In June, David Hearn was riding his bike and stopped near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. He said he reached into the water to touch a piece of lining that had already come loose. He didn’t give it much thought. A lot of people wouldn’t. Tho it was only a moment, that event on the National Mall set off a chain of events that have now reached the highest levels of American law enforcement and made people question how justice is supposed to work. Hearn, who used to be an Olympian, was charged with destroying government property was a felony.…
Author: Sierra Foster
Sierra Foster
Born in Kansas City, Sierra Foster writes about politics and serves as Senior Editor at kbsd6.com. She was raised paying attention to this city, not just living in it. Sierra has a strong, deep connection to Kansas City, from the neighborhoods east of Troost to the discussions that take place in the city hall halls. Sierra, who is presently enrolled at the University of Kansas to pursue a degree in Political Science, applies the rigor of academic study to her journalism. She writes about politics in Missouri and Kansas as someone who genuinely cares about what happens to the people in these communities—the policies that impact them, the leaders who represent them, and the civic forces influencing their futures—rather than as an outsider watching from a distance. Her editorial coverage encompasses state-level policy, local government, and the national political currents that permeate bi-state regional life. Whether it's a city council vote or a Senate race, she has a special gift for turning complex policy language into writing that feels urgent, relatable, and worthwhile. Sierra seldom sits still off the page. She claims that playing soccer on a regular basis has sharpened her instincts for political reporting because of the sport's teamwork, strategy, and requirement to read a changing game in real time. She's probably somewhere in Kansas City with her friends when she's not writing or on the pitch, discovering new reasons to adore a city she already knows so well.
The story began with a name on a building. Trump’s name was added to the front of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in December 2024. That was enough for harmonica and drum player Chuck Redd, who had been in charge of the center’s annual Christmas Eve Jazz Jam for almost twenty years. He pulled out on December 19, five days before the show was supposed to happen. The show was free. He wasn’t bound by anything. But what came next was anything but easy. In that time, Richard Grenell was in charge of…
A lot of people got it when the first episode of Ted Lasso’s long-awaited fourth season started with Jason Sudeikis walking around Kansas City and looking a little lost. Searches for “Ted Lasso Kansas City” went up 600% in just a few days compared to the week before. That number had grown to 2,200% by August 10. The tourism boards woke up. Press emails from travel brands began to come in. The story pretty much wrote itself: a popular show comes back, a popular city gets some attention, and bookings come in. They didn’t, tho. At least not yet. A…
The timeline looks like it could be from a movie. A right-wing commentator puts up screenshots on X. Within three hours, a federal prosecutor gets an email from the U.S. Attorney General telling them they are being fired. No hearing. No official look over. Just a notice, and two weeks before a big Medicare fraud trial was set to start, work was put on hold. This is what the wrongful termination lawsuit against Will Rosenzweig is all about. It was filed on August 7, 2026, in federal court in Miami, Florida. Rosenzweig was fired after five years of working for…
Around December 18, 2023, millions of Comcast Xfinity customers got an email that probably didn’t stand out. It was another breach notification from another company, which said in a quiet way that someone had stolen personal information. Simple to ignore. It’s easier to forget. But the effects of that cybersecurity incident in October 2023 are still being felt, and there is currently a $117.5 million settlement fund that most eligible customers may never be able to get money from. In the usual grim way that these things tend to be, the breach itself wasn’t too hard. A third party got…
A clip from a 1984 movie about a teen learning karate in the San Fernando Valley is analyzed by film students for its narrative economy and is now cited by cognitive scientists in publications on skill acquisition. Daniel LaRusso is instructed by Mr. Miyagi to wax his vehicle. circular movements. Left hand, right hand. Day after day, seemingly meaningless, seemingly unconnected to anything Daniel truly learned. Then Miyagi delivers a blow, and Daniel instinctively and unconsciously blocks it with the same motion he’d been practicing for days without understanding why. Before the learner grasped the purpose of the lecture, the…
The idea of Cobra Kai, a sequel series that followed the antagonist of an 80s karate film situated in the same San Fernando Valley 35 years later, seemed flimsy enough to be written off when it debuted on YouTube Premium in 2018. It seems to be made for a select group of nostalgic moviegoers who could still recall seeing the original movie as children. Nobody could have predicted how seriously the program would take its own characters or how long its cast would endure such expectations. After six seasons, one of the most surprisingly multi-layered ensemble casts in recent streaming…
Inside the bright TV studios of RCN in Bogotá, the usual buzz of excitement before a show felt heavy and quiet. Backstage, crew members carefully moved between camera rigs while executives watched news reports from San José del Palmar, where the country had been hit by a 7.4-magnitude earthquake hours before. On set, judge David Bisbal sat on the panel with Ximena Sariñana and Ana Bárbara. He looked upset but kept his cool. As someone whose career began on a reality singing show in Spain more than twenty years ago, going on a live broadcast during a national crisis required…
People selling things on the busy sidewalks of La Viga in Mexico City weave in and out of traffic jams by holding up their phones during short red lights to check their messages. It’s a normal part of life across the country, where cell phone service has always seemed easy and cheap. But below this busy surface, something that has never happened before is happening in Mexico’s cells. About 4.9 million active mobile lines just disappeared from the national grid between December 2025 and June 2026. This made the total market base drop from 162 million to 157.1 million. A…
Most people are familiar with one aspect of summer weather: the temperature rises thru the afternoon, peaks at 3 or 4 p.m., and then progressively decreases as the sun sets. That kind of place is Vinaròs, a seaside town in the Castellón province on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Spain. The worst of the heat is tempered by sea breezes. The water is near. Usually, things don’t get too bad. Then came August 8, 2026, in the evening. Vinaròs’s temperature at 7:45 p.m. was 28.9°C, which is warm but not dangerous for a summer Friday close to the coast. It…