Kentucky gave Ford a $250 million upfront loan to build an EV battery plant that is now shuttered. The company is negotiating with the state ahead of scheduled repayments.
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A data center developer has purchased a former aluminum smelter in Hancock County. TeraWulf Incorporated plans to repurpose the Century Aluminum facility in Hawesville, an former industrial site that includes more than 250 acres of land.
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Some Kentuckians have reported hearing loud booms following last weekend’s winter storm.The rare occurrence is known as frost quake, which is essentially the ground's reaction to winter's grip. Frost quakes happen when rapidly freezing ground cracks under pressure.
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BGPD will not share their information with ICE agents, but has little control over neighboring agencies with access to their camera data.
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For the second time, efforts to bring a data center to southern Kentucky have stalled before zoning regulators. The Franklin Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday night unanimously tabled a vote on a preliminary development plan for a data storage center.
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The Center for Biological Diversity is suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to decide whether to protect an imperiled salamander found in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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The Supreme Court has cleared the way for California to use its new congressional map for this year's midterm election. Voters approved it as a Democratic counterresponse to Texas' new GOP-friendly map.
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The Atlantic writer Robert Kagan says as Trump violates norms, laws and the Constitution, including his call to nationalize elections, "we're on the edge of the consolidation of dictatorship."
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NPR reporters visited the Milan Olympic Village in the days before the opening ceremony to investigate the dining hall dessert situation and other pressing questions.
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In several states, adults aged 55 to 64 and parents of older teens must prove they’re working, volunteering or doing job training at least 80 hours a month to get food benefits.
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Representatives from the U.S., Ukraine and Russia met in Abu Dhabi for a second round of peace talks. Disagreements include post-war security guarantees, as well as control of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region and a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.
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Police in Arizona believe Nancy Guthrie, 84, was taken by force from her Tucson area home this weekend. So far, no suspect or person of interest has been identified.
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