From required expulsions for violent students to safety protocols around organ donation, Kentucky has several new laws.
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An inquiry found that a mass killing by a British teenager in 2024 at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class could have been prevented if his parents and state agencies had acted on his violence fixation.
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Kentucky Innocence Project, Exoneration Project say they plan to appeal ruling
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GOP Senate President Robert Stivers said in a statement Wednesday that lawmakers are reviewing the “implications” of a Kentucky Supreme Court decision that halts impeachment proceedings against a Lexington judge.
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A University of Kentucky scientist has found two markers that can be collected through a cheek swab and indicate the presence of schizophrenia.
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The measure takes advantage of ACA abortion coverage
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The Tennessee General Assembly has passed a measure that would make it a state crime to remain in the U.S. after a final deportation order has been issued.
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McConnell told reporters in Northern Kentucky that regime change in Iran is essential. He didn't address a Tuesday post by President Donald Trump promising "a whole civilization will die tonight" if Iran doesn't agree to a ceasefire and open up the Strait of Hormuz.
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Magyar ended Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's 16-year grip on power in a landslide victory on Sunday. The former Orbán loyalist burst onto the scene as an opposition leader in 2024.
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In the order issued Monday, the judge wrote that President Trump had failed to make the argument that the article, which described a letter to Epstein that the newspaper said bore Trump's signature, was published with the intent to be malicious.
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President Trump said the U.S. would interdict vessels that had paid what he called an "illegal toll" to Iran to cross the Strait of Hormuz.
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Pope Leo XIV says he will not be deterred by criticism from President Trump, vowing to continue his calls for peace as tensions escalate between the Vatican and Washington over the Iran conflict.
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A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate equivalent of a "civil war."
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The year began with many people becoming U.S. citizens, but by December, fewer people were doing so, driven by ramped-up scrutiny of applications and eroding trust in the system.