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…

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…

When conservatives decry judicial activism, the target is inevitably a liberal judge whose rulings reach beyond interpreting law to making law. But misguided activist judges aren’t limited to the political left as last week’s federal…

The Kansas Legislature showed its tendency to be both more conservative and more liberal on Monday. The selection of House leaders took the Republican and Democratic factions a bit more to the right and left,…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Still stinging from an election loss, Wisconsin Republicans on Monday tried to push through measures that would weaken the incoming Democratic administration and allow outgoing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to make…

MORAN — With the elections in the rearview mirror, Congress members will return to Washington, D.C., next week for what typically is considered a lame-duck session. It could be an eventful one for Kansas farmers.…

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump, who inserted in his place a Republican Party loyalist with…

BOISE, Idaho Standing outside the gun shop she co-owns, next to her SUV sporting “NRA” on the license plate, Christy Perry pledges full support for President Donald Trump. “He’s doing a good job,” said Perry,…

Election 2018: This is the third of a series of articles on the five candidates for Kansas governor. Topekan Rick Kloos admits he is a frustrated Republicans running as an Independent for Kansas governor. “Decisions…