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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Nearly 2,300 Kansas City children are the latest at risk in the government shutdown. Head Start, a federally funded program, is on the chopping block in Jackson, Clay, and Platte counties. Head Start promotes school readiness via complementary early learning, health, nutrition, and family support services to low-income children from birth to age five. Eligibility is primarily based on income, but children in foster care, who are homeless, or whose families receive public assistance, qualify. Among Kansas City’s Head Start parents, 1,351 are employed, 169 are in training programs, and 168 are enrolled in school....

Following meeting with Ukraine's Zelenskyy, Trump calls on Ukraine and Russia to 'stop where they are' and end the war.

Democratic party attorney Marc Elias on Thursday told MSNBC's "The Weeknight" that President Donald Trump is trying to intimidate his political "enemies" from being a meaningful and robust opposition to him. MICHAEL STEELE, CO-HOST: Marc, Marc, here we go again. One more, right? What's your reaction, my friend, as the indictment counts seem to mount up here? MARC ELIAS, DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEY, DEMOCRACY DOCKET FOUNDER: Yeah, look, I think that we can't overcomplicate this with all due respect to your one of your prior guests. The fact is Donald Trump came into office saying he's going to seek vengeance against...

The former special counsel was referred to the Justice Department by several current GOP lawmakers. Former special counsel Jack Smith was criminally referred to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Oct. 16 by multiple Republican lawmakers for alleged misconduct and possible disbarment. A group of GOP lawmakers, led by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, asking her office to refer Smith, who was involved in two federal cases against then-former President Donald Trump, to the Office of Professional Responsibility for an investigation. A statement from Blackburn’s office said Smith had “allegedly engaged in serious...

Anyone who grew up before Y2K remembers what it was like to make a phone call on a landline: You’d punch in your friend’s phone number (which you had memorized), make awkward small talk with their mom or dad until your friend got on the line, and then see how far you could stretch that curly cord to get some actual privacy while you chatted. While landlines never really went away, it’s been many years since their heyday. Most Americans — 76% of adults and 86.8% of children — live in wireless-only households, according to a 2023 report from the...

A security guard was arrested after allegedly shooting and killing a man who reportedly took $90 worth of merchandise from a Halloween store in Northeast Albuquerque Thursday evening. Josiah Armijo, 25, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder Friday. He was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center and does not yet have a lawyer. Officers were dispatched to the Spirit Halloween on Carlisle NE at Indian School around 5 p.m. Thursday following reports of a homicide. Upon arrival, police saw a man with a gunshot wound to the chest ... Security camera footage from the store showed the man place...

Animal lovers beware: Some of the biggest charities in the biz are more than happy to bite the hand that feeds them. At least, that's the contention of one Washington, D.C.-based watchdog. If you’ve ever worried about where your charitable dollars go, you’re not alone. The holidays are the busiest giving season of the year, with Americans donating roughly $3.1 billion in 2023. About 30% of all annual giving happens in December, with the Tuesday after Thanksgiving now known nationwide as “Giving Tuesday.” Yet Americans’ growing distrust of institutions is starting to affect their willingness to give. A recent study...

The President’s vigorous effort to call to account those who waged lawfare against him is a necessary purgative Has Donald Trump “weaponized” the justice system to go after his political enemies? The answer is no.“What about former FBI director James Comey?” you ask. “What about New York Attorney General Letitia James?” Both went after Trump hammer and tongs. Now both have been indicted by the Trump Justice Department. Are those not textbook cases of “weaponization,” of “retribution,” of using the power of the system to punish people who have punished you?Hold on. I write this in mid-October. By the time...

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe is defending his pro-life beliefs this week after he denied clemency to a convicted murderer and is facing criticism from activists who oppose the death penalty. Kehoe, a Republican, rejected last-minute appeals to halt the execution of Lance Shockley, who was convicted of killing Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl Dewayne Graham Jr. in 2005. Shockley was executed by lethal injection Oct. 14 in Bonne Terre, Missouri, marking the first execution since Kehoe took office as governor, Missouri news station First Alert 4 reported. “The murder of Missouri State Highway Patrol Sergeant Carl DeWayne Graham, Jr.,...

President Trump used an expletive Friday to warn Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro against conflict with the U.S., as the administration escalates military action against drug trafficking in the region. “He doesn’t want to f‑‑‑ with the U.S.,” Trump said, speaking from the White House during a lunch meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Trump said Maduro had “offered everything” as part of diplomatic talks with the U.S., but which Trump reportedly called off last week. The New York Times reported Maduro had offered the U.S. a dominant stake in Venezuela’s oil and other mineral wealth, as part of months-long discussions. The...

