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Commentary: How California’s law against red states is hurting Black academic freedom

When AB 1887 was passed into law in 2016, its purpose was to name, shame and boycott four states — Tennessee, Kansas, North Carolina and Mississippi — which had passed laws that discriminated against LGBTQ+ persons.

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Kansas nightclub shooting leaves 9 hurt; police capture one of multiple suspected shooters

Police in Kansas say a shooting in a nightclub left seven people with gunshot wounds and an additional two victims hospitalized after being trampled as people rushed outside

The Independent UK

‘Unconscionable.’ Kansas foster care contractors investigated after kids put at risk

Contractors in charge of handling foster care in Kansas have been investigated dozens of times during the past three years, in some cases leading to changes to protect children they serve.

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New state laws target contentious topics of gender, guns and abortion

New state laws are tackling some of the most divisive issues in the U.S., including abortion, gender and guns

The Independent UK

Fentanyl test strips, trans athlete ban and smoking age. New KS laws take effect Saturday

On Saturday Kansans will be able to legally access a key tool used to prevent fentanyl overdose deaths and they will no longer need to pay the state $100 for a license to carry a concealed firearm.

Tribune News Service

As fear grows among trans Kansans, Gov. Kelly defies Attorney General Kobach on gender marker changes on state IDs

TOPEKA, Kan. — Lane Rozin wakes up every day in fear.

Tribune News Service

Transgender Kansas residents can keep updating their documents despite a new law, governor says

Kansas’ Democratic governor says the state will keep allowing residents to change official documents to reflect their gender identities

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Kansas boy dealing with bullying, racism brought knife to school. Now he faces a felony

He was called the n-word.

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The number of Kansas residents changing their gender jumped 300% before a new law began

The number of people officially changing their gender in Kansas jumped more than 300% this year

The Independent UK

Editorial: Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall bemoans ‘climate demagogues’ but seeks farm aid in ‘historic drought’

On Wednesday, Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall called those who want to mitigate the already catastrophic effects of our global environmental crisis ‘climate demagogues.’

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Kansas GOP leader wants to ban nonpartisan elections. Republicans are divided about it

The Kansas Republican Party’s new chairman wants to eliminate nonpartisan elections for cities, counties and school boards, throwing his weight behind the concept after the GOP-controlled state Senate earlier this year rejected a similar idea.

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Kansas must undo gender changes for trans people in state records, attorney general says

The conservative Republican attorney general of Kansas says a new Kansas law requires the state to reverse any previous gender changes in its records for trans people’s birth certificates and driver’s licenses while also preventing such changes going forward

The Independent UK

Attorney General Kobach contends that birth certificates, licenses of trans Kansans must use sex at birth

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach said Monday that a new state law requires Kansas agencies over time to revert updated birth certificates and driver’s licenses issued to transgender residents back to their original forms ahead of its implementation this coming Saturday.

Tribune News Service

Kansas: Point of Know Return - Album Of The Week Club review

Kansas's follow-up to the massively successful Leftoverture was Point Of Know Return, a slice of intuitively melodic rock that spawned a huge hit single, the emotive Dust In The Wind

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Your state has a law on bathrooms and trans kids? Officials may not know how it will be enforced

U.S. states with laws restricting what bathrooms transgender kids can use in public schools are wrestling with how those laws will be enforced

The Guardian - US

Record-breaking Texas heatwave enters third week as thousands lose power

New Mexico, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas also face scorching temperatures as heat dome settles over US south-west

The Guardian - US

Republicans scramble to limit electoral backlash against abortion bans

Supreme court’s overturning of Roe v Wade sparked a slew of state-level restrictions but anti-abortion stance has proved a vote-loser

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Kansas' attorney general is moving to block trans people from changing their birth certificates

Kansas’ conservative Republican attorney general is moving to prevent transgender people born in the state from changing their birth certificates to reflect their gender identities

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What it’s like to cover abortion while pregnant: ‘People saw me as a container for a child’

As she’s about to take maternity leave, Poppy Noor writes about witnessing the decimation of women’s rights while on the road as a reproductive rights reporter

The Independent UK

Spirit Aerosystems, major airlines supplier, suspends plant operations after labor contract rejected

Spirit Aerosystems, a major supplier to the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers, is suspending operations at a critical Kansas plant after union workers there rejected a proposed four-year contract and authorized a strike

The Independent UK

Man charged for making violent threats against Nashville Pride festival

A 25-year-old from Kansas threatened to ‘commit a mass shooting’ at the event

Tribune News Service

Kansas attorney general agrees his state won’t enforce abortion ‘reversal’ law before judge issues order

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach has agreed the state temporarily will not enforce a new law requiring abortion providers to tell patients that the effects of mifepristone, the first of two pills taken in a medication abortion, are reversible.

The Independent UK

Father of 13 dies in Colorado rafting accident after saving his children from danger

Dr Dustin Harker, a physician from Kansas, was on trip with church and four of his children when tragedy struck

The Independent UK

Kansas agrees to temporary pause in enforcing new law on medication abortions

Kansas officials have agreed, for now, not to enforce a new restriction on medication abortions

Tribune News Service

As states pass anti-LGBTQ laws, Sharice Davids says she still feels optimistic about progress

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Sharice Davids, a Kansas Democrat, compared the journey for LGBTQ rights to walking up a spiral staircase.

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