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Kansas school district to make changes after LGBTQ dispute
AMERICUS, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas school district plans to offer anti-discrimination training to staff and teachers in response to complaints about how an eighth-grade student was treated after she said she was a lesbian. North Lyon County officials...
US military chief tours arms plants with GOP lawmakers to show that Ukraine aid boosts jobs at home
CAMDEN, Ark. (AP) — As they stood before massive rocket launchers built in part by their Arkansas constituents, Republican lawmakers were getting an unambiguous message Thursday from America's top military officer: A Ukraine aid package that's...
Oklahoma's push to weaken penalties for cockfighting is frustrating opponents of the bloodsport
WILSON, Okla. (AP) — Before Oklahoma became one of the last places in the U.S. to outlaw cockfighting in 2002, it wasn't uncommon to see hundreds of spectators packed into small arenas in rural parts of the state to watch roosters, often outfitted...
Death of nonbinary teen Nex Benedict after school fight is ruled a suicide, medical examiner says
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The death of a nonbinary student the day after a fight inside an Oklahoma high school restroom has been ruled a suicide, the state medical examiner's office said Wednesday. A summary autopsy report was released more than a...
Long recovery ahead for some in path of deadly tornados in central U.S.
LAKEVIEW, Ohio (AP) — Residents in a swath of the central U.S. hit by deadly tornadoes were cleaning up, assessing damage and helping neighbors on Saturday. But it will be a long recovery from the storms that ripped through parts of Ohio,...
A new kind of hospital is coming to rural America. To qualify, facilities must close their beds
As rural hospitals continue to struggle financially, a new type of hospital is slowly taking root, especially in the Southeast. Rural emergency hospitals receive more than $3 million in federal funding a year and higher Medicare reimbursements in exc...
Viral video of Biden effigy beating prompts calls for top Kansas Republican leaders to resign
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two top Kansas Republican Party officials are facing internal calls to resign over a viral online video showing people at a fundraiser kicking and beating a mannequin wearing a mask of President Joe Biden, underscoring the...
Voters backed abortion rights. Yet Kansas could make doctors ask patients why they want abortions
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas moved closer Thursday to requiring abortion providers to ask patients why they want to terminate their pregnancies and report the answers to the state. It would join other states with Republican legislatures that ban...
75-year-old Phoenix man arrested in 42-year-old Kansas killing
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A Phoenix man has been brought to Kansas to face charges in a 42-year-old killing after a multistate investigation. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that the 75-year-old was booked Wednesday into...
Uvalde parents angered by new report that clears city police of missteps during Texas school attack
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — An investigation Uvalde city leaders ordered into the Robb Elementary School shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers defended the response by local police at a City Council meeting Thursday, prompting shouts of...
Officials say a Kansas girl was beaten so badly, her heart ruptured. Her father now faces prison
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man with a string of prior domestic violence and child abuse cases could get life in prison for brutalizing his two young daughters, including an 8-year-old whose heart ruptured when she was viciously stomped last...
The US is springing forward to daylight saving. For Navajo and Hopi tribes, it's a time of confusion
TUBA CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Melissa Blackhair is not eager to spring forward Sunday. "I'm dreading it. I just don't want to see how much we have to adjust," Blackhair said while sitting in her home office in Tuba City on the Navajo Nation, the only...
States have hodgepodge of cumbersome rules for enforcing sunshine laws
PHOENIX (AP) — A nationwide review of procedures by The Associated Press and CNHI News has revealed a patchwork of complicated systems for resolving open government disputes that often put the burden of enforcing transparency laws on private...
Conspiracies hinder GOP's efforts in Kansas to cut the time for returning mail ballots
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A repeating of baseless election conspiracy theories in the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature appears to have scuttled GOP lawmakers' efforts this year to shorten the time that voters have to return mail ballots. The stat...
Liberty University will pay $14 million, the largest fine ever levied under the federal Clery Act
Liberty University has agreed to pay an unprecedented $14 million fine for the Christian school's failure to disclose information about crimes on its campus and for its treatment of sexual assault survivors, the U.S. Department of Education announced...
AI pervades everyday life with almost no oversight. States scramble to catch up
DENVER (AP) — While artificial intelligence made headlines with ChatGPT, behind the scenes, the technology has quietly pervaded everyday life — screening job resumes, rental apartment applications, and even determining medical care in some cases....
Oklahoma panel denies clemency for death row inmate, paves way for lethal injection
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A state panel on Wednesday denied clemency for an Oklahoma death row inmate convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago, paving the way for his lethal injection next month. The...
US Election 2024-The Daily Rundown
Super Tuesday did not quite live up to its name. President Joe Biden won the states he needed to win and so did his predecessor, Donald Trump. Trump's march to a third Republican presidential nomination was largely unimpeded by his principal...
A GOP split thwarted election conspiracy promoters in Kansas and sank tighter mail ballot rules
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A deep split among Republican lawmakers in Kansas on Tuesday doomed proposals from election conspiracy promoters to upend how the state conducts elections and also sank an effort with broader GOP support to shorten the time vote...
Wildfire grows into one of largest in Texas history as flames menace multiple small towns
CANADIAN, Texas (AP) — A cluster of wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, as flames moved with alarming speed and blackened the landscape across a vast stretch of...
Miles apart, Biden and Trump tour U.S.-Mexico border highlighting immigration as an election issue
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Three hundred miles apart, President Joe Biden and likely Republican challenger Donald Trump walked along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas Thursday, in dueling trips underscoring how important immigration has become for...
Firefighters face difficult weather conditions as they battle the largest wildfire in Texas history
STINNETT, Texas (AP) — Firefighters in Texas faced rising temperatures, whipped-up winds and dry air Saturday in their battle to keep the largest wildfire in state history from turning more of the Panhandle into a parched wasteland. Firefighters we...
Texas fires: With over 1 million acres of grassland burned, cattle ranchers face struggles ahead to find and feed their herds
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Strong winds spread the largest wildfire in Texas history across more than 1 million acres of rangeland in the...
Federal officials will investigate Oklahoma school following nonbinary teenager's death
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Federal officials are opening an investigation into the Oklahoma school district where a nonbinary 16-year-old high school student was in a fight before dying last month, according to a letter sent by the U.S. Department of...
First over-the-counter birth control pill in US begins shipping to stores
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first over-the-counter birth control pill will be available in U.S. stores later this month, allowing American women and teens to purchase contraceptive medication as easily as they buy aspirin. Manufacturer Perrigo said...