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After describing the increased disrepair affecting many of the county’s secondary roads — a consequence of the construction project currently jamming parts of U.S. 169 — Allen County commissioners were able to secure a verbal…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump urged congressional Democrats to fund his long-promised border wall in a somber televised address that was heavy with dark immigration rhetoric but offered little in the way of concessions…

President Donald Trump’s first prime-time address from the Oval Office was his opportunity to make a case for his border security plan. Instead, it highlighted just how little Trump understood the problems he hoped a…

Compromise, common sense and listening to all sides of an issue don’t seem like countercultural values. Certainly, in the home I grew up in they weren’t. My parents belonged to separate political parties, and those…

The news that Sen. Pat Roberts will not seek re-election has got political pundits already positing viable candidates for the 2020 election. After all, it’s only 660 days away, give or take. For Republicans, the…

WASHINGTON — I watched from the House gallery Thursday afternoon when the Democrats’ socialist sensation, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in suffragist white, rose to announce her vote for speaker. “Nancy Pelosi,” the 29-year-old firebrand declared. From…

WASHINGTON (AP) — With no weekend breakthrough to end a prolonged partial government shutdown, President Donald Trump is standing firm in his border wall funding demands and newly empowered House Democrats are planning to step…

WASHINGTON — The shuttered parts of the federal government were no closer to being reopened Wednesday after President Donald Trump and congressional leaders met for the first time since the shutdown began nearly two weeks…

You have to wonder who is calling the shots when the day after conservative talk show hosts roundly criticized President Trump, he did an about-face on whether to accept bipartisan legislation that would keep the…

The latest defections from the Kansas Republican Party — two Johnson County legislators — show politicians in some corners of the state trying to catch up with changes in the voters they need to win…