Tennessee is set to execute Harold Wayne Nichols. His attorneys want to confirm the state's lethal injection drugs are safe.

Laurie Couch is the second of four finalists to interview for the position of Murray State University's provost. At a town hall meeting Tuesday, Couch said while she is not an expert in artificial intelligence, she wants to infuse it into every academic program.

The first of four finalists to be Murray State University's next provost was introduced at a town hall meeting on Monday. Kimberly Paddock-O’Reilly is currently the provost at Chadron State College, the same institution that MSU hired president Ron Patterson from.

Hellbender salamanders used to be common in streams across Kentucky, but their numbers have been on the decline in recent years. A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Kentucky tested a new way of detecting these amphibians to try and pinpoint exactly where in the commonwealth they can still be found.

A judge heard lawyers' arguments Monday in a years-long lawsuit brought by a Jewish woman against Kentucky's near-total abortion ban. A ruling could happen soon.

Tuesday’s special congressional election could be a much tighter race than anticipated.

At the White House this afternoon, President Trump said he was terminating "ridiculously burdensome" fuel economy rules. It's part of a series of changes relaxing or eliminating rules promoting cleaner cars.

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.

A forthcoming inspector general report finds that had intel shared by Hegseth been intercepted by an adversary, it would have endangered servicemembers, according to a source who viewed the findings.

"I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover," he wrote on Truth Social. That label raises the issue of how to classify certain nations.

The FDA is urging customers to toss certain brands of grated Pecorino Romano; at the same time, it escalated an existing recall of numerous shredded cheeses.

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