Kansas City Stroll: Zoo Captive Hype, MAGA Forgets Mother's Day & More . . .

This will probably do it for tonight but right now angel Grace inspires this peek at pop culture, community news and top headlines.

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Captive Primate Family Tradition

Happy Mother's Day! Critically endangered Bornean orangutan born at the KC Zoo

The Kansas City Zoo has an extra reason to celebrate Mother's Day in 2023.In the week leading up to the holiday, the zoo welcomed the much-needed birth of a critically endangered animal. In a press release on Saturday, the zoo announced that a male Bornean orangutan was born on Monday, May 8, to mother Josie.Both mom and son appear to be healthy and are doing well.

Prolific Mum Offers Advice

Mother of 7 helps Kansas children navigate court system

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Natalie Julien has filled her Overland Park home with seven children, ranging in age from 10 to 23. While she plans to spend Mother's Day celebrating their bond, her mind is also outside her home. "I think this weekend is a lot about family and making sure I have time to focus on my kids," Julien said.

Activism After Tragedy

A mother's mission: a devastating loss leads to law reform

There was no way Giselle Shore was going to miss this trip. In March she flew to Cleveland, a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She didn't go for the scenery. She went to witness the trial of her son's former Boy Scout leader who was charged with molesting four underage boys in a northern Georgia community.

All About Angel On The Rise

Amazing Grace! Grace Elizabeth On Life's Little Moments, Her Big Dreams Of Acting, And Her Role With The NOCC - Daily Front Row

Grace Elizabeth is in her next act. A mainstay on the runways, magazine covers, and billboards around the world since her debut season in 2016, the Florida-native has a maturity and wisdom that belies her 25 years. Opting to keep her pregnancy private, in April 2021 she revealed to her 1.4million followers that she'd welcomed her first child, a son named Noah.

No MAGA Mother Love MAGA???

Trump Rips Enemies, Ignores Melania in Mother's Day Post

It appears that Donald Trump has left Melania Trump, his current wife and mother of his youngest child, unnamed in his Mother's Day greetings. Instead, the former president chose to wish a "Happy Mother's Day" to the mothers of the "complete Lunatics and Maniacs" who are part of "the Radical Left."

Progressives Pressure Prez

Biden Needs to Show Some Courage (Like Now)

It's not the president's age that's holding him back, it's his unwillingness to stand up and show some spine. On October 22, 1962, I had just turned ten when my parents called me in to watch President Kennedy give what they said was an important speech. It was his Cuban missile crisis speech.

Blue Dog Doubles Down

Manchin ratchets up battle with Biden

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is becoming a bigger problem for President Biden and Democrats in the Senate as he faces an uphill reelection battle in West Virginia, a state where former President Trump won one of his biggest victories in 2020. Manchin has criticized Biden and Democrats publicly, opposed various nominees and, this week, said...

GOP Ladies Speak Up

Nikki Haley: A 2024 candidate pledging a federal abortion ban would not be 'honest'

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday declined to endorse a federal abortion ban and said that it would not be honest for a Republican to promise such an unrealistic prospect to the American people.

Cash Confidence Game ALMOST Explained

Why the stock market will struggle to rally until debt ceiling, bank woes are in rearview mirror

So much for the stock-market climbing the proverbial wall of worry. The S&P 500 index continues to struggle in a tight range and some analysts see little prospect for a breakout until two, very big worries are in the rearview mirror. No surprise, the culprits are the persistent worries about regional U.S.

Meeting Mean Tweets Head On

Twitter's New CEO Addresses Elon Musk Fans

She knows she is eagerly awaited. Linda Yaccarino was named CEO of Twitter 2.0 on May 12, succeeding owner Elon Musk. Her arrival at the helm of the platform, which since October has become a bastion of conservatives in the name of free speech, was very badly received by many Musk fans.

Another Serving Of Turkey Talk

Turkey faces runoff election for president as Erdogan survives first test

ISTANBUL, May 14 (Reuters) - Turkey appeared headed for a runoff presidential election after neither Tayyip Erdogan nor rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu cleared the threshold to win outright on Sunday, in a poll seen as a verdict on Erdogan's 20-year rule and increasingly authoritarian path.

Tech Tags Catholic Clerics

French priests to wear QR codes showing whether they are sex offenders

Priests in France will be required to carry traffic-light coded identification cards The cards signal whether the holder has been stripped of their clerical status Catholic priests in France will be made to wear traffic-light coded identification tags to allow the public to check whether they may have faced sexual abuse charges.

Old School Connection Celebrated

Remarkable story of a 109-year-old who became soulmate and book for noted KC author

David Von Drehle, a respected columnist for The Washington Post and author of books about Abraham Lincoln, capital punishment and a horrifying 1911 fire, has taken a career detour. The Mission Hills resident has written a book for his children. But it's not a children's book - his four kids are all in their 20s after all.

Griggs Gets Us Ready For The Work Week

Don't expect a lot of sunshine as clouds and rain continue

EXCLUSIVE LIVE RADAR AND NINE DAY FORECAST. SO YOU'LL KNOW. FIRST, THIS IS FIRST ALERT WEATHER. WELL, IT WAS A GOOD START FOR MOTHER'S DAY. IT WAS WEATHER THIS MORNING, BUT THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN NOW WE GET A LITTLE BIT OF RAIN COMING THROUGH THE AREA AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING AND PROBABLY CARRY OVER TO FIRST HALF OF A MONDAY ACTUALLY.

And this is the OPEN THREAD for right now.