Sam Bailey

A new Kansas law bans transgender girls from playing sports on girls' teams in schools and colleges. Opponents say that discriminating against transgender children was a solution to a problem that didn't exist, and the law ignores real fairness problems that female athletes face in Kansas.

The Kansas attorney general asked the court in July to require driver's licenses to show only people's sex assigned at birth. Now, a judge has ruled that five transgender Kansans represented by the American Civil Liberties Union can make their arguments in the case.

Heartland Tri-State Bank of Elkhart is the smallest U.S. bank to fail in the past year, with the next closest in size being Signature Bank in New York.

The publisher of the newspaper said police were motivated by a confidential source who leaked sensitive documents to the newspaper. The raid followed news stories about a restaurant owner who kicked reporters out of a meeting with a member of Congress, and revelations about the restaurant owner’s conviction for drunken driving.