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The agency's three commissioners have a habit of ruling on issues that come before them without benefit of public hearings, which is a clear violation of the Kansas Open Meetings Act.

It has been suggested by some that adjournment was the best thing to come out of the 2013 legislative session.

The Kansas Constitution requires the state to finance K-12 education suitably.

The Kansas Board of Regents has plenty of reason to be disappointed and even angry at Kansas lawmakers who approved budget cuts exceeding 5 percent for the universities under the Regents' purview.

The seizure of millions of private telephone records infringes upon the fundamental constitutional rights of tens of millions of unsuspecting, law-abiding Americans.

There's been a big setback to establishing peace in war-torn Afghanistan.A day after the Taliban opened a new office in Qatar, supposedly to help kickstart the peace process, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has abruptly ...

The two-day G-8 Summit in Northern Ireland ended Tuesday with a whisper, not a bang.In the final communiqué, the U.S. and its allies issued a general message on reviving the global economy saying, "Promoting gro...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested Tuesday that there's finally a light at the end of the tunnel in the West's standoff with Iran over its rogue nuclear program.According to the Russian official, if the U...

A Shiite mosque in Baghdad was targeted by militants on Tuesday, leaving 29 people dead and dozens more wounded.According to Iraqi officials, it was a coordinated suicide bombing designed to kill as many people as poss...

Prince William and Kate Middleton are expecting their first child in July and a report by the Centre for Retail Research in Nottingham, England, predicts that the national economy could gain as much as $380 million bec...

While the Senate was working to amend the bipartisan immigration bill on the floor, the House Judiciary Committee was busy late Tuesday night passing its piecemeal approach to immigration overhaul.The first step: makin...

President Obama on Wednesday defended his administration’s “narrow” phone and Internet surveillance, saying that “lives have been saved” because of the programs.“We know of at least ...

– Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, passed by a vote of 228-196. Six Republicans opposed the measure, while six Democrats crossed the aisle to support it.Republicans contend that a fetus is capable of detec...

Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in Alaska on Tuesday, ensuring there will be a Republican primary in the race to run against Sen. Mark Begich, a Democrat.Treadwell officially got int...

Vice President Joe Biden spoke at the White House Tuesday about continued effort to address gun violence, pledging that he and President Obama have not given up the effort to pass legislation expanding background check...

Investigators plan to execute a search warrant on an Enterprise rental car registered to New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Wednesday, ABC News has learned.The car was near the body of a man who was foun...

Mark Wilson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Most Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll support telephone and Internet surveillance by the National Security Administration, but two-thirds also favor congressional he...

The jury selection process in the George Zimmerman murder trial will move on to round two on Wednesday, as the prosecution and defense look to whittle down a pool of potential jurors into a final list of jurors and alt...

An Ohio day care worker who police say sprinkled drugs in children's snacks to make them fall asleep has denied dispensing any medication without parental approval."I simply wouldn't do it. I didn't do it," Tammy Epple...

Journalist Michael Hastings, whose article on Gen. Stanley McChrystal effectively ended his command of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was killed in a single-car crash early Tuesday, Los Angeles Police confirmed on Tuesday...

Paramount has released its first trailer to Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. Unlike the previous two teasers, the snippet gives a bigger peek of the movie's plot, when Will Ferrell's Ron Burgundy and the rest of his ...

It seems Charlie Sheen's reported feud with Selma Blair on the set of Anger Management has cost her her job.Lionsgate, which produces the FX sitcom, announced on Tuesday, “We are confirming that Selma Blair will ...

Ratings for The Voice are on the rise for its finale week.The final performance show of the season for the NBC competition pulled in an estimated 12.3 million viewers on Monday night, according to Variety.  That's...

During Jimmy Kimmel Live!'s "Game Night" primetime special on Tuesday, Kimmel unveiled the video for "(I Wanna) Channing All Over Your Tatums," the sexually charged but nonsensical tribute to the sexiness of Channing T...

The Dumb and Dumber sequel has found a new home. Warner Bros., the parent company of the original film's studio New Line, cut ties with the project recently, but it's been picked up by Universal Pictures and Red Granit...

Obesity is a disease, according to the American Medical Association.The nation’s largest physician organization made the designation on Tuesday in an effort to get more doctors to recognize the health risks assoc...

Ryan Burke was born with a misshapen head a common consequence of natural birth.  But when the lopsidedness lingered for three months, his parents got worried."His pediatrician recommended we go see a neurosurge...

Singer and breast cancer survivor Melissa Etheridge is standing by her comments that actress Angelia Jolie was "fearful" and not "brave" for undergoing a double mastectomy to avoid breast cancer."I don't have any opini...

Doctors have long known that the sooner a stroke is treated, the better the outcome.  But now a new study finds just how much each minute counts.For each 15-minute head start doctors get on treating stroke, they c...

– and others across the country – the relentless beeping of monitors fades when the music takes over. The effect on preemies is dramatic and physical.Studies conducted by Dr. Jeffery Perlman, chief of newborn...