A Topeka man who answered a Craigslist ad to donate sperm so two women could have a baby together is not legally the child’s father and isn’t required to provide financial support, a Kansas judge has ruled. The state Department ...
Read More »‘Drain the swamp’? Federal workers worried about Trump plan
Melissa Baumann lives some 850 miles from the nation’s capital, but when she hears President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters say they will “drain the swamp,” she worries she will be sucked down into the muck. Baumann, a chemist with ...
Read More »Orders could have little effect on pipeline protest camp
Government orders for protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline to leave federal land could have little immediate effect on the encampment where scores of people have been gathered for months to oppose the $3.8 billion project. A North Dakota sheriff ...
Read More »US economy grew at 3.2 percent in third quarter
The U.S. economy in the third quarter grew at the fastest pace in two years, with a revised report showing stronger consumer spending than first estimated. The gross domestic product, the country’s total output of goods and services, expanded at ...
Read More »US home prices surpass pre-recession peak amid healthy sales
U.S. home prices have fully recovered from their steep plunge during the housing bust and Great Recession, according to a private measure. The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index , released Tuesday, is slightly above the peak ...
Read More »Lawsuit: Kansas State’s inaction led to another rape
A female student contends in a court filing Monday that Kansas State University’s failure to investigate the rape of another woman allowed the same alleged assailant to sexually assault her. The accusations were levied in court documents seeking to add ...
Read More »Green Party presidential candidate sues for hand recount
Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein asked a judge Monday to force a hand recount of nearly 3 million ballots cast in Wisconsin after the state Elections Commission rejected her call to do that. The commission voted unanimously to move ...
Read More »Crow Creek tribe sues US Government for $200 million
About 270 river-miles downstream from the Dakota Access pipeline protest camp, a South Dakota Native American tribe is quietly fighting for $200 million in compensation over alleged water-rights violations. The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, which resides on a reservation on ...
Read More »Dakota Access pipeline protesters told to leave by Dec. 5
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has set an early December deadline for American Indians and others to leave an encampment in North Dakota where they’ve been entrenched for months protesting the Dakota Access pipeline. Tribes including the Standing Rock ...
Read More »High court to examine mental disability, death penalty issue
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to examine whether the nation’s busiest state for capital punishment is trying to put to death a convicted killer who’s intellectually disabled, which would make him ineligible for execution under the court’s current guidance. ...
Read More »Senate trade-off: More Obama judges, Trump gets nominees
Republicans are gleeful over Democratic-engineered rule changes that will make it easier for President-elect Donald Trump to get his Cabinet nominees through the Senate. Yet Democrats see a lasting upside from what they did: allowing President Barack Obama to shape ...
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