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The Associated Press President Donald Trump said Friday he had commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who is serving more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity theft charges. The New York Republican was sentenced in April after admitting last year to deceiving donors and stealing the identities of 11 people — including his own family members — to make donations to his campaign. He reported to Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton, in southern New Jersey, on July 25 and is being housed in a minimum security prison camp with fewer than 50 other inmates. READ THE FULL STORY
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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.”
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Associated Press John Bolton pleaded not guilty Friday to charges accusing the former President Donald Trump national security adviser turned critic of emailing classified information to family members and keeping top secret documents at his Maryland home. Bolton did not comment to reporters as he entered the courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, where he made his initial appearance before a judge on the 18-count indictment brought against him on Thursday. It’s third criminal case brought in recent weeks by the Justice Department against a Trump adversary, and is unfolding against the backdrop of growing concerns that the Republican president is using the law enforcement agency to seek retribution against his perceived enemies. READ THE FULL STORY
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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While the Democratic Party in America relies on millions of college-educated liberals as its base, it depends on two additional sources of political power. The loss of either one could be fatal to the party’s ability to win elections. The first is America’s financial elites, providing money and institutional support.
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A.J. Croce is currently on his “Croce Plays Croce” tour, where he is performing songs from his acclaimed Heart of the Eternal record while also covering his father’s beloved hits.
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