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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"Sam Rivers wasn't just our bass player — he was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound," Limp Bizkit said in a social media post Saturday.
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The Kentucky Board of Social Work says a licensed counselor violated no laws when he wrote a social media post about the LGBTQ+ community in which he said “I personally (and professionally) never want to affirm rebellion against our Creator.”
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Following a legal challenge from the ACLU, Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti agrees a law penalizing elected officials is a constitutional violation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Farmers are struggling this fall despite a bountiful harvest. Production costs are high, crop prices are low and the trade war has closed off one of their biggest markets.
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The Trump administration says more difficult questions, and other changes to the naturalization process, will ensure only immigrants who are "fully assimilated" will gain citizenship.
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The Trump administration says more difficult questions, and other changes to the naturalization process, will ensure only immigrants who are "fully assimilated" will gain citizenship.
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Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.
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On Wednesday, the president showcased models for a grand new monument to be added to the gateway of the National Mall: a large, neoclassical arch topped with eagles and a gilded, winged figure.
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President Trump says he will meet with the Russia president in Budapest, after high level meetings next week that would include Secretary of State Marco Rubio.