In response to Russian President Putin’s refusal to agree to a ceasefire in the Ukraine War and his stubborn defiance of President Trump’s peace efforts, Ukraine wants the U.S. to give it Tomahawk cruise missiles. Ukraine’s rationale is that enabling it to go on the offensive against Russia with these advanced, long-range missiles might force Putin to agree to a ceasefire. Providing Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine might be dangerously escalatory. Still, this proposal, coupled with the success of President Trump’s diplomacy to end the Israel-Hamas War, may have motivated Putin to agree yesterday to new rounds of high-level diplomacy with...

Back in 2018, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) urged her supporters to make members of President Trump's Cabinet uncomfortable in public saying, "If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station — you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere."For years, Democrats have done just that. Including back in September when President Trump and others dined out in DC and were heckled by protesters.But Democrats never thought the shoe could one day be on the other foot...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Vice President JD Vance is set to return to Marine Corps ranks in a historic homecoming as he leads the celebration of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 250th anniversary at Camp Pendleton on Saturday, Oct. 18. The event, titled “America’s Marines 250: From Sea to Shore — A Review of Amphibious Strength,” will showcase the Marine Corps’ evolution as a global force in readiness and its commitment to amphibious warfare, according to a press release announcing the affair.

What the indoctrination of third-wave feminism has wrought — loneliness.I have an acquaintance. She’s a lot younger than me. I like her, but she’s one of those people who thinks she’s a rebel by doing things which are annoyingly conventional for women her age.I try not to hold that against her, because it’s quite clear she’s been propagandized and indoctrinated into a worldview she will hopefully discard. I think she’s smart enough to do that.Eventually.And because I like to keep politics and even social commentary confined to my professional life and out of my day-to-day life as much as...

During the past eight or nine years, many football fans have wondered: Is the NFL favoring the Kansas City Chiefs? Why do Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs always seem to get bailed out with a penatly flag against the other team? No, you are not being paranoid or a delusional. Actually, science and research suggest you might be on to something. Research done by a team at UTEP presents evidence that the Chiefs have benefited from slanted officiating from 2015 to 2023, a time that coincided with their rise as one of the NFL’s most marketable franchises. Published in the...

The government shutdown is about to slam into the federal courts, which had been able to keep running but are about to exhaust their extra cash and will have to furlough employees starting early next week. Courts will be allowed to perform only essential work where human life or protection of property is involved, plus activities specifically required by federal law or to carry out Article III of the Constitution. Employees who aren’t involved in those activities will be furloughed, while essential employees will have to work without pay, the administrative office for the U.S. courts said Friday. The shutdown...

Mexico has started mass deportations of illegal migrants, deporting thousands to Central America Mexico making the move after President Donald Trump closed the US Mexico border. The closing led to an 85% plunge in illegal migrant entries through the US – Mexico border in the first eight months of the year—the lowest levels in half a decade. Mexico has realized that it cannot absorb the spillover from Biden-era open-border policies, as more illegal migrants have been apprehended in Mexico than by U.S. agents in recent months. Here are some of the moves being made by Mexico. Mass deportations to Central...

State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) stands for a photo in the Castro district of San Francisco in 2023. Wiener, known for housing advocacy and criticism of President Trump, has raised $1 million for the San Francisco district campaign. Pelosi, 85, has not indicated whether she will seek reelection after being first elected to Congress in 1987. SACRAMENTO — State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who has emerged as one of California’s most vocal critics of President Trump, will run next year for the congressional seat held by former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi.A formal announcement from Wiener is expected...

The unity of Church of England has been dealt a major blow to the denomination in a punishing reminder that theological treason has consequences, after a group representing nearly 40 million members—ten times the number of Anglicans in the UK—announced they are the real Anglican Communion and will no longer be in communion with their progressive counterpart, dividing the denomination in two while declaring “We cannot continue to have communion with those who advocate the revisionist agenda, which has abandoned the inerrant word of God as the final authority.” Over the past two decades, the denomination has been liberalizing at...

ENNIS, Texas — A man suspected of fatally shooting three people in Henderson County early Friday was hospitalized after he crashed into the Buc-ee's in Ennis, injuring a pedestrian, and shot himself, officials say. Henderson County deputies tell WFAA that Christopher Kyle Reid Jr., 29, of Hubbard, is suspected of fatally shooting three people at a home in the Cedar Creek Cove subdivision in Mabank before 2:30 a.m. The three who were shot weren't identified. Later Friday morning, officials allege Reid drove a 2003 Dodge Caravan into the southwest entrance of the Buc-ee's in Ennis around 5 a.m., hitting and...