FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled spending bills aimed at boosting education funding and tapping into budget reserves to pump more money into public pensions and infrastructure projects. The two-year budget plan introduced in the House doesn’t offer a guaranteed pay raise for teachers and other public school employees. Nor does it contain state funds to…
Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a caucus night party at the Marriott Hotel in West Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — ABC News on Tuesday canceled the next Republican presidential debate after Nikki Haley said she wouldn’t participate unless former President Donald Trump takes part in it,…
FILE – The U.S Capitol is seen on Jan. 8, 2024, in Washington. The chairmen of the top tax policy committees in Congress announced a bipartisan agreement Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, to enhance the child tax credit and revive a variety of tax breaks for businesses, a combination designed to attract support from lawmakers of both political parties. (AP Photo/Mariam…
A U.S, Secret Service agent stands his post before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a caucus night party in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump scored the first victory of the 2024 presidential primary season Monday with a sweeping and broad-based win in the Iowa Republican…
A man walks across the street below a sign for the Iowa Caucuses in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)As frigid temperatures scour the Midwest, the Republican presidential nominating process will officially start Monday with Iowa’s caucuses. The quadrennial contest has been unusually quiet this year, a mark of former President Donald Trump’s commanding lead…
FILE – A firetruck is parked outside of the White House in Washington, Dec. 19, 2007. A fake 911 call that the White House was on fire sent emergency vehicles to the complex Monday morning. President Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David at the time. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — A fake 911 call that the…
Kentucky state Sen. Cassie Chambers Armstrong works at her desk in the Senate chamber on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, in Frankfort, Ky. She is the lead sponsor of a bipartisan bill that would exempt diapers from the state sales tax. (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner)FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — For weary parents rolling up their sleeves for around-the-clock diaper duty, a bill with…
FILE – Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks to a joint session of the state Legislature to deliver his State of the Commonwealth address in the House chambers of the state Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, in Frankfort, Ky. Kentucky’s status as a pacesetter in college enrollment gains was touted by the governor and higher education leaders Thursday, Jan. 11, as…
Kentucky state Sen. Chris McDaniel, left, chats with fellow Sen. Jason Howell, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in Frankfort, Ky. McDaniel has resumed his effort to shift elections for governor and other statewide offices to coincide with presidential elections. His proposal won approval from a Senate panel on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner)FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky lawmaker resumed his long-running…
Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, center, accompanied by his attorney Abbe Lowell, right, sit in the front row at a House Oversight Committee hearing as Republicans are taking the first step toward holding him in contempt of Congress, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s son will head…
