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Water park accused of racism for cancelling Black teen’s party as 250 guests arrived

Officials of Summit Waves water park outside Kansas city reportedly said they were ‘uncomfortable’ hosting the party

The Independent UK

Missouri AG Schmitt says he’ll take a ‘wrecking ball’ to DOJ as Republicans react to Trump raid

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Missouri, decried an FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, calling it an “unprecedented weaponization” of the Department of Justice against one of President Joe Biden’s political opponents.

Tribune News Service

‘Let us live our life': Why the Kansas abortion amendment failed in some rural counties

SCRANTON, Kan. — Meetings of the local Democratic Party in deeply Republican Osage County, a largely rural area where former President Donald Trump won 71% of the vote in 2020, typically draw about a dozen people.

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Kansas voters turned out to save abortion rights. That’s a good sign for the rest of America.

That victory for privacy, freedom and bodily autonomy was driven by huge voter turnout and the organizers who worked to achieve it.

Chicago Sun-Times

What the national analysis of Kansas left out - Roll Call

The defeat of an anti-abortion referendum was a surprise, but Democrats have found Kansas opportunities since a GOP civil war in 1990s.

Roll Call

Abortion rights activists want a national leader. Is Kamala Harris up to the job?

WASHINGTON — As Democrats celebrated an abortion rights win last week, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke confidently from the center of an ornate room at the White House compound, surrounded by Cabinet secretaries and other top officials, with President Joe Biden chiming in remotely while sidelined by the coronavirus.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Kansas’ message to Florida on abortion

Kansas voters surprised the nation and reframed the midterm elections by voting overwhelmingly against removing abortion rights from the state constitution. It was a sharp rebuke in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal in June of Roe v. Wade, the court’s landmark abortion decision, and while it’s premature…

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Police: Suspect in slayings of 4 in Ohio arrested in Kansas

A suspect in the shooting deaths of four people in Ohio has been arrested in Kansas

The Independent UK

Abrams sees Kansas abortion vote as new hope for Georgia Democrats

ATLANTA — The decisive vote in Kansas to protect abortion rights was quickly embraced by Georgia Democrats as evidence that the backlash to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade could alter a midterm election climate that favors the GOP.

Tribune News Service

What happened in Kansas: It's big

Right-wingers thought they had a foolproof game plan in Kansas. It fell apart, and that could change everything

Salon

In Kansas and Arizona, voters defy expectations to chart their own course

People bristle and resist when told what they can or cannot do. We knew this about guns, vaccinations and masks. And we are seeing some of that with regard to abortion rights, even in red states.

WEKU

How a Catholic Kansas doctor suddenly became a fierce, vocal abortion rights advocate

That Friday in June when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade threw Dr. Sabrina Markese into an emotional tailspin.

Tribune News Service

Jackie Calmes: The abortion vote in Kansas shows that populism can work for Democrats too

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. seemed to enjoy the yucks he got from a friendly audience abroad when he recently mocked foreign leaders by name, and Prince Harry, too, for criticizing the Supreme Court opinion he wrote robbing Americans of their federal constitutional right to abortion.

Los Angeles Times

Fabiola Santiago: Kansas abortion vote should teach cocky Florida Republicans not to mess with women

The first Americans to speak on abortion rights at the ballot box since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade did so this week resoundingly.

Miami Herald

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Planned Parenthood quietly opened new Kansas abortion clinic after Supreme Court ruling

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Planned Parenthood quietly opened a new abortion clinic in Kansas City, Kansas, this summer, a location that didn’t draw much attention until after Kansans affirmed the right to an abortion with Tuesday’s historic vote.

Ballotpedia

ICYMI: Top stories of the week

On Tuesday, we covered elections in six states—Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Washington. Here are some results highlights:

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Kansas abortion vote: voice of America

Editorial: This week’s vote to defend women’s rights mirrors US opinion on the issue more generally and may shape the midterm elections

The Philadelphia Inquirer

What the Kansas abortion vote means for a constitutional amendment effort in Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Democrats are pointing to this week’s victory for abortion rights in Kansas as a harbinger for the Keystone State, where a similar ballot question could be considered by voters as early as next year.

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‘Ongoing fight.’ What does Kansas’ strong vote for abortion rights mean for November?

Democrats nationwide latched onto Kansas’ resounding affirmation of abortion rights as a sign of good things to come.

WEKU

Abortion rights supporters and opponents look for lessons from the Kansas vote

Kentucky has a similar measure on the ballot, and another is expected in Michigan. But even as advocates analyze the results, they warn that messaging that worked in Kansas may not work nationwide.

Tribune News Service

A Kansas police officer victimized ‘countless’ women, lawyers say. The state hinders them from suing

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two women who say they were sexually abused by longtime Kansas City, Kansas, police detective Roger Golubski have expressed interest in suing — if only state law would let them.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Go ahead, North Carolina Republicans. Put abortion on the ballot

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion in North Carolina has remained legal, but Republicans seem eager to restrict it.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: The matter with Kansas: Abortion rights could be a winner for Democrats in the fall

In 2020, Donald Trump won Kansas over Joe Biden 56%-42%. In 2016, he bested Hillary Clinton there 56%-36%. And Tuesday, by a similar margin, 59%-41%, Kansans voted to keep state constitutional provisions that protect abortion rights.

The Independent UK

Will abortion be on more state ballots after Kansas vote?

Abortion rights opponents were shocked and abortion advocates energized by a decisive statewide vote in heavily Republican Kansas this week in favor of protecting abortion access

Roll Call

At the Races: Sunflower shocker - Roll Call

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

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