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Is Xavier Worthy playing this week? Andy Reid gives update on Chiefs WR, per reports Kansas City's speedy second-year wide receiver has missed multiple games with a shoulder injury. Here's the latest on his status for Week 4.

Kansas City's speedy second-year wide receiver has missed multiple games with a shoulder injury. Here's the latest on his status for Week 4.

Missouri Voters Sue to Block ‘Unconstitutional’ GOP Gerrymander Read more here.

NEW: Missouri voters have sued to stop Gov. Kehoe’s Trump-ordered gerrymander.

The lawsuit says Republicans rushed through an ‘unconstitutional’ mid-decade map to dismantle Kansas City’s 5th district and silence Black voters.

Why Is Martha’s Vineyard Going Vegan? It’s All About Tick Bites. Islanders’ diets are being upended by an onslaught of alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-induced allergy to meat and dairy.

A condition known as alpha-gal syndrome is changing the way many people shop, cook and eat on Martha’s Vineyard, an island long known as a food-lover’s retreat. A single tick bite can leave people with this life-threatening allergy to most meat and dairy.

George Wendt, who played a beloved barfly on 'Cheers' and found another home onstage, dies at 76 George Wendt, an actor with an Everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy “Cheers,” has died

"Norm" from Cheers, George Wendt, has died at the age of 76.

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MLB reinstates Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson, making them Hall of Fame eligible Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson were reinstated by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday, making both eligible for the sport’s Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by sports gambl...

NEW: MLB reinstates Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson making them eligible for HoF.

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Midday host Jon Grayson retires from KMBZ following radio career of 30+ years After five years at KMBZ as the co-host of Midday, and more than three decades in the radio business — Jon Grayson is retiring. We asked him to put some thoughts down on his last day, reflecting on hi...

Jon Grayson of the Midday show is retiring. Today is his last day on #KMBZ.

Read what Jon wrote about finishing his lengthy radio career in #KansasCity:

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The Latest: Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in history Robert Prevost of the United States has been named the new pope, the new head of the Catholic church

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV.

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Merck Animal Health plans $895 million expansion in De Soto Merck says its plans to invest $895 million in the expansion of its biologics facility is one of the most significant economic development projects in Kansas history and the largest to date for Merck ...

Merck planning a major expansion on the edge of the KC Metro at its campus in the "KC Animal Health Corridor" — described as the world’s largest concentration of animal health companies.
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Supreme Court temporarily allows Trump to enforce transgender troop ban

The Supreme Court's three liberal justices dissented, saying they would have kept the transgender U.S. troop ban on hold.

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis said he won't back Ed Martin, Trump's pick for top D.C. prosecutor, because of his work defending Jan. 6 rioters.

“I have no tolerance for anybody that entered the building on Jan. 6," Tillis said. ow.ly/z4kN50VNXzZ

The first boats carrying Chinese goods with 145% tariffs are arriving in LA. They’re half-full. Expect shortages soon | CNN Business American consumers are on the cusp of tough choices because of President Donald Trump’s trade war.

Ships now pulling into US harbors from China are the first to be subject to the massive tariffs that America is imposing on most Chinese imports. Many of them are half full.

That means, in a matter of weeks, consumers will face higher prices and shortages of certain items.

Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting

It's the latest move by Trump to use federal powers to control or hamstring institutions whose actions or viewpoints he disagrees with.

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Kansas City speedboat crew goes airborne in 200mph crash, wins race anyway The crew from Kansas City won the race, despite going airborne, flipping and crashing into the water. One of the crew members spoke to Dana and Parks as they drove the crippled boat back to Kansas Cit...

KC speedboat crew goes airborne, wins the race...
and spoke to #DanaAndParks today on their drive back to #KansasCity.

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KC firefighter stabbed to death by ambulance patient; Suspect facing 1st degree murder charge Kansas City firefighter-paramedic Graham Hoffman, 29, was stabbed by a patient early Sunday morning while she was being taken to St. Luke’s Hospital on Barry Road.

