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Leawood (United States) (AFP) - Campaign signs dot the tree-lined streets of the affluent Kansas town of Leawood, as the Midwestern state prepares to hold the first major vote on abortion since the US Supreme Court ended the national right to the procedure.

They called it the “Summer of Mercy.”

The ballot measure is the first of many across the country that will decide where and how women can preserve reproductive rights

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery (R), joined by 21 Republican attorneys general, filed a lawsuit on July 26, 2022, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee that aimed to overturn guidance from the Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service.…

From Texas volunteers reviewing 2020 primary ballots to objections against absentee drop boxes in Kansas, undermining confidence in elections is metastasizing

Belle the rescue dog was born with a birth defect which makes her look permanently shocked - but owner Lieschen O'Connor, 38, from Kansas, US, says it only makes her more adorable

Amelia Earhart has been grounded in the U.S. Capitol.

A statue honoring the aviation pioneer is now part of the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall. Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

After years of effort, a statue of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart now stands in the U.S. Capitol

Welcome to the Wednesday, July 27, Brew. 

On August 2, Kansans will decide on a constitutional amendment to state that nothing in the Kansas Constitution creates a right to abortion or requires government funding for abortion. It would also say that the legislature has the authority to pass laws regarding abortion.