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Kylie Graham
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Kansas Republican lawmakers are circulating a petition for a special session to redistrict. The goal is to defeat the state's only Democrat in Congress.
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Kansas Reflector
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The Kansas Senate president has been at the forefront of efforts to redraw the boundaries of the state's congressional districts, following hot on the heels of Missouri. It would be Republican lawmaker's second attempt in the last three years to push out Rep. Sharice Davids, the state's only Democratic representative. -
More than 100 rural grocery stores in Kansas closed their doors from 2008 to 2018. But an initiative that invests in rural communities is keeping small groceries afloat. -
The event remembers the 1970 football team plane crash that killed 31 people. -
The Trump Administration asked states to find the lowest-cost option in the latest program to build broadband infrastructure in rural areas. That opens the door for more types of technology, which some worry could be less reliable in the long-term. -
Filmmaker and horror authority Leif Jonker has curated two festivals filled plenty of shock and awe. And gore, too.
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Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMuch of the federal government is now shut down after Republicans and Democrats in the Senate failed to agree on a funding plan to keep the government open. -
Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via Getty ImagesCoffee growers are facing climate change, labor shortages and incomes below the poverty line. On International Coffee Day, we take stock of the industry behind the beverage.
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The Trump administration says it is making deals with drug companies to lower prices U.S. consumers pay for medicines. But key details are missing on how the initiative would work. -
Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing. -
A class action lawsuit argues that the administration's efforts to combine databases of personal information on Americans violate privacy laws and the Constitution. -
History tells us visitors will likely find shuttered doors at major cultural institutions. But they will also find plenty of alternatives. -
The USDA says the precooked pasta products, sold at Trader Joe's and Walmart, could be connected to a nationwide listeria outbreak that has killed four people and sickened at least 20 others.
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Derek Shulman experienced pop success with Simon Dupree and The Big Sound, went on to found the towering progressive rock group Gentle Giant, signed Bon Jovi and has become an unlikely hero in the hip-hop community. He tells us all about that in his new memoir Giant Steps: My Improbable Journey From Stage Lights to Executive Heights.
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