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On the evening of July 24, 2025, the Center City Conservative Republicans Club in Knoxville hosted a lively event featuring candidates for the City Council, offering voters a chance to hear directly from those vying to represent their districts. In the First District, candidates Lindsey Jaremko and Charles Van Morgan took the podium. Van Morgan delivered…

Right fielder Matt Koperniak homers twice; starting pitcher Curtis Taylor goes scoreless through seven in win.

A Christian woman in Oregon blocked from adopting foster children because she wouldn’t comply with a state policy requiring support of a child’s gender identity earned a victory in federal court Thursday. A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the Oregon Department of Human Services’ policy that prospective…

Neera Tanden, who was an adviser to former President Joe Biden, pointed the finger at Merrick Garland for the Justice Department’s failure to act on Jeffrey Epstein’s files, claiming the former attorney general was “hypersensitive” and unwilling to pursue the case aggressively, the New York Post reported. Tanden, the former director of the White House…

An Arizona woman was sentenced to eight years in prison on Thursday for running a “laptop farm” scheme that generated $17 million for herself and North Korean remote workers in information technology. As part of her sentencing, Christina Marie Chapman, 50, was also ordered to forfeit nearly $285,000 that was earmarked for North Koreans, fined…

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced a bill on Thursday that would reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including making it a Cabinet-level agency once again. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Sam Graves, R-Mo., was joined by three other House reps in introducing H.R. 4669, the Fixing Emergency Management for Americans (FEMA) Act of…

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., called for the full release of information related to Ghislaine Maxwell’s deposition and the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, telling Newsmax on Thursday that it’s time to “dump it all out and just let it go from there.” Donalds argued that the federal government should release all remaining documents tied to the investigation…

Former President Bill Clinton submitted a one-paragraph note as part of a leather-bound album to mark Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. “It’s reassuring isn’t it, to have lasted as long, across all the years of learning and knowing, adventures and [illegible word], and also to have your childlike…

Roger Stone, a longtime ally and former adviser to President Donald Trump, told Newsmax on Thursday that he feels “completely vindicated” by the emergence of evidence that has blown the lid off the Russia collusion hoax that saw him convicted of a crime 5 1/2 years ago. Stone joined “Rob Schmitt Tonight” one day after…

The Tennessee Titans signed veteran outside linebacker Jihad Ward on Thursday. Ward, 31, played in all 17 games (two starts) for the Minnesota Vikings last season. He has 19 sacks, 168 tackles and five fumble recoveries in 119 career games (37 starts) with six NFL teams. The then-Oakland Raiders picked Ward in the second round…