Braylee Burnett and her family received some good news this week. Burnett, who turns 18 Wednesday, was diagnosed 2½  years ago with multiple sclerosis, a disease in which the body’s immune system mistakenly produces antibodies…

WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on July 7, according to Israeli and U.S. officials, as the administration urges its ally to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday stuck to his position that the central bank will keep its key rate on hold while it waits to see how President Donald Trump’s tariffs effect the economy, despite…

TOPEKA — Heather Cessna is resigning as executive director of the state public defender’s office after years of warning apathetic legislators about the constitutional crisis they created by persistently underfunding her agency. Cessna said the…

TOPEKA — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement used the pretense of a national emergency to justify a secret, no-bid contract with CoreCivic that would pay the company $4.2 million per month to house detained immigrants…

Jenna Louk brings a bit more entrepreneurial experience to the business world than one might expect from a newly minted college graduate. Not many 21-year-olds have already been running their own business for nearly seven…

HUMBOLDT — One of Humboldt’s newest museums has quite a showpiece. A crowd of about 50 gathered Saturday at the Whitetails & Wildlife Museum for the reveal of a bronze sculpture of a whitetail deer…

PHILLIPSBURG, Kansas (AP) — A sheriff’s deputy responding to a call about fireworks died after being shot by a man who was then killed by the fatally wounded deputy, authorities said. Phillips County Sheriff’s Office…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As a wildfire began to sow panic in a small northern Idaho mountain community, a group of firefighters who rushed to put out the blaze instead found themselves in an unexpected shootout.…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday urged progress in ceasefire talks in the 20-month war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, though some weary Palestinians were skeptical about the chances. Israel issued a…