Death rates among Native, Hispanic and Black Americans still outpace pre-pandemic figures, showing the hidden toll of COVID-19 on communities of color even as vaccines have become widely available, according to data released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
WASHINGTON – A report showing inflation rising at its fastest rate in nearly four decades raised fresh questions Friday about the fate of President Joe Biden’s social and environment legislation, with both sides hoping it would influence whether pivotal Sen. Joe Manchin will back the proposal.
Bob Dole, who overcame war wounds to dominate Kansas politics for much of the 20th century and nearly capture his nation’s presidency, has died. He was 98.
In many parts of the state, mask wearing is still present in supermarkets, public buildings and doctor's offices. Students miss school because of the virus, forced to quarantine. And signs encouraging vaccination dot the landscape, though the state's immunization rate remains stubborn.
TOPEKA — Kansas political icon Bob Dole, who represented the state for decades in Washington, D.C., and was the Republican nominee for president in 1996, died Sunday morning at age 98. The Elizabeth Dole Foundation announced his death.
AUGUSTA — For more than a decade the neon marquee of the Augusta Historic Theater was dark, the result of storm damage. The marquee came blazing back to life Nov.
Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit collapsed and died after a workout Monday at Santa Anita. The 3-year-old colt trained by Bob Baffert had just completed five furlongs in his second workout since finishing second in the Breeders’ Cup Classic a month ago at Del Mar, according to Craig Robertson, Baffert’s attorney.
ROSE HILL — Tucked near the corner of Tanglewood Road and Osage Streets in Rose Hill stands a house that has gotten a nickname from the community. “The Griswold House.” Named, affectionately, for the fictional character Clarke Griswold from the National Lampoon vacation movies — specifically movie the National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
The idea of peace seems to appeal to most people in theory, but not so much in practice. For example, it doesn’t take much moral excellence or imagination to desire a world of peace. It gets tricky, however, when the necessary pathway to bring such peace to our world runs straight through my sinful heart. Multiply that sobering fact by every member of the human family and all the bold predictions and clever resolutions attempting to usher in world peace quietly fade. The world is indeed desperate for peace, but its arrival will come, indeed did come, from a most unexpected source.
President Joe Biden’s latest measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 will increase the hassle factor of flying into the United States, even for American citizens returning from overseas. Beginning next week, travelers heading to the U.S.