Tennessee’s new congressional maps are now facing multiple legal challenges, as voters, candidates and the NAACP, file to stop new maps from going into effect before the midterms.
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GOP Congressman Thomas Massie’s challenger Ed Gallrein attacks his voting record. But Massie said if his constituents read the bills he’s voting on, they’d do the same.
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The two leading candidates in the race for the Republican nomination in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race appeared separately in Paducah Friday, never sharing the stage – or even a room – at the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce’s candidate forum.
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Heeding a call from President Trump to give Republicans more seats in Congress, Tennessee’s GOP-led statehouse voted to carve Memphis into three reliably red districts on Thursday.
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A cryptocurrency mining facility in McCracken County could one day be powered by a small modular nuclear reactor under a new business partnership announced Wednesday between an energy tech company and a data center developer.
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Tennessee Republicans unveiled new congressional maps Wednesday morning that would likely help their party gain an extra seat in Congress as a special session on redistricting continues this week.
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Alex Murdaugh — the disgraced former lawyer serving a life term for the murders of his wife and son — will get a new trial in South Carolina, the state Supreme Court said on Wednesday.
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Russia test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile as part of efforts to modernize its nuclear forces. The nuclear-armed Sarmat missile would enter combat service at the end of the year.