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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 33 - Caught on Camera

Video captures police raid on Kansas newspaper which took the 98-year-old publisher’s ‘last day of her life’

The co-owner said he plans to file a lawsuit ‘to establish a clear precedent that this sort of behavior cannot be tolerated’

The Independent UK

Owner of Kansas Newspaper Dies Amid 'Shock and Grief' After Police Raid

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Reason

Press freedom groups blast police raid of Kansas newspaper office: ‘Everyone involved should be ashamed’

The paper condemned ‘Gestapo’ tactics after a police raid targeted journalists who investigated a local restaurant owner and police chief. The following day, the co-owner collapsed and died. Alex Woodward reports

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First Thing: Hawaii wildfires kill at least 93 people

The death toll in Lahaina is expected to rise in what the deadliest US blaze in a century. Plus: press freedom outcry over police raid of small Kansas newspaper

The Guardian - UK

A police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom

Law enforcement officers raided the office of a local newspaper and a journalist's home. First Amendment experts are calling it a likely violation of federal law.

WEKU

A central Kansas police force comes under constitutional criticism after raiding a newspaper

A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism after it raided the offices of a local newspaper and the home of its publisher and owner

The Independent UK

A central Kansas police force sparked a firestorm by raiding a newspaper and the publisher’s home

The 98-year-old co-owner of a newspaper raided by police died from the stress of the incident, according to son, the paper’s publisher. Press freedom advocates condemned the raid as a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

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Police questioned over legality of Kansas newspaper raid in which computers, phones seized

A small central Kansas police department is facing a firestorm of criticism after it raided the offices of a local newspaper and the home of its publisher and owner

The Independent UK

Press freedom groups blast police raid of Kansas newspaper office: ‘Everyone involved should be ashamed’

The Independent UK

Office and homes of reporters at local Kansas newspaper raided by police

City’s entire five-officer force seize computers, cellphones and reporting materials from offices of local paper

The Guardian - US

Every Chiefs player who needs standout preseason performances to make Kansas City’s 53-man roster

Check out every #Chiefs player who needs exceptional preseason performances to warrant a spot on Kansas City's 53-man roster in 2023.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Republicans are ignoring voters who want abortion rights

Has anybody told Republicans that their anti-abortion measures are unpopular and failing all over the country, even in red states like Ohio?

Chicago Sun-Times

Things to know about a vote in Ohio, court action in Kansas and Utah and other abortion developments

Ohio voters rejecting a measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution is one of several developments related to abortion policy in several states this week

The Independent UK

In Utah and Kansas, state courts flex power over new laws regulating abortion post-Roe

State courts in Utah and Kansas are planning to hear arguments Tuesday in legal challenges involving new abortion laws since the overturning of Roe v. Wade

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The Week

Controversial church says Hawaii will be ‘destroyed’

Hawaii will be “utterly destroyed” on Sunday, said the Westboro Baptist Church. The controversial church, based in Kansas, said that “the churches of Hawaii have doomed the inhabitants with lies about the eternal God”, adding that “the watchers must (and will) publicly pronounce the warning on Sunday”. It “was not…

The Independent UK

Kansas bar where gunfire wounded 9 last month closes permanently

The Kansas bar where nine people were wounded by gunfire last month has permanently closed

WEKU

Scientists want you to mail dead butterflies for research if you live in these states

The USGS wants to test if butterflies and other insects are being hurt by contaminants, such as those in pesticides. It's seeking specimens from Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.

Zenger

‌Lily Wu And Incumbent Brandon Whipple Triumph In Wichita Mayoral Primary, Head To General Election‌

Lily Wu and Brandon Whipple's contrasting profiles highlight party fluidity and priority issues in nonpartisan race.

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The Week

Farmer plants 1.2m sunflowers as present for his wife

A farmer from Kansas planted 1.2 million sunflowers as a surprise anniversary present for his wife. Lee Wilson, who met his partner Renee at high school, told reporters that he’d asked himself “What’s a guy get his gal on their 50th?”, then decided to sow an 80-acre field four miles…

Ballotpedia

Wu, Whipple advance from primary for mayor of Wichita, Kansas

Lily Wu finished first, and incumbent Brandon Whipple finished second in the top two nonpartisan primary election for mayor of Wichita, Kansas, on Aug. 1. Wu and Whipple advanced to the Nov. 7 general election from a field of nine candidates.

The Guardian - US

Kansas man plants 1.2m sunflowers as 50th anniversary gift for his wife

‘What’s a guy get his gal for the 50th?’ Lee Wilson secretly planted 80 acres of sunflowers to surprise his wife

Zenger

Heat Dome Persists As Storms Pound Plains And Mississippi Valley

Severe weather and flash flooding pose risks as Texas broils under extreme heat.

USA Today Sports Media Group

How some Kansas high school football teams are beating the heat

In some ways the first week of practice may be the most dangerous week of the entire high school football season.

The Independent UK

Kansas transgender people find Democratic allies in court bid to restore their right to alter IDs

Officials under Kansas's Democratic governor are seeking to have the state resume changing gender identification on driver’s licenses of transgender people

The Independent UK

Lawsuit over Kansas IDs would be a 'morass' if transgender people intervene, attorney general says

The Republican attorney general in Kansas is arguing that a legal morass would result if transgender Kansas residents are allowed to intervene in a lawsuit that seeks to force the state to list their sex assigned at birth on their driver's licenses

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