WASHINGTON — Abortion will be in the spotlight for 10 states Tuesday — the largest number of abortion-related state measures to qualify in one U.S. election. Voters in Montana, Maryland, Colorado, New York, Nebraska, Florida,…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected efforts to roll back guidance from the Treasury Department regarding how state and local governments can spend funding approved by Congress during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 46-49…

This year’s presidential election will be the first since generative AI — a form of artificial intelligence that can create new content, including images, audio, and video — became widely available. That’s raising fears that…

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that it’s up to states and not Congress to preserve access to in vitro fertilization, weighing in on a growing national debate and campaign issue. “It’s not my…

Iola Elementary School’s second- and fifth-grade classes teamed up Thursday to present “Scrambled State of America,” a celebration of all things USA. The play is a light-hearted tale about each of the 50 states relocating…

TOPEKA — A pair of conservative state legislators filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court to challenge a belief the Kansas Constitution required two-thirds majorities in the House and Senate to endorse calling a constitutional…

The federal pandemic-era child tax credit expansion lifted millions of children out of poverty in the second half of 2021. But Congress allowed it to expire at the end of that year, and new U.S.…

Iola Elementary School student Cayleigh Rutherford gets a ride in a slingshot driven by owner Bill Hobbs last week. Rutherford was the first IES student to read books about each of the 50 states and…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Stoked by the largest surplus in state history, Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature devised a $500 million plan to send one-time tax refunds to millions of households. In a shock to some,…

More than a dozen states will open vaccine eligibility to all adults this week in a major expansion of COVID-19 shots for tens of millions of Americans amid a worrisome increase in virus cases and…