President Donald Trump entered his second term talking about eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Then Texas’s Guadalupe River flooded, killing more than 130 Americans. Now, Trump’s team is scrambling to insist that its changes…

It’s often hard to know when President Trump is serious about something, or merely creating a distraction. But in case he really meant it this week when he told Republican lawmakers he may fire Federal…

When the private sector doesn’t provide an important service, the government often steps in. That is why the framers established the U.S. Postal Service; they believed no one else would deliver the mail to the…

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe this past week walked back paid the sick leave protections for workers that a large majority of voters wanted in the 2024 election. Last fall, the Kansas City Star Editorial Board…

The Israeli prime minister cited Mr. Trump’s efforts to end conflicts in the Middle East. But in truth he is grateful to the U.S. president for joining his war against Iran last month and for…

Unable to resist the political clickbait, President Donald Trump muscled Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier out of the limelight June 30, to celebrate the opening of a Florida first. It is…

Three months ago a tariff announcement by Donald Trump caused a market meltdown.  More recently his words have mostly elicited a shrug. On July 7 America’s president published letters he had sent to 14 countries…

For the third time in less than six months, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has moved to suspend munitions shipments to Ukraine, and President Donald Trump has reversed the decision. Trump announced on Monday night that…

The premise of President Donald Trump’s new budget plan is to put so much money in people’s pockets that even those who are targeted by its cuts will share in the largesse. Kansans know the…

President Trump keeps beseeching Vladimir Putin to end his vicious assault on Ukraine, but the Russian keeps stringing the American along. Could Mr. Trump finally be losing enough patience to try a different strategy? The…