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A month ago, Health Secretary Kennedy said his agency would soon give compounding pharmacies the greenlight to make the products, which have exploded in popularity despite a lack of data.
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The names and addresses of officers involved in immigration enforcement in Tennessee will be confidential under a measure headed to the governor’s desk.
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Kentuckians charged with low-level crimes often brought on by substance abuse or mental illness can avoid incarceration by participating in specialty courts. But the next two-year state budget being crafted in the General Assembly threatens to eliminate that option.
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Well over 1,000 people lined up along the front of Paducah’s Bob Noble Park Saturday afternoon to rally against actions the Trump administration has taken over the course of the president’s second term.
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Tennessee lawmakers are at odds over a bill that would require schools to track and report students’ immigration status.
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The U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump had moved to give up their prosecution of the two officers last week.
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HUNTINGDON, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say two students have died and at least seven other people have been injured in a school bus crash in west Tennessee. The school bus was carrying students and employees from Kenwood Middle School in Clarksville for a field trip to Jackson, Tennessee.
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Scientists say the little fish may hold broader lessons for raising other marine species in captivity.
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Josh Owens spent four years as a video editor and field producer for Jones' Infowars media company. "It was all about making things look cinematic," he says. Owens' memoir is The Madness of Believing.
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The war with Iran has driven up gas prices at a time when affordability is high on people's minds.
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The shortlisted titles include novels and novellas from authors and translators spanning four continents, with stories that range from Japanese-controlled 1930s Taiwan to the streets of Tehran in 1979.
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Set in a quaint Irish village, The Keeper follows The Searcher and The Hunter, and solidifies the crime series' status as a contemporary classic.
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Iran attacked and set on fire a massive Kuwaiti oil tanker off Dubai overnight, as Gulf states increasingly suffer the fallout from the war.