Posted: 2:03 PM A measure facing a vote Tuesday afternoon in the House was drafted by House and Senate negotiators to reconcile differences on legislation following individual income tax cuts enacted last year.
Posted: 4:55 PM Conservative legislative leaders agree with Gov. Sam Brownback's efforts to follow up on massive individual income tax cuts enacted last year with another round of cuts.
Posted: 12:39 PM Republicans in the Kansas Senate are pushing for a flurry of votes on tax issues in hopes of breaking a deadlock with the House's GOP leaders.
Posted: 5:28 AM Anthony Weiner has tossed his hat into the race for New York City mayor, joining a crowded field and formally beginning an attempt to come back from a scandal that forced him to resign from the House of Representatives.
Updated: 10:19 PM In addition to creating a pathway to citizenship for 11.5 million immigrants, the legislation creates a new program for low-skilled foreign labor and would permit highly skilled workers into the country at far higher levels than is currently the case.
Posted: 10:17 PM Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added Monday to a sweeping immigration bill.
Updated: 9:14 PM North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying.
Posted: 10:15 AM Senator Jerry Moran is among a group of senators demanding answers from the administration of the FAA on salary bonuses. “At the time when sequestration was one month away, the FAA’s leadership ignored Secretary LaHood’s specific guidance and awarded bonuses.”
Posted: 10:56 PM A decision by U.S. District Judge David Campbell rejects the argument by immigrant rights advocates who said Brewer's policy was unconstitutional because it's trumped by federal law.
Posted: 1:27 PM The Kansas adjutant general and top officials with the Armenian Ministry of Defense say a 10-year relationship between the state and the former Soviet republic has yielded benefits for both groups.
Posted: 11:17 PM A federal review of AP phone records is unprecedented but looks legal, analyst Jeffrey Toobin says. There'd better be a "damned good explanation" for subpoenas, according to Speaker Boehner's spokesman.
Updated: 10:24 PM Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has pledged to sign a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, and scheduled a ceremony at 5 p.m. Tuesday on the front steps of the Capitol in St. Paul to do so.
Posted: 6:14 PM President Obama on Monday vowed to find out "exactly what happened" at the IRS during the period under which the agency targeted conservative groups.
Updated: 12:00 PM Renewed legislative efforts to change the way Kansas selects members for its highest courts are part of a recent wave of modifications sought nationwide to alter the composition of the state's judicial branch
