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In an unprecedented situation, the Royals are facing a series minus 10 players who have been barred entry from Canada due to covid-19 travel restrictions.

In a rare look behind the scenes of gun shop regulation, The Trace and USA TODAY found ATF officials conciliatory and accommodating.

Reporters spent more than a year analyzing documents from nearly 2,000 gun dealer inspections that uncovered violations from 2015 to 2017. The reports showed that, while most errors were inadvertent, some dealers outright flouted the rules — selling weapons to convicted felons and domestic abusers, lying to investigators and fudging records to mask their unlawful conduct. In many cases when the ATF caught dealers breaking the law, the agency issued warnings, sometimes repeatedly, and allowed ...

In a rare look behind the scenes of gun shop regulation, The Trace and USA TODAY found ATF officials conciliatory and accommodating.

He woke up in a hospital bed three weeks later. While driving through an intersection near his Overland Park home, a drunken driver who was running a red light struck Kudlaciks car, a blow that nearly cut his sedan in two. Placed in a medically induced coma for 21 days, Kudlacik said he was twice deemed clinically dead and had to be revived. He spent three months rehabbing from a slate of injuries, including compound fractures in both legs, nine broken ribs and a collapsed lung. The driver who...