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"To me, these are nothingburgers. If they're even real," said one pro-Trump podcaster, of the thousands of documents that were released this week, including several that named the president.
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A new report from the American Lung Association found that Kentucky has the highest rate of new lung cancer cases in the nation.
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Two journalists were charged with felony rioting in July after a demonstration on the Roebling Suspension Bridge.
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Kentucky GOP Congressman Thomas Massie has secured the petition signatures needed to force a vote on releasing all Department of Justice files on Jeffrey Epstein.
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Over multiple school years, Northwest High School teacher Megan Clegg developed an unused outdoor classroom space into a small livestock operation with lambs, steer, rabbits and bees on site, allowing students to get their hands dirty and experience a working farm.
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Probation officers pause in-person visits and home searches for offenders facing an arrest warrant. That reduced supervision can last for months. Six mothers died during this gap, WPLN and ProPublica found.
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The mayor of Martin, his daughter and the northwest Tennessee city’s economic and community development head were all indicted by a grand jury this week following an investigation by the state comptroller’s office that uncovered the misappropriation of over $450,000 in city funds.
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The dismissal of Greene — once the epitome of "Make America Great Again" — appeared to be the final break in a dispute simmering for months.
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President Trump announced the removal of U.S. tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruits and other commodities amid pressure to address high consumer prices.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics says it will report on September's job gains and unemployment rate next week. That's the first of many overdue economic reports held up by the government shutdown.
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A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department.
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A federal bankruptcy court judge said he will approve OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma's latest deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids that includes some money for thousands of victims of the epidemic.
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Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.