A Republican legislator from Alabama made the case for state-supported early childhood education Wednesday during a meeting of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s Pre-K for All Advisory Committee in Kentucky.
- News Briefs
- Tennessee governor prepared to send National Guard to D.C. for police takeover
- Tennessee U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn announces candidacy for governor
- Kentucky has four more cases of highly contagious measles
- Canadian plastics packaging company to open first U.S. facility in Madisonville
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center announces more layoffs amid federal funding cuts
- Fort Campbell helicopter crash kills one, leaves another injured
NPR Top Stories
The left-leaning media outfit has surged in Donald Trump's second term, appealing to progressives outraged by the president. Still, the online streaming world remains dominated by right-wing voices.
More Regional News
-
Prolific songwriter and founder of The Black Swans, Jerry David DeCicca, returns to Murray, Kentucky, for a show at Wits' End Records on Sunday, June 15. Tracy Ross speaks to DeCicca ahead of the performance.
-
Organizers with the group Paducah Pride United Together – which formed last year to put on its first large-scale Pride event – have planned a day of live music, comedians and a drag show for Saturday at the McCracken County Convention & Expo Center.
-
More than a dozen Kentucky cities will participate in nationwide protests Saturday against President Donald Trump's massive military parade. The nationwide "No Kings" protests coincide with the military parade in Washington D.C. to celebrate the Army's 250th anniversary, which falls on President Trump's birthday.
-
For nearly 50 years, the small community in southern Illinois has celebrated the Man of Steel with the Metropolis Superman Celebration. What started in the late 1970s as a small event for the local community has since expanded to become one of the city’s marquee events, drawing in Superman fans from all over the world.
-
Paul says Trump’s criticism will not deter the Kentucky senator from disagreeing with his party’s president on policies such as debt spending and tariffs.
-
Protesters are decrying the ICE detention of an 18-year-old Bowling Green resident weeks after his graduation.
More NPR Headlines
-
Fans who pre-ordered new albums by Lil Wayne and The Weeknd on vinyl got a rude awakening: More than half the songs that appeared on the streaming version were missing on the LP.
-
Some residents are skeptical that President Trump's use of tough police tactics will work to solve complex social ills.
-
Dredging waterways for navigation is a centuries-old practice, but this project is controversial because the mud being dug out of the channel is put into other parts of Mobile Bay.
-
AOL debuted the service in 1989. Dial-up has largely been replaced by broadband internet.
-
Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif and five of his colleagues at the network were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting Gaza's most recognized television journalist.
-
Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was unlikely to be included in talks he described as a "feel-out meeting" to better understand Russia's demands for ending its war in Ukraine.