The U.S. economy added 156,000 jobs in October and unemployment remained steady at 4.1%, according to a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday.
The unemployment rate has remained in a narrow range between 4.1% and 4.3% since March. Employment in professional and business services shot up by 70,000 in the month of October, well above the 15,000 job monthly average over the last year.
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President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking another step toward restoring a more practical balance between environmental protection, economic opportunity, and the role of the states.
Last week, on Oct. 27, the President and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced proposed revisions to federal oil and natural gas regulations under the Clean Air Act, commonly known as OOOOb/c. The proposal reconsiders several requirements finalized in 2024 and, according to EPA, could reduce regulatory costs by $45 billion while allowing an estimated 210 million additional barrels of oil and 1.41 trillion cubic feet of natural gas to be produced.
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Americans could face another round of price increases on everyday household products as major consumer brands raise prices to offset soaring costs, with one manufacturer reporting an 18% price hike even as customers bought fewer products.
Reynolds Consumer Products, Kraft Heinz and other household names are warning that rising commodity, transportation and manufacturing expenses are squeezing their businesses, prompting price increases that threaten to deepen Americans’ affordability struggles. Recent corporate earnings reports show companies are already passing higher costs to consumers while confronting declining sales volumes, suggesting shoppers are increasingly resisting higher prices.
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by Kevin Killough Atop prosecutor who worked in the South Florida office where President Donald Trump’s so-called grand conspiracy probe was carried out resigned from the Justice Department. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Friday that Jason Reding Quiñones submitted his resignation. On social media, Quiñones said, “From serving our Nation in uniform to serving at the Department of Justice and on the bench, public service has been the honor of my lifetime. But leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office in my home district has been especially meaningful. I am grateful to President Trump for his trust and to the extraordinary men and women of the great Southern District of Florida for their dedication, friendship, and unwavering commitment to justice and the rule of law.” Quiñones added, “It has been the privilege of a lifetime to serve alongside them and our law enforcement officers who work tirelessly to keep our communities safe. I leave with immense pride in what we accomplished together and profound gratitude for the opportunity to serve our great Nation.” Blanche said in a post on X, “We are grateful for Jason’s leadership in combating violent crime, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and transnational crime, including the indictment of Raúl…
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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Friday said that the strategy Democrats allegedly used in Alaska, where they are accused of recruiting independent Senate candidate Daniel J. Sullivan to run against incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), is similar to the artificial intelligence (AI) advertisement a dark-money group ran against her during Tennessee’s gubernatorial election, which she narrowly won on Tuesday.
Referring to the purported Alaska strategy, which has been denied by those Democrats accused of plotting it, Blackburn argued the allegations amount to a federal offense, before suggesting similar occurred in Tennessee.
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Governor-elect Marsha Blackburn announced her gubernatorial transition team Friday, naming several campaign veterans and political advisers who will help prepare her incoming administration to take office in January.
Chairman Stuart McWhorter will lead the transition team, which Blackburn named to oversee the committee on Wednesday. The team also includes Abigail Sigler as senior advisor, Dylan Miller as staff director, Rex Purgason and Jack Carnes as deputy staff directors, Annie Rogers as director of operations, Todd Rapp as press secretary, Jensen Blackiston as Blackburn’s executive assistant, and Katie Tully as McWhorter’s executive assistant.
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Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson obtained the five signatures he needed Friday to request a meeting of the Senate Republican Conference to discuss postponing next week’s leadership election in light of the midterms.
Johnson made the request after Republicans lost at least seven seats in the upper chamber in Tuesday’s midterms and after President Donald Trump’s adviser Alex Bruesewitz questioned whether Senate Majority Leader John Thune should remain the GOP leader next year, according to The Hill.
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The Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee is now the only site qualified to produce “binary” alloy, a “specialized material” necessary to manufacture nuclear weapons, in a move the U.S. Department of Energy said ends “two decades of reliance on a limited supply of material manufactured years ago.”
According to the federal agency, binary alloy is used for radiation cases, which house “essential components” for nuclear weapons.
