One day after being the underbidder on the session topper, agents John Kimmel and Nick Sallusto were able to snag the most ...

Independence city leaders chose to focus on seven elementary schools in city limits to receive new sidewalks or improvements ...

The Education Department's civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration's layoffs.

Harry S. Truman was famously from Independence, Mo. He lived much of his life there, and it’s where the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & ...

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A party that favors a path to Greenland’s independence from Denmark has won a surprise victory in parliamentary elections.

A Chinese Communist Party work report last week dropped its usual reference to China's "peaceful" unification with Taiwan.

St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color ...

The Demokraatit party, which won a surprise victory, has pushed back against Trump's rhetoric, saying it is for Greenlanders to decide their future.

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