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Kansas
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 16 stories to Kansas since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Kansas.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Kansas
10 storiesJustice Department sues Kansas City, Kansas, schools over transgender guidance it says hides students' transitions from parents, calling it the first lawsuit of its kind.
Board never adopted the 2017 document
ICE knew an Army study found shock gloves cause intense pain and fear before signing a $16.7 million deal for 6,000 pairs, records show.
Kansas Republican Sens. Moran and Marshall urge DHS Secretary Mullin to coordinate with local police after unannounced ICE stops in southwest Kansas.
Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn settles with the city of Marion, Kansas, for $850,000, three years to the day after police raided her newspaper.
CDC links cyclosporiasis outbreaks in four more states to tainted lettuce as confirmed and suspected cases near 12,000 nationwide.
Kennedy declared it under control
Kansas legislature overrides governor's veto to exempt crisis pregnancy centers from rules governing what medical information they provide to patients.
$7 million in state funding since 2022
Leavenworth, Kansas, approves reopening a closed private prison for immigration detention after commissioners say CoreCivic lawsuit threats left them no choice.
Over 30 spoke against, three in favor
Kansas Legislature passes bathroom ban targeting transgender people with veto-proof majority, using procedural maneuvers to avoid public hearings.
Trans lawmaker: "five hours debating my humanity"
Texas and Florida attorneys general sue FDA to restrict abortion pill mifepristone, challenging both the 2000 approval and a new generic version approved under Trump's own administration.
100+ studies confirm safety
Indiana Senate rejects Trump-backed mid-cycle redistricting 31-19 after 21 Republicans join Democrats to block elimination of two Democratic congressional seats.
Second GOP state to reject Trump
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesKansas judge strikes down decades of abortion restrictions as "not even a close call," hours before being sworn onto the state Supreme Court.
Ruling ends three years of litigation
Thousands rally in Washington day after Democratic victories to protest growing threat to democracy and rise of fascism one year after Trump's reelection.
Anniversary of Trump reelection
CNN, Politico and MS NOW sue Trump over their White House ban, as NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox refuse to film Trump in CNN's place.
Judge who restored Acosta's pass presiding
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