest in a tenants’ right to counsel program, a majority of Douglas County commissioners chose to halt the effort – at least for now – and pursue alternatives. Discussions surrounding a program guaranteeing free legal representation to renters experiencing an ...
