For months, the Stewarts had been organizing this trip. Two parents and four children, the youngest of whom is only four years old, paid $5,187.58 out of pocket for six round-trip tickets from Lake Charles, Louisiana to Orlando, Florida. They reserved their favorite seats. They were almost two hours ahead of schedule. They did everything correctly by all standards. A federal lawsuit has been filed regarding what transpired next. On March 1, 2025, military veteran Coby Stewart and his deaf wife Emily, who uses American Sign Language to communicate, checked in at the Lake Charles Regional Airport counter. Coby claimed…
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 first or second week of every month holds special significance for tens of millions of Americans. It’s more like quiet anticipation than outright excitement. The rent is due. Prescription drugs must be refilled. Food doesn’t wait. People are therefore aware of any slight changes to the Social Security Administration’s payment schedule. Additionally, there is one change that should be closely monitored in May 2026. Federal data indicates that over 75 million Americans are currently receiving Social Security or SSI benefits. About 58 million of them are 65 years of age or older. Approximately 5.5 million are early retirees or…
On a Monday morning in late March, David Olsen arrived at work without realizing it would be his last. A meeting was called by Northern Metal Fab, Inc.’s ownership. Employees were instructed to pack their belongings. A career, sometimes spanning decades, ended abruptly. “There absolutely was no warning that the company was potentially going belly up,” Olsen stated. “That was a shock to everyone.” Since 1987, Northern Metal Fab, Inc. has been based in Baldwin, Wisconsin. Large-scale metal welding and fabrication projects were handled by it; few shops in the area could handle this type of industrial work. It was,…
The timing has a subtle unnerving quality. A coalition of five environmental organizations filed a federal lawsuit contesting the Trump administration’s approval of BP’s newest and deepest drilling project on the exact sixteenth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed eleven workers, spilled over three million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and permanently changed the lives of thousands of fishing families. It wasn’t a coincidental date. It seemed to make a statement. Kaskida is the name of the project in question. Drilling equipment will descend 6,000 feet into Gulf waters and then push further into the…
When a sitting FBI director tells a reporter, on camera, “I’ll see you in court – bring your checkbook,” a certain level of tension arises. That’s what most people say, but they never follow through. Kash Patel did as he was told. Patel sued reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick and The Atlantic for defamation on Monday in the US District Court in Washington, DC, requesting $250 million in damages. The lawsuit is the result of an article that was published last Friday and claimed that Patel’s excessive drinking and unexplained absences had alarmed coworkers. The article suggested that these behaviors could actually…
Seeing a father battle in court over his daughter’s dresses has a subtle, devastating quality. The emotional impact of the Amy Winehouse belongings lawsuit verdict is difficult to overlook, regardless of one’s opinion of the legal strategy. Even though she acknowledged the grief that is obviously at the heart of all of this, Deputy High Court Judge Sarah Clarke KC did not spare Mitch Winehouse from harsh criticism when she delivered her ruling this week. The case had been developing for a while. Two of Amy’s closest friends, stylist and costume designer Naomi Parry and longtime confidante Catriona Gourlay, were…
Spending a lot of money on a product, treating it with care, keeping it in its case, and never throwing it around, and then seeing it break down is especially frustrating. A growing number of owners of the Sony WH-1000XM5 appear to be describing precisely that, and it has now progressed beyond online forums and into federal court. Sony Corporation of America and Sony Electronics Inc. are named as defendants in a class action lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York. Ian Kanter, the plaintiff, claims that the WH-1000XM5 headphones have a structural flaw in the swiveling hinge…
The Mojave National Preserve’s Clark Mountain region experiences a certain kind of silence that takes a few minutes to fully register. No crowds, no traffic, and no background noise from machinery. All that is present is heat, rock, wind, and an ecosystem that has been silently functioning for thousands of years. It is difficult to believe that bulldozers have been slicing through delicate habitat somewhere in this silence. However, that is precisely what occurred, and the legal system is now being consulted. The federal government’s decision to permit Dateline Resources Ltd., an Australian mining company, to resume industrial operations at…
When Dana Nessel took the oath of office on January 1, 2019, she gave a description of her mission that is worth mentioning. She avoided discussing her political aspirations or legal successes. She discussed the individuals. In particular, about returning the Department of Attorney General to its constituents. That promise is surprisingly straightforward, but it’s more difficult to fulfill than it seems. After winning the election in November 2018, Nessel—a former criminal prosecutor and civil rights lawyer—became Michigan’s 54th Attorney General. She entered a position that most people in Michigan wouldn’t be able to adequately explain. The 1963 Michigan Constitution…
It began with a chilly swim in the ocean. In a Sydney federal courtroom, an experienced lawyer referred to one of Hollywood’s most famous faces as a “fantastical liar.” Regardless of your preconceived notions about Rebel Wilson—her relatable underdog persona and her astute comedic timing—the defamation lawsuit filed by young Australian actress Charlotte MacInnes is revealing a much more nuanced picture of her off-screen persona. MacInnes starred in Wilson’s first feature film, The Deb, after graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2021. Wilson’s Instagram posts from 2024 and 2025 are the subject of her current lawsuit,…