The Kansas City Star daily briefing — Wednesday, August 25, 2021

The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, August 25th, 2021 including President Joe Biden finds Missouri AG Schmitt’s lawsuit seeking to block school mask mandates “unacceptable,’ the Gardner-Edgerton school district expanded its mask mandate due to COVID, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker has asked a judge to appoint a special prosecutor in the Malcolm Johnson case, and what does ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12 conference alliance mean for the beleaguered Big 12?