Early voting for the December 2 special general election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat representing Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District begins Wednesday, November 12.
Voters in the 7th District – which includes Stewart, Montgomery, Robertson, Houston, Dickson, Cheatham, Humphreys, Hickman, Perry, Decatur, Wayne, and parts of Davidson, Benton, and Williamson counties – can bank their votes for the special general through November 26.
Nashville’s Homeland Security Task Force has charged 38 people, including eight Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members, with crimes related to drug trafficking, firearms, assault, and immigration.
President Donald Trump’s executive order, titled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” led to these arrests and criminal charges. The executive order established a Homeland Security Task Force attempting to eliminate cartels, foreign gangs, transnational organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking operations in America.
The Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association (VHHA) is holding its 2025 Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Leaders Summit this week in Hot Springs focusing on the future of healthcare delivery in the Commonwealth.
The Nashville-based Beacon Center of Tennessee officially secured final approval to a $1.4 million class action settlement in its case challenging a Nashville ordinance that created a stormwater capacity fee to fund improvements to the city’s stormwater system.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee released a video on social media inviting businesses considering leaving New York City following Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the mayoral election to relocate to the Volunteer State.
In Tuesday’s general election for New York City mayor, self-declared Democratic Socialist Mamdani defeated his closest competitor, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, by nearly 9 points, officially becoming the mayor-elect of the nation’s largest city.
Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) introduced legislation this week to enlarge deposit insurance coverage for non-interest-bearing transaction accounts, such as checking or payroll accounts.
The Main Street Depositor Protection Act would give $10 million in additional deposit insurance coverage to eligible banks and credit unions.
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