“Under the Trump Administration, NNSA is making sweeping investments to revitalize the nation’s nuclear weapons infrastructure,” said National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) administrator Brandon Williams. “This is not just about a warhead ingredient. This shift symbolizes our commitment to the long-term health of our weapons stockpile and the lasting security of our country.”
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United States Secret Service officers reportedly arrested an illegal migrant outside the White House on Thursday after he was allegedly found inside a stolen vehicle carrying multiple firearms and threatening to kill President Donald Trump.
The officers approached the suspect Thursday evening after spotting him “acting suspicious in his car while it was parked on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C.,” the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News.
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British billionaire Chris Hohn’s hedge fund holds billions of dollars in shares of two powerful credit-rating companies while seeking to push their climate priorities on the firms whose decisions can influence how much American businesses, schools and local governments pay to borrow money.
Moody’s and S&P Global wield enormous influence over borrowing costs across the American economy, with their credit assessments affecting everything from corporate investments to public infrastructure projects. Hohn’s TCI Fund Management holds major stakes in both firms and previously pushed them to adopt climate policies, raising questions about the influence wealthy investors can exert over institutions whose financial judgments carry significant consequences for American communities.
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One of the few House Republicans to win a U.S. Senate seat in Tuesday’s blue-wave election is urging her GOP colleagues to aggressively use the remaining days of the lame-duck Congress this year to pass multi-year budgets to protect agencies that Democrats want to defund and to codify President Donald Trump cuts to foreign aid that the left wants to restore.
Rep. Harriet Hageman, soon to be sworn in as Wyoming’s next U.S. senator, told Just the News on Thursday night that she is urging fellow Republicans to replicate their last budget reconciliation law that funded Trump’s Homeland Security agenda until the end of his presidency and codify other GOP priorities and foil Democrats’ ambitions in the next Congress.
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In a shocking decision, Gov. Gavin Newsom has commuted the death sentences of 548 death row inmates in California, including some of the most notorious killers in state history.
In Newsom’s letter to Californians explaining his decision, he stated that he “firmly believes state sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values” and that “we cannot execute people in our imperfect legal system and remain true to our core values, first among them justice and human decency.”
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The Williamson County Commission will consider an $87 million funding request to build a new middle school.
On Monday, the commission will decide whether to fund a new middle school project, anticipated to open in fall 2029, to serve students in parts of Brentwood and Nolensville. The new school would be built on the same campus as Jordan Elementary in Brentwood.
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President Donald Trump on Friday announced that deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller would replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff.
Calls for Wiles’s ouster abounded in recent days, after Republicans were crushed in the House and Senate midterms. She had long been a focal point for criticism of the administration from conservative hawks, who blamed her for steering Trump away from some of his more hardline policies.
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Former Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who resigned her position at the Justice Department Thursday, returned to Dhillon Law Group, a law firm she founded in San Francisco in 2006.
Dhillon said in a statement she will spearhead two major national litigation initiatives aimed at unlawful discrimination in corporate hiring and contracting, as well as that by financial institutions who discriminate against businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals as a result of their political or religious beliefs.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said Democrat Victoria Broderick’s narrow victory over incumbent U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-04) could provide a campaign template for Democrats moving forward.
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Tennessee Governor-elect Marsha Blackburn announced Thursday the members of her Transition Advisory Committee, who will serve under Chairman Stuart McWhorter as she prepares to take office in January.
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College students traditionally tend to vote for Democrats, and in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, under-30 voters took their concerns to the ballot box and turned out in droves for the party.
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There will be oceans of ink spilled describing the extinction-level event for Republicans in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Ruby red states and districts across the nation quickly fell to a Democrat takeover, flipping seat after seat and toppling politicians many thought would die in office.
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A coalition of conservative organizations is urging congressional leaders to continue the Trump administration’s work of closing the Department of Education.
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Expect a surge of gun sales, but also gun control legislation after Tuesday’s dominance in midterm election by Democrats in the U.S. Congress and in various states where the power is shifting to liberal politicians.
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Trump Media & Technology Group and TAE Technologies said Thursday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has declared effective the Form S-4 registration statement covering their planned all-stock merger, a key regulatory milestone that clears the way for a shareholder vote next month.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2022 to overturn Roe v. Wade inspired Victoria Broderick, the Democratic who unofficial results show defeated U.S. Representative Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-04) on Tuesday, she told Axios Nashville on Thursday.
