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A small group of Murray residents making up local high school students, Murray State University faculty and other community members gathered on Murray State’s campus Tuesday in a show of solidarity with Palestinians.
Murray State History Professor Christine Lindner organized the gathering as a way for she and other community members to share their support for the Palestian people after more than a week of fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas, on a day when Palestinian leaders organized a general strike to protest Israeli attacks in Gaza.
Maysoon Khatib, an adjunct professor at Murray State, was one of the people who shared personal commentary alongside her children. Khatib was born in America, her father a Palestinian native. Her brother and sister live in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
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Kidney beans, corn flakes, peanut butter, gallons of milk, and apples. Dozens of paper bags have been filled with food ahead of a recent Thursday morning at the Mission House in Hickman County, Kentucky, the sun shining in as a volunteer opens up the side sliding door of the warehouse.
Soon, cars begin to circle around to the side of the warehouse, passing by the front sign of the Mission House, where a Bible quote is displayed in smaller font, Matthew 25:35 “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink.”
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Phyllis Gibbs wasn’t sure until recently that she’d be here, just a few moments away from receiving a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
“Do you feel sick today?”
Gibbs then walked over to one of the nurses inside the Kentucky Dam Village Convention Center in rural western Kentucky a place that once held a pre-pandemic political rally for statewide Democrats that has now been transformed into a regional vaccination site designed to dole out hundreds of Pfizer vaccines a day.
And Pfizer was the only vaccine Gibbs would get. She wouldn’t get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine because it was “paused” on April 13, and she’s heard bad stories about the side effects from the second Moderna vaccine dose. She said some of her family is totally against the vaccines “they’re kind of hard-headed,” she laughs and some in her part of conservative Ballard County trust “homeopathic” treatments rather than tr
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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell touted the COVID-19 vaccines, panned President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal and again defended the controversial election reform law in Georgia during a visit to a Paducah hospital on Wednesday.
McConnell, speaking at a press conference at Baptist Health Paducah Hospital, said the COVID-19 vaccines were a “modern medical miracle” regarding how quickly the vaccines were developed, in less than a year, comparing them to the decades it took to develop the first polio vaccine. He also said it was important for Kentuckians to continue to get vaccinated with eligibility now open to all adults.
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