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A number of changes are in place ahead of the fall semester, with more issues set to come up.
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The critically acclaimed Minneapolis musical duo The Cactus Blossoms have two performances in Kansas this weekend.
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Phyllis Zorn, the reporter whose acts of journalism served as an excuse for the August 2023 police raid of the Marion County Record, previously received $600,000 from the county, which settled various lawsuits over the raid for a collective $3 million last fall.
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The Department for Children and Families has lowered the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payment error rate from 9.13% to 7.8%, which means the state may have to pay about $20.6 million to the federal government because it didn't achieve an error rate below 6%. The state still has time to achieve that milestone.
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Kansas professor falsely accused of espionage wants university to pay for firing, harm to reputationFormer professor Feng “Franklin” Tao has asked KU to pay him for lost wages and an unspecified amount for “reputational injury, emotional distress, pain and suffering.”
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Russia maintained an iron grip on Crimea since seizing it from Ukraine in 2014. Many Russian civilians go there to enjoy the beaches. But now Ukraine is hitting Crimea hard, upending daily life.
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The drills come amid rising tensions with China, which frequently sends military planes and ships towards Taiwan.
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Spotify, one of the largest streaming companies in the world, says it will soon start labeling AI profiles posing as human artists.
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It's a twice-a-year injection that is remarkably effective in preventing an HIV infection. Distribution is starting. But questions are being raised about getting it to the areas that need it most.
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Primary results this month in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin paint a muddled picture of just how far to the left Democratic voters want their candidates to be come this fall's midterm elections.