Thousands turned out across Kentucky for a day of peaceful protest. Many wore inflatable animal costumes, carried signs and chanted protests against the Trump administration.
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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.
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Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia says shutdown can end if Trump engages more earnestly in negotiations.
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Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
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