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KMUW
Wichita Parks and Recreation will host the grand opening of the Carl Brewer Community Center on Saturday, December 6, in McAdams Park. Brewer, who died in 2020, was the first elected Black mayor in the city and had ties to Ghana. His heritage is reflected in a newly created mural, titled "The Village."
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The new routes will run for 32 days during the 2026 World Cup. For a fee, the buses will take fans and ticket holders between the Kansas City airport, Arrowhead Stadium, the FIFA Fan Festival and "regional hubs." -
Victims of the disgraced KCKPD detective and other social justice advocates fear that any accountability in Wyandotte County died with Golubski. “How and when does the statute of limitations run out on justice?” -
Efforts in Barton County may offer a blueprint for solving a housing shortage across Kansas. The county commission has tapped economic development funds and other resources to help housing developments in three communities. -
The lesser prairie chicken was once a common sight in the southern Great Plains, but its numbers are dwindling. Even so, it lost federal protections earlier this year for a second time. Now states and landowners are overseeing conservation efforts -
Early next year, Carnegie libraries across the U.S. will receive a $10,000 gift in honor of the nation's 250th anniversary. The library in Peabody, which serves as a lifeline for the community, has not yet decided how it will use the money.
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Jessie Wardarski/APMinnesota boasts the largest population of Somalis in the U.S. — a community that's recently faced attacks from President Trump. Here's a brief history of how they came to settle there. -
Mike Coppola/Getty Images for The Gotham Film & Media InstitutePanahi's latest film, It Was Just an Accident, won three Gotham Awards on Monday. The filmmaker has been imprisoned in Iran before — but continues to make movies.
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At the White House this afternoon, President Trump said he was terminating "ridiculously burdensome" fuel economy rules. It's part of a series of changes relaxing or eliminating rules promoting cleaner cars. -
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it. -
A forthcoming inspector general report finds that had intel shared by Hegseth been intercepted by an adversary, it would have endangered servicemembers, according to a source who viewed the findings. -
"I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover," he wrote on Truth Social. That label raises the issue of how to classify certain nations.
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The FDA is urging customers to toss certain brands of grated Pecorino Romano; at the same time, it escalated an existing recall of numerous shredded cheeses.
Commentary & Podcasts
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John Kenney's newest novel, "I See You've Called in Dead," tells the story of a middle-aged obituary writer who uses an unplanned leave of absence to explore what life is really about.
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