The Kroger grocery chain, which owns Ruler Foods, currently gives $100 to employees who get vaccinated and offers two weeks paid emergency leave to workers sickened by the coronavirus. But the company announced last week…

In a 288-page report as long and detailed as any Supreme Court ruling, a 34-member, bipartisan presidential commission couldn’t reach consensus on whether the nation’s highest judicial panel should grow from nine, where it’s been since…

Because we have the tools to fight COVID-19 at our disposal, there’s no need for the country to go into lockdown, despite the introduction of a new variant that is sweeping the country. It’s simple.…

It has been 11 months since a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol intent on disrupting the certification of electoral ballots won by Democrat Joe Biden and overturning the result of a…

It turns out that birds are not real. Just check out the billboards, T-shirts, social media postings and the messages on a truth van touring the country. Birds are actually government surveillance drones that recharge…

All the emotions and fears that have followed the deadly shooting at Oxford High School are completely understandable. But the copycat threats that have thrived in the last two weeks are unacceptable and cannot be…

As the winds pummeled Iola Wednesday afternoon, city crews were out scouring the town for fallen limbs and debris and checking power lines. Though it’s part and parcel of a municipal service, it’s not to…

The rules that until recently governed what college athletes may and may not do to earn money seemed absurd on their face. An Associated Press story out of West Virginia, for example, tells of a…

The pictures and video from Kentucky and surrounding states after last week’s tornadoes are shocking. Our neighbors need our help. Congress should move quickly to provide it. As it does so, we should all take…

In the last month, Russia has placed at least 100,000 troops near its border with Ukraine. NATO has called the buildup “unprovoked and unexplained,” but for Ukrainians few explanations are needed. They watched Russia annex…