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A sign warns people of extreme heat in multiple languages on July 11, 2023, in Death Valley National Park in California. July is the hottest month at the park with an average high of 116 degrees.

Dangerously high heat builds in California and the south-central United States

July 2, 2024 at 6:05 p.m.

Swaths of California are sweltering and things are only expected to get worse during the Fourth of July holiday week for parts of the United States with nearly 90 million...

Teachers from across Kentucky gather inside the state Capitol to rally for increased funding and to protest changes to their state funded pension system, April 13, 2018, in Frankfort, Ky.

Kentucky governor says teacher rallies led to sexual assaults after lawmakers override his vetoes

August 22, 2019 at 3:31 a.m.

As Kentucky teachers declare victory after the Republican-dominated legislature overrode vetoes from the state's GOP governor of a spending plan that included new money for education, the question going forward...

In this Jan. 11, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump, right, and Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, left, talk during a prison reform roundtable in the Roosevelt Room of the Washington. Kentucky has become the first state to win approval from the Trump administration requiring many of its Medicaid recipients to work to receive coverage.

Kentucky is first to get Trump administration OK for Medicaid work requirement

August 22, 2019 at 2:21 a.m.

Kentucky has become the first state to require many of its Medicaid recipients to work to receive coverage, part of an unprecedented change to the nation's largest health insurance program...

Crusader is rolling thunder in quest for disabled access

August 21, 2021 at 11:41 a.m.

One of Linda Van Deusen's favorite meals is the chicken salad at Applebee's. She goes to the restaurant on Augusta Road in West Columbia a lot. She's a fan. That's...

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