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Updated: Sep. 16, 2023 at 3:37 PM EDT
|By Chandler Wilcox
Kentucky Republicans running for state offices made stops across Eastern Kentucky on Saturday.
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Updated: Jun. 23, 2023 at 2:32 PM EDT
|By Jamie Bittner
Supporters call the bill ‘unapologetically aspirational," as legislators mark the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs ruling which ended protection for abortion under Roe versus Wade.
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Updated: Jun. 14, 2023 at 7:36 PM EDT
|By Jamie Bittner
This month marks one year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion
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Updated: Jun. 13, 2023 at 8:28 PM EDT
|By Jamie Bittner
Discharge petitions require 218 signatures
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Updated: Jun. 6, 2023 at 1:26 PM EDT
|By Jamie Bittner
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives started to debate two bills that would block any attempt to regulate the kitchen appliance.
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Updated: May. 19, 2023 at 11:49 AM EDT
|By Jamie Bittner
Negotiations between the President & top GOP leaders have progressed but have not yet produced a deal.
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Updated: May. 16, 2023 at 6:18 PM EDT
|By Jamie Bittner
Senator Markey, Rep. Cori Bush call for expansion of the U.S. Supreme Court to 13 justices.
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Updated: May. 16, 2023 at 8:43 AM EDT
|By Brandon Robinson and WAVE Staff
Polls will be open until 6 p.m.
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Updated: May. 15, 2023 at 4:39 PM EDT
|By Chandler Wilcox
Mike Harmon said interacting with people face-to-face will give him the best chance to win.
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The Kentucky Debate allows Republican gubernatorial candidates to go head-to-head before the primary
Updated: May. 8, 2023 at 6:49 PM EDT
|By Jennifer K. Perkins
Several Republican gubernatorial candidates will discuss various issues Monday during The Kentucky Debate.
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Updated: Apr. 27, 2023 at 8:20 PM EDT
|By Jamie Bittner
The bill would also expand access to Pre-K and Head Start programs in addition to increasing worker wages.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 7:17 PM EDT
|By Jamie Bittner
ConocoPhillips has said the project will produce an estimated 180,000 barrels of oil per day at its peak.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 3:49 PM EST
|By Stetson Miller
Senator Tammy Baldwin has reintroduced legislation that would limit what can be labeled as milk to dairy products.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 10:26 AM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Lawmakers push changes to federal laws on marijuana, with a special focus on banking regulations.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2023 at 5:59 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Senate hearing looks at whether legislation is needed to protect children online.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 6:32 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
The Senators believe there is little difference between the JR-15 and an AR-15.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 3:56 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
“It’s an obvious fact," says Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.)
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 7:27 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Days before the March for Life rally, the House GOP advanced a measure called the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.”
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 6:47 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
House Republican leadership announces new committee and conference chairs.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2022 at 9:47 AM EST
|By Brendan Cullerton
Current Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-CA, is the frontrunner to become the next speaker of the House, but he is short on the votes required
Updated: Dec. 23, 2022 at 3:37 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Legislation to sort out Afghan refugee status remains stalled in Congress.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2022 at 5:39 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Nancy Pelosi is stepping down as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Updated: Dec. 20, 2022 at 10:06 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
For the past 48 years Senator Patrick Leahy has served the nation and his home state of Vermont.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 8:29 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Journalist Katie Couric joined lawmakers to announce the ‘Find it Early Act' for cancer screenings.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 5:36 PM EST
|By Jamie Bittner
Senator Leahy was first elected in 1974.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 7:04 PM EST
|By Josh Rultenberg
President Biden addressed the results of the midterm election and his own political future on Wednesday.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 8:18 PM EST
|By Brandon Robinson
Barr has held the seat since defeating former Congressman Ben Chandler in the 2012 election.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 7:15 PM EST
|By Brandon Robinson
He fended off a challenge from former State Representative Charles Booker, who also previously ran for Senate in the Democratic primary against Amy McGrath in 2020.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 7:08 PM EST
|By Brandon Robinson
Rep. Rogers has represented the fifth district since 1981, when he succeeded retiring seven-term Congressman Tim Lee Carter.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 11:59 AM EDT
|By Josh Rultenberg
Both Democrats and Republicans are confident they can win the November mid-term elections because they claim they’ve each poached voters from regions where, traditionally, they don’t have a lot of support.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 2:46 PM EDT
|By Molly Martinez
A new bill in Washington promises more competition when it comes to credit card transactions - but one expert says cardholders could be left footing the bill.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 8:20 AM EDT
|By Peter Zampa
The Biden administration says it wants more transparency from airlines when it comes to booking flights.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 4:45 PM EDT
|By Brendan Cullerton
Opponents of the election map say it does not provide proportional representation to minorities, making the map a violation of the Voting Rights Act
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 4:09 PM EDT
|By Molly Martinez
The case has the potential to strip the Clean Water Act of key environmental protections
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 9:17 PM EDT
|By David Ade
Rogers has served since 1981
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 12:33 PM EDT
|By Josh Rultenberg
Ending cancer as we know it. President Biden will give a speech Monday in Boston on his plan to find a cure for the disease. What the White House says we can expect to hear about the president’s ‘Cancer Moonshot.’
Updated: Sep. 8, 2022 at 6:59 PM EDT
|By Molly Martinez
Residents who live in the path of the proposed Mountain Valley pipeline are in Washington Thursday - to protest what they’re calling a back-door deal.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 10:47 AM EDT
|By Jamie Bittner
As some states begin to implement bans and restrictions on abortion, debate continues over how much the issue of abortion will drive voters to the polls.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2022 at 6:56 AM EDT
|By Brendan Cullerton
Congress passes a new Farm Bill every five years. The old U.S. farm policy package will expire next September, and lawmakers are looking into what needs to be in the next version
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 10:16 AM EDT
|By Josh Rultenberg
The soul of the nation. That’s what President Biden plans to talk about during a primetime address in Philadelphia.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 11:46 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
The FBI submitted the affidavit, or sworn statement, to a judge so it could obtain a warrant to search Trump’s property.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2022 at 4:03 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has subpoenaed his friend and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as part of an effort to back out of his $44 billion agreement to acquire the company Dorsey helped found.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2022 at 9:36 AM EDT
|By Brendan Cullerton
Republicans believe the economy will work to their advantage in the November midterm elections, but Democrats say the country is turning a corner on reducing prices.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2022 at 11:51 AM EDT
|By Jamie Bittner
Thousands of Afghan refugees are stuck in legal limbo.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2022 at 3:25 PM EDT
|By Jamie Bittner
Following the U.S. Court of Appeals ruling, the Ways & Means Committee said the decision showed “the law is on our side in seeking Trump’s tax returns.”
Updated: Jul. 21, 2022 at 1:17 PM EDT
|By Jamie Bittner
Access to the abortion pill is set to be the subject of legal challenges nationwide
Updated: Jul. 21, 2022 at 11:36 AM EDT
|By Nicole Neuman
Kinzinger and panel expected to reveal what Trump was doing as the Capitol attack unfolded.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2022 at 5:37 PM EDT
|By Jordan Whitaker
Representative Hal Rogers requested a moment of silence on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives today for the three officers and police canine killed in Allen, Ky. on June 30.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2022 at 10:16 AM EDT
|By Brandon Robinson
One milestone that some thought would never take place in Kentucky happened Friday morning: Republicans are now officially the majority party in the Commonwealth.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2022 at 3:59 PM EDT
|By Molly Martinez
Veterans have waited 32 years to break ground on this memorial