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The Donald Trump-backed Daniel Cameron offered questionable praise for the former president after winning Kentucky’s Republican primary for governor on Tuesday. (Watch the video below.) After thanking Trump for his endorsement, Cameron said: “Let me just say the Trump culture of winning is alive and well in Kentucky.” Cameron’s glowing praise of Trump as a winner doesn’t hold up in the big picture.

I (eventually) submitted the below email to Senator Rand Paul through his website. A previous version was rejected as a "Security Threat". ======================== Senator Paul, I'm very proud to say that you're one of my Senators. I hope you are concerned about Big Tech using its power to remove comments and ideas that they don't like from their internet platforms since the suppression of free speech is the complete antithesis of the idea of the United States of America. Also, Big Tech has reportedly been coordinating this suppression with government officials. Apparently, because they are private companies, they can currently...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - While the Lexington Legends prepare for a new season of baseball come spring, they’ll now be joined by a second team this year. The name of that new team, as well as a new field name, was announced Tuesday morning: What was once known as the Lexington Legends Ballpark, is now called Wild Health Field as a second Atlantic League Baseball team is added in Lexington. The Wild Health Genomes will join the Lexington Legends as the second professional baseball team in Lexington.

In a momentous legal defeat for Gov. Andy Beshear, the Kentucky Supreme Court in a rare Saturday decision ruled on the Democratic governor’s challenge of Republican-backed laws that limit his authority to enact emergency orders to help control the coronavirus pandemic. ...

During Thursday’s Madison County (KY) Board of Education meeting, the school board gave a statement regarding their disagreement with the mask mandate ordered by Governor Andy Beshear and the Kentucky Board of Education. Chair Lori Cobb read the statement at the conclusion of the meeting, which outlined the board’s reasons for not supporting the governor's executive order which requires masks be worn in schools. “We maintain our position that it should be the parent’s choice in determining if their child should wear a mask,” Cobb read. “Like school districts, families are different, and only parents in consultation with their doctors...

Lexington Police say six people were killed in a crash Saturday afternoon on Interstate 75. According to officials, the crash happened around 12:23 p.m. at the 104 mile marker. Lexington police say officers were dispatched to reports of a wrong way driver. Before officers arrived, a head-on collision occurred. Police say the driver of the wrong way vehicle, a 38-year-old woman, died at the scene. A child in the other car was also found dead. The 30-year-old driver of the second vehicle and three other children were taken to the hospital where they died of their injuries. The Fayette County...

The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) team destroyed the last of the 155mm projectiles containing VX nerve agent on May 28. “There are two important milestones to recognize here,” said Dr. Candace Coyle, BGCAPP site project manager. “This marks not only the completion of the second of five destruction campaigns in Kentucky, but also the destruction of all projectiles containing nerve agent in the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile.” With the completion of the VX 155mm projectile campaign, BGCAPP teams will now focus on completing destruction of mustard-filled projectiles and preparing for destruction of nerve agent-filled rockets. ...

Jim Neugent, a Coach In Mena , ARK Jim writes: My name is Jim Neugent. I wrote to ABC (on-line) concerning a program called 'THE PRACTICE.' In last nights episode, one of the lawyer's mothers decided she is gay and wanted her son to go to court and help her get a marriage license so she could marry her 'partner.' I sent the following letter to ABC yesterday and really did not expect a reply, but I did get one. My original message was: ABC is obsessed with the subject of homosexuality. I will no longer watch any of your...

Dear "libertylover", Knowing of your concerns about voter fraud and irregularities during the 2020 presidential election, I want to take the opportunity to share with you some of the steps I am taking as your representative in Congress to reform our election system and secure the future of American democracy. Allegations of fraud and other irregularities arising out of the 2020 presidential election dealt a devastating blow to Americans’ confidence in our electoral process. While most of the national media and social media platforms ignored, censored, or falsely reported no evidence of fraud or other irregularities, serious legal and constitutional...

