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The top local stories from the Kansas City Star's award-winning newsroom are available on your smart speaker every weekday morning.

The Kansas City Star Daily Flash Briefing The Kansas City Star

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    • 3.6 • 21 Ratings

The top local stories from the Kansas City Star's award-winning newsroom are available on your smart speaker every weekday morning.

    The Kansas City Star daily briefing — Friday, August 12, 2022

    The Kansas City Star daily briefing — Friday, August 12, 2022

    The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, August 12, 2022 including the debut of the first openly gay driver to compete at the National Hot Rod Association’s nationals, threats of violence against a family who says they were racially profiled at a Lee’s Summit Park, and The Eagles’ stop in Kansas City.

    • 2 min
    The Kansas City Star daily briefing — Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022

    The Kansas City Star daily briefing — Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022

    The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022 including Independence School District’s consideration of a four-day school week, an apology from the Lee’s Summit Parks and Recreation after a Black family said they were racially profiled, and a Missouri man who pled guilty in connection to the Capitol riots.

    • 2 min
    The Kansas City Star daily briefing — Wednesday, August 10, 2022

    The Kansas City Star daily briefing — Wednesday, August 10, 2022

    The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 including: Cerner accused of discriminating against Black, Asian job applicants; MO will vote on legalizing recreational marijuana in November; and Missouri Republicans denounce FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago.

    • 4 min
    The Kansas City Star daily briefing — Tuesday, August 9, 2022

    The Kansas City Star daily briefing — Tuesday, August 9, 2022

    The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, including: the closure of an unlicensed Missouri boarding school, a new opportunity on the Chiefs offense and a conflict in Lee’s Summit over the cancellation of a teen’s birthday party.

    • 3 min
    The Kansas City Star daily briefing — Monday, August 8, 2022

    The Kansas City Star daily briefing — Monday, August 8, 2022

    The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, August 8th, 2022 including: Planned Parenthood has opened new KCK abortion clinic; COVID cases down in Kansas City metro area from BA.5; and prosecutor highlights crackdown on car part thefts in KC.

    • 3 min
    The Kansas City Star daily briefing — Friday, August 5, 2022

    The Kansas City Star daily briefing — Friday, August 5, 2022

    The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, August 5, 2022 including: a lost wedding ring at a George Strait concert in Kansas City, the arrest of a man attending the Jan. 6 riots, and hopes from Missouri Democrats to protect abortion rights by putting the issue on a ballot initiative.

    • 2 min

Customer Reviews

3.6 out of 5
21 Ratings

21 Ratings

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Poor

Contains one news story and a business story. Most news stories have a sad fake news disclaimer like Pravda. And the text to voice is sad

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Kansas City Star

The Monday through Friday podcast has not dropped since August 12th.

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Digital voice

This is a computer generated voice reading the headlines. I’m not expecting The Daily, but this is embarrassing. Do better Kansas City.

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