Following a legal challenge from the ACLU, Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti agrees a law penalizing elected officials is a constitutional violation.

The educational advocacy group that initially formed to combat Amendment 2 is now calling for a significant increase in education spending during next year’s biennial budget.

Scores of Tennessee nonprofit agencies are now contending with a flurry of directives from state and federal officials about who they can and cannot serve as the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration reshapes crime victim funding.

Environmental activists say LG&E/KU and Kentucky’s two largest cities aren’t meeting pledges to eliminate carbon emissions in the next 15-25 years, as the utility seeks to build more fossil fuel plants.

More than 300,000 disabled Kentuckians on Medicaid fear they'll see fewer services under the Republican-backed federal budget. Countering what the Trump administration calls the "Big Beautiful Bill," the Kentucky Democratic Party brought its Defense of Medicaid tour to Bowling Green on Thursday.

Some farmers keep growing in flood- and drought-prone fields because subsidies soften the losses, while federal programs meant to help them change course have been underfunded and mired in bureaucracy. Under Trump, those programs may weaken further.

Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organizer, helping people survive.

A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each Fellow will receive a no-strings attached award of $800,000.

Broadway's union for performers and stage managers says the sticking point is health care.

The former FBI director, who has long been one of President Trump's most vocal critics, was indicted last month on two counts stemming from his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020.

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Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, has a plan for how to avoid shutdown showdown negotiations, but it wouldn't be popular with Congress' "uniparty," he told NPR.