Emanuel Cleaver

Kyle Wilkens, an agriculture policy expert in U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s office in Higginsville, Missouri, has already helped evacuate 30 people from Afghanistan. Among them is Zamzama Safi, who escaped execution by the Taliban but whose family remains at risk.

Ernest Johnson is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Advocates, Missouri lawmakers and even Pope Francis had urged Parson to grant him clemency.

The increasingly desperate scramble to get Afghans who worked with U.S. troops out of their country is stretching the abilities of people from Kabul to Washington to a small farm outside Higginsville, Missouri.

In "American Coup," Cleaver imagines the United States in the not-too-distant future with a president who has some familiar characteristics.

Exclusion of affordable housing from President Biden's plan has the Missouri congressman unable to commit his support, one Kansas City nonprofit is improving health outcomes for Black LGBTQ residents, and a festival featuring only female directors calls North Kansas City home.

Local housing advocacy groups on Wednesday demanded accountability from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which they said is funding "notorious slumlords" in Kansas City.

The Our Healthy KC Eastside initiative will focus on outreach and vaccine distribution, and U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver offers his take on the latest events in Washington and Missouri.

The congressman from Missouri's 5th District disappointed in his state's decision to end federal unemployment assistance.

Local Democratic leaders took pride in President Biden's proposals, but Republican lawmakers expressed concerns about a new $1.8 trillion plan.

Kansas City is no longer one of the only large cities in the country without a roadway named after Martin Luther King Jr.

The American Jobs Plan would be historic should it pass through Congress.

An examination of the $2 trillion infrastructure plan reveals it's goes beyond the traditional, and how the source of local news for many is struggling to find ways to stay afloat.