Dear Stranger: You are not being needy. You are adjusting to a double change -- an empty house and a new town. That kind of loneliness is normal, even in a “nice” place.

Iranian Americans in the Kansas City area say they are feeling something they have not felt in decades: cautious hope.

Iran has fired dozens of ballistic missiles toward Israel since Saturday, sending the public into shelters and safe rooms, some sharing underground spaces with strangers.