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Report Raises Questions About Mitch McConnell’s Margin Of Victory, Calling It ‘Water Into Wine-Style Miracle’

Report Raises Questions About Mitch McConnell’s Margin Of Victory, Calling It ‘Water Into Wine-Style Miracle’

A new report is raising questions about Mitch McConnell’s margin of victory in his Senate reelection, saying that a resounding win despite a very low approval rating appears to be a “turning water into wine-style miracle.” The analysis from DCReport noted that going into 2020, many voters in Kentucky appeared to be angry with McConnell’s […]

3y ago

Mitch McConnell Holds Senate Seat For Seventh Term

Mitch McConnell Holds Senate Seat For Seventh Term

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was just re-elected for yet another term on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. This marks the seventh senate victory of McConnell’s career, and also gives him the honor of being the state’s longest-serving senator. McConnell defeated Amy McGrath, a former Marine fighter pilot. Though the veteran politician […]

3y ago

Breonna Taylor Jury Was ‘Not Given The Opportunity’ To Consider Homicide Charges, Says Grand Juror

Breonna Taylor Jury Was ‘Not Given The Opportunity’ To Consider Homicide Charges, Says Grand Juror

An anonymous grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case recently alleged that the jury was “not given the opportunity” to deliberate homicide charges against the police officers involved in the raid that killed her because Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron never presented them. As tweeted by VICE News correspondent Roberto Ferdman, the juror released an […]

3y ago

Protesters Gather Outside Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky Home After His Statement On Supreme Court Vacancy

Protesters Gather Outside Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky Home After His Statement On Supreme Court Vacancy

Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky home was surrounded by protesters this weekend after the Senate majority leader issued a statement saying he intended to lead the process to fill a Supreme Court vacancy left after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an apparent reversal from his stance in 2016. As Fox News reported, a group of close […]

3y ago

Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend Kenneth Walker Sues Louisville Police Department, City

Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend Kenneth Walker Sues Louisville Police Department, City

Kenneth Walker, the boyfriend of Breonna Taylor, has sued the Louisville Police Department and the city, saying that authorities need to be held accountable for the botched police raid that killed his girlfriend and left him with lasting trauma. As NBC News reported, Walker was asleep in bed with Taylor in the early morning hours […]

3y ago

Nicholas Sandmann: Who Is The Kentucky Teenager Speaking At The 2020 RNC?

Nicholas Sandmann: Who Is The Kentucky Teenager Speaking At The 2020 RNC?

Nicholas Sandmann, a Kentucky teenager and pro-life advocate, will be speaking Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention. The teen was involved in a 2019 viral video that appeared to present the narrative of him antagonizing an elderly Native American man, for which he was portrayed as a villain in some segments of the media. […]

3y ago

Mitch McConnell Slams Amy McGrath’s New Ad As ‘Racist’ Against His Wife

Mitch McConnell Slams Amy McGrath’s New Ad As ‘Racist’ Against His Wife

On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell responded to attacks from his Democratic challenger Amy McGrath, Fox News reported. McConnell slammed McGrath for releasing a “racist” advertisement that seemed to target his wife Elaine Chao, who is of Chinese descent. In her ad, McGrath — who is a former Marine pilot — accused McConnell of […]

3y ago

Officers Who Fatally Shot Breonna Taylor Should Not Be Charged, Law Enforcement Experts Tell ‘USA Today’

Officers Who Fatally Shot Breonna Taylor Should Not Be Charged, Law Enforcement Experts Tell ‘USA Today’

The police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor should not face charges, law enforcement experts told USA Today. The fatal shooting of Taylor on March 13 during a botched police raid has become a centerpiece of the growing national protests that arose in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, with […]

3y ago

Rene Boucher, Neighbor Who Attacked Senator Rand Paul, Sentenced To An Additional 13 Months

Rene Boucher, Neighbor Who Attacked Senator Rand Paul, Sentenced To An Additional 13 Months

Rene Boucher, the neighbor of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul who assaulted the lawmaker over a dispute about yard waste, has been sentenced to an additional seven months behind bars, plus six months’ home confinement, The Lexington Herald-Leader reported. Boucher had been sentenced to 30 days in jail, plus 100 hours of community service and a […]

3y ago

Charles Booker Edges Into The Lead To Take On Mitch McConnell In Kentucky Senate Race

Charles Booker Edges Into The Lead To Take On Mitch McConnell In Kentucky Senate Race

Charles Booker moved into the lead in Kentucky’s Democratic Senate primary, where the winner will take on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as the party hopes to flip the Senate. As WDRB reported, Booker had been trailing Amy McGrath for much of the early vote counting but moved into the lead with close to 80 […]

