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Murray State University’s Wrather Hall was momentarily declared a federal court on Tuesday when it hosted a U.S. naturalization ceremony for the first time in the school’s history – welcoming 41 new emigrants from 20 different countries as U.S. citizens. www.wkms.org/government-p...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned world leaders about the dangers of an artificial intelligence-driven war in a stark address to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday. www.wkms.org/npr-news/202...

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For the first time, there were more women than men in an incoming astronaut class. They included a geologist who worked on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and a SpaceX engineer who's already rocketed into orbit, flying on a mission that featured the world's first private spacewalk last year.

The comedian was suspended for nearly a week by ABC's parent company, Disney, before returning to airwaves on Tuesday night. www.wkms.org/npr-news/202...

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Nuclear energy is usually the Tennessee Valley Authority’s largest source of electricity, but use plummeted this past year as outages plagued all seven reactors owned by the utility. www.wkms.org/energy/2025-...

Kentucky hemp farmers sent a letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell asking him for a meeting and to not again try to insert language into a bill banning certain hemp-derived products. www.wkms.org/2025-09-23/k...

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After the body of Jessica Currin was found beaten and burned near Mayfield Middle School in 2000, it took years for the community to get answers. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and podcaster Maggie Freleng thinks the ones they got were wrong. www.wkms.org/criminal-jus...

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles. www.wkms.org/npr-news/202...

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Less than a week after it was taken off the air under pressure from the Trump administration, Jimmy Kimmel Live! will return to late night on Tuesday, ABC parent company Disney confirmed.

Planned Parenthood’s leadership has “no plans” to close its two Kentucky locations following a judge’s ruling that the government can block Medicaid funding to the organization for a year. via @kentuckylantern.com

Over 400 actors, musicians and film directors have signed an open letter organized by the ACLU decrying "a dark moment for freedom of speech in our nation" after ABC indefinitely suspended late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel last week under pressure from the Trump Administration.

Historians and citizens concerned about the Trump administration's approach to, and involvement in, the Smithsonian have come together to document how the museums look today. Their goal is to produce a record before any changes that might be made.

From @doperle.bsky.social: A new initiative pieced together by the National Quilt Museum, along with professors at Murray State University, is using the fiber arts to teach K-12 students about geometry and other mathematical principles.

For prominent Republicans, the two main reactions to the assassination of Charlie Kirk have been a resolve to continue his conservative political organizing work and, for some, a push to blame — in the words of President Trump — "radical-left lunatics."

A Kentucky organization is looking to help anyone in need of free menstrual products through a network of pantries it plans to set up across the Commonwealth.

Kentucky lawmakers heard testimony this week over a proposal to ban machine gun conversion devices, also referred to as “Glock switches” or “auto sears,” that convert semi-automatic weapons into fully automatic ones.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law banning law enforcement from wearing masks on duty except for things like riot gear, medical masks and undercover work.

Kentucky officials told agencies that provide senior nutrition programs that they're scaling back funding that allowed them to eliminate waitlists. The move will likely put roughly 5,000 Kentuckians back on a waitlist for meal support and remove more than 1,600 people from eligibility.

Murray State University President Ron Patterson delivered a “State of the University” address Thursday that highlighted the school’s recent accomplishments and gave an update on his first semester at the western Kentucky institution.

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The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

A group of musicians from around the region have teamed up to host a fundraiser show this weekend supporting Paducah Cooperative Ministry in a concert celebrating legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s career. www.wkms.org/sounds-good-...

Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee. www.wkms.org/npr-news/202...

House Republicans are working to avert a government shutdown with legislation that funds federal agencies through November 21 and boosts money for security for government officials. But few, if any, Democrats are expected to go along without funding for health care being a part of the bill.

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Officials say a plane crashed into a home in Graves County Thursday afternoon after the aircraft failed to stop at the end of the runway at the local airport. www.wkms.org/public-safet...

In rural Kentucky, where federal Medicaid cuts are expected to hit hard, providers are considering expanding mobile health options. www.wkms.org/2025-09-18/w...

Petrone is presenting “Vladimir Putin and the Russian Memory of the Second World War” tonight at 7 p.m. in Wrather Hall on the main campus of Murray State University. It is free and open to the public.

Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Jonathan Shell stopped at Murray State University yesterday as part of an initiative to teach students about how farming impacts their day-to-day lives. During the visit, he also discussed how tariffs and trade negotiations are impacting the state's farmers.

Advocates are concerned funding cuts proposed by the Trump administration could eliminate some forms of disability services, including all University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. www.wkms.org/2025-09-18/d...

President Trump has set his sights on Memphis as the next city in need of federal intervention — including sending in National Guard troops — to combat crime. Legal experts say he is testing the limits of presidential power and the use of military force. www.wkms.org/npr-news/202...

Kimmel's removal comes after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr condemned Kimmel's recent monologue during an interview with YouTuber Benny Johnson. In that interview, Carr threatened to pull licenses from ABC affiliates who continued to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Susan Monarez, the former head of the CDC, told a Senate committee Wednesday that she was ousted last month because she refused to cede to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s demands to pre-approve vaccine recommendations for the public and fire career scientists.

Though the 2025 session of the Kentucky General Assembly ended in late March, hundreds of organizations have continued spending millions of dollars lobbying state legislators in the following five months.

A month after the Trump administration revoked his security clearance, former CIA officer and veteran Joel Willett is running for one of Kentucky’s two U.S. Senate seats.

The University of Kentucky Research and Education Center in Princeton is celebrating its centennial this year. The center is also continuing its years-long recovery from the December 2021 tornado outbreak that damaged or destroyed most of the buildings on the research station’s campus.

The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point Wednesday in an effort to prop up the sagging U.S. job market. The move comes as Fed policymakers face mounting pressure from the White House.

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As soybean farmers in the Volunteer State harvest their crop after a difficult growing season, they are facing a farm economy that resembles “death by a thousand cuts,” says the executive director of the Tennessee Soybean Promotion Council. via @tennesseelookout.com

Lyon County native and lawyer Logan Forsythe announced his bid in an already crowded race for the seat that will soon be vacated by U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, joining state Rep. Pamela Stevenson in the Democratic primary.

A Kentucky judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to make the Cabinet for Health and Family Services implement a 2024 unfunded law — which intended to help kinship care families — and cooperate with a related investigation. via @kentuckylantern.com

Movie star and film visionary Robert Redford died at his home in Utah on Tuesday. He was 89 years old.

President Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and four of its journalists on Monday.

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