Kalshi traders aren’t really hedging their bets on the Democratic primary for Senate in Michigan. On the prediction market platform, Abdul El-Sayed is currently in a strong lead going into today’s vote. Traders think he has a 62% chance of winning by 15 points or more. That’s not a lean; it’s a question. The more interesting question is whether the markets know something that the polls don’t. Haley Stevens, a moderate four-term congresswoman who has spent a lot of this race trying to position herself as the stable, electable choice, is running against El-Sayed in the primary. El-Sayed is a…
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.
There’s a history of country music that says the style never comes back after the early 1980s. When the synthesizers cover up the pedal steel, the rhinestones give way to pop gloss, and the whole thing slowly turns into adult contemporary with a cowboy hat sound. That version almost came true. It all changed when Randy Travis walked into a nightclub in Charlotte, North Carolina. Travis was born Randy Bruce Traywick on May 4, 1959, in Marshville, North Carolina. He didn’t have the kind of upbringing that makes you think you’ll end up in the Hall of Fame. Harold, his…
October 14 has become one of the more important dates on the calendar for people who live on a fixed income. The Social Security Administration will likely announce the official cost-of-living adjustment for 2027 at that time. This number will affect how millions of retirees budget for the coming year for things like food, utilities, and prescriptions. Numbers show that it will be somewhere between 3.6 and 3.8 percent right now. AARP predicts a 3.6% rise based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index and projections from the Federal Reserve on inflation. A different, nonpartisan advocacy…
There had already been a number of high-stakes technology disputes in the San Francisco courtroom. However, on July 20, 2026, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín signed an order that put a number on something the publishing industry had been silently fearing for years: what happens when an AI company appropriates your life’s work without your consent. Apparently, $1.5 billion is the answer. The Anthropic copyright lawsuit settlement, which is currently the biggest copyright settlement in American legal history, settles allegations made by a group of writers that the AI company downloaded pirated copies of their books in order to create…
Things about the Baker Mayfield contract are almost refreshing, not because they are clean or simple, but because they aren’t. There should be no spin or carefully worded press releases that make both sides sound reasonable. One disrespected quarterback, one line-drawn front office, and a 2025 season that didn’t really answer anything. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are said to have offered Mayfield a $100 million, two-year extension. That wasn’t seen as a lowball by most fans. A lot of analysts also didn’t. Mayfield, on the other hand, said no, saying he was worried about guaranteed money and wanted a deal…
The coalition government of South Africa has chosen to deal with one of its biggest disagreements in a way that seems almost theatrical. This week, the second-largest party in the ruling coalition, the Democratic Alliance, filed papers in the Western Cape High Court to challenge the Expropriation Act. This is a law that was signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is also in the Democratic Alliance, just a few months ago, in January 2025. There are two ruling parties. An open courtroom. And a fight over land reform that has never really died down. The Expropriation Act lets the government…
The checkout page appeared to be fairly standard. A pre-checked box, a perfectly positioned button, and a confirmation screen that moved more quickly than most people could read. Over the years, millions of Amazon customers have reportedly paid for Prime because the design made it simple to sign up without fully understanding it, rather than because they chose it. One of the biggest consumer settlements in recent memory resulted from a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit centered around that subtle detail. In order to address claims that the company enrolled tens of millions of customers in Prime subscriptions without their actual…
There are scandals that happen in court and ones that change the way people trust the whole legal system. The $15 million Jackson Walker settlement paid to the Justice Department’s bankruptcy watchdog is a clear example of the second type. It didn’t begin with fraud or wrongdoing with money in the usual sense. Two people kept their relationship a secret for way too long at the start. The backstory, which is now well known in the legal world, is about David Jones, a former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, and Elizabeth Freeman, who used to be a bankruptcy partner at Jackson Walker…
Around the third week of July, unexpected notifications began to appear on phones all over the nation. a transfer via Zelle. an ACH payment. Ping Venmo. Confusion and, understandably, a hint of suspicion were the initial reactions of many former college students who had discreetly filed a claim months earlier and then quickly forgotten about it. However, the money was real this time. Ten prestigious American universities, including Brown, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Northwestern, Rice, Vanderbilt, and the University of Chicago, were involved in a $284 million class-action settlement that produced the payments. The lawsuit, which was filed in…
When one of Nigeria’s most famous oil families fights their private battles in public court, it seems strange. Most of the time, these things are handled behind closed doors, over the phone, at family dinners, or through payments that don’t leave paper trails. That hasn’t been an option for the Indimi family’s dispute over Oriental Energy Resources. This is Muhammadu Indimi, the billionaire from Maiduguri who started Oriental Energy from nothing in 1990 and made it one of Nigeria’s biggest indigenous upstream oil producers. He has now asked to personally appeal a Federal High Court decision that said his company…