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“No longer will tens of thousands of our children be left out of preschool or Head Start, programs that we know provide positive outcomes on children’s early literacy and mathematic skills and foster long-term educational success,” Beshear said. Beshear’s two-year budget proposal calls for a larger total of nearly $2 billion in additional funding for preschool through 12th grade. He also proposed a minimum 5 percent pay raise for all school personnel and a nearly 12 percent funding increase for the state’s higher education system, the highest in decades....

Critical staffing shortages have been reported in 66 of 96 state hospitals in Kentucky, the highest level yet during the pandemic, Governor Andy Beshear said. Kentucky’s public health commissioner, Dr. Steven Stack, warned that the staffing shortages combined with surges in COVID-19 are straining the healthcare system. “Our hospitals are at the brink of collapse in many communities,” Stack said. The highly contagious Delta variant has swept through the state, sometimes affecting multiple generations of the same family....

Ivermectin is mostly used as a treatment for parasites in animals and has been flagged by federal health bodies as inappropriate for human consumption in treating COVID-19. In 2020, Kentucky Poison Control said they received just one call for ivermectin misuse, but there have already been 13 misuse calls this year. About half these calls were made in the month of August alone, with the center advising some callers to either call 911 or go to hospital....

But on Thursday, when the 1-5 Wildcats take on the 3-3 Mississippi State Bulldogs, they will be wearing a unique set of thigh pads. MORE: SN’s midseason awards | Week 9 bowl projections | Fall of the SEC? While the custom thigh pads will be barely noticeable during the games, they should make for fun grass stains. 

But again The Swallows cannot be underrated if recent outing is anything to go by. Stars topped Group A with eight points after winning against Rwanda and Tanzania, and drew against Libya and Zanzibar. Burundi finished second in Group B after registering five points, same as leaders Uganda, who had a better goal difference. Burundi managed to get maximum points against Ethiopia, and drew against Uganda and South Sudan. It is going to be the fifth time the two teams are going to meet in the Cecafa tournament....

Keselowski, in talking about the crash during the NASCAR awards week in Las Vegas, was asked about his role at Texas, more the move he made to try to squeeze between Gordon and Jimmie Johnson than the post-race fight between his team and Gordon’s. Keselowski finished third at Texas while Gordon, after contact with Keselowski, had a flat tire, spun and finished 29th. “I do feel sorry when someone has a bad day,” Keselowski said....

At one stage the Celtics were down 103-100 but closed the game on a 20-5 run to seal the Game 1 win. Al Horford was the talk of the social media world, playing in his first NBA Finals game after 15 seasons in the league, the Celtics’ veteran stepped up big time with 26 points, including 6-of-8 made 3-pointers. Derrick White, who contributed 21 points, including five made 3-pointers too, was also trending on social as NBA players, both current and former, were in awe of the Celtics’ impressive win....

All of these words can describe what happened during the Boston Celtics’ game vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder in which Jayson Tatum received a technical foul. During the second quarter, Tatum committed a foul on Aleksej Pokusevski, clapping his hands in frustration afterward, that was seemingly directed at himself; however, the official was quick to dish out a technical foul, leaving the Celtics swingman in disbelief. Joining him was Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant, who took to Twitter, sharing his amusement at the call....

The Warriors waited on extensions for both Harrison Barnes and Festus Ezeli earlier this month. Those moves largely were seen as disagreements on value, but they had the added benefit of keeping the books clean. If the Warriors could bring Durant in, they arguably would have the two most unstoppable offensive weapons in the NBA sharing the court at age 28. UPDATE: Kevin Durant chooses Warriors | NBA free agency tracker Golden State benefits from the remarkable 2016 cap spike (from $70 million for this season to an estimated $89 million next) because it allows them to pursue Durant without sacrificing any players or assets beforehand....

Wallace’s NBA single-season record of 41 technical fouls, amassed during the 2000-01 season, is a mark that will almost certainly stand forever. Garnett is one of the most notorious trash talkers and cussers (Yes, “cussers”) of all time. Remember what he told Carmelo Anthony about his (soon-to-be-ex-)wife La La back in the day? MORE: Who still needs a traditional big man? So you can imagine what the former teammates are like behind the scenes....

