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Finding common ground in today’s politics: Are we really so far apart? kansascity.com/opinion/artic…

Finding common ground in today’s politics: Are we really so far apart?

Bipartisan problem-solving on healthcare, immigration, schools and budget responsibility can help working families and communities. | Opinion

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Man, 82, allegedly attacked and robbed of his car during a test drive in Washington kansascity.com/news/nation-w…

Man, 82, allegedly attacked and robbed of his car during a test drive in Washington

The seller had arranged to meet the buyer at a Walmart, police said. Deputies say the test drive turned into an attack.

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Endorsement: Kansas City Star Editorial Board weighs in on Proposition A kansascity.com/opinion/artic…

Endorsement: Kansas City Star Editorial Board weighs in on Proposition A

Proposition A asks a simple question: Should Missouri use the 2025 congressional map, known as HB 1, or keep the 2022 map that was already in place?

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Five things Mizzou football fans should know ahead of Halloween game at Arkansas kansascity.com/sports/colleg…

Five things Mizzou football fans should know ahead of Halloween game at Arkansas

Here are key things Missouri Tigers fans should know ahead of the football team’s trip to Fayetteville to face Arkansas.

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Five moments that stood out from JD Vance rally as GOP fights to keep Kansas red kansascity.com/news/politics…

Five moments that stood out from JD Vance rally as GOP fights to keep Kansas red

The vice president described the Rev. Adam Hamilton, who has never run for office before, as “a lab creation of Washingtonopolis.”

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Ty Masterson: We want the same things. As governor, let’s get them done together kansascity.com/opinion/artic…

Ty Masterson: We want the same things. As governor, let’s get them done together

Ty Masterson outlines his Kansas agenda: safer neighborhoods, tax caps, school funding and putting surplus dollars back into Kansans' pockets. | Opinion

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Endorsement: The Kansas City Star Editorial Board weighs in on Amendment 3 kansascity.com/opinion/artic…

Endorsement: The Kansas City Star Editorial Board weighs in on Amendment 3

Amendment 3 would bring back a statewide abortion ban. It is not about gender-affirming treatments for minors, which are already banned. | Opinion

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Lawsuit photos show California officer smiling over a handcuffed woman, 66, who later died kansascity.com/news/nation-w…

Lawsuit photos show California officer smiling over a handcuffed woman, 66, who later died

The Police Department has not said whether it disciplined the officer.

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Hamilton revisits Marshall’s infamous town hall moment as Vance rallies GOP kansascity.com/news/politics…

Hamilton revisits Marshall’s infamous town hall moment as Vance rallies GOP

The Rev. Adam Hamilton went to Oakley, a now-infamous city in this year’s race for U.S. Senate in Kansas.

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In Sen. Roger Marshall’s longtime home of Great Bend, public support is lukewarm kansascity.com/opinion/opn-c…

In Sen. Roger Marshall’s longtime home of Great Bend, public support is lukewarm

The Star’s David Hudnall spent three days talking to residents and voters in Barton County, Kansas. Few were eager to praise the Senator.

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When do the polls open in Kansas City? What to know for November election kansascity.com/news/local/ar…

When do the polls open in Kansas City? What to know for November election

Poll hours for each state, guarantees of time off work to vote, and other Election Day questions answered here.

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Wyandotte County to control development around Chiefs stadium in deal with Kansas kansascity.com/news/local/ar…

Wyandotte County to control development around Chiefs stadium in deal with Kansas

Wyandotte County filed a lawsuit two weeks ago aimed at a state law related to the Chiefs project, alleging it stripped local authority.

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Check out the schedule of Kansas City-area high school football games this week kansascity.com/sports/high-s…

Check out the schedule of Kansas City-area high school football games this week

There’s action on both sides of the state line beginning Thursday, with some intriguing matchups on the slate.

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A new oyster bar is coming to Kansas City, serving sparkling wine and martinis kansascity.com/news/business…

A new oyster bar is coming to Kansas City, serving sparkling wine and martinis

Behind The Shuckers Union is Brandon Hayden, who shucks oysters at Parker Hollow. He hopes to open the bar in December.

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California senator shows up unannounced at an ICE holding center. What he found kansascity.com/news/nation-w…

California senator shows up unannounced at an ICE holding center. What he found

The senator toured the Sacramento center without notice, two days after an ICE agent’s vehicle was involved in a collision with an observer in the region.

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How Idaho’s decision to stop paying parents who care for disabled kids affects families kansascity.com/news/nation-w…

How Idaho’s decision to stop paying parents who care for disabled kids affects families

Five families describe mortgages slipping, children declining and parents working opposite shifts since the state cut their paid care hours.

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Independence police crash victim remembered as single mother who ‘loved so hard’ kansascity.com/news/local/ar…

Independence police crash victim remembered as single mother who ‘loved so hard’

Misty Leslie, 48, was described by a friend as a “lifelong overachiever.”

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Email signed ‘Love, Mom’ cited in fraud case against federal worker hired at Washington nuclear site kansascity.com/news/nation-w…

Email signed ‘Love, Mom’ cited in fraud case against federal worker hired at Washington nuclear site

A federal employee was offered $30,000 to relocate for a job at a nuclear site. Prosecutors say the lease paperwork was fake.

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Appeals court denies Trump administration demand to set aside California ballots kansascity.com/news/nation-w…

Appeals court denies Trump administration demand to set aside California ballots

The Trump administration constructed its own emergency in asking an appeals court to set aside 20,000 California ballots, a judge wrote.

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Driver dies after vehicle runs off road, hits tree in south Kansas City kansascity.com/news/local/ar…

Driver dies after vehicle runs off road, hits tree in south Kansas City

A preliminary investigation indicated that the crash happened as a red Mercedes C590 sped east on Blue Parkway.

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