In the 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton’s chief strategist coined a phrase that’s been used to describe the driving issue of American politics for years since: “It’s the economy, stupid.” While the economy is still a top-of-mind issue, it might be time to change the phrase. ...
Three states are renewing a legal push to restrict access to the abortion medication mifepristone, including reinstating requirements it be dispensed in person instead of by mail. The request from Kansas, Idaho and Missouri would bar the drug's use after seven weeks of pregnancy instead of 10 ...
Time capsules are fickle, and the opening of one entombed a century ago inside one of the nation's preeminent World War I memorials was no exception. The first challenge was just getting to the time capsule, which was entombed in a tower that rises 217 feet into the Kansas City skyline and is ...
One of the nation’s leading free speech groups says the University of Kansas doesn’t have a legal right to discipline an instructor who made classroom statements about shooting men who would never vote for a woman president. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression — FIRE ...
In the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, tens of thousands of women have traveled to Kansas seeking abortions that have become banned in their home states, according to estimates by multiple research groups. Missouri and Oklahoma banned the procedure with few ...
WICHITA — A man was shot to death by law enforcement officers Saturday during a confrontation in Wichita, authorities said. The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office received a call shortly after 7 a.m. about an individual who planned to shoot somebody, news outlets quoted Col. Keith Allen as ...