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Prison officials say the facility is in modified operations and has beefed up security to investigate a report of a firearm entering the facility. In letters, inmates say it’s more like a lockdown. They are stressed and rarely leave their cells.

The four pharmacy owners formed their own pharmacy benefit manager to take on the huge companies that influence how much people pay for medications.

Excitement around Taylor Swift’s connection to the Chiefs is adding to what is already the biggest sports betting day of the year. But the state of Kansas, where sports gambling is legal, might end up with little tax revenue.

As pharmacies close nationwide, some patients lose access to basic pharmaceutical care. These closures are hitting independently owned pharmacies in places like rural Kansas especially hard.

Gov. Laura Kelly’s likely doomed push for Medicaid expansion is aimed at setting the table before this fall’s election. But Republican leaders want to focus on other ideas, like cutting taxes.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with musician Sukie Waterhouse about her new album, "Memoir of a Sparklemuffin." Waterhouse talks about finding inspiration in the sparklemuffin spider.

People in Gaza have had to contest with Israeli airstrikes, hunger, armed gangs of looters and — now — a rainy winter without shelter.

In Washington state this past election, voters upheld one of the most ambitious climate laws in the U.S., rejecting a voter initiative to repeal it. Climate activists hope this could be a blueprint.

A pair of exhibits at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence are inspired by the life and death of Emmett Till, which helped launch the civil rights movement. The work of area textile artists helps connect the 1955 killing to contemporary violence against Black people.

The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum accepted on Thursday the remnants of the vandalized statue. The cleats will be added to an existing exhibit about the first Black American to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier.