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Kansas Public Radio · July 7, 2025

Kansas Weighs Extending Offer to Build Stadiums for Chiefs, Royals TOPEKA, Kan. (KPR) — The ongoing tug-of-war between Kansas and Missouri to be the home of the Chiefs and Royals enters a new phase on Monday. A committee of Kansas lawmakers will...

Pine Bluff Arsenal welcomes Colonel Mason as leader

The Pine Bluff Commercial - Arkansas · July 11, 2025

Interested in getting The Pine Bluff Commercial's Newsletter delivered to your inbox every morning? About 100 local politicians, family members and U.S. Army military and military support personnel gathered to welcome Col. Matthew C. Mason, the...

DC’s bus shelters aren’t necessarily placed where people need them most

Greater Greater Washington · July 10, 2025

A shelter-less stop for the 96 bus in northeast DC. Image by Caitlin Rogger used with permission. We originally published this post in October 2024. As the weather warms up, we’re publishing it again. I’m most relieved summer is over when I’m at a...

Kansas Regulators Back Plan for Two New Gas-Fired Plants, Along With Solar Farm

Power Magazine · July 10, 2025

Kansas regulators have given Evergy the go-ahead to raise the utility’s rates to help finance construction of two new natural gas-fired power plants, along with a utility-scale solar power project, in the state. The Kansas Corporation Commission...

Dixon-based nonprofit assists rescue efforts in catastrophic Texas floods

WIFR - Illinois · July 6, 2025

DIXON, Ill. (WIFR) - From roughly 1,220 miles away, Tabatha Flatten coordinates volunteers descending into Texas. "They’re trying to find whatever they can find," Flatten explains of her team’s mission on Sunday morning. “They’re waiting for heavy...

WATCH: Is Bayer losing the Roundup fight?

The New Lede - Washington D.C. · June 26, 2025

Bayer, the parent company of Monsanto, has settled over 114,000 lawsuits from people who allege they developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after using glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup. But the legal battles aren’t over: a Georgia jury recently...

Lakeside residents overwhelmingly oppose proposed Flathead Lake Club

Daily Inter Lake - Montana · July 11, 2025

Lakeside residents lined up to testify against a proposed 1,700-acre resort during the Flathead County Planning Board meeting Wednesday. Only a handful of residents spoke in favor of the subdivision. Top issues from residents during the nearly two...

Deadly Flooding Devastates Several Central Texas Towns: Here Is How You Can Help

Southern Living ·

Early Friday morning, intense rain caused flash flooding across Texas Hill Country. State officials said that the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in 45 minutes, as reported by NPR. “The rain and flooding were double what we expected,” officials said...

Critical mineral producers explore extraction methods amid fluctuating international trade policies

KBIA - Missouri · June 24, 2025

Missouri mining companies and scientists are working to strengthen domestic supply chains of critical minerals like cobalt, gallium and germanium by tapping into industrial waste and re-mining historic sites. With fluctuations affecting two major...

Ranking SEC stadiums, toughest to least: Can't top Florida's Swamp

Memphis Commercial Appeal - Tennessee ·

They say college football means more in the SEC. They’re underselling it. It means everything. Marino Casem, a born and raised Southerner who coached at a few schools in the region, once said, “In the South, football is a religion, and Saturday is...

Keeping Farmland in Farmers’ Hands

Resilience · July 10, 2025

This story was originally published by Barn Raiser, your independent source for rural and small town news. Farm transfers are complex. Anna Sekine helps farmers pass their land to the next generation. Anna Sekine works as the Midwest Farmland...

Healing the land: USACE, Quapaw Nation take first steps toward comprehensive assessment for land restoration

DVIDS - Georgia · July 10, 2025

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District and the Quapaw Nation cohosted a multi-faceted, multi-government, and multiagency planning and visioning meeting to address restoration goals for Quapaw Nation lands restoration, at the Quapaw...

Remembering Scopes: How 100-year-old ‘Monkey Trial’ helped shape evangelical Christianity

Christian Science Monitor · July 6, 2025

It began with a newspaper ad and ended with a trial of historic proportions. Nearly overnight, the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes – dubbed the “Monkey Trial” by journalist H.L. Mencken – laid claim to being America’s first “trial of the...

Jefferson City team embarks on bike, canoe journey

News Tribune - Missouri · July 6, 2025

In the early hours of Friday morning, two Jefferson City men loaded up their canoe, food, water and supplies to begin a two-time cross-state journey through Missouri, fueled purely by manpower. Team 680, composed of Tod Wilson and Andy Besselman,...

Catch of the Day

Nebraska Life ·

The summer sun beats down on the Missouri River on a clear morning as Mike Kelley navigates his 16-foot-long fishing boat into a cove near the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. The river winds along Nebraska’s eastern border, separating it from...

Pet advocates call for support toward a new shelter during upcoming council meeting

KOMU 8 - Missouri ·

Part of Monday’s Columbia City Council meeting will be filled with “pet talk.” Advocates from the Central Missouri Humane Society will go to the podium calling for funding support from the city of Columbia for resources toward a new animal...

Senate Republicans scoff at Elon Musk’s proposed third party

The Missoula Current - Montana · July 10, 2025

Benjamin Weiss WASHINGTON (CN) — Deepening his rift with President Donald Trump this week, billionaire Elon Musk has floated the idea of forming a third party to challenge both Democrats and Republicans on the national stage. But while the...

Sadhguru Pinpoints America's Drinking Water Problems

Newsweek · July 10, 2025

Despite being one of the richest nations on Earth, the United States is struggling to provide all its citizens with clean drinking water—a situation that Indian yogi and mystic Sadhguru calls not just an oversight, but "a crime." "The United...

Biotech CEOs to FDA: Don’t Let Politics Override Science on Abortion Pill

Ms. Magazine · July 10, 2025

Industry leaders warn the Trump administration that ignoring decades of evidence on mifepristone’s safety would jeopardize public trust and the entire U.S. drug approval process. There are two different ways to have a medication abortion and end a...

America’s favorite summer getaways by state. Where are you going?

AOL ·

There are several interesting factors that influence where people wish they were headed for summer travel. We’ve grouped each state's top-searched international destination for 2025 by country to offer a fresh view into regional trends and...