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.

In the final episode, Marc Maron and former President Barack Obama spoke about the legacy of the podcast, politics and moving on.

The ICE detention center in Folkston, Ga., is expanding to become one of the nation's largest immigrant detention centers. Operated by a private prison corporation GEO Group, it will hold more than 3,000 detainees.

Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and the United States.

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

With start of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and release of hostages and prisoners, here are some key figures related to the Gaza war and the Hamas-led attack on Israel that sparked it.

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.