NY Times: “On Tuesday, Mr. Martin told a jury that he had not only pursued that driver, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, but that he had also punched and kicked him, and then lied about what happened. He identified the other officers there that night: all men with whom he had an unspoken understanding…

Pro Publica: “In her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat. She’d taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had not expelled all of the fetal tissue from her body. She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a…

MTSU Sidelines: “Roughly 90 Uber, Lyft and taxi drivers, members of the newly-formed Tennessee Drivers Union, marched down Nashville’s Broadway Sept. 13 as part of their series of strikes that began Aug. 30. A cacophony of classic rock and country music covers blared over car horns and the tweets of traffic officers’ whistles. The smells…

The Guardian: “A Tennessee judge has ruled that three gun control questions can go on the November ballot in Memphis, even as top Republican state leaders have threatened to withhold tens of millions of dollars in state funding should city leaders put the initiative before voters. The Daily Memphian reports that Shelby county chancellor Melanie Taylor Jefferson sided with the Memphis…

WaPo: “Democrats hope that momentum determines the presidential winner and even changes the contours of election night. North Carolina polls close early, at 7:30 p.m. Moreover, state law allows processing of mail-in votes well before Election Day, making an early count possible. (Some states, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, cannot start processing until Election Day, which could result…

HuffPost: “In a newly unearthed video from 2022, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) scoffs at the idea that young women should have access to birth control and, repeatedly waving his hand near his groin, says they just need to “get this under control.” During a January 2022 appearance at Hilltop Baptist Church in…

WaPo: “Staff in some Louisiana hospitals are doing timed drills, sprinting from patient rooms and through halls to the locked medicine closets where the drugs used for abortions, incomplete miscarriages and postpartum hemorrhaging will have to be kept — as newly categorized controlled substances — starting Oct. 1. That’s hardly the only preparation taking place…

Political Wire: “The first ballots of the general election are heading to voters, as Alabama officials started mailing them out Wednesday,” NBC News reports. “Once eligible Alabama voters who requested absentee ballots receive them, they can return them at any point to lock in their votes for candidates for president, as well as in statewide and local…

Democracy Now!: “Historian and journalist Betsy Phillips discusses her new book, Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control, which chronicles three bombings in 1957, 1958 and 1960 aimed at supporters of the civil rights movement in Nashville. The book has sparked a reopening of the formerly cold cases, the likely perpetrators of…

Political Wire: “The judge in the election interference case against Donald Trump and several co-defendants in Georgia has thrown out three counts in the indictment — including two counts brought against the former president,” NBC News reports. “Judge Scott McAfee wrote in his decision released Thursday that the counts could no longer be allowed to stand because…