“The job market is weakening, inflation is still too high, and we’re at serious risk of a once-in-50-years oil shock,” Rogé Karma writes. “The economy’s warning lights might not yet be flashing red, but they are certainly flashing yellow”:
Fuel tanker ablaze in Strait of Hormuz after drone strike, Iran Revolutionary Guards say reut.rs/4sfEpnD
Now watching
THE GIRL FROM MISSOURI (1934), a dramedy in which a young lady ditches dreary Kansas City for glitzy NYC with dreams of marrying a rich man for his money dancing in her head
Starring Jean Harlow
Directed by Jack Conway
Screenplay by Anita Loos
Kansas City remember that Alford is absolutely OK with everything ICE is doing. He’s good with building an ICE detention facility in your neighborhood & he’s OK with these people yanking folks out of their cars & doesn’t have a problem with them lying about killing a nurse or a mom!
This isn’t why Argentina selected Kansas City as its base camp home. But it didn’t hurt, either.
Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones. www.wired.com/story/ice-cb...
Cleto Escobedo III, the bandleader of Cleto and The Cletones, the house band for #JimmyKimmelLive has died. The musician and lifelong friend of Kimmel was 59.
A Department of Homeland Security agent shot at an unarmed Black suspect during a traffic stop — and police in Washington, D.C. were told to exclude it from the incident report, according to a recent report that stunned a prominent legal expert.
Russia is protecting its nuclear submarine fleet in the Arctic with an undersea surveillance system built using equipment acquired from U.S. and European companies through a secret procurement network, according to financial records, court documents and officials.
Impressions of Kansas City so far:
1) enough people wearing Chiefs attire at all times to make me constantly question if there is a game today
2) almost all bars have Guinness on tap which is much appreciated
3) free public transportation is very nice. So nice not to figure out some new system
Kansas City's speedy second-year wide receiver has missed multiple games with a shoulder injury. Here's the latest on his status for Week 4.
NEW: Missouri voters have sued to stop Gov. Kehoe’s Trump-ordered gerrymander.
The lawsuit says Republicans rushed through an ‘unconstitutional’ mid-decade map to dismantle Kansas City’s 5th district and silence Black voters.
A condition known as alpha-gal syndrome is changing the way many people shop, cook and eat on Martha’s Vineyard, an island long known as a food-lover’s retreat. A single tick bite can leave people with this life-threatening allergy to most meat and dairy.
"Norm" from Cheers, George Wendt, has died at the age of 76.
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NEW: MLB reinstates Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson making them eligible for HoF.
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Hanging around after the school bell. I'll join Jayme Monacelli on @kmbzradio.bsky.social until about 11:15.
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Jon Grayson of the Midday show is retiring. Today is his last day on #KMBZ.
Read what Jon wrote about finishing his lengthy radio career in #KansasCity:
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Merck planning a major expansion on the edge of the KC Metro at its campus in the "KC Animal Health Corridor" — described as the world’s largest concentration of animal health companies.
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The Supreme Court's three liberal justices dissented, saying they would have kept the transgender U.S. troop ban on hold.
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis said he won't back Ed Martin, Trump's pick for top D.C. prosecutor, because of his work defending Jan. 6 rioters.
“I have no tolerance for anybody that entered the building on Jan. 6," Tillis said. ow.ly/z4kN50VNXzZ
Ships now pulling into US harbors from China are the first to be subject to the massive tariffs that America is imposing on most Chinese imports. Many of them are half full.
That means, in a matter of weeks, consumers will face higher prices and shortages of certain items.
It's the latest move by Trump to use federal powers to control or hamstring institutions whose actions or viewpoints he disagrees with.
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KC speedboat crew goes airborne, wins the race...
and spoke to #DanaAndParks today on their drive back to #KansasCity.
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The woman accused of stabbing KCFD firefighter to death charged with first degree murder.
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Vancouver police have ruled out terrorism in a car ramming attack that killed 11 people at a Filipino heritage festival.
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If they were arresting judges in another country with an authoritarian-inclined (even if democratically elected) government, we'd be alarmed.
We in the U.S. should be alarmed.
