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Western Kentucky University is reaching out to Kentucky’s growing refugee population with additional services for displaced students.

Photographers from NPR's member stations across the country share memorable images from 2021. There are stories that document grief to ones that spread joy in a tumultuous year.

Ida leaves a path of death and destruction from the Gulf Coast to New England. Texas clinics that provide abortions face a new reality. The NRA cancels its annual meeting because of the pandemic.

Rachel Martin talks to Republican Rep. Pete Olson of Texas about the impact of Harvey and disaster preparedness in the state. Texans have experienced heavy rain, flooding and tornadoes.

President Joe Biden's name won't appear on the ballot anywhere in 2023, but you wouldn't know it from the campaigns that Republican candidates for governor are running in Kentucky and Mississippi.

As Beshear took to the podium before a room full of state legislators, the majority of whom belonged to the opposing party, he joked, “Many of you are excited that I will be serving as your governor for the next four years... and the rest are excited that I am now term-limited.” It’s a comment he’s made before and it hits at a core tension between Beshear and the state’s Republican legislative supermajority.

Nearly two years after the recession ended, the pace of construction is inching along at less than half the level considered healthy. Housing starts fell 10.6 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 523,000, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. And fewer new homes mean fewer jobs.

Nearly two years after the recession ended, the pace of construction is inching along at less than half the level considered healthy. Housing starts fell 10.6 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 523,000, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. And fewer new homes mean fewer jobs.

NOAA relies on hundreds of contracts to keep the agency running. The new commerce secretary is reviewing many of them individually, causing disruptions to many normal operations within the agency.

The concert on Friday, Sept. 5, will feature performances from artists across Kentucky and Tennessee, including Grammy-Award winning songwriter Aaron Raitiere , Laurel Lewis, and Mark Whitley.