On Monday, the sentences of 462 Oklahoma inmates were commuted, allowing them to go free. Gov. Kevin Stitt said these people had paid their dues for what were primarily low-level drug offenses and that they…
Though she may deny it, Kansas Sen. Julia Lynns resignation Friday from her job with Inclusion Works is a pretty clear admission that, at the very least, her role as chairwoman of the Senate Commerce…
The attempt to discover the identity of the whistleblower who alleges President Donald Trump withheld military aid in exchange for a personal favor from Ukrainian officials undermines a critical element of our democracy. By law,…
Kansas Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning has offered an important plan to expand Medicaid coverage in the state. A Senate committee endorsed it last week. Conservative Republicans don’t like it. “The fact we’re trying to…
The California wildfires have us all wondering what we would do in a similar situation. The fires are leaving a charred path of destruction in both northern and southern California, affecting hundreds of thousands. As…
U.S. Special Forces earned a long-awaited victory lap Saturday night after killing a leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in northwest Syria. Baghdadi had been on the United States radar ever since 2014,…
About two dozen House Republicans stormed the Capitol basement Wednesday morning, shutting down the inquiry as to whether President Donald Trumps withholding of military aid to Ukraine this summer was contingent on it aiding his…
Moderate-leaning Kansans now have a good option for the U.S. Senate race with the filing last week of state Sen. Barbara Bollier, D-Mission Hills. A lifelong Republican, Bollier switched parties late in 2018, one of…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held off Tuesday night from scheduling a vote of the full House on whether to authorize the ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. The vote would be little more than…
Last week, the United States abandoned its longstanding pledge to assist Syrian Kurds fighting extremist Islamic forces from within and encroaching Turkish armies from the north. U.S. forces afforded the Kurds the necessary leverage to…