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The Winter Olympics promise plenty of high adrenaline, fierce competition, historic firsts and emotional moments over 2 1/2 weeks. Here are some of the names and narratives to keep an eye on.
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In Louisville, local civil liberty advocates told KyCIR they worry anti-Black bias plays role in who gets arrested due to license plate readers.
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How Tennessee’s House speaker helped keep a payday lender’s struggling sports gambling company aliveTennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton took steps that allowed the owners of a payday lending company, Advance Financial, to keep using their stores to boost a now-defunct online sports betting enterprise, according to an investigation by the Tennessee Lookout and ProPublica.
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The Kentucky Foundation for Women’s 2025 Artist Enrichment grant is supporting artists – including two in Calloway County – who are participating in residencies, developing new techniques or building on existing bodies of work.
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Four Tennesseans have died in the winter storm, and officials are bracing for days of recovery from widespread power outages and recovery efforts slowed by ice and downed trees. Here’s the latest from WPLN, updated at 8 a.m. Monday.
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Kentucky continues efforts to restore power and stay warm after a severe winter storm dropped snow and ice across the entire state.
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Thousands of legal immigrants will lose access to TennCare beginning in October as a result of new Trump administration policy, while Tennessee officials separately consider barring pregnant women without legal immigration status from accessing publicly-funded prenatal care.
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It might seem inelegant to yeet an iron skillet across an ice rink. But this spinoff sport has its own techniques and lingo: You can throw a turtle at the bacon, for instance.
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The Trump administration tried to end or privatize the government Energy Star efficiency program. But now Trump has signed a budget bill that fully funds the program and leaves it even stronger.
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The idea has alarmed critics, who warn it could rattle financial markets and drive up mortgage rates, while potentially generating large profits for key Trump supporters.
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After ICE federal agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota, the divide between states on either side of the immigration enforcement debate is growing wider.
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Tourists hoping to get close to the Trevi Fountain had to pay 2 euros starting Monday as the city of Rome inaugurated a new fee structure to help raise money and control crowds.
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Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed to testify in a House investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the Republican leading the probe said an agreement had not yet been finalized.