California started banning official travel to states with laws it deemed discriminatory against LGBTQ+ people in 2017, starting with Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee
The police chief who led the raid of the ‘Marion County Record’ has alleged that a reporter either impersonated someone else or lied about her intentions when she obtained the driving records of a local business owner
Even without the computers, cellphones and other equipment taken in a police raid, the new edition of the ‘Marion County Record’ made it to newsstands Wednesday
Kansas, North Dakota and Wyoming had new laws restricting transgender athletes in place before classes resumed, and a Missouri law takes effect at the end of this month
Several press freedom watchdogs condemned the Marion Police Department’s actions as a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution’s protection for a free press
In both states, the impact of the overturning of Roe remains unsettled as GOP-controlled legislatures push to tighten laws surrounding abortion and the doctors and clinics who provide them wage fierce court battles
Kobach is seeking an order in Shawnee County District Court to stop Kelly and agencies under her control from allowing changes to transgender people’s driver’s licenses
The surge reported this week came ahead of a new state law that defines male and female on birth certificates and driver’s licenses based on a person’s sex assigned at birth
This nonprofit that describes itself as a collection of doctors and others uniting to “protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology” has become a significant presence in statehouses
The GOP-controlled Legislature on Thursday overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of the measure. The Kansas law defines male and female in law based on a person’s reproductive anatomy at birth
In a land where private property is venerated and “get off my lawn” has become a mantra of jokey crankiness, the American front door is where the public sphere encounters private space — occasionally with disastrous results
Honest mistakes and simple acts like going to the wrong address or car in a parking lot, or even just ringing the wrong doorbell, can seem like a fateful question of trust
The Republican-controlled state legislature overrode Democratic Governor Laura Kelly’s third veto in three years of a bill that applies a ban on school teams and club sports sponsored by K-12 schools and colleges
The legislation deals with cases when an abortion procedure results in a live birth and would require medical personnel to take the same steps to preserve the newborn’s life as providers would with other live births
Recent gun violence involving college players show the challenge facing athletic departments when it comes to determining how gun laws and regulations should be applied within their programs
The moves, encouraged by former president Donald Trump, are the latest indication of how conspiracy theories related to the 2020 election continue to ripple throughout the Republican Party
In some states, Republicans are considering exemptions to sweeping bans or looking at ways to prevent abortions besides trying to roll back the number of weeks during which the procedure is allowed