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Lawrence City Hall remains closed after Monday’s fatal shooting … Kansas Republicans have given up on their push to redraw the state’s congressional map … and Kansas officials say they’re no longer interested in luring the Kansas City Royals across the state line. These stories and more can be found in this commercial-free summary of KPR news headlines, which is made possible by KPR listener-members. This summary is generally posted by 10 am weekdays and updated through 7 pm.

Surprises nevertheless abound in the top 10, as a vinyl reissue lands cult singer-songwriter Ethel Cain on the Billboard 200 for the first time ever and two artists — Alex Warren and BigXthaPlug — experience their first-ever top 10 singles.

As the Jan. 6 hearings have played out, there has been only some, if any, movement in people's views of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, but independents' views have changed since a December poll.

The biggest news this week belongs to singer-songwriter Alex Warren, whose blockbuster track "Ordinary" ascends to No. 1 on the Hot 100 singles chart for the first time.

Sarah Shipman is the Kansas Department of Administration's top attorney.

The House of Representatives will be under new management in 2007, but leadership posts within each party are undecided. Maryland's Steny Hoyer wants to be Majority Leader, but Nancy Pelosi backing Rep. John Murtha. Republican Speaker, Dennis Hastert, says he won't run for a leadership post, creating room at the top for the new minority party.

The top-ranking Democrat in the Kansas House has apologized to fellow Democrats following a contentious, record-long session in Topeka. He's also asking members of his party for feedback on ways to improve for the next session.

Here's a summary of the day's Kansas news headlines from the Associated Press, as compiled by the KPR News Team.

Though more Republican-held seats are up for grabs in November, Democratic struggles mean the GOP has improved its likelihood to take control of the Senate. Here are the key contests to watch.

Originally a popular Tumblr, Pop Sonnets makes iambic hay out of modern artists like Kesha and Eminem. Critic Tasha Robinson explains why Sonnets isn't your average impulse-buy humor book.