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The shutdown is forcing the closure of a number of America's beloved cultural institutions starting Sunday. Twenty-one Smithsonian museums, its research centers and the National Zoo are all affected.
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A traveling version of the Smithsonian exhibit “Americans” started its Kentucky tour this month at the River Discovery Center in Paducah. -
The closure of a longstanding legal clinic operated by the Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence comes as the Trump administration ties new strings to victim funding -
The United Auto Workers union has preliminarily won a razor-thin election at a fourth electric vehicle battery plant in the U.S. More than 1,000 workers at the BlueOval SK Battery Park in Glendale, Kentucky voted to join the UAW, according to election results released Wednesday night. -
LG&E says $3B expansion will protect Kentucky ratepayers from data center costs, others are doubtfulKentucky’s largest utility company is proposing a mechanism to make new data centers pay their fair share, but first wants approval to build $3 billion of new gas plants. -
Ibogaine, a powerful Schedule I psychedelic, has recently gained interest for its potential to treat PTSD and addiction. A Kentucky lawmaker is calling for the state to fund medical research. -
Jeremy and Della Marie Marshall of local band Hollerhead stopped in for an hour this Saturday to share some new songs and talk about the creation of their new album "Never Gonna Leave You". Listen here!The new album is out now. Learn more at: https://hollerhead.net
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Baldwin: A Love Story, a book by Nicholas Boggs, has a singular focus on the redemptive power of devotion. -
About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have reached safety, state media said late Tuesday. -
Israelis are paying heavy costs for the longest war in their history: a mental health crisis, trauma, unprecedented division during wartime, animosity abroad and apathy for Palestinian suffering. -
A federal union argues that Trump administration language posted on federal agency websites and some emails blaming a shutdown on the "Radical Left Democrats" violates a 1939 federal law. -
It's been two years since Hamas-led militants attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. In response, Israeli leaders promised a punishing offensive. Here are some numbers showing the war's toll. -
A new draft White House memo suggests a 2019 law signed by President Trump that guarantees that federal employees get paid after a shutdown ends would not apply to furloughed workers.
