A Kentucky legislator announced plans Tuesday to reintroduce a bill in the 2025 session that would make adding fluoride to drinking water optional for the state’s utilities.
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The editorials editor of the LA Times resigned after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Vice President Harris for president, a journalism trade publication reported.
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The Center for Rural Development announced it is not going forward with a land purchase in Somerset, following local officials’ concern it could misuse state funding.
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After the courts struck down a couple legislative attempts at “school choice” measures, some lawmakers are asking Kentucky voters to change the constitution. Amendment 2 would allow public dollars to fund private and charter education instead of being reserved solely for public education.
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee made waves in early 2023, when he rejected millions of dollars in federal HIV prevention programming. Since then, the state has been replacing that money. But that new process is already causing damage, according to public health experts, and models show this could mean more infections and more deaths in the long term.
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The retrial of Brett Hankison, one of the former Louisville police officers who was part of the botched raid at Breonna Taylor’s home in 2020, was underway Monday.
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Industry experts say the decline of what was once one of Kentucky farms’ top crops coincides with shifts in tobacco consumption habits and to the long tail effect of the Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act signed into law by former President George W. Bush 20 years ago this month.
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A far western Kentucky public school system pulled some books from its high school library shelves after a mailer in support of the state’s so-called “school choice” amendment was sent out earlier this week questioning whether they were appropriate for students.
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Striking machinists voted to reject an agreement that would have boosted wages by 35%. It’s another blow for Boeing, which reported a $6 billion quarterly loss on Wednesday.
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Both candidates are in the crucial swing state this week. Trump had two events on Wednesday, while Harris, ahead of her own visit, answered "Yes" at a CNN town hall when asked if Trump is a fascist.
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Hurricane Helene left destruction in its wake in western North Carolina. But elections officials are also moving heaven and earth to bring back a sense of normalcy, one vote at a time.
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Regulators say the companies hurt hundreds of thousands of users of the credit card, which Apple launched in 2019.
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A preliminary investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration suggests fresh onions that are served raw on McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers were a likely source of contamination.
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A harrowing and unprecedented trial in France is exposing how pornography, chatrooms and men’s disdain for or hazy understanding of consent is fueling rape culture.