The Supreme Court heard arguments in March over the health care reform law's constitutionality and is expected to hand down a ruling by the end of this month.

President Obama and Russian President Putin meet at the G-20 Summit, with Obama saying they agreed on a need to end the violence in Syria and prevent civil war. Putin says he and Obama found many "commonalities."

The Kansas Equality Coalition submitted an objection to the secretary of state Thursday to the filing by Democratic Rep. Jan Pauls, of Hutchinson, for re-election.

A petition was filed Thursday against Secretary of State Kris Kobach's office for reportedly losing the paperwork for a candidate wishing to run for the Kansas House of Representatives.

The attorney general offers to hand over more "Fast and Furious" documents, after a House panel threatened to hold him in contempt in a dispute over the records. ATF agents lost track of more than 1,000 guns during the botched probe.

The Kansas House majority leader is trying to remove a fellow Republican lawmaker from the ballot and avoid facing him in the GOP primary.

A father and son are both seeking a seat in the Kansas House of Representatives.

Democrats say one of their Kansas House candidates is being denied a spot on the ballot because the secretary of state's office lost his paperwork.

The measure will not only set policy and spending for the nation's farms for years to come, but it will also affect dozens of other programs — all at a cost of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade.

CNN, which has been battered in the ratings game, announced today that it was canceling its politics show "John King, USA."

Secretary of State Kris Kobach's office has reassigned more than 80 candidates to the correct districts since the judges drew new maps for the Legislature and other offices last week.

In Moscow, tens of thousands of demonstrators show up to protest They reject Vladimir Putin's election as president, saying the vote was not free.

An area KKK chapter wanted to clean part of Georgia State Route 515. Commissioner also says area will not be adopted because of public and safety concerns.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused Russia of sending attack helicopters to Syria.

Secretary John Bryson will take a medical leave of absence, the White House announced Monday. He has no history of seizures, an official says. Bryson is still under investigation for possible felony hit-and-run.

Kansas officials were expecting a scramble by candidates for office in the final hours before filing ends.

Minors already weren't allowed to smoke real cigarettes in Kansas, and as of July 1 they won't be able to smoke the electronic ones, either.

Wichita state Sen. Les Donovan has announced plans to seek the presidency of the Kansas Senate next year.

Sec. of State Kris Kobach said Friday that the districts drawn by three federal judges for state House and state Senate districts are more disruptive than he would have liked.

Senate boundary changes throw Republican Sens. Roger Reitz, of Manhattan, and Mark Taddiken, of Clifton, into the same district. But Taddiken has announced he's not running again.

A 66-year-old attorney from Leawood, Sen. John Vratil says he's retiring from politics to spend more time with his family.

At least 40 people were killed in Friday's violence. Activists say they showed U.N. monitors burned houses and victims' graves. China condemns the violence in strong terms.

Thanks to a federal court order, three Kansas Senate districts now have a pair of incumbents, and two Kansas House districts have three incumbents each.

Three federal judges issued an order Thursday night in a federal lawsuit filed last month over the state's political boundaries.

Mexican presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, is busy on campaign stops in hopes of healing a drug-war torn nation.