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Tennessee 7th Congressional District (27% Reporting) 🔴 Matt Van Epps (R) - 24,046 (57.2%) 🔵 Aftyn Behn (D) - 17,330 (41.2%)

First Lady Melania Trump and Second Lady Usha Vance spend time with military members and their families to show appreciation for those who serve this holiday season at Camp Lejeune, NC and MCAS New, River, NC, Wednesday, November 19, 2025.

Graduate teaching assistant Mel Curth failed student on essay advocating Biblical values and traditional gender roles. A University of Oklahoma student who received a zero out of 25 on an assignment regarding gender norms says she was targeted for her Christian beliefs, citing a scathing response from the teacher's assistant who doled out the grade. Samantha Fulnecky is a junior pre-med student at the Sooner State's flagship university. "I was asked to read an article and give my opinion on the article, and the article was about gender binary and mental health and gender stereotypes, specifically in children, because it's...

Cindy Blackman (born November 18, 1959) is a super talented American drummer. She plays both jazz and rock music.

Explanation: What's happening in the center of nearby spiral galaxy M77? The face-on galaxy lies a mere 47 million light-years away toward the constellation of the Sea Monster (Cetus). At that estimated distance, this gorgeous island universe is about 100 thousand light-years across. Also known as NGC 1068, its compact and very bright core is well studied by astronomers exploring the mysteries of supermassive black holes in active Seyfert galaxies. M77's active core glows bright at x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and radio wavelengths. The featured sharp image of M77 was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The image shows details...

NO DATA, NO MONEY — it’s that simple. If a state won’t share data on criminal use of SNAP benefits, it won’t get a dollar of federal SNAP administrative funding. Let’s see which states stand for accountability and which are just protecting their bribery schemes. 🤔💸

A strip mall at the left, to which is associated at the right, a free-standing building, next to a warehouse, Monkeyin Around, formerly Kudos Children's Theater CompanyIn Stockton California, four people are dead, among them, three children, ages 8, 9, and 14, after a total of 14 people were shot, shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday 11/29/2025.Police were extremely reluctant, to the point of suppressing information the public needs for self-protection, to precisely identify the location, but after extensive inquiries, it has finally emerged that it took place at Monkeyin Around play-place, (inexplicably termed "a banquet hall") at 1943 Lucile Avenue,...

BALTIMORE, Md. (WBFF) — Baltimore City State Senator Dalya Attar has been arrested and indicted on federal extortion and conspiracy charges, according to court documents. Attar, a Democrat from Baltimore City representing District 41, made history by becoming the first Orthodox Jewish woman to hold a seat in the Maryland Senate, which she assumed in January following a vacancy. She was indicted on eight charges on October 23. The indictment alleges that Attar, 35, planted tracking and recording devices on two of her rivals, including recording them in bed together in an attempt to silence them. Then, Attar threatened to...

Reporting Live from Central America. Me. The 30 November 2025 General Election has yet to be called. As of right now, there is a glitch in the ability of the Honduran election officials (CNE), to disseminate updates to the tallies. However, what we do know: the link between President Maduro of Venezuela and the Honduran presidency has been effectively removed. The socialist/communist candidate Rixi Moncada has been trounced gaining less than 20% of the vote. Specifically, 19.16% of the popular vote as of 4:09 PM CST, yesterday 1 December. That was the last official update before the CNE website failed...

America has given this third-world goober and his family everything -- and he can't stand it. Reacting to invasion (im)migration trends years ago, Ambassador Alan Keyes put it bluntly. “We’re being colonized,” he said. And if ever there was proof of this, and the low quality of many post-1965 newcomers — and of the lie of “diversity” — it’s a viral video posted by one Wajahat Ali. Mr. Ali is a Pakistani-descent Muslim whose parents came to the U.S. in 1965 and lived the American dream — and an un-American scheme. That is, they served prison time in the mid-2000s...

Avatar: Fire and Ash has had its first few screenings for press on Monday, and the early reaction suggests James Cameron can celebrate yet another billion dollar box office mega hit. While official critics reviews for Fire and Ash are embargoed till closer to the film's Dec. 19 release date, 20th Century Studios allowed press to release social media reaction to screenings this week. The third installment in Cameron's groundbreaking Avatar series, sees the action return to Pandora after the events of 2022's Avatar: The Way of Water, and introduces the "Ash" people, fire-themed Na'vi clan. Fire and Ash stars...

The White House defended its immigration policy after Sabrina Carpenter slammed the White House for using her song “Juno” in a video posted to social media on Tuesday. “Here’s a Short n’ Sweet message for Sabrina Carpenter: we won’t apologize for deporting dangerous criminal illegal murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our country. Anyone who would defend these sick monsters must be stupid, or is it slow?” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Newsweek. The statement referred to the title of her 2024 album and lyrics to “Manchild.” (snip) The video posted by the White House overlayed the song “Juno” to...

Explanation: This asteroid has a moon. The robot spacecraft Galileo enroute to explore the Jovian system in 1993, encountered and photographed two asteroids during its long interplanetary voyage. The second minor planet it photographed, 243 Ida, was discovered to have a moon. The tiny moon, named Dactyl, is only about 1.6 kilometers across and seen as a small dot to the right in the image. In contrast, Ida is much larger, measuring about 60 kilometers long and 25 km wide. In fact, Dactyl is the first moon of an asteroid ever discovered. But now many asteroids are known to have...

Michael and Susan Dell announced Tuesday that they have committed $6.25 billion to fund investment accounts for some 25 million American children. The couple’s donation will be the largest ever devoted to American children, according to Invest America, a nonprofit advocacy group partnered with the Dells. “It’s designed to help families feel supported from the start and encourage them to keep saving as their children grow,” Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies , told CNBC in an interview. “We know that when children have accounts like this, they’re much more likely to graduate from high school, from college,...

Biography Born 10 February 1965 (age 60) Born In Hasselt, Limburg, Flanders, Belgium Dana Winner (Hasselt, 10 February 1965) is a Flemish singer. Her real name is Chantal Vanlee. Under the guidance of Jean Klüger she debuted in 1990

REEPORT, Pa. — It was a concerning call for help to 911 dispatchers in the middle of the night on Monday. “The caller was advising she could hear somebody in her attic,” said Chief Christopher Fabec of the Southern Armstrong Regional Police Department. Southern Armstrong Regional police were dispatched to the Laneville section of Freeport Borough around 4:30 a.m. Investigators said three intruders, believed to be armed, were found inside of an apartment building on Main Street shortly after one of the neighbors moved out. “We kept hearing a lot of banging going on, a lot of running up and...

First Lady Melania Trump receives the official 2025 White House Christmas tree on Monday, November 24, 2025. No info was provided, but I presume this is the family that provided the tree.

JTA — Nick Fuentes says he feels snubbed by the controversial activist group StopAntisemitism, which neglected to include him among its finalists for “Antisemite of the Year.” The group’s finalists, announced Sunday, include conservative pundit Tucker Carlson, whose friendly interview with Fuentes has splintered the conservative movement. Other “nominees” include pro-Palestinian celebrities Ms. Rachel, Cynthia Nixon and Marcia Cross; mixed-martial-arts athlete and Holocaust denier Bryce Mitchell; two personalities associated with left-wing network The Young Turks; and social media personalities on both the far left (Guy Christensen) and far right (Stew Peters). Followers are encouraged to vote for whoever they feel...

TOPEKA – (Nov. 5, 2025) – Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach today announced his office filed election fraud charges against Jose Ceballos, the mayor of Coldwater, Kansas. Ceballos last night was re-elected. “In Kansas, it is against the law to vote if you are not a U.S. citizen. We allege that Mr. Ceballos did it multiple times,” Kobach said. Officials from the attorney general’s office filed the charges in Comanche County. Ceballos faces three counts of voting without being qualified and three counts of election perjury. The charges are nonperson felonies, and Ceballos could face more than 5 years in...

A Danish sperm bank has introduced a minimum IQ requirement of 85 for potential donors. This new rule has sparked debate about genetics, ethics, and parental expectations in assisted reproduction. Setting a Minimum Intelligence Standard The Danish sperm bank Donor Network now screens donors by intelligence, becoming the first in the world to require a minimum IQ of 85. It also bars anyone with a criminal record. So far, the company has turned away about 18 percent of applicants who failed to meet the IQ standard. The average IQ is about 100, and researchers estimate that intelligence is 50–80 percent...