Harvick had one small stumble on pit road with 30 laps remaining, and then another one on the track with about 10 laps left that ruined his chance of winning the 5-Hour Energy 400 for his third victory this season. Harvick had to settle for second in a race that he dominated for much of the event. MORE: Gordon wins | Danica shines | Race results | Cup standings...

The Real Heroes 400 took place on a sunny Sunday at Darlington Raceway with 40 drivers, and Kevin Harvick won NASCAR’s first race since March 8. Harvick built nearly a two-second lead over Alex Bowman with 20 laps remaining in the race, and extended it to nearly three seconds with 14 laps to go. Harvick, who led 159 laps Sunday, then cruised to his 50th Cup Series race. He’s also the only driver to finish in the top 10 of all five NASCAR Cup Series races in 2020....

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Minority Whip Steve Scalise and newly-elected House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik indicated their strong support for Trump’s agenda. Stefanik, who this week replaced Representative Liz Cheney as the third ranking House Republican, criticized President Joe Biden and said the U.S. was now facing “multiple crises.” Hannity asked Stefanik if she disagreed with what he defines as “the Trump agenda, the Make America Great Again agenda....

The cartoon which has since been taken down, shows a woman lying under the sun with a cocktail, while in the next panel, a boy stares at a learning tablet. The caption says: “While students are stuck at home, teachers unions enjoy the good life at their expense” and above the image, McCarthy writes that “special interests have fought to keep schools closed.” It links to a blog post on his website in which he argued that school closures had impacted students’ mental and physical health, and were causing them to fail....

The lawmaker from the Golden State posted footage on his Instagram account of the wedding of his son Connor at the Cass House venue in Cayucos, in San Luis Obispo County, on December 5. At the time, the county allowed outdoor weddings as long as masks were worn but banned receptions, the LA Times reported. The paper said that footage shows the Republican congressman among the attendees who were not wearing masks....

The Republican began speaking on the House floor at 8:38 p.m. ET Thursday and, a little hoarse at times, broke the record at 4:46 a.m. Friday morning. At 5:11 a.m., 8 hours, 33 minutes after he took to the floor, he stopped talking. The previous record was set in 2018 by then minority leader Nancy Pelosi—the current House Speaker—who spoke for eight hours and seven minutes about young, undocumented migrants....

When Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy asked the actor why he wanted to work on the film, The Reliant, after reading the script, Sorbo, 61, said that there were a number of reasons, but one that particularly piqued his interest was the film’s “underlying message of support for the Second Amendment.” The remarks seemed to fall in line with what Sorbo, who has not shied away from revealing his religious and political views to the public, has said in the past....

As previously reported by Newsweek, emails with anti-immigration and anti-Semitic statements written by Miller to an editor at conservative website Breitbart News were made public by the Southern Poverty Law Center in November. “Hateful ideology is not just unacceptable,” the letter read, “it is un-American, irrespective of the faith, race, or nationality of the individual promoting it.” Writers of the letter also called Miller’s advocacy of “white nationalist and virulently anti-immigrant tropes is wholly unacceptable and disqualifying for a government employee....

Speaking to professor of medicine and surgery Dr. Jonathan Reiner on Sunday, Acosta accused Carlson of spreading “COVID nonsense.” Acosta said: “Let’s just say a challenge to Tucker Carlson, as we are talking about this from yours truly and Dr. Reiner. “Tucker Carlson, tell the American people if you have been double vaccinated and boosted, just come clean. “Tell everybody if you have been boosted, we know the truth, we know you have been....

Jim Brown has this advice regarding the NCAA: Blow it up and start over. "I'm totally for change and total change," Brown said. "And I think that body needs to be torn apart and put back together with everybody's best interests in mind." Brown issued that a Saturday during a Pro Football Hall of Fame Fan Fest in Cleveland. And that wasn't the strongest thing Brown said. Consider this: "The NCAA is probably the most reprehensible organization God ever created....