BERLIN (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Thursday that there would be a “swift, severe” response from the United States and its allies if Russia sends military forces into Ukraine. Blinken’s comments…

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rebuff to former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court is allowing the release of presidential documents sought by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. The justices on Wednesday…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights leaders say is vital to protecting democracy collapsed when two senators refused to join their own party in changing Senate rules to overcome a Republican filibuster after…

YATES CENTER — Humboldt High School’s boys basketball took on Iola in a non-tournament game at the Mid-Season Classic on Tuesday night. Humboldt came away victorious 51-45 despite a late Iola rally. Tyler Boeken was…

Iolan Edward J. Danford, 59, was killed in a single-vehicle accident Tuesday morning in rural Miami County. The Kansas Highway Patrol said Danford was southbound on U.S. 169, between Spring Hill and Paola, when the…

Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall will be in Allen County Monday for a town hall session. The event begins at noon at the Allen County Country Club, 1318 2000 St. “I look forward to the opportunity…

TOPEKA — Republicans in the Senate and House unveiled a new congressional map Tuesday that would slice the Kansas City metro area in half and move Lawrence into the deeply conservative district that stretches to…

YATES CENTER — The Yates Center Mid-Season Classic didn’t start the way the Iola High School girls had hoped. The Mustangs fell 49-25 to St. Paul. The Mustangs got off to a sluggish start and…

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats edged closer to handing President Joe Biden another defeat as the chamber took up voting-rights legislation with extraordinarily long odds in the evenly divided chamber. Republicans are expected to block a…

The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing and modelers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the wave subsides…