The top diplomats from the United States and China met on Saturday in the first high-level contact between their countries since the U.S. shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon two weeks ago, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken sending the message that Beijing’s surveillance program had been “exposed to the world.”
To the editor: I attended the Lansing school board meeting Feb. 13 and the room was really packed.
LENEXA – Lansing has its first swimming state champion. At the Class 5-1A Boys State Swimming and Diving Championships, sophomore Zach Mendez placed first in the 500-yard freestyle Saturday at the Shawnee Mission School District Aquatic Center.
Wire reports Kansas GOP won’t punish officials straying in 2022 elections The Kansas Republican Party has ended efforts to punish party officials who backed non-GOP candidates in last year’s elections and reversed any sanctions already imposed, its new leader announced. State Chair Mike Brown said in a statement that he and members of the Kansas party’s Loyalty Committee agreed on the actions, dropping or reversing about 40 cases initiated under Brown’s predecessor, Mike Kuckelman.
Forget the U.S. hockey team knocking off the mighty Soviets at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Alabama got the best of Houston in a nonconference matchup. That has Crimson Tide holding an early lead on the Cougars for the No.
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Irecently discovered a sport for older adults called walking soccer. Apparently, it has been around for many years in the UK and occurs in more than 50 countries but is just now getting a good start in the United States. It is already being played in Coastal states and in Great Lakes states, but I am not certain that it has taken a hold in the Midwest.
The government agency responsible for tracking down contaminated peanut butter and defective pacemakers is taking on a new health hazard: online misinformation. It’s an unlikely role for the Food and Drug Administration, a sprawling, century- old bureaucracy that for decades directed most its communications toward doctors and corporations.
President Joe Biden paid an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a defiant display of Western solidarity with a country still fighting what he called “a brutal and unjust war” days before the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion.