Republicans in Tennessee’s state legislature released a new congressional map on Wednesday that would split Memphis’s congressional district and possibly give the GOP an additional seat.  The map reveal follows President Donald Trump’s conversation with Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) last week, when the two discussed redrawing the Volunteer State’s maps to give Republicans “one extra […]

CNN founder Ted Turner, a media entrepreneur who launched the 24-hour cable news network in 1980, died Wednesday. He was 87.  “Ted was an intensely involved and committed leader, intrepid, fearless and always willing to back a hunch and trust his own judgement,” Mark Thompson, Chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide, said in a statement. […]

Federal agents executed search warrants Wednesday at the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas as part of a reported corruption investigation involving the longtime Democratic lawmaker. The FBI carried out multiple court-authorized searches at Lucas’s office in Portsmouth, Virginia, while agents also searched a nearby cannabis dispensary located next door to the senator’s […]

President Donald Trump responded to the death of CNN founder Ted Turner on Wednesday by calling him “one of the greats in Broadcast History.” Turner, 87, died after a battle with Lewy Body Dementia, a diagnosis he disclosed publicly in 2018. The media tycoon launched CNN in 1980 as the first 24-hour cable news channel. […]