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In this Friday, March 31, 2017, file photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., addresses an audience during a rally in Boston. Sanders will headline a Louisville event aimed at helping re-energize Kentucky's downtrodden Democratic Party.
Kentucky has become a favored dateline for many of President Donald Trump's fervent critics. They collect evidence there of betrayal, such as the ABC News item featuring a coal truck driver, "one of the Trump faithful," attached to a breathing tube and weeping over his expected loss of coverage for deadly black lung disease.
Hundreds of protesters gather outside the Hotel Covington in Covington, Kentucky, to greet Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell before he gives remarks to a group of local business leaders on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. Scott Goebel, of Fort Thomas, Kentucky, and Claire Robinson, of Union, Kentucky, came to greet Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell when he arrived for a lunchtime speech at the Hotel Covington in Covington, Kentucky, on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017.
For the last eight years, Kentuckians have been subject to an unprecedented and destructive level of overregulation. From the coal industry to the family farm, the federal government's regulatory burden has weighed heavy on our Commonwealth.
Whatever President Obama had planned for life after the presidency, the election of Donald Trump will likely change those plans. Instead of building on his legacy, he'll be defending it.
U.S. Attorney Kerry B. Harvey announced Friday that his office collected more than $15,765,000 in Fiscal Year 2016. Of this amount, more than $8,214,000 was collected in criminal actions and more than $7,551,000 was collected in civil actions.
Donald Trump started racking up electoral votes Monday even as anti-Trump protesters across the country tried to persuade the Electoral College to prevent him from winning the White House. Trump didn't lose any electors with votes counted in 10 states that he won Nov. 8: Georgia, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, Arkansas, South Carolina, Mississippi and Oklahoma.
An atheist's request to say "IM GOD" on his license plate was denied by the state of Kentucky, which said it might distract other drivers, could spark confrontations and would be in bad taste. Bennie L. Hart says that by driving around with the "IM GOD" message, he simply wants to spread his views about religion - that it's impossible to disprove anyone's claim to being "God."
An atheist's request to say "IM GOD" on his license plate was denied by the state of Kentucky, which said it might distract other drivers, could spark confrontations and would be in bad taste. Bennie L. Hart said that by driving around with the "IM GOD" message, he simply wants to spread his views about religion - that it's impossible to disprove anyone's claim to being "God."
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency has authorized federal funds to reimburse costs to Kentucky to fight the Southeastern Kentucky Fire Complex burning in Harlan, Knox, Letcher, and Pike counties. This authorization makes FEMA grant funding available to reimburse 75 percent of the eligible firefighting costs for managing, mitigating and controlling the fire.
Republican PAC sends Clinton birthday greetings Republican super PAC sending tens of thousands of Clinton birthday cards to voters in Kentucky state House districts Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cjky.it/2fcJtsM October 26 is Hillary Clinton's 69th birthday and to celebrate it, a Republican super PAC is sending tens of thousands of birthday cards to voters in several Kentucky state House districts. The front of the card notes her birthday and says, "Let's send her a present on Tuesday, Nov. 8th."
Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Barr and Democratic challenger Nancy Jo Kemper sparred Monday night over issues from health care to Donald Trump 's fitness to lead America's foreign policy in a hard-hitting televised debate, two weeks from Election Day. Kemper, a pastor, went on the offensive at the start of the hour-long debate, accusing the two-term Republican congressman of running a TV ad in Kentucky's 6th District that took her words from a television interview out of context.
With a mix of euphoria, relief and disbelief, long-suffering Chicago Cubs fans are setting their sights on the team's first World Series in 71 years - and some are remembering departed loved ones who stuck with the... Come Election Day, California could legalize pot. Its new U.S. senator will be black or Hispanic - a first for the state.
The mother of Etan Patz has testified about the "total horror and panic" she felt when the 6-year-old disappeared in 1979. When her 6-year-old son was late getting home from school, his mother called a classmate's mom and got the news that would launch one of the nation's most infamous missing-child cases.
In this Jan. 11, 2016 photo, Kentucky Democrat House Speaker Greg Stumbo speaks with reporters in Frankfort, Ky. Democrats in Kentucky are worried Donald Trump's appeal in Appalachia could topple their majority in the state House of Representatives.
New poll numbers are out saying that Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump is losing ground in Kentucky, but that Republican Senator Rand Paul is gaining ground. The controversies over alleged sex scandals, Wall Street speeches and the use of email haven't gone unnoticed, according to a poll conducted by LEX 18 Political Commentator Bob Babbage.
Canadian diplomats are fanning out across the United States to talk up the benefits of trade with state and local leaders and counter what senior officials see as a worrying mood of protectionism swirling through the U.S. election campaign. Amid voter anger about the supposed harm done by international trade deals, both Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton have talked about altering the three-nation North American Free Trade Agreement.
Kentucky is the home of thoroughbred horse racing, well-regarded bourbon and politicians fighting over some of the most vexing problems facing U.S. public pensions. Democratic House Speaker Greg Stumbo called 100 adjourned members of the state House of Representatives back to Frankfort on Tuesday to discuss pension investment losses, more than $171 million of fees paid to money managers and potentially budget-decimating shortfalls.