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Kentucky
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 44 stories to Kentucky since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Kentucky.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Kentucky
10 storiesICE signs a no-bid $16.7 million contract for 6,000 pairs of electric shock gloves to use on detainees and protesters, hours after 16 senators asked it to cancel.
Authorized against "passively resisting" subjects
Sen. McConnell, 84, returns to Senate in a wheelchair for first vote since June 11, ending a three-month absence his office disclosed in trickles.
GOP needed him for farm bill
4 states seeking up to $1.4 trillion take Meta to federal trial over claims it deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children.
Meta lost 2 similar cases this year
Trump shared a video depicting the Obamas as apes on Truth Social, then claimed he didn't watch it to the end and refused to apologize.
Sen. Scott called it racist
Twenty-five Democratic-led states and Washington sue the Trump administration over Medicaid work rules, arguing the illness exemptions are too narrow to protect the medically frail.
80-hour monthly work mandate starts January
Trump-recruited Navy SEAL Gallrein ousts 7-term Rep. Massie in Kentucky GOP primary after Massie led Epstein files release and opposed OBBBA.
Crowd chants 2028 at concession
JAMA study finds miscarriage patients in 14 abortion-ban states get less effective treatment as doctors avoid mifepristone over criminal liability fears.
Expectant management raises hemorrhage risk
Trump spends day campaigning in Ohio and Kentucky on day 13 of the Iran war, targeting Rep. Massie for forcing Epstein file release and challenging war powers.
"Even worse than Crazy Liz Cheney"
EPA rolls back mercury and toxic emission limits on coal plants nationwide, returning to weaker Obama-era standards the Biden administration had tightened.
Doubles allowable mercury emissions
Kentucky woman faces capital fetal homicide charge after disclosing medication abortion to medical clinic, which then reported her to state police.
Ordered medication online, buried remains
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesKentucky Supreme Court unanimously strikes down the state's charter school law, ruling it violates the constitutional requirement for a common school system overseen by elected boards.
Rejected by voters in all 120 counties
CNN, Politico and MS NOW sue Trump over their White House ban, as NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox refuse to film Trump in CNN's place.
Judge who restored Acosta's pass presiding
Supreme Court refuses to let Postal Service enforce Trump's mail-ballot rule before November over two dissents, three weeks after clearing the executive order behind it.
Kavanaugh cites insufficient time to implement
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