‘Legal discrimination’: dismay as Kentucky poised to ban DEI in colleges
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by Ava Sasani
6d ago
Republican-led state senate to vote on bill that would defund diversity, equity and inclusion programs as students protest Kentucky is poised to become the next state to ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs at public colleges and universities, prompting student backlash. Under a new bill advanced last week by the Kentucky house, the state would defund DEI offices and related staff at public universities and prohibit all scholarships that consider a student’s race, gender or religion in the selection criteria ..read more
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‘Life has not stopped for grief’: the photographer holding Breonna Taylor’s memory
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by Words and images by Scheherazade Tillet
2w ago
Four years after police killed Taylor, Scheherazade Tillet hopes art is not the only justice Taylor’s family will see I first visited Breonna Taylor’s home in Louisville, Kentucky, after the first anniversary of her death. I had recognized the apartment from the video footage, forensic reports, and witness accounts of the night that police officers fatally shot the 26-year-old in the early hours of 13 March 2020. In time, her life and legacy would galvanize a nation to reckon with police violence against Black women, but in the immediate days and hours after her death, her family was mourning ..read more
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Kentucky senate passes bill granting right to collect child support for fetuses
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by Carter Sherman and agency
3w ago
Measure allows parent to seek child support up to a year after giving birth to retroactively cover pregnancy expenses The Republican-led Kentucky senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to grant the right to collect child support for fetuses, advancing a bill that garnered bipartisan support despite nationwide fallout from a controversial Alabama decision also advancing “fetal personhood”. The measure would allow a parent to seek child support up to a year after giving birth to retroactively cover pregnancy expenses. The legislation – Senate Bill 110 – won senate passage on a 36-2 vote with lit ..read more
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Firefighter abseils to rescue driver of truck hanging off bridge in Kentucky – video
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3w ago
The driver of a tractor-trailer dangling precariously over the side of a bridge in Kentucky was rescued by a firefighter who abseiled down to reach her. Three other cars were involved in the crash at the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge between Louisville in Kentucky and southern Indiana, and two people were taken to hospital, Louisville metro police said Kentucky firefighter abseils off bridge to rescue dangling truck driver ..read more
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Kentucky firefighter abseils off bridge to rescue dangling truck driver
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by Associated Press
3w ago
Extraordinary footage shows Bryce Carden rescuing driver from stricken trailer hanging over Ohio River The Kentucky firefighter who abseiled off a bridge to rescue the driver of a tractor-trailer as it dangled precariously over the Ohio River said he played only a small part in the successful rescue. The Louisville firefighter Bryce Carden credited teamwork as he talked about the rescue on Good Morning America on Monday ..read more
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Mitch McConnell to step down as Republican leader in US Senate
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by Martin Pengelly in Washington
1M ago
Kentucky senator, 82 and the longest-serving Senate leader in history, will step aside as minority leader at end of this year Mitch McConnell of Kentucky will step down as Republican leader in the US Senate at the end of this year, a move that will shake up US politics yet more in a tumultuous election cycle. McConnell is 82 and the longest-serving Senate leader in history. He is also a highly divisive figure in a bitterly divided America and the subject of fierce speculation about his health after recent scares in public ..read more
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Revealed: far-right figures try to create Christian nationalist ‘haven’ in Kentucky
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by Jason Wilson
2M ago
Venture fund and real estate startup linked to far-right groups promote residential development as community for rightwingers A venture fund and a real estate startup – both with links to far-right organizations – are promoting a residential development in rural Kentucky as a haven for fellow rightwingers. The promoters have presented the planned development as an “aligned community” for rightwingers who want to “disappear from the cultural insanity of the broader country” and “spearhead the revival of the region ..read more
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Kentucky’s ex-Survivor lawmaker rues ‘embarrassing’ cousin gaffe in incest bill
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by Erum Salam
2M ago
Republican Nick Wilson hurriedly redrafts proposed law to combat familial abuse that would have legalized sex between first cousins A Kentucky state lawmaker and 2018 winner of the television competition Survivor had to hastily scrap a proposed measure that – if approved – would have unintentionally legalized sex between first cousins. After correcting the gaffe within a day, Nick Wilson – a Republican representative in Kentucky’s house of representatives – expressed hope that the misstep would not doom a measure whose purpose is to combat familial abuse ..read more
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Kim Davis must pay $260,000 legal fees over same-sex marriage license refusal
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by Associated Press
3M ago
Former county clerk had disputed lawyers’ fees for Kentucky couple who won $100,000 damages Kim Davis, the former county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses in Kentucky to same-sex couples, must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, according to a federal judge’s ruling. That is in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury said the former Rowan county clerk should pay the couple who sued ..read more
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‘Happy to be alive’: US woman gets limbs amputated after kidney stone surgery
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by Ramon Antonio Vargas
3M ago
Doctors told Kentucky woman she would need quadruple amputation to save her life after kidney stone infection spread A Kentucky woman who unexpectedly learned she would lose her legs and arms during what she thought would be a relatively routine bout with a kidney stone is confronting her plight by focusing on what she still has. “I’m just so happy to be alive,” Lucinda “Cindy” Mullins – who’s raising two sons with her husband – recently told the Kentucky news station WLEX. “I get to see my kids. I get to see my family. I get to have my time with my husband ..read more
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