Does this football analogy pretty much capture what most of us believe happened with the 2020 election?

DUBAI (Reuters) - The assassination of a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist displayed “the depth of enemies’ hatred” towards the Islamic Republic, Iranian Defence Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami tweeted on Friday. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme, was killed near Tehran on Friday.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) - A U.S. District Court judge ruled late Wednesday that Kentucky’s religious schools can hold in-person classes. Danville Christian Academy filed a lawsuit Friday and Attorney General Daniel Cameron and other schools joined it. They claim the mandate shouldn’t apply to them because of their religion. Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove granted Danville Christian Academy’s request for an injunction so the school could continue with in-person learning. In his opinion, the federal judge said that closing religious schools “prevents the corporate nature of religious education which is insinuated with worship, prayer, and mentoring.”

A person found a pile of discarded USPS mail, including 112 absentee ballots for the upcoming election, on Thursday. A statement from a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General said the ballots, as well as two political advertisements, were already “returned to the USPS and will be delivered to customers today.” The statement said the discarded mail was intended for delivery in the Jeffersontown area, the 40299 zip code in particular. Below is an excerpt from the statement from Special Agent Scott Balfour:

(Kentucky) Attorney General Daniel Cameron will have armed security through the end of the year. This comes after he received threats to his safety following the decision made in the Breonna Taylor case. None of the officers involved were charged for her death. State contracts show approval of $300,000 to be used to provide around the clock armed security for Attorney General Daniel Cameron and his family. The contract provides 24/7 security to the attorney general through the end of the year.

The Greifswald higher court said the regional government's travel ban was "disproportionate" in curbing people's local freedom. Germans from other regions remain banned from the coast. The Mecklenburg-West Pomerania government has accepted the decision. But the government urged locals to stay 2m (6.6ft) apart to avoid contagion. Temperatures on Germany's Baltic coast are set to climb above 20C on Sunday and forecasters say it will be a sunny Easter weekend. Lockdowns are in force across Germany, but the restrictions vary from state to state. The toughest measures have been imposed in Bavaria and the Saarland.

NASA has taken a huge leap forward in its quest to create an aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound without causing the ear-splitting sonic boom. The space agency announced today (April 2) that it has awarded the aerospace company Lockheed Martin a $247.5 million contract to design and build a new X-plane, known as the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator (LBFD), which may soar silently over the U.S. by 2022. Today's announcement comes less than two weeks after President Donald Trump signed a federal budget for FY2019 that fully funds the LBFD. In his budget proposal, Trump noted...

A bomb threat at South by Southwest on Saturday caused Bud Light to cancel a concert featuring the popular hip-hop band The Roots...

The anxiety keeps coming in waves. And right now, for Fernando Hernandez and the hundreds of thousands of young DACA recipients whose fate lies in the hands of a polarized Congress and a mercurial president, the despair is crashing in. “It’s been weighing down on me,” said Hernandez, 28, of Santa Clara, whose mother crossed the border illegally with him when he was 5 and who now works as a lab technician at an LED company. “It feels like I don’t have an identity anymore, like I’m somebody’s plaything, somebody’s bargaining chip.”

(SUPPOSEDLY )AN ACTUAL CRAIG'S LIST PERSONALS AD To the Guy Who Tried to Mug Me in Downtown Savannah night before last... First, I'd like to apologize for your embarrassment; I didn't expect you to actually crap in your pants when I drew my pistol after you took my jacket...

Isn’t it weird that in AMERICA; our flag and our culture offend so many people, but our benefits don’t???????????? Florida has had 119 hurricanes since 1850, but the last one was due to climate change???????????? Liberals claim to want to hear other points of view but are shocked and offended that there are other points of view?????????? I firmly believe that bad government comes from big government. I can’t quite figure out how you can wave the flag of another country, in AMERICA, but fight like hell if AMERICA wants to send you back there??? Only in AMERICA are legal...