Kansas News Archives - Page 2 of 6

Cook Report: U.S. Senate a ‘True Tossup’

Wednesday, September 23 by The Center Square

(The Center Square) – Cook Political Report, which conducts election forecasting in races across the country, shifted its prediction outcomes for the U.S. Senate to a “true toss up,” meaning either party has a chance of winning control of the body. ... Read More.

Coalition urges 9th Circuit to uphold parental rights

Friday, September 4 by The Center Square

(The Center Square) – A coalition of 17 states, lawmakers and advocacy organizations has filed 12 friend-of-the-court briefs urging the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold that parents and teachers have constitutional rights to know about their children despite public school gender... Read More.

DOJ sues Kansas school district over gender policies

Wednesday, September 2 by The Center Square

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Justice has sued the Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools district, alleging it facilitated secret gender transitions for children at schools without parents' knowledge or consent. ... Read More.

22 state AGs question National Academies’ taxpayer funding amid ‘sham’ of a review

Thursday, August 27 by The Center Square

(The Center Square) – Twenty-two state attorneys general are questioning taxpayer funding of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine amid what the AGs call the group’s “sham”-like “independent review” of its much debated reference manual’s climate science chapter that was removed due... Read More.

Education Department takes action to protect parental rights in Kansas

Thursday, August 27 by The Center Square

(The Center Square) – The Trump administration will take action to protect parental rights in Kansas after an investigation revealed that three school districts in the state maintain policies to keep hidden from parents if a student asks to identify as a gender other... Read More.

Report: $460B in HUD spending barely impacted housing affordability

Tuesday, August 18 by The Center Square

(The Center Square) – The typical American has to save for at least a decade to afford a home in their state, despite the federal government spending nearly half a trillion dollars on housing programs since 2015, a new report reveals. ... Read More.

Op-Ed: Washington must match Kansas: Moran, Marshall can deliver clarity on crypto

Tuesday, June 23 by The Center Square

Kansas families didn't ask to become the front lines of the digital currency debate. But when crypto kiosks started showing up in gas stations and grocery stores across our state, and scammers started using them to drain the savings of our seniors, we had... Read More.

Education Department admits it violated court order in Title IX cases

Wednesday, June 10 by The Center Square

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Education confirmed a whistleblower’s allegations that the agency violated a federal court order while handling Title IX cases tied to gender identity and sexual orientation, according to the U.S. Office of... Read More.

U.S. lawmakers discuss Social Security, have no plan to prevent insolvency

Wednesday, June 10 by The Center Square

(The Center Square) – One day after federal trustees warned Congress that Social Security’s retirement trust fund will go insolvent by 2032, a U.S. House subcommittee met to question Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano about the program’s future. ... Read More.

From California to New Jersey, Muslim men are being arrested for supporting ISIS

Tuesday, June 9 by The Center Square

(The Center Square) – From California to Kansas to New Jersey, young Muslim men are being arrested and charged with wide ranging plans to support Islamic terrorism and kill Americans. ... Read More.