The woman accused of stabbing KCFD firefighter to death charged with first degree murder.

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11 killed as a vehicle plows into a Filipino street festival in Vancouver. Police rule out terrorism Vancouver police have ruled out terrorism in a car ramming attack that killed 11 people at a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver, saying the suspect has a history of mental he...

Vancouver police have ruled out terrorism in a car ramming attack that killed 11 people at a Filipino heritage festival.

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If they were arresting judges in another country with an authoritarian-inclined (even if democratically elected) government, we'd be alarmed.

We in the U.S. should be alarmed.

READ: FBI criminal complaint against Wisconsin judge Read the criminal complaint.

READ: FBI criminal complaint against Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan

The White House has begun process of looking for new secretary of defense The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88 Pope Francis has died at age 88

Pope Francis made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday — a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square, drawing wild cheers and applause.
Beforehand, he met briefly with US VP JD Vance.

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SVREAX The National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Howard County in central Missouri... * Until 545 PM CDT. * At 502 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near New Franklin to Rocheport to 7 miles southwest of Midway to near Easley, moving northeast at 55 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... Franklin, Armstrong, New Franklin, Fayette, and Boonville.

🚨 Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued April 20 at 5:02PM CDT until April 20 at 5:45PM CDT by NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO 🚨
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Lexington and Concord at 250: Can We Still Hear the ‘Shot Heard Round the World’? Big Revolutionary War anniversaries lie ahead—and bring reminders of our messy, surprising history.

“The formation of the American republic was messy, and the founding generation understood its success was never guaranteed. This anniversary [is] a good reminder that we still face a messy, uncertain future, one still worth fighting for.”

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The American Revolutionary War began on this day 250 years ago - April 19, 1775 While the American Revolution began a decade earlier, the Revolutionary War began, April 19, 1775, with the Battles of Lexington and Concord—an eight-year war between American colonists, and the Briti...

While the American Revolution had begun a decade earlier, #TheRevolutionaryWar started - April 19, 1775 - with the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

What followed would be an eight-year war between American colonists and the British Empire.

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Trump pauses tariffs on most nations for 90 days, raises taxes on Chinese imports Facing a global market meltdown, President Donald Trump on Wednesday abruptly backed down on his tariffs on most nations for 90 days, but raised his tax rate on Chinese imports to 125%

Facing a global market meltdown, Trump on Wednesday abruptly backed down from his tariff plans for most, keeps high import taxes on China.

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Live updates: Trump tariffs start to take effect as markets reel from trade war | CNN Politics Some of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which have sent markets plunging and deepened a global trade war, are now in effect. Meanwhile, protesters are gathering across the US to rally against Trump ...

“The Nimitz Library at the US Naval Academy has removed 381 books related to race, gender and sexuality, [including] ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,’ an autobiography from famous author Maya Angelou.”

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

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A Wakeup Call in Wisconsin And a much needed one at that.

"You can drive yourself crazy, listening to these admin people lie and spin. So it’s nice when we get a day like yesterday—when the lies are so obvious, so transparent and crude, that it’s effortless to conclude: Yeah, these folks are just utterly full of shit."
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Line of strong to severe storms expected tonight in Kansas City A line of strong to severe thunderstorms is expected to sweep through the Kansas City Metro late Tuesday night, according to meteorologists with KMBC 9 News. The line of storms could bring damaging wi...

Strong weather expected tonight in KC and around the region.

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Richard Chamberlain, TV actor who starred in 'Dr. Kildare,' dies at 90 Richard Chamberlain, the handsome hero of the 1960s television series “Dr. Kildare” who found a second career as “king of the miniseries,” has died at age 90

Richard Chamberlain, the handsome hero of the 1960s television series "Dr. Kildare" who found a second career as an award-winning "king of the miniseries," has died at 90.

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