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New York Times reporter Eric Lipton says the response to a recent FOIA request shows that Scott Pruitt and his staff have gone to great lengths to keep the public and the news media at a distance.

In 2017, 39 million acres of tree cover disappeared, an area as big as Bangladesh. "The report is telling a bleak picture," researcher Mikaela Weisse said. "What we are doing right now isn't enough."

The testing system set up by the CDC actually deters doctors from ordering a monkeypox test, and many physicians aren't familiar with the disease, resulting in too few tests and little tracking.

1: Washington Post reporter LEON DASH won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his eight part series "Rosa Lee's Story." He has turned that into the new book "Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America." It is published by Basic Books. DASH shadowed Rosa Lee's life for four years. The book shows Lee's day to day life in one of Washington D.C.'s poorest neighborhoods. DASH joined the Washington Post in 1966 and served as West Africa bureau chief. In 1984, He joined the Post's investigation's unit in Washington. His previous book, "When Children Want Children," was based on a Post series on teen moms. He lives in Mt. Rainier, Maryland.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear says every COVID-19 metric is moving in the right direction, signaling a new phase in the two-year-long pandemic. During a briefing on Monday, Beshear reported just over 9,000 new cases of the virus over the past week, as well as 283 deaths. Those numbers represented the 7th straight week of declines.

A new report from the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce finds the commonwealth has added a lower percentage of jobs than the United States as a whole in the…

Counties in far west Kentucky rank below the statewide average for economic growth since the 2009 recession. That's according to a report released Monday…

Congress passed a stopgap bill to fund the government through early March and avert a shutdown. The Justice Department details "cascading failures" in the police response to the Uvalde shooting.

The idea is that brown tree snakes will eat these snacks from the sky. Then, it's hoped, the snakes will die because the mice will be laced with painkillers. The active ingredient in those drugs should be toxic to the snakes.

Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) is apparently President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be Interior secretary, a position usually reserved for Westerners. But Salazar is getting mixed reviews at best from environmentalists and public lands advocates, while agricultural and mining interests are relieved.