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Hays Prayer Chapel to host guest speaker Hays Prayer Chapel, 1410 Toulon Road in Catherine, will host the associate director of Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries for North America at two services on Saturday, Dec. 18.

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is facing increasing pressure from Democrats to extend a pandemic-related pause to student loan repayment, pitting the White House between its restless liberal base and a growing effort from the administration to signal that life is returning to normal after nearly two years of emergency measures.

Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 of a twopart series on the discontinuation of Greyhound passenger bus service in Hays. Part 1 looks at why the service was discontinued and the city’s efforts to restore it. Part 2 will look at the impact the lack of passenger bus service is having on a local ministry that aids transients.

WASHINGTON – When Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert cracked a racist, Islamophobic joke about Democratic Rep.

NEW YORK – The revelation that Fox News Channel personalities sent text messages to the White House during the Jan. 6 insurrection is another example of how the network’s stars sought to influence then-President Donald Trump instead of simply reporting or commenting on him.

LAS VEGAS – O.J. Simpson is a free man.

WASHINGTON – Negotiations between President Joe Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin over the Democrats’ huge social and environment bill are going poorly, a person familiar with the talks said Wednesday, the latest sign that leaders’ hopes of moving the bill through the Senate before Christmas were increasingly bleak.

The Strand LLC is hosting a holiday event featuring Max Haverfield and Friends Thursday, Dec. 23 starting at 7.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The omicron variant of the coronavirus is moving faster than surveillance systems can track it and has so unnerved some medical experts that they’re starting to put the brakes on preparations for their holiday gatherings.