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  • As the end of 2014 nears, we take a look at some of media analyst, John Carroll's, favorite ads of the year.
  • Washington Posttech columnist Geoffrey Fowler listened to four years' worth of audio that Amazon had captured and stored from his Alexa smart speaker. He was surprised by what he found.
  • Our searchable commencement app is now updated with the best speeches from 2014 and 2015.
  • Missouri lawmakers ended their session with digs at Democrats. Republican factions stayed deadlocked in the Kansas Legislature. Steve Bell looks back at…
  • OSHA levied a heavy fine over an Atchison grain elevator explosion. Childcare, not services to the blind took the big hit in the latest Missouri budget…
  • The race to create a viable Internet-based TV service is on, and the contestants include the biggest names in computer technology: Apple, Microsoft, Intel and Google. Sony has apparently reached a deal — as preliminary — with Viacom to carry the company's cable channels on its planned web TV service.
  • Colorado authorities cleared scores of explosive devices from the apartment of the man suspected of killing 12 people and injuring more than 50 at a local movie theater. The police chief said the apartment was set up to kill whoever entered. "We sure as hell are angry," he said.
  • Surprise, anger, parenting and Lizzo: That's one way to sum up the list of the most engaging stories in 2019. Other big topics included consumerism and climate change — and officials behaving badly.
  • By Steve BellKansas City, MO – Kansas school funding plans in both the House and Senate seemed to be falling apart as legislators began to fret over…
  • The British National Archives is posting 1.5 million pages of World War I diaries online. The personal accounts provide new insight into the lives of the troops who fought the war that began 100 years ago. "Everywhere the same hard, grim, pitiless sight of battle and war," reads one entry.
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