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On February 27, 2025, the Kansas Senate voted 39 to 1 to pass a police and firearms sales reform bill. The bill allows police to sell/transfer (trade) forfeited firearms to a federally licensed firearms dealer. From legiscan.com:Session of 2025 SENATE BILL No. 137AN ACT concerning the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act; relating to the disposition of forfeited property; authorizing the sale or transfer of forfeited firearms to a licensed federal firearms dealer;The Kansas legislature appears to be correcting a weird quirk in Kansas law, K.S.A 60-4117 (5)(b) allowed for four ways to dispose of forfeited firearms:Destroy themUsed for...

Kansas has become the 27th state to ban minors from undergoing body-mutilating sex-change surgeries after the Republican-controlled state legislature overrode a veto issued by Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly. The GOP-majority Kansas Senate voted 31-9 to override Kelly's veto of Senate Bill 63 Tuesday while the Republican-controlled Kansas House of Representatives followed the same day with an 84-35 vote.Also known as the Help Not Harm Act, SB 63 prohibits youth with gender dysphoria from obtaining experimental puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones, as well as cosmetic surgical procedures that mutilate functioning genital organs. The votes in both chambers exceeded the two-thirds majority...

There is a private property rights battle brewing in rural parts of southeastern Colorado, New Mexico and Oklahoma and portions of the Dakotas, Nebraska and five Tribal Nations. The U.S. Department of Energy has plans to establish the National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors or NIETCs, in these areas and the corridors span five to 15 miles in width. If approved, in New Mexico about 2 million acres of mostly private property would be transferred to the control of the federal government potentially via eminent domain. In Colorado, farmers, ranchers and rural residents stand to lose control of 325,000 acres in...

Rumors swirl that Elon Musk is running five Super Bowl commercials to expose government waste discovered by DOGE.. Rumors are circulating that Elon Musk is spending $40 million on five Super Bowl commercials aimed at exposing government waste discovered by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) through USAID. X (formerly Twitter) users are buzzing with excitement, calling Musk a “legend” and suggesting that the ads might provoke panic among Democrats. ... One user asked, “Does anyone know if it's true that Elon Musk bought advertising for the Super Bowl? I hear he spent $40 million on five 30-second spots to...

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, said there was a moral imperative for the U.S. government to deliver international food aid to starving people. He also said it was important to not undermine market opportunities for U.S. commodities in wake of Trump administration maneuvering to close the U.S. Agency for International Development. (Kansas Reflector screen capture of U.S. Senate video) TOPEKA — U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas said a freeze on federal funding and change at the U.S. Agency for International Development left $340 million in lifesaving food grown in the United States sitting at domestic ports awaiting...

Seven hunting buddies were on American Airlines flight 5342 traveling from Wichita, Kansas, to Washington D.C. when it collided with a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River on Wednesday. Sixty-seven people died in the collision, including all plane passengers and crew from both aircraft. The seven hunters who were aboard flight 5342 were returning from a waterfowl hunt with Fowl Plains outfitters, which is based in Great Bend, Kansas. The men lived in the D.C. area and had been hunting in a group of 10 buddies. Three of the crew had chosen to drive the 1,300-plus miles home with...

America suffered a fresh tragedy when a packed passenger jet collided with a US Army helicopter and plunged into Washington DC's Potomac River. The collision took place as the American Airlines flight carrying 64 people made its final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport shortly before 9pm ET. More than 30 bodies have been recovered for the freezing river early Thursday, with authorities saying there are no survivors although search efforts are still ongoing. A temporary morgue has been set up in the capital to house the bodies. A Black Hawk helicopter flying a training sortie cut through the...

An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River. There was no immediate word on casualties or the cause of the collision, but takeoffs and landings from the airport near Washington were halted as helicopters from law enforcement agencies across the region flew over the scene in search of survivors. The plane departed from Wichita, Kansas. Here's the latest: Kremlin confirms former champion Russian skaters were onboard The Kremlin has confirmed that...

State AGs urge Costco to 'ditch DEI' as other companies jump ship from progressive HR efforts.. Attorneys general in 19 states are warning Costco "to end all unlawful discrimination imposed by the company through diversity, equity, and inclusion" policies to reflect President Donald Trump's recent executive order booting DEI out of federal agencies and warning private sectors to do the same. "Racial discrimination is both immoral and illegal. Race-based employment hiring violates state and federal law, and as the chief law enforcement officer of Kansas, I intend to enforce the law vigorously," Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach .. Trump's executive...

