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Creative CommonsAs an Ohio-based religious education group works to implement “moral instruction” in Kentucky public schools under a new law, the state’s attorney general offered guidance this week to districts considering the program. -
Sam Dick/WEKUCarp have increasingly become a nuisance in waterways across the country. A southern Kentucky high school teacher and his students are using the invasive fish to feed injured raptors, like bald eagles, vultures and hawks.
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Ford will build an electric truck in Louisville, but the new assembly process requires fewer workersFord Motor Company plans to invest nearly $2 billion in the Louisville Assembly Plant to expand and build a new midsize electric truck. Its plans will require an expansion and retooling of the entire factory, but will mean fewer jobs. -
A rural town in western Kentucky will be home to the state's first medical cannabis dispensary. The Post Dispensary in Beaver Dam has received approval to open the state's first dispensary since medical marijuana became legal on Jan. 1. -
Apple says it will partner with a Kentucky manufacturer to produce all of the glass on its iPhones and other products in the Bluegrass State. -
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a Tennessee man charged with killing the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home’s yard. -
The Trump administration has cut staff by more than 24% at the National Park Service since January. Republicans in Congress are now proposing another round of cuts as part of a budget bill. -
A free market think tank found Kentucky awarded $150 million of single-bid asphalt contracts in the first six months of this year, following $270 million given in 2024.
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On her sophomore release, Am I the Drama?, the trash-talking Bronx rapper still has no filter — but could, perhaps, have used an editor. -
NPR asked a federal judge to block CPB from awarding a $57.9 million grant to a new consortium of public media institutions to operate the satellite that connects the public radio system. -
The court's majority said Trump's foreign policy authority outweighed the harms claimed by the international aid groups suing. -
Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison, has died. Officials in New Jersey, where Shakur had been arrested, convicted and imprisoned, said she was 78. -
The major broadcasting groups said in statements the late-night talk show will return to their TV stations on Friday. -
It's the first high level U.N. gathering since the U.S. foreign aid cuts under the Trump Administration. What were people thinking — and talking about?
