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During last year’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Trump said violent crime was rising. ABC moderator David Muir immediately fact-checked him, claiming, “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country…”
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said that former National Security Advisor John Bolton appeared to engage in a pattern of “casual treatment” of classified material when discussing the former Trump administration official’s indictment during a Friday appearance on “Fox and Friends.”
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s address to the nation’s generals and admirals last week received mixed reviews. Many veterans and lower-ranking servicemembers applauded his remarks. His critics, however, called them “embarrassing,” “abhorrent,” and “completely unnecessary.”
Vivek Ramaswamy’s gubernatorial election in Ohio isn’t until next year, but in the meantime, he’s looking to assist another Republican hopeful, this time in New Jersey. Voters in the Garden State will soon select a new governor to replace term-limited Democrat Phil Murphy. There’s a solid chance that will be Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican who came close to beating Murphy in 2021.
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U.S. Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) expressed his frustration with The Nation in a letter to the editor published on Thursday by the progressive magazine in response to its recent coverage of the primary challenge launched by State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis).
Cohen's letter was written in response to the October 8 coverage of Pearson by The Nation, which began by positively comparing the Tennessee Democrat to Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York, and closed by describing Cohen's campaign slogan as "unfathomable."
Less than a week after a catastrophic explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems killed 16 people, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed on Thursday on behalf of the 9-year-old daughter of one victim. Investigators are continuing their work on-scene. The lawsuit, brought by Hughes & Coleman law firm, names AAC Investments, LLC – the parent company of Accurate Energetic Systems – as the defendant. Filed in Humphreys County Circuit Court, the complaint seeks up to $12 million in damages: $3 million in compensatory damages and $9 million in punitive damages. “The explosion occurred because Defendant AAC failed to maintain a reasonably safe factory for the fabrication, storage and handling of explosives and explosive materials,” the lawsuit alleges, accusing the company of gross negligence. The Plaintiff: A 9-Year-Old Who Lost Her Father The plaintiffs are identified as “P.M., a minor” and her mother, Cheyanne Towry. The child’s father, 37-year-old Jeremy Moore, was among the 16 workers killed in the October 10 explosion at the military explosives manufacturing plant. Moore worked in the munitions industry for nearly 19 years, according to his family. On the morning of the blast, he dropped his daughter off at his mother’s house before heading to work. Moore’s…
Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports submitted on Wednesday reveal that former Tennessee state official Matt Van Epps had about $54,000 in his campaign bank account as of October 1, just six days before he became the Republican Party nominee to represent the 7th Congressional District after receiving an endorsement from President Donald Trump.
During the same period, the FEC data shows that State Representative Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville) had just over $20,000 in cash on hand, leaving her campaign at a possible disadvantage to Van Epps, as Democrats seek to flip a district that retired U.S. Representative Mark Green (R-TN-07) won in a landslide just last year.
Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to refer former Special Counsel Jack Smith to the Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) for an investigation into the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) surveillance of her and other Republican members of Congress.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, under pressure from the party’s ascendent left flank to hold the line on the government shutdown, may win a moment of approval before a crowd of the party’s base voters this weekend.
U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO), who formerly served as Missouri’s attorney general, said Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general, “has no business” running for office amid the surfacing of remarks he allegedly made calling for the killings of police officers and wishing death upon a political rival and their children.
FBI Director Kash Patel tells Just the News that the bureau is "on the verge" of unmasking the command structure and financing for anarchist groups like Antifa that have unleashed unrest around America and has also identified potential new criminal activity related to the abuse of federal law enforcement and intelligence.
Aaron Gulbransen with the Tennessee Conservatives Coalition praised Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) as the “most effective and consequential” state lawmaker in Tennessee history amid Johnson being honored as “Legislator of the Year” by the physician advocacy group Do No Harm.
Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Tennessee Star, is sounding the alarm over what he describes as a foundational crisis in America: the collapse of the nation’s public K–12 education system.
A Democratic Senate candidate ended her campaign Thursday as her school board continues to deal with the fallout of a superintendent’s arrest by immigration authorities.
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