Not soon after the general election, and within two weeks of each other, two major financial institutions have left a United Nations Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). This is after they joined three years ago, pledging to require environmental social governance standards (ESG) across their platforms, products and systems. According to the "bank-led and UN-convened" NZBA, global banks joined the alliance, pledging to align their lending, investment, and capital markets activities with a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, NZBA explains. Since April 2021, 145 banks in 44 countries with more than $73 trillion in assets have joined NZBA, tripling...

Missouri, Kansas, and Idaho have filed an amended lawsuit in federal court, claiming their “sovereign” interest in “protecting… citizens” was violated by the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to expand access to the abortion pill to mail-order dispensing. The lawsuit, State of Missouri; State of Kansas; State of Idaho v. FDA, filed on October 14, 2024, in Amarillo, Texas, is “asking US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk to rollback efforts the Food and Drug Administration has taken over the past eight years to ease access to the drug, such as allowing it to be dispensed through the mail,” CNN reported....

The university said he was just trying to support women's rights when he called for political violence. The professor who was caught on video calling for male voters to be shot if they refused to support Vice President Kamala Harris has been fired from his job at the University of Kansas. Video of Dr. Phil Lowcock joking about executing male voters quickly went viral on Wednesday. "Guys are smarter than girls. You got some serious problems. It's what frustrates me," said Lowcock in a classroom full of college students. "There are gonna be some males in our society that will...

The comments were made by Professor Phil Lowcock, the director of international student-athlete support who works in the university's Health Sport and Exercise Sciences department. professor at the University of Kansas has been put on administrative leave after telling students during a recent lecture that men who do not vote for a female president should be lined up and shot. The comments were made by Professor Phil Lowcock, the director of international student-athlete support who works in the university's Health Sport and Exercise Sciences department, according to KU's faculty directory. A video of the incident posted to social media has...

You’re letting this be said in your classrooms? That men who won’t vote for Kamala Harris for President should be lined up and shot?? ⁦

This is one of those days when something happens and you don’t know exactly what it means, but you know it means something. I woke up this morning to find that Nancy Kassebaum, one of the few living legends left in Kansas Republican politics, had endorsed the Democratic presidential ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Joining her in the endorsement statement, which was provided to Fox News Digital, were Sandy Praeger, the Kansas insurance commissioner from 2003 to 2015, and former federal appeals Judge Deanell Reece Tacha, a Kansas native appointed to the 10th Circuit Court by Ronald Reagan...

CV NEWS FEED // Pro-life leaders are warning that Planned Parenthood is attempting to evade pro-life laws in Missouri and Oklahoma by opening a new abortion mill in the Kansas border city of Pittsburg, according to a recent press release posted by Christian News Wire. Family Council Arkansas and Operation Rescue recently exposed Planned Parenthood Great Plains’ purchase of the building, which it attempted to hide through a string of property investment limited liability companies. Pittsburg is a small college town close to both Missouri and Oklahoma. David Cox of Family Council Arkansas condemned the move as an attempt to...

Brittany Mahomes, the wife of NFL superstar quarterback Patrick Mahomes, fired off a message on social media after she was criticized for liking a post from former President Donald Trump Friday afternoon. The NFL wife apparently angered scores of liberals when her name showed up on an Instagram post from Trump that laid out 20 points from the 2024 Republican Party’s platform. Trump proposed sealing off the country’s southern border as well as carrying out “the largest deportation operation in American history.” Trump’s post also called on deporting “pro-Hamas radicals” from college campuses and keeping men “OUT of women’s sports.”...

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER This matter is before the court on Defendant’s motion to dismiss based on Second Amendment grounds. (Doc. 26.) A response and a reply have been filed (Docs. 28, 29), and the court held a hearing to establish additional facts about the weapons charged. The motion is thus ripe for review. The court finds that the Second Amendment applies to the weapons charged because they are “bearable arms” within the original meaning of the amendment. The court further finds that the government has failed to establish that this nation’s history of gun regulation justifies the application of 18...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will pay $50,000 to settle a federal anti-discrimination lawsuit filed by a former state Highway Patrol employee who claimed to have been fired for coming out as transgender. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and eight leaders of the Republican-controlled Legislature unanimously approved the settlement during a brief online video conference Thursday. The state attorney general’s office pursued the settlement in defending the Highway Patrol, but any agreement it reaches also must be approved by the governor and top lawmakers. Kelly and the legislators didn’t publicly discuss the settlement, and the amount wasn’t disclosed until the state...

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