Kentucky lawmakers advanced a bill Wednesday to form a commission tasked with assessing electric generation capabilities and energy demands in a state long known as a coal-producing powerhouse. The commission’s role would include reviewing plans by Kentucky utilities to retire power plants, and its findings and recommendations would be submitted to regulators at the state Public Service Commission. The shuttering of coal-fired power plants has been an agonizing...

An LGBTQ+ student group at West Texas A&M University in Canyon has asked the U.S. Supreme Court for emergency relief, alleging free speech violations after the public university’s president canceled a planned campus drag show. Spectrum WT student group and student leaders want an injunction issued that would allow the show to proceed while a lawsuit continues in the lower courts. “This act of censorship is predicated on...

First lady Jill Biden’s guests for the State of the Union (SOTU) address on Thursday night include an Alabama woman who is seeking in vitro fertilization (IVF), Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain.  President Biden will deliver his last SOTU address before voters cast their ballots in the general election come November. The first lady’s choice of guests for her viewing box...