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'The Weight' leans heavy on its Friedkin influence KMUW
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Into Music: Leah Wellbaum KMUW
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Wednesday, September 16, 2026 KMUW
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WASHINGTON — Voters are much more likely to support U.S. Senate candidates in the November midterm elections if they have a plan to avoid an automatic cut to Social Security benefits in 2032, according to a poll released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Peter G. Peterson Foundation. “Senators elected this fall will be in office in […]
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Traducido por Claudia Amaro. HUTCHINSON — El senador republicano titular Roger Marshall y el reverendo Adam Hamilton, demócrata, se enfrentaron el sábado ante una multitud bulliciosa que defendía sus posturas sobre aranceles, la guerra en Irán y la política partidista. Los dos candidatos de los principales partidos que se postulan al Senado de los Estados […]
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TOPEKA — A Kansas Republican Party officer called the Secretary of State’s Office in July to ask why a new state law that regulates gender markers wasn’t being applied to the voter registration of a transgender Democrat running for a Kansas House seat. Senior election officials disagreed with his interpretation of Senate Bill 244, the […]
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Mark Twain once said of the praise he’d received: “I do love compliments, yet I’m often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment, I so often feel that they somehow, have not gone far enough.” Twain just may be correct. Earnest Hemingway once said of Twain that “all […]
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Kansas Supreme Court returns to appeals of John Robinson Sr., who was convicted of murdering three women in Kansas and tied to five deaths in Missouri.
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WASHINGTON — FBI Director Kash Patel sidestepped questions about FBI agents at polling places in the midterm elections at a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday that also featured a tense exchange between GOP Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey. With the November midterm elections fast approaching and the parties […]
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Declining birth rates mean fewer students. And that means more districts grappling with whether to close or merge schools. “The big shrink” is how Marguerite Roza, director of Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab, described what is happening nationally. “When there are fewer young people, obviously it’s going to change the shape of public education,” Roza said. […]
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WASHINGTON — The cost of U.S. military operations in Iran has exceeded $40 billion and the war will continue to cost taxpayers between $2 billion and $3 billion per month, according to an analysis released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The ongoing bombing campaign, which President Donald Trump launched alongside the Israeli government […]
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Into Music: Brad Wolfe KMUW
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HUTCHINSON — Rep. Brooklynne Mosley stepped into the Prairie Pavilion arena at the Kansas State Fair Saturday, leading a heifer around the ring while smiling broadly Mosley, a Lawrence Democrat, had never spent time with cattle until she began working with two 4-H participants, Genayla Warnken of Manhattan and Makenzie Fishburn of Lawrence to learn […]
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The Kansas State Fair has swollen Hutchinson like a blood-gorged tick with deep-fried food, fruity drinks and — last weekend — the bloviating of politicians. Welcome to your state fair in an election year. This Sept. 12 I sampled both an array of twisted fair foods and the onstage antics of candidates for U.S. Senate […]
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Bing Futch Talks 2026 Walnut Valley Festival KMUW
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John McCutcheon says everyone gets along at the Walnut Valley Festival KMUW
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Wichita school board member Ngoc Vuong resigns KMUW
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Gray Shore delivers debut missive 'An Open Letter to Myself' KMUW
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A movie about a man and his fine, feathered friend KMUW
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KMUW Member of the Week KMUW
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