According to the outlet, Broderick said her political career “began at the hyper-local level,” in Lincoln County, where she leveraged her social media personality as “your Friendly Neighborhood Liberal on TikTok” to become the Democratic Party chair.
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Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, resigned Thursday in the agency’s first departure since the midterm elections.
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CVS Health said on Wednesday that it will split its retail pharmacy business from its pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) and health insurance operations in a restructuring announced months after the retail pharmacy giant sued Tennessee over the FAIR Rx Act, which prohibits vertical integration between pharmacies and PBMs.
CVS Health said it will be split into two companies, with the first set to become a “leading healthcare solutions company,” that will include Aetna, CVS Caremark, CVS Speciaty, Oak Street Health, and Oak Street Health. This company will continue to be known as CVS Health, according to its corporate press release.
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Rampant healthcare affordability concerns during President Donald Trump’s administration played a role in voters heavily turning out to support Democrats during Tuesday’s midterms, exit polls show.
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Williamson County voters gave Republican candidates significantly larger margins of victory than the statewide electorate in Tuesday’s election, with GOP candidates outperforming their statewide results in the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.
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A new migrant caravan is heading toward the United States from Honduras as Democratic gains in Congress are poised to weaken President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin vowed Wednesday that deportations of illegal migrants will continue, despite a Democratic victory on election night Tuesday.
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When I first came to Washington nearly four decades ago, a colleague of mine greeted me with, “Welcome to the marble asylum!”
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Republicans lost control of the U.S. House and Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections largely because voters were dissatisfied with the Iran war and the economy, public affairs specialist Clint Brewer said Wednesday during an appearance on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
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Republicans lost Congress on Tuesday because voters felt the administration and the GOP stopped caring about them, several insiders told the Daily Signal.
“This is a middle finger,” one former senior administration official said of the midterm election results. “I think it comes down to affordability and the war, and Americans feeling like the administration and Republicans at large, including an unproductive Congress, don’t really give a damn,” the former official added.
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“DEI is back!”
That was the message from Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., following Tuesday night’s midterm blue wave that swept Democrats back into power in both houses of Congress and in many state capitals.
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Final unofficial results from the Tennessee Secretary of State’s Office show Democrats made their largest gains in the Tennessee House in three decades during Tuesday’s general election, flipping six Republican-held seats and unseating six incumbent Republicans.
Three of the six seats flipped in Rutherford County, where Democratic candidates defeated three of the county’s five Republican incumbents.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied he is considering a replacement for U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, but predicted Hegseth would be “very popular” if U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) selected him to finish her term in the Senate after she becomes Tennessee’s 51st governor in January.
Amid reports claiming that Trump may hold Hegseth responsible for the lack of a satisfying conclusion to the conflict in Iran, which Vice President JD Vance said caused the Democratic Party victories in the 2026 midterms on Tuesday, the president on Wednesday told reporters that he thinks Hegseth is “doing a great job.”
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Democratic wins in key Senate races have set up an uphill battle for President Donald Trump to replace any potentially retiring Supreme Court justices once the opposition takes power in the chamber.
While the Senate abolished the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations long ago, Democrats are set for an outright majority, meaning Trump would need Democratic support to confirm anyone to the bench.
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Republicans on Tuesday lost control of both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House, were defeated in gubernatorial races in five states, and suffered losses in state legislatures across the country, but public referendums on immigration-related issues passed easily in eight of the same states where the party lost.
In Kansas, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) lost reelection to controversial pastor Adam Hamilton, and Kansas State Senate President Ty Masterson (R-Wichita) is projected at press time to narrowly lose the gubernatorial race to State Senator Cindy Holscher (D-Overland Park).
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President Donald Trump told Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum Wednesday that he could work with Democrats on immigration following a midterm sweep that gave Democrats control of the House of Representatives and Senate.
Republicans lost the House and Senate as Democrats swept multiple races in the South and Midwest, including flipping open seats in Iowa, North Carolina and Texas while ousting incumbents in Ohio, Kansas and South Carolina. Trump drew hard lines regarding an “open border,” biological men playing women’s sports and child sex changes, but expressed optimism on working with Democrats on other issues, such as immigration.
