Christa Pike says she is in constant pain since surviving a lethal injection in Tennessee last month. In her first public statement, issued Friday, she expressed gratitude for the love and support she has received. Pike says she went into the execution chamber prepared to die in peace but woke up confused in a hospital bed. She said she's been “deeply hurt by the incompetence.”

As Murray State University leaders work on preparing a budget for the next fiscal year, the school’s board of regents on Friday signed off on the hirings of two people who will oversee finances and procurement procedures on an interim basis.

A parade of Democrats rallied for U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker in Louisville on the first two days of early voting as he vies with Congressman Andy Barr to replace longtime Sen. Mitch McConnell.

It's the largest measles outbreak in Kentucky since 1991, according to health officials.

More than one-third of Tennessee’s 35,000 private school voucher recipients live in just 20 ZIP codes, most of them wealthy and majority white, according to data obtained by Chalkbeat Tennessee.

Election Day is Tuesday, and Kentucky voters across the state will decide whether to amend the constitution to limit the governor’s powers and vote in competitive races for the General Assembly.

he operation involved a warship, a maritime surveillance aircraft and marine commandos. The hijacking followed a resurgence of Somali piracy across the Gulf of Aden and western Indian Ocean.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Christine Matthews, a center-right pollster and president of Bellwether research and consulting, about the last polling ahead of Election Day.

Russia launched 289 attack drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles across nine regions, President Zelenskyy said in an online post that noted the barrage coincided with U.S. elections.

As polls close on Election Day and results start rolling in, these are some of the House races that will help explain how the midterms are unfolding.

The rules have led to changes in course materials, prompted accusations of censorship and fueled pushback from faculty and students, including faculty departures, student protests and a federal lawsuit.

NPR investigated cyberattacks on the digital devices that control industrial refrigerators, revealing the extent to which operational technology is exposed to damage and disruption.