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Kansas composer Ingrid Stölzel's new album, "Three Silent Things," features lyrics taken from a number of poets, some of them lesser known than others.
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Skoog is serving his second term as mayor of Overland Park, having won reelection in November. He previously had served on the Overland Park City Council since 2005. -
Seven GOP candidates file to compete in August gubernatorial primary. -
Federal mortality data shows reveals a 16% decrease in so-called "deaths of despair" caused by alcohol, drugs and suicide, but cuts to public health infrastructure may make it challenging for the trend to continue. -
Schwab said he does not "cater to the loud minority." -
Some residents of Galena, Kansas, live downhill from the landfill and say smoke and rotten-egg odors are impacting their day-to-day lives. There’s been discussions about diminishing property values.
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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North AmericaPresident Trump signed an executive order that puts some 8,000 high-ranking civil servants into a new category of employees who can be fired for any reason. -
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe president also acknowledged that he cursed at the Israeli leader in a heated phone call in which he told Benjamin Netanyahu not to bomb the Lebanese capital Beirut.
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Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules. -
A sanded-down biopic about the King of pop and propaganda has resurfaced his music on the charts — along with questions about how his enduring magic became make-believe -
The show's new leader says he fired star Scott Pelley for insubordination. Pelley says he was defending the integrity of the show's journalism after three top executives and two reporters were fired. -
Actor Robert De Niro and producing partner Jane Rosenthal created the festival in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. -
In 'My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein,' the narrator, a writer, actually spends one month trying to understand Stein's genius, how she invented herself, and her relationship with Alice B. Toklas.
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Veteran Chicago band returns with new singer, new album, same old musical goals.
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