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  • President Donald Trump is putting pressure on Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky) after the northern Kentucky congressman voiced his plans to vote against a government spending bill.
  • The U.S. Small Business Administration is holding disaster recovery resource fairs in Hazard Wednesday and Pikeville Thursday for victims of the floods that hit eastern Kentucky in mid-February.
  • A new state law allows 15-year-olds to apply for a driver’s permit and, if they pass vision and written tests, get behind the wheel.
  • Beginning in the new year, all Kentuckians will have to undergo vision screenings to renew their driver’s licenses thanks to a 2021 state law.
  • European markets remain jittery as the sovereign debt crisis drags on but investors are finding some relief in news that China may help out one of the largest economies in the European Union. Italian officials confirmed Tuesday that they've been talking with a top Chinese state investment fund about buying Italian government bonds.
  • The Kentucky Headhunters and Exile are among the new class of Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum inductees announced today in Lexington. Seven native…
  • Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will send a top policy surrogate to this year’s Fancy Farm Picnic. Florida Agriculture Commissioner and…
  • Europe's largest bank allowed drug cartels to launder billions of dollars through its U.S. operations, and skirted bans against transactions with Iran. Those are among the findings of a Senate investigation of London-based HSBC. Executives from the bank are in Washington for a hearing on the probe.
  • China has rejected allegations of involvement in a cyberspying campaign targeting the Google email accounts of top U.S. officials, military personnel and journalists. In an op-ed in a party-run newspaper, two strategists from the Chinese military, without mentioning Google's recent claims, wrote that China must make mastering cyberwarfare a military priority as the Internet becomes the crucial battleground for opinion and intelligence.
  • Paige Olsen calls the ears on her coonhound "extravagantly long." Each ear measures more than 13 inches. Her coonhound tops the Guinness World Record list for longest ears on any living dog.
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