Skip to Main Content
Your Community. Your Stories.

KentStater

World and Nation:
Your Community. Your Stories.

KentStater

Your Community. Your Stories.

KentStater

This photo from the Washington County Sheriff's Office in Kentucky shows severe tornado damage.

Unexpected tornado leaves at least 1 dead, multiple injured in Kentucky

Alaa Elassar, CNN May 30, 2025

At least one person is dead and seven others were injured after an unexpected tornado struck a rural Kentucky county early Friday morning as a line of severe storms moved eastward across the state. The...

Economists projected that consumer spending slowed in April and that inflation cooled to 2.2%.

Americans pulled back on their spending in April amid tariff rollout

Alicia Wallace, CNN May 30, 2025

(CNN) — American consumers reined in their spending in April following a tariff-fueled buying binge the month before, according to new data released Friday that also showed inflation cooled off again. Friday’s...

President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for interim US Attorney General for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro on May 28 in Washington, DC.

Trump was just asked about the ‘TACO trade’ for the first time. He called it the ‘nastiest question’

Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN May 28, 2025

(CNN) — Wall Street has been riding a historic roller coaster the past few months due to President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff threats. Now, investors are learning to take his words with...

The Treasury Department Building in Washington, DC, is seen here on May 10. The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency can now access sensitive Treasury Department systems.

DOGE can access sensitive Treasury payment systems, judge rules

Marshall Cohen, CNN May 28, 2025

Washington (CNN) — The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency can now access sensitive Treasury Department systems that control trillions of dollars of payments and contain private...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed the second-ever state law requiring app stores to verify users' ages, in an effort to better protect children and teens online.

Texas governor signs new law requiring Apple and Google to verify all app store users’ ages

Clare Duffy, CNN May 28, 2025

New York (CNN) — Google and Apple will soon be required to verify app store users’ ages in Texas, after Gov. Greg Abbott signed the rule into law on Tuesday. The Texas App Store Accountability Act...

Billy Joel performing in Las Vegas in November.

Billy Joel cancels upcoming tour due to neurological disorder

Alli Rosenbloom, CNN May 23, 2025

(CNN) — Billy Joel’s upcoming tour dates have been canceled as the legendary performer seeks treatment for normal pressure hydrocephalus, a condition that affects the brain, according to a statement...

A screen inside a Family Dollar Stores Inc. store in Chicago, Illinois, in March 2020.

Millions could lose food assistance under GOP’s ‘big, beautiful bill,’ CBO says

Tami Luhby, CNN May 23, 2025

(CNN) — Millions of low-income Americans, including families with children, could lose their food stamp benefits under House Republicans’ newly passed tax and spending cuts package, according to...

A sculler rows down the Charles River near Harvard University on April 15, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass.

Harvard sues Trump administration to halt federal ban on enrolling international students

(CNN) — Harvard University is opening a new front in its legal battle against the Trump administration, filing suit in federal court Friday in response to the government’s move to revoke the school’s...

Clouds roll over the US Capitol, May 18, 2025.

Trump summons key GOP holdouts to White House as hardliners warn agenda bill vote would fail on floor

Sarah Ferris, CNN May 21, 2025

(CNN) — President Donald Trump summoned members of a key wing of the Republican Party to the White House Wednesday, as they threaten to defy GOP leaders and prevent his agenda from advancing out of the...

‘It’s great news’: Family of Orlando woman who went missing nearly 20 years ago receives new hope

Gail Paschall-Brown, CNN May 21, 2025

ORLANDO (WESH) - Drew Kesse and his wife received new information from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement regarding their missing daughter, Jennifer Kesse, who vanished from her Orlando condo nearly...

House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Gerry Connolly (D-VA) questions witnesses during a House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on February 12, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Rep. Gerry Connolly, 75, has died, family statement says

Lauren Chadwick, CNN May 21, 2025

(CNN) — Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia died on Wednesday morning, according to a statement from his family. He was 75. “It is with immense sadness that we share that our devoted and...

After months of outcry over the issue of AI-generated, non-consensual deepfakes, President Donald Trump is set to sign a law that will make sharing them illegal.

Victims of explicit deepfakes will now be able to take legal action against people who create them

Clare Duffy, CNN May 19, 2025

New York (CNN) — In recent years, people ranging from Taylor Swift and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to high school girls around the country have been victims of non-consensual, explicit deepfakes —...

Activate Search
Your Community. Your Stories.
World and Nation