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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High mortgage rates cooled home sales over the last few years. But data released this week shows signs that things may be thawing a bit.
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The Justice Department is expected to deliver files from its Jeffrey Epstein investigation to the House Oversight Committee starting Friday. The panel plans to release some of the files publicly.
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An expectant mom got a $750 bill for a blood test to check for genetic abnormalities in her baby. Then she tried to figure out why it was so high.
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A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday halting further expansion and ordering the winding down of an immigration detention center built in the middle of the Florida Everglades.
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This is the latest shakeup since Trump took over the cultural center. "We will have an exciting announcement about the new direction for Dance programming soon," said a Kennedy Center spokesperson.
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But the court, in its emergency-docket order, left in place by a 5-4 order a lower court ruling that threw out National Institutes of Health memos that enforced the administration's policies.