Donald Trump lashed out wildly on Tuesday in the aftermath of the first presidential candidate debate with Hillary Clinton, scolding the moderator, criticizing a beauty pageant winner for her physique and raising the prospect of an all-out attack on Bill Clinton’s marital infidelities in the final stretch of the campaign.
One of County Executive Frank White’s top assistants has been working behind the scenes to rewrite the county’s pension plan to benefit a single county legislator.
A Cole County judge postponed until February the trial of Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, who is accused of age and gender discrimination. By then, Nixon will have left office. Meanwhile, two other lawsuits have come to light that make similar allegations of discrimination against Nixon’s administration.
The Kansas City downtown Marriott and Muehlebach hotel complex wants to use a Community Improvement District sales tax to help finance a proposed $32.8 million renovation. The hotel also proposes that the city would pay for half of the work.
In a new ruling, a Shawnee County judge ordered that 17,500 voters should have their full ballots counted until he makes a final ruling. That means they’ll likely be able to cast a full ballot on Nov. 8.
The Kansas City park board on Tuesday approved a resolution to locate a new animal shelter on about seven acres within Swope Park, at Gregory Boulevard and Elmwood Avenue.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has decided against proposing across-the-board cuts in state spending next year after his budget director asked agencies to propose 5 percent reductions and found some of the recommendations "harmful" to services.
Kansas City is considering higher property taxes for public works projects. Johnson Countians face a similar decision in November, Dave Helling writes, but they’re asked to raise a very different tax levy to pay for the projects.
Democrats on Tuesday rejected a stopgap funding bill proposed by Republicans that included funds to combat Zika. They complained that the bill provided money to flood victims in Louisiana and other states but nothing to help residents plagued by lead-tainted water in Flint, Michigan. Senate Republicans accused Democrats of edging the country toward a government shutdown in order to paint the GOP-led Congress as ineffective.
Gov. Chris Christie was told about the epic 2013 traffic jam at the George Washington Bridge while it was underway, seemed happy about it and joked sarcastically that there was nothing political going on, a former loyalist testified Tuesday in the scandal that helped destroy Christie's White House ambitions.
Hillary Clinton loses ground in the debate with Donald Trump. Four of 21 North Carolina voters interviewed in a focus group by McClatchy and The Charlotte Observer had been considering supporting her, but after the debate they move into the undecided camp or lean toward other candidates.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump came to their first debate armed with a full arsenal of facts, provocations and precooked one-liners. She tried to show her middle-class sensibilities; he went on the attack on her political career.
The White House Tuesday nominated Jeffrey DeLaurentis, who has been the chief of the U.S. Embassy in Havana since it reopened in July 2015, as the “first U.S. ambassador to Cuba in more than 50 years.”
Monday’s first presidential debate of the season had highs and lows for both candidates. Trump’s best moment involved NATO; Clinton shone when attacking Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns.
The presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump looked different through the country’s many political prisms, Democratic, Republican, liberal, conservative and snark.
Longtime Hillary Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal, according a former editor in McClatchy’s Washington bureau in 2008, encouraged the news organization to look into Obama’s roots. Blumenthal denies that. McClatchy last week reported that there is no direct proof that Blumenthal shared the birther rumor. It is one person’s word against another.
From California, with its counterculture heritage, to the fishing ports and mill towns of Maine, millions of Americans in nine states have a chance to vote Nov. 8 on expanding legal access to marijuana. Collectively, the ballot measures amount to the closest the U.S. has come to a national referendum on the drug.
A Tokyo government panel reviewing the cost of hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics is set to propose moving more venues outside of the city in order to save money.
