She spent time on the CIA payroll and a lifetime near power. Gloria Steinem died wealthy, surrounded by family and friends, ...

The first underground nuclear reactor in history is being drilled through the drinking water of Parsons, Kansas, to power AI ...

In the latest updates from the horrific ongoing investigation into Timothy Haslett Jr., The Defender has uncovered disturbing social media posts made by the kidnapper and sexual predator. In the ...

This article is the first release of Power Grab: A Kansas City Defender investigative series on data centers and the communities paying the price for the AI boom. The piece includes reporting ...

Brandon Calloway has heard more than three hundred pitches and helped move more than two million dollars into Black-owned businesses in Kansas City. Here, he opens the judges’ room and tells you ...

Brandon Calloway has heard more than three hundred pitches and helped move more than two million dollars into Black-owned ...

SHAWNEE MISSION, KS – In a shocking hate crime at Shawnee Mission East High School, a Black girl and student was viciously attacked by a white male student. The assault left her hospitalized with a ...

COLUMBIA, MO – Students at University of Missouri are demanding the expulsion of white student Meg Miller, after she posted a horrifically violent white supremacist threat, thinly veiled as a joke, ...

Left: Independence police storm apartment building with handguns & rifles, Right: Mitchell, Maria & Baby Destiny smile in a photo **UPDATE** Independence Police Department has released edited, body ...

They chain sick prisoners to benches for hours without treatment. They ignore pleas for help until it’s too late. They watch as people die. This investigation exposes how Centurion Health transforms ...

His hands did the work. Maurice Copeland was a tool and die supervisor at the Kansas City Plant for the last twelve of his thirty-two years there, and for most of that time he passed chemicals he did ...