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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was due to testify behind closed doors on Thursday to a congressional committee investigating the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans targeted one of his longtime political rivals.

One student was killed and another critically injured in a shooting Tuesday at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, authorities said.

A UPS cargo plane crashed and exploded in a massive fireball Tuesday while taking off from the company’s global aviation hub in Louisville, Kentucky, killing at least seven people and injuring 11, authorities said.

Toyota Motor will begin producing two battery-powered SUVs at its U.S. Kentucky plant, while phasing out production of a Lexus luxury sedan at the site, a source familiar with the matter said Wednesday.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) said Wednesday it won a union vote at Ford’s Kentucky joint-venture battery plant, though 41 challenge ballots could still affect the outcome. The union reported 526 votes in favor and 515 against, calling the remaining ballots “illegitimate” and a tactic by the employer to undermine the vote.

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested after opening fire near a high school football game in Kentucky, sparking chaos as players and fans scrambled for cover, police said.

A violent incident unfolded at a church in Lexington, Kentucky, on Sunday, when a gunman killed two women at the Richmond Road Baptist Church before fleeing to an area near an airport.

Residents in Kentucky and Missouri sifted through damage in tornado-stricken neighborhoods, still on edge Sunday for more severe weather ahead after storms that killed more than two dozen people as they swept through parts of the Midwest and South.

Rivers continued to rise and flooding intensified Sunday across the already devastated U.S. South and Midwest, threatening communities still reeling from days of heavy rain and wind that have claimed at least 18 lives.