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Trump administration ends protected status for Honduras, Nicaragua

6 hours ago
WASHINGTON — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ended temporary protections Monday for nationals from Nicaragua and Honduras, opening up roughly 76,000 people to deportations by early September. The move is the latest effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to wind down legal statuses, such as Temporary Protected Status, amid an immigration crackdown and pledge […]
Ariana Figueroa

Planned Parenthood sues Trump administration officials over ā€˜defunding’ provision in budget bill

6 hours 3 minutes ago
Days after President Donald Trump signed a massive budget bill, attorneys for Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its state members in Massachusetts and Utah filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a provision they say will affect more than 1 million patients who use their clinics across the U.S. Planned Parenthood says if the defund provision […]
Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Sofia Resnick

Trump floats high tariffs on Japan, Korea and more countries by Aug. 1

6 hours 8 minutes ago
President Donald Trump on Monday threatened tariffs from 25% to 40% on all goods from seven countries, including major U.S. trade partners Japan and South Korea. The tariffs would go into effect Aug. 1, rather than Wednesday, which was the deadline Trump already extended once from an initial April date, Trump wrote in a series […]
Jacob Fischler

Parked cars are now a leading source of stolen guns, new report finds

6 hours 13 minutes ago
A growing number of firearms are being stolen from parked cars, especially in urban areas, according to a new report that highlights a frequently overlooked source of illegally circulating guns. The nonpartisan think tank Council on Criminal Justice released an analysis examining five years of gun theft data reported to law enforcement in 16 cities […]
Amanda HernƔndez

Kansas lawmakers extend deadline for Chiefs, Royals to accept stadium incentives

8 hours 22 minutes ago
TOPEKA — A bipartisan council of Kansas lawmakers voted Monday to extend by six months the deadline for the Missouri-based Kansas City Royals or the Kansas City Chiefs to accept economic development incentives from Kansas for construction of sports stadiums. The Legislative Coordinating Council unanimously agreed to grant the reprieve so the Kansas Department of […]
Tim Carpenter

Abrego Garcia lawyers try to return him to Maryland, fearing removal to third country

8 hours 30 minutes ago
GREENBELT, Maryland — A federal judge at a hearing Monday sought more information on the Trump administration’s plans for wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose attorneys are pressing to have him transferred to Maryland from a Tennessee jail. Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his wife and family before he was mistakenly deported to the […]
Ariana Figueroa

In Kansas City, most immigrants facing deportation receive no legal counsel

14 hours 27 minutes ago
Kansas City’s immigration court is on the fifth floor of a nondescript downtown office building. The area is better known for the bustling shops of Crown Center to the south, or nearby Washington Square Park, a potential site for a new Royals stadium. Yet thousands of life-changing decisions for immigrant families are routinely handed down […]
Mary Sanchez

The six-year saga of two cannabis facility licenses

18 hours 30 minutes ago
A Kansas City man spent his weekends in Cole County jail in June, after pleading guilty last year to two misdemeanor charges for submitting fraudulent documents to cannabis regulators in 2021 to obtain a marijuana cultivation license.Ā  It’s a license his company still holds, according to the Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation, along with a […]
Rebecca Rivas

Josh Hawley caved on Medicaid in a climate of political violence

18 hours 41 minutes ago
I googled: ā€œJosh Hawley SNAP,ā€ a few weeks ago when I was looking for our Senator’s position on cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka SNAP, or food stamps). The AI told me that ā€œJosh Hawley SNAPā€ refers to a snap of Hawley on January 6th cheering supporters of his effort to overturn the […]
Bridgette Dunlap

On the Fourth of July, Trump signs his ā€˜big, beautiful bill’ into law

3 days 6 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed into law Friday evening his massive spending cut and tax break package to fulfill his domestic policy agenda on immigration and defense and overhaul American energy production. The ā€œbig, beautiful bill,ā€ which Trump signed on Republicans’ self-imposed Fourth of July deadline, will make permanent the 2017 tax cuts from […]
Ariana Figueroa, Jane Norman

Missouri abortion rights amendment trumps most restrictions, judge rules

4 days 5 hours ago
Abortion services will resume in Missouri on Monday following a Jackson County court order blocking enforcement of almost all of the state’s laws restricting the procedure. On Thursday afternoon, Circuit Judge Jerri Zhang, for the third time, issued an order to enforce the abortion rights amendment approved by voters in November. In her previous orders, […]
Rudi Keller

States in ā€˜triage mode’ over $6B in withheld K-12 funding

4 days 7 hours ago
The U.S. Department of Education’s decision this week to hold back $6.8 billion in federal K-12 funds next year has triggered alarm among state education officials, school leaders and advocacy groups nationwide over how the lack of funds will affect their after-school, enrichment and language-learning services. The Trump administration’s decision to freeze the funding has […]
Robbie Sequeira

Lawsuit challenges ballot language for proposed Missouri abortion banĀ 

4 days 7 hours ago
A fight over wording for a proposal to reverse the abortion rights amendment Missouri voters added to the state Constitution in November will look very much like a similar fight in 2023. The ACLU of Missouri filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Cole County with two objectives: Keep the proposal designated as Amendment 3 off of […]
Rudi Keller

White House to delay birthright citizenship restrictions — but may start planning now

4 days 8 hours ago
Justice Department attorneys told a federal district judge Tuesday that the Trump administration will not impose proposed restrictions on birthright citizenship for a month — but that it reserves the right to ā€œimmediatelyā€ start planning for that day. The two-page notice was filed in U.S.District Court in Greenbelt in response to District Judge Deborah Boardman’s […]
Lauren Lifke

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly confirms divorce from spouse of more than 40 years

4 days 8 hours ago
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly said Thursday that she and her husband of more than 40 years were granted a divorce. She decided to speak publicly about the amicable end of her marriage because of inquiries about the status of her relationship with retired physician Ted Daughety. Kelly, 75, said the pair remained on friendly […]
Tim Carpenter

How the megabill allows Trump to expand mass deportations, curb immigrant benefits

4 days 8 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending cut bill cleared Thursday has as its centerpiece $170 billion for the administration’s immigration crackdown, helping fulfill the president’s 2024 campaign promise of mass deportations of people without permanent legal status. The measure, passed by the House 218-214, would fulfill several of Trump’s key immigration priorities, […]
Ariana Figueroa

Abrego Garcia was beaten and tortured in Salvadoran prison, new court filings reveal

4 days 8 hours ago
WASHINGTON — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported in March to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador, endured ā€œsevere beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and psychological tortureā€ while there, his attorneys wrote in a late Wednesday filing. The filing, an amended complaint to the District Court of Maryland, provides the first disturbing details of […]
Ariana Figueroa

US House passes massive tax break and spending cut bill, sending it to Trump

4 days 10 hours ago
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans cleared the ā€œbig, beautiful billā€ for President Donald Trump’s signature Thursday, marking an end to the painstaking months-long negotiations that began just after voters gave the GOP unified control of Washington during last year’s elections. The final 218-214 vote on the expansive tax and spending cuts package marked a significant […]
Jennifer Shutt, Ariana Figueroa

Older adults now outnumber children in 11 states

4 days 13 hours ago
Montana, Oregon and Pennsylvania have joined the ranks of states where older people outnumber children, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. The ratio of people older than 65 to children younger than 18 grew in every state, according to a Stateline analysis of the estimates released June 26, which measure age changes in mid-2024 compared […]
Tim Henderson