1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (287+ words) Individuals affected by natural disasters could soon enjoy tax relief courtesy of a law championed by Florida lawmakers. President Donald Trump just signed the Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster Tax Relief Certainty Act (HR 5366). That’s a law that was sponsored by…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (219+ words) Democrats have not held a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas in a whopping 94 years. But President Donald Trump’s horrendous shepherding of the economy is hitting Kansans especially hard, with Trump’s idiotic trade wars and boondoggle of a war in Iran slamming…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (151+ words) In a late Tuesday morning post on X, formerly Twitter, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) vowed to save more than 1,200 Kansas jobs with Bombardier Inc. — a Canadian company that is based in Montreal and manufactures business jets. But his tweet is…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (451+ words) On Monday, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council announced that Tehran is planning a maritime “exclusion zone” outside the Strait of Hormuz where it intends to stop vessels attempting to transit the waterway without Iranian permission. Mohsen Rezaei: “We are making…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1705+ words) by Anna Spoerre - MISSOURI INDEPENDENT A coalition of Missouri labor unions and reproductive rights groups announced a $1 million campaign this month aimed at defeating Republican lawmakers who voted to repeal the state’s paid sick leave requirement. Not long ago, such…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (383+ words) Israel is carrying out renewed airstrikes on southern Lebanon, where health officials report a woman was killed just 48 hours after her wedding. The newlywed’s home was also destroyed in the attack on the Nabatieh district. Six people were wounded by…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (706+ words) Iran announced that it has resumed negotiations with Oman over managing the Strait of Hormuz. That’s despite mounting economic pressure from President Trump. It comes as the U.S. says it has completed the clearing of mines from the Strait of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (580+ words) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “We are giving everyone the opportunity to remedy bad behavior. Why would I want to blow up the global financial system? We believe that it is important to level set and give people a cure period,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (423+ words) By Ewan Scott | Aug 23, 2026 | Featured, News & Analysis, Politics Nancy Kassebaum Baker, the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without previously having a husband serve in Congress, passed away Friday at the age of 94. “She loved Kansas,” Bill Kassebaum told the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (360+ words) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “We are going to all of our allies, and this is going to be the greatest coordinated economic isolation in the history of the world. And we are going to them and saying, 'You are either…...