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# Kansas


## Kansas


* ![Transgender Rights-IDs](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85c1b606cc698d72/69b048881b00102337a43279/transgender-kansas-id-bathroom-bill.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 26, 2026  
## [New Law Puts Kansas at Forefront of Anti-Trans Restrictions](https://time.com/7381312/transgender-kansas-id-bathroom-bill/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)  
by Rebecca Schneid
* ![Wrongful Conviction Kansas](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb2796da9632ccbbe/698a0aa301168224f297f04f/AP_20055748399922.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 25, 2020  
## [Wrongfully Convicted Man Awarded $1.5 Million](https://time.com/5790335/kansas-man-wrongfully-convicted-financial-award/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)  
by Josiah Bates
* ![A customer holds a cup of Coffee served by McCafe](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0192c866bd69bd1a/698a0832096a94a1c96a786a/McDonalds-Police-Kansas-Pig-Coffee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 31, 2019  
## [Kansas Police Officer Lied About "Pig" Coffee at McDonald's](https://time.com/5757046/kansas-police-officer-resigns-pig-mcdonalds/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)  
by Jasmine Aguilera
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Dec 13, 2019  
## [The City of Topeka, Kansas, Wants to Pay You To Live There](https://time.com/5749525/topeka-pay-people-live-there/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)  
by Mahita Gajanan
* ![Kansas Snoop Dogg](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt258dd5aa1f289b97/698a03df22fb85959be29efa/kansas-snoop-dogg.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 5, 2019  
## [U of K Apologizes for Snoop Dogg Performance](https://time.com/5693620/kansas-snoop-dogg/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)  
by Madeleine Carlisle  
* ![Severe Weather Tornado Season](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7fb02de6d4d9d864/69894a8d22fb856d71e28561/tornado-kansas-destruction.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 29, 2019  
## [8 Tornadoes a Day for 12 Days Ravage Midwest](https://time.com/5597478/tornado-kansas-dozens-injured/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)  
by Mahita Gajanan
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Apr 20, 2019  
## [Tiger Attacks Keeper in Kansas Zoo](https://time.com/5574679/topeka-zoo-tiger-attack-kansas/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)  
by Tara Law
* ![Kansas State Capitol Building](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta74f4f0ce034885c/698945c297cdffbfb96b7651/kansas-statehouse.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 24, 2019  
## [Rep Apologizes for Anti-LGBTQ Bill After Daughter's Rebuke](https://time.com/5536248/lgbtq-bill-kansas-daughter/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)  
by Tara Law
* ![Kansas Brilliant Teen](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e0c813857adc8c4/6989426bbc6cfc827a3e7d1e/braxton-moral-harvard-high-school.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 30, 2018  
## [Teen Set to Graduate High School and Harvard](https://time.com/5490549/kansas-teen-to-graduate-high-school-and-harvard/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)  
by Alejandro de la Garza
* ![Kansas Congressional Candidate Sharice Davids Holds Rally In Overland Park, Kansas](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a661deb9fcbc745/69893e6e7cdbac5319d5e600/sharice-davids-first-native-american-woman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 7, 2018  
## [Democrats in Kansas, New Mexico Become First Native American Women Elected to Congress](https://time.com/5446593/sharice-davids-deb-haaland-first-native-american-woman-congress/)  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)  
by Katie Reilly  
* ![President Trump speaks as Kris Kobach, Kansas's Secretary of State, listens during the initial meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on July 19, 2017.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d5438b93aae6971/6988d652bc6cfc7ff23e24dd/gettyimages-818886250.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 10, 2018  
## [A Trump Ally in Kansas Is Responsible for Overseeing the GOP Primary He Now Leads by Just 91 Votes](https://time.com/5363460/kris-kobach-kansas-gop-governor-race/)  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)  
by Gina Martinez
* ![srinivas-kuchibhotla-funeral](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3480e1ad42f83c64/698929f8db2987a21325f018/srinivas-kuchibhotla-hate-crime-victim.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 7, 2018  
## [Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Indian-Born Engineer](https://time.com/5189320/adam-purinton-kansas-bar-shooting/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)  
by Melissa Chan
* ![Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback addresses members of state legislature](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1b5f7a9692fd3d14/6988f78c656a3fd942bd317e/kansas-state-legislature1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 9, 2018  
## [Kansas Rep. Steve Alford Apologizes for Racist Comments Linking Black People to Marijuana](https://time.com/5094339/steve-alford-kansas-marijuana/)  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)  
by Aric Jenkins
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Dec 15, 2017  
## ['This Had Become a Running Joke.' Police Recover Bear Statue Stolen From Candy Factory](https://time.com/5065888/russell-stover-bear-statue/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)  
by Jamie Ducharme
* ![Water Park Fatality](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc70c1daed3ec8e5b/6988cbfd2dce017bff9ed585/verrucc88ckt-water-slide.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 4, 2017  
## [$20M Settlement in Boy's Water Slide Death](https://time.com/4766986/caleb-schwab-water-slide-death-settlement/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)  
by Melissa Chan

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