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a potential nuclear armageddon with russia. what his staff is saying this afternoon, as we take you live to the white house and to moss couple of i'm hallie jackson in washington and with me now is nbc news correspondent josh lederman traveling with the president in hagerstown, maryland. tom costello and global markets reporter with us, too. we saw the big board red, not green like we've seen earlier this week. talk about why investors are so spooked here. >> hallie, a number of top advisers telling me interest rates are heading even higher and wall street wanted to seat job -- wanti...

Alan Lytle has more than 25 years of experience as a Kentucky broadcaster. Over that span he has earned multiple awards for anchoring, writing and producing news & features for WUKY. He took home the Kentucky Broadcasters Association's Best Radio Anchor award in 2021.

LRC Public Information The Kentucky Senate has voted to require schools to reopen in-person instruction by late March. Senators passed the bill Wednesday. The bill is potentially one step from going to the governor. The bill would require in-person classes resume by March 29. It returns to the House, which will consider Senate changes. If the House accepts the changes, it could send the legislation to Gov. Andy Beshear. Under the bill, districts would need to offer, at least, a hybrid schedule where students attend in-person classes at least two days a week and classes are h...

BY JEFF E. SCHAPIRO Richmond Times-Dispatch The convention at which Virginia Republicans pick their 2021 nominees for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general needn’t be knife fight, though that would make it better story, confirming that the only thing on which the GOP can agree is to disagree. The array of actual and prospective candidates suggests a Republican ticket fashioned at the convention rather than the rejected primary might have at least one feature its Democratic equivalent could lack: geographic balance. Indeed, the Democratic ticket again could tilt t...

BY JEFF E. SCHAPIRO Richmond Times-Dispatch Ben Cline, the congressman from the Blue Ridge 6th District, is a strict constitutionalist quick to object to government overreach, such as perceived intrusions on gun rights — a big deal in Virginia’s countryside. His fellow Republican from the 1st District in Tidewater, Rob Wittman, is a Ph.D. who worries the Chesapeake Bay could become an algae-choked Petri dish because of fertilizer runoff from all those upstream suburban lawns. Cline, a lawyer, and Wittman, a scientist, would tell you there is ample, irrefutable evidence o...