3y ago

Brett Hankison, One Of The Officers Who Shot Breonna Taylor, Has Been Fired

Brett Hankison, One Of The Officers Who Shot Breonna Taylor, Has Been Fired

On Tuesday, the Louisville Metro Police Department announced that Brett Hankison, one of the officers who shot Breonna Taylor, had officially been fired, CBS News reported. A letter to Hankison written by Lousiville’s Chief of Police, Robert Schroeder, was posted to the department’s Twitter account on Tuesday. In that letter, Schroeder explained exactly why the […]

3y ago

Police Report For The Raid At Breonna Taylor’s House Released, Lists Injuries As ‘None’

Police Report For The Raid At Breonna Taylor’s House Released, Lists Injuries As ‘None’

The Louisville Police Department released the report for the “no-knock” raid at Breonna Taylor’s house which resulted in her death, CBS News reported on Thursday. The report, which was largely incomplete, contained information that contradicted the known facts about the events of that night. According to CBS’ report, only a few of the fields on […]

3y ago

Mitch McConnell’s Senate Seat Could Be In Trouble After Poll Shows Democratic Challenger In The Lead

Mitch McConnell’s Senate Seat Could Be In Trouble After Poll Shows Democratic Challenger In The Lead

Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat could be in trouble as a new poll shows Democratic challenger Amy McGrath with a slim lead. As Newsweek reported, polling from RMB Group showed that McGrath had the support of 41 percent of Kentucky voters to 40 percent for McConnell — with the potential for a much larger lead. “However, […]

3y ago

Kentucky Man Killed By National Guard Used To Give Police Officers Free Meals, Report Says

Kentucky Man Killed By National Guard Used To Give Police Officers Free Meals, Report Says

A profile by Courier-Journal reports that David McAtee, the Kentucky man who was shot by the National Guard on Monday morning, used to provide police officers with free meals at his western Louisville barbecue business, YaYa’s BBQ. “He fed them free,” his mother, Odessa Riley, said about her son. “He fed the police and didn’t […]

3y ago

Republican Group Blasts Mitch McConnell In New Ad

Republican Group Blasts Mitch McConnell In New Ad

The Lincoln Project, a conservative super PAC dedicated to defeating “Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box,” released on Thursday an advertisement slamming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Morning Consult reported. The minute-long video juxtaposed devastating statistics about Kentucky with McConnell’s personal wealth. In the ad, the senator was dubbed “Rich Mitch” and accused of […]

3y ago

Terry Bush, Who Hung Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear In Effigy At A Protest, Fired From His Job

Terry Bush, Who Hung Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear In Effigy At A Protest, Fired From His Job

A man who hung Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear in a Memorial Day Weekend protest at the state’s capitol has been fired from his job, The Louisville Courier-Journal reports. As reported at the time in a companion Louisville Courier-Journal report, on Monday, Memorial Day, about 100 people gathered outside of the Bluegrass State’s Governor’s Mansion for […]

3y ago

Kentucky Atheist Awarded $150,000 After State Refuses To Issue ‘IMGOD’ Vanity License Plates

Kentucky Atheist Awarded $150,000 After State Refuses To Issue ‘IMGOD’ Vanity License Plates

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has been ordered to pay an atheist just over $150,000 after denying him a vanity plate that reads “IMGOD,” CTV News reports. For decades now, customized vanity license plates have been available to vehicle owners in all 50 states. The messages of most such plates are pretty mundane such as a […]

4y ago

Kentucky Christian School That Expelled Girl Purportedly For Eating Rainbow Birthday Cake Sued

Kentucky Christian School That Expelled Girl Purportedly For Eating Rainbow Birthday Cake Sued

The parents of a teenage girl have filed a lawsuit against her former school, alleging that the private Christian Kentucky institution saw photos of her eating a rainbow cake, concluded wrongly that she’s gay, and expelled her, NBC News reports. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, the teenager, identified in court documents only as “K.K.,” […]

4y ago

Kentucky Christian School Expels Girl For Wearing Rainbow Sweatshirt, Eating Rainbow Cake, Family Says

Kentucky Christian School Expels Girl For Wearing Rainbow Sweatshirt, Eating Rainbow Cake, Family Says

A Kentucky teenager was expelled from her private, Christian school after her mother posted a picture of her celebrating her birthday with a rainbow cake while wearing a sweatshirt with a rainbow on it, The Louisville Courier-Journal reports. The rainbow color scheme is sometimes associated with the LGBTQ community. Back in late December, Kimberly Alford […]

4y ago

Mitch McConnell’s Democratic Opponent’s Fundraising ‘Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Seen,’ Campaign Chair Says

Mitch McConnell’s Democratic Opponent’s Fundraising ‘Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Seen,’ Campaign Chair Says

Mitch McConnell has been safely in his Kentucky Senate seat across several election cycles, but he could be facing a stiff challenge in 2020 from a Democratic opponent making a big mark on fundraising. Democrat Amy McGrath announced that she finished 2019 with a $6 million haul and now has $9.1 million in cash thanks […]

4y ago

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