Some question the Social Security Administration's recent bid request for 174,000 hollow-point bullets. Bloggers say the agency's police force is preparing for financial collapse and civil unrest. The agency characterizes the order as routine and says special agents need them.

In August, the Legislative Coordinating Council created the 2013 Special Interim Committees and designated sixty-two interim days for them to meet.

Joseph P. Kennedy III, the son of former six-term congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II and grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, spoke at the Democratic National Convention on its opening night Tuesday.

Operation Rescue filed a complaint Tuesday with the Office the Disciplinary Administrator. It alleges Johnson Co. DA Steve Howe lied in court about the destruction of the records obtained in a Planned Parenthood investigation.

The new KanCare site contains information and material from KDHE’s former KanCare Web page plus more content to assist Medicaid consumers and service providers during the system's transition.

Incumbent Sen. Laura Kelly and GOP challenger Dick Barta faced off in a forum Tuesday.

Peace talks to negotiate an end to Latin America's oldest insurgency will begin in October in Oslo, Norway, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said.

The political conclave that will formally nominate Obama for a second term serves as a response to last week's Republican convention that nominated Mitt Romney as the GOP challenger in November.

When Michelle Obama takes the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night, she faces a similar task as Ann Romney of presenting her husband as a father and family man, above his public persona in the political spotlight.

Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal announced Tuesday appointments to the Ethics and Elections, Financial Institutions and Insurance, Rural Broadband, Taxation, and Transportation committees.

In what may be the longest football metaphor ever spoken by a presidential candidate in American politics, President Obama on Monday portrayed Mitt Romney as a "losing coach" whose game plan should be "punted away."

Former President Bill Clinton has not submitted his Democratic National Convention speech to the Obama campaign for "vetting" yet, but a senior campaign official told CBS News Monday that the campaign isn't concerned about it.

Labor Day is the traditional start of the fall presidential campaign, but President Obama was on the attack all weekend in some of the nation's most important swing states.

A group representing part of a national women's rights movement, gathered outside the Stormont Vail Medical Center Monday for a Labor Day rally.

If there was any doubt about the importance of battleground states just look at the president's agenda. Sunday was the eighth time President Obama has been to Colorado just this year. He is campaigning there in advance of the Democratic National Convention, starting Tuesday.

As President Obama and the Democrats gear up for their convention in Charlotte, N.C., this week, Democrats unpacked their thoughts on last week's Republican convention. Senior campaign aide Stephanie Cutter said she gathered that Republicans "think lying is a virtue."

Republican strategist Karl Rove has apologized to Congressman Todd Akin after joking about the Missouri Senate candidate being murdered.

A senior adviser to Mitt Romney's campaign acknowledged on Friday that actor/director Clint Eastwood veered off previously discussed talking points in his controversial Republican National Convention address, but said the Republican nominee enjoyed the speech and found it "funny."

The echoes of Mitt Romney's Republican National Convention speech appeared to be ringing in the ears of President Obama as he flew to Texas Friday.

The Obama campaign derided Romney's speech today as a series of "snarky lines about the president and gauzy reminiscences of the past."

An image purporting to show smoke and flames from shelling in the Izaa neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria on Friday. (Credit: AP/ Shaam News Network (SNN))

Iran has stepped up its production of high-grade enriched uranium and has re-landscaped one of its military bases in an apparent effort to hamper a United Nations inquiry into the country's nuclear program, a U.N. report said Thursday.

This weekend, it was senior advisor Karl Rove who made the apologies, for a quip he made about Rep. Akin to GOP donors in Florida.

The decision to not count the votes will not alter the outcome of the GOP nomination for the Kansas House District 52 seat.

Mitt Romney accepted the Republican Party's nomination for the presidency on Thursday night, culminating a convention shortened to three days by Tropical Storm Isaac.