Kansas

With their legally adopted daughter denied citizenship, the Schreiber family may leave the country.

Three examples of what not to do.

Topeka

Topeka

In the Kansas special election on Tuesday to replace former congressman (and current CIA director) Mike Pompeo, the Republican candidate won by seven percentage points (52.5 percent to 45.7 percent, with almost all precincts reporting).

It was an appropriate, if inauspicious, beginning to Thursday's confirmation hearing for Mike Pompeo that the lights suddenly went out during opening statements. The Kansas congressman is Donald Trump's selection to head the Central Intelligence Agency, which operates in the shadows. But even this…

Three-term U.S. House member Mike Pompeo of Kansas has been selected by Donald Trump to head the Central Intelligence Agency. A cursory glance at his biography shows he's eminently qualified. Pompeo was first in his class at West Point, served as an Army officer during the cold war in Europe, and…

CBS projects Pat Roberts will hold his Senate seat in Kansas. "PROJECTION: Republican incumbent Pat Roberts is re-elected in the Kansas Senate race," CBS tweets.

Vice President Joe Biden blew Kansas independent Greg Orman's cover in a radio interview today. Orman hasn't stated which party he'll caucus with in the Senate--actively avoiding announcing whether he'll be with Republicans or Democrats--but Biden stated definitively that Orman "will be with us" if…

Senate candidate Greg Orman of Kansas has been accused by Republicans as a Democrat-in-Independent's clothing, which explains why Orman is surrounding himself with Republicans in the final days of his campaign against GOP incumbent Pat Roberts. Here's a report from the Lawrence Journal-World:

Yesterday, Politico’s Manu Raju filed a report on the independent candidacy of Greg Orman, who is challenging Kansas Republican Pat Roberts for a Senate seat. If you follow the race closely, it does not provide much new information: Orman is cagey about where he stands but clearly goes left; he has…

Tarkio, Mo.

All things being equal, Republicans should feel reasonably good about winning the Senate in seven weeks. They currently hold a polling lead in six Democratic-held seats. They are within five points in another four seats, and mid-September polling often underestimates the position of the ultimate…

Democrat Chad Taylor of Kansas is dropping out of his bid for the U.S. Senate, according to the Kansas City Star. Taylor, the district attorney in Shawnee County, thanked his supporters on Twitter:

Republican senator Pat Roberts of Kansas may be in trouble for reelection, if a new poll from Rasmussen Reports is to be believed. The survey of likely voters found just 44 percent said they would support the incumbent Roberts, with 40 percent saying they would support his Democratic opponent,…

The WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with editor William Kristol on the Tuesday GOP primaries. 

The topic of surveillance by the National Security Agency has arisen in, of all places, a House Republican primary in Kansas. Incumbent Mike Pompeo faced criticism from his challenger, former congressman Todd Tiahrt, over Pompeo's support for NSA surveillance programs. In a recent debate, Tiahrt…

Republican primary challenges are all the rage these days. The GOP is reeling from House majority leader Eric Cantor’s loss last week in Virginia to David Brat, a relatively unknown economics professor who campaigned on local issues and against the GOP leadership’s flirtation with immigration…

Kathleen Sebelius is "not considering" a run for Senate, a new report claims. 

Here's video of the detained suspect in yesterday's shooting at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas:

Tonight’s NCAA national championship game between storied basketball programs Kentucky and Kansas probably won’t top the 1992 East Regional final between Duke and Kentucky. Sportswriter and ESPN columnist Gene Wojciechowski meticulously recaps that March Madness landmark twenty years later in The…

Rick Santorum is projected by the Associated Press to win today's Republican presidential caucuses in Kansas. So far, with 61.4 percent of precincts are reporting, Santorum has 53 percent of the vote, Mitt Romney has 17 percent, Newt Gingrich has 15.7 percent, and Ron Paul now has 13.4 percent.