In the aftermath of a raid at a Louisiana racetrack, Kentucky's equine community is worried about what increased immigration enforcement could mean for the industry's workforce.
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The major parties' redistricting battle escalated this week, with lawmakers in the country's two most populous states each taking a notable step toward a new congressional map.
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An incarcerated transgender Kentuckian is suing the state corrections department for denying her hormone therapy after a new state law bans such gender affirming care in jails and prisons.
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West Kentucky alt-rock band King Kaiju returns to Live Lunch on July 18 ahead of their EP release party at Wits' End Records in Murray.
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Two women died Sunday at a Kentucky church in a shooting spree that began when a state trooper was wounded after making a traffic stop, police said. The suspect in both shootings was also killed.
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A new documentary released by Appalshop this week follows the nonprofit cultural preservation organization’s efforts to restore its archives nearly three years after historic and deadly flooding rocked eastern Kentucky, and severely damaged the group’s headquarters.
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As homelessness rises in Kentucky, especially outside the two largest cities, the Trump administration wants to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in federal support for state housing programs.
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Appalachian states have had some of the highest overdose rates in the country over the past decade. But officials have been slow to adopt some harm reduction efforts that could save lives.
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Some 2 in 5 of all the local officials who administered the 2020 election left their jobs before the 2024 cycle, new research has found.
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Nerd has been part of our lexicon for three-quarters of a century, its geeky meaning embodied by some of the most recognizable characters in film and TV, but its origin story is a bit murky.
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An Israeli official said that the military will be operating in parts of Gaza City where the Israeli military has not yet operated and where Hamas is still active.
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The risk from the recalled shrimp is "quite low," said Donald Schaffner, a food safety expert at Rutgers University. Cesium-137 is a byproduct of nuclear reactions.
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"The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of "WOKE," he wrote.
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Samuel Kangethe has lived in the U.S. for nearly two decades, but an unresolved immigration case has made him deportable. He's decided to return to Kenya, leaving his wife and three children behind.