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Tennessee Governor-elect Marsha Blackburn announced Wednesday that Deputy Governor Stuart C. McWhorter will chair her gubernatorial transition committee as she prepares to take office after Tuesday’s election victory.
Blackburn announced the appointment Wednesday morning, saying McWhorter would oversee efforts to ensure a smooth transition between Governor Bill Lee’s administration and her incoming administration.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly said Wednesday that he will not run for House minority leader, setting up a battle for the GOP leadership after a rout on Tuesday sent the party to minority status.
Johnson confirmed his plans in a staff call, according to Punchbowl News. He has made no public announcement about his future plans for Congress, as of mid-morning.
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Vice President JD Vance blamed the Iran war for 2026 Democratic victories Wednesday in a blunt post on X.
“The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night,” stated Vance, who, at this point, is the presumed front-runner for the 2028 GOP presidential nomination.
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The Democratic Socialists of America emerged from the 2026 midterms significantly stronger, but in a strange twist, the Democratic Party’s overwhelming success may deprive the DSA’s seven House members of the leverage they expected to wield.
The DSA expanded its congressional footprint, helped elect allies at the state and local levels, and can point to Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in the Michigan Senate race as evidence that a candidate closely associated with its agenda can win statewide in a presidential battleground. That said, the sheer scale of the Democrats’ House victory could make it easier for the rest of the party to ignore socialists’ demands.
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Fairview voters selected Rick Shepherd as its next mayor.
Shepherd defeated Vice Mayor Chris McDonald by less than 100 votes: 1,420 to 1,385.
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Eight of Tennessee’s nine Republican U.S. House candidates won their respective races Tuesday, while longtime U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-04) lost his reelection bid to Democratic challenger Victoria Broderick in an election night upset.
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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) won the Tennessee gubernatorial election Tuesday, according to final unofficial election results published by the Tennessee Secretary of State’s office.
At 11:18 p.m. CST, with all 95 Tennessee counties reporting results, Blackburn had garnered 957,136 votes (45.52 percent) compared to Democratic nominee Jerri Green’s 902,953 votes (42.95 percent) and independent candidate David Hatley’s 195,564 votes (9.3 percent).
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Texas GOP Gov. Gregg Abbot lost his reelection bid Tuesday night in a strong showing for Democrats in statewide and national races.
The Associated Press called the race for Democrat challenger Gina Hinojosa, who becomes the state’s first Latina governor. Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton lost his bid to keep the GOP-held seat held by retiring Sen. John Cornyn.
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In the space of two weeks in October, federal agents searched the Washington residence of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) under a judge’s warrant, and two former senior FBI officials surrendered on charges that they lied to Congress about the Bureau’s Hunter Biden investigations. Furthermore, former FBI director James Comey is fighting a federal indictment in North Carolina and, as of October 26, a third set of federal charges in Washington accusing him of directing a classified leak to the press. Former CIA director John Brennan’s own lawyers have disclosed that prosecutors formally told him he is a grand jury target.
The response from Democrats has been a single word, repeated at every podium: weaponization. One hundred seventy-five of them even issued a joint response complaining about the “weaponization of law enforcement” after a pre-dawn FBI raid was conducted on the Washington, D.C., residence of Ilhan Elmi (Omar) under a warrant signed by a Democrat-appointed judge who donated to the Clintons. The evidence must be strong with that one, Obi-Wan!
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The Democrats decidedly won the Senate on Tuesday evening, sweeping competitive contests and pulling off a string of upsets in formerly solid Republican bastions as they marched toward realigning the power structure in Washington by taking full control of Congress.
As of press time, the Associated Press projects the party to claim at least 51 seats in the upper chamber, but has yet to make race calls in hundreds of House contests.
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Tennessee voters have decided they no longer want the state to issue property taxes.
On Tuesday night, state residents showed widespread support for Amendment 2, which prevents the Tennessee state government from creating a property tax.
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Tennessee voters have supported two constitutional amendment proposals that strengthen the state’s laws against criminals.
Tennesseans overwhelmingly supported Amendment 1 and Amendment 3 on Tuesday night.
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