August 26, 2021
Season 2021 Episode 167 | 55sVideo has Closed Captions
A one-minute news update, focused on COVID-19, airing before and after PBS NewsHour.
A one-minute news update, focused on COVID-19, airing before and after PBS NewsHour.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
KY Headlines is a local public television program presented by KET
August 26, 2021
Season 2021 Episode 167 | 55sVideo has Closed Captions
A one-minute news update, focused on COVID-19, airing before and after PBS NewsHour.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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#### Senator Mitch McConnell calls today's deadly attack in Afghanistan sickening and enraging.
A suicide bomber killed 12 members of the U.S. military.
Senator McConnell says they were doing heroic work, rescuing American citizens and America's Afghan partners.
#### Another record positivity rate today: 13-point-24 percent.
Kentucky has more than 54-hundred cases - the second-highest total ever.
Governor Beshear says one-third of the state's hospitals are at critical staffing levels.
#### The governor says he would have issued a mandatory mask order yesterday, but he says after a Kentucky Supreme Court ruling, that order would require General Assembly approval.
#### The University of Kentucky says it will require unvaccinated facultand staff to be tested for
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