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Blackburn Took Campaign Gifts From TVA Board Nominees While Backing Their Candidacies

Marsha Blackburn brimmed with enthusiasm when she introduced Mitch Graves at a Senate confirmation hearing last fall. A ...
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1960s Activists Resurface to Lead Tennessee Get-Out-the-Vote Campaign

The Ivy League students came here as part of the West Tennessee Voters Project, an organization of student volunteers who ...
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Most ICE Arrests in Memphis Involve People With No Criminal Record

She graduated summa cum laude in 2025 from the University of Memphis with a bachelor’s in journalism. She is currently a ...
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Deportation Trap’: ICE is Arresting a Rash of Immigrants at Routine Check-Ins

An examination by the Institute for Public Service Reporting found Urrutia Diaz is one of numbers of previously detained immigrants who are suddenly getting arrested and fast-tracked for deportation ...
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Starting Over: A Honduran Family Fled Poverty and Gang Violence for a New Life in Memphis. Now, They’ve Been Sent Back to the Misery They Fled

STARTING OVER A Honduran family fled poverty and gang violence for a new life in Memphis. Now, they’ve been sent back to the misery they fled Marlon Urrutia Diaz was deported after allegedly failing ...
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