Firefighters have pleaded with smokers to not throw burning cigarettes out of car windows as dry weather in the Kansas City metro creates a high fire danger.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has accomplished the seemingly unexpected, keeping his Republican majority in line to fund the government.

“Elon Musk has been pretty cavalier about his ability to turn on or turn off Starlink to influence policy decisions,” Garner, from the Benton Institute, told me, referring to a series of recent posts ...