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Karen Petrone is a history professor at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of a few books focusing on Russian and Soviet history including “Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin” and “The Great War in Russian Memory.”

The 2025 session of the Kentucky legislature may have ended in March, but businesses and advocacy groups still spent $10 million lobbying lawmakers in the subsequent five months.

A month after the Trump administration revoked his security clearance, former CIA officer and veteran Joel Willett is running for one of Kentucky’s two U.S. Senate seats.

The University of Kentucky Research and Education Center in Princeton is celebrating its centennial this year. As UKREC marks its milestone anniversary, the center is also continuing its years-long recovery from the December 2021 tornado outbreak that damaged or destroyed most of the buildings on the research station’s campus.

As Tennessee soybean farmers harvest their crop after a difficult growing season, they are facing a farm economy that resembles “death by a thousand cuts,” Tennessee Soybean Promotion Council Executive Director Stefan Maupin said.

Former Secret Service agent Logan Forsythe, a Democrat, told Kentucky Public Radio he is getting into the U.S. Senate race to fight for the social programs he relied on growing up.

UC Berkeley told 160 faculty, staff and students that their names were included in files shared with the federal government related to "alleged antisemitic incidents." We hear from one of them.

The president signed an order earlier this week to send Tennessee state National Guard troops, along with officials from various federal departments and agencies, into Memphis, in an effort to fight crime. It's one of several U.S. cities Trump has singled out for such a move, testing the limits of presidential power and military force.

Graphic videos of the Charlie Kirk shooting spread widely online, raising concerns over the emotional and political toll of exposure to violent imagery.

A federal judge's mild ruling in the Justice Department's suit over Google's search engine monopoly has critics worried that the tech giant can now monopolize artificial intelligence.

White House executive orders and legislation in many states have targeted the rights and protections of trans people. For some, that has meant increased financial worry.

The killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has unleashed a frenzy of recrimination — and finger-pointing. But the suspect's politics may be less clear than some say.