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Get in the mood for love with romantic Valentine's Day selections from KPR's Classical Music Director, Destiny Ann Mermagen. It includes classical pieces that are sure to make you swoon, as well as concerts happening around the listening area.
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Security at a Topeka school is increased after a threat … Kansas farmers want country-of-origin labels for beef … and Kansas roads rank high in a new survey. These stories and more can be found in this commercial-free summary of KPR news headlines, which is made possible by KPR listener-members.
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Music professor Colin Roust discusses the complete works of Francis Johnson, an internationally famous African American composer who reshaped the origins of American music. -
Oluwaseun Taiwo AjadiFluid mechanics are often helpful how traffic behaves on busy roads. When you zoom out from individual drivers and look at the collective motion of cars, patterns emerge that resemble the flow of a fluid in a pipe.
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Two more teams can still make their home in and around Kansas City for the upcoming tournament, with training sites in Lawrence and Riverside still available. -
He's been called the greatest fossil collector who ever lived - and he was born 153 years ago this week in the small town of Carbondale, Kansas. Sometimes referred to as "Mr. Bones," his real name was Barnum Brown. Commentator Katie Keckeisen has his story. -
Biofuel leaders say the shipping industry could be a golden goose for ethanol and soy-based biodiesel. One of the big barriers is the Trump administration, which torpedoed a global agreement to reduce pollution. -
Environmental advocates say the outlined revision ignores science and threatens water quality, while farm groups argue it offers landowners needed clarity about which parts of their land count as federally protected. -
In 2014, the U.S. Department of Agriculture created a network of “climate hubs” to understand how climate change affects agriculture and forestry and help farmers adapt to more extreme and unpredictable weather. Now, the future of these hubs is uncertain.
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In his Thursday order, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg ordered the government to allow any of the men deported last year to El Salvador to appear in a U.S. port of entry to be conditionally allowed in as they challenge their removal. -
A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on itself and formed a black hole. -
Kelly, an Arizona Democrat, sued Hegseth after the Defense Secretary moved to formally censure him for participating in a video where he told service members they can refuse illegal orders. -
Elite athletes often push through pain to achieve victory. But, everyday exercisers need to distinguish between soreness which is normal and pain which is the body's way of telling you to stop. -
The aggressive enforcement operation resulted in thousands of arrests, and two U.S. citizens were fatally shot in Minneapolis by federal immigration agents.
On this edition of Conversations, Amy Meislin Pollack talks with host Dan Skinner about the third book in a series featuring the character Jelly Bean.
