Charles Wexler

Israel says it has launched attack on Iran, as explosions reported in Tehran Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz says the attack on Iran is

BBC News link (and within it a link to their live feed) on the Israeli-US strikes on Iran within the past hour or so.

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Successful talk this morning about Doc Cheatham and Jimmy Blanton for a History of Jazz event on campus.

Now available for free! Please check out this important special issue. Now more than ever, the Civil War era provides us with important lessons for our harrowing current moment

Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

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FB link to the update from Tullahoma Utilities.

Tullahoma and Manchester have been on emergency water supplies in local water tanks for the past few hrs while the Duck River Utilities repaired a leak that took hrs longer than planned. That is now seemingly fixed and they are pressurizing the lines, per FB posts from the TUA and Manchester Times.

That was a wonderfully well done halftime show from Bad Bunny. I need to go back and rewatch it a few more times since I feel there is so much I missed.

ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month | About the 2026 Black History Month 93rd Annual Black History Luncheon - February 16, 2019, Washington, DC. It’s the premier event and hottest ticket in the Nation’s Capital in the month of February. And, YOU don’t want to miss it.

As we observe the 100th anniversary of Black History Month, this is your yearly reminder to be clear in teaching the kids who established it, and why. #tellthemwhatwedid

Don't know the history? Here you go: asalh.org/black-histor... #bhm100 #bhmat100

They can't take what they didn't give.

Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE.

📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune

The slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been removed following Trump administration push President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered content at national parks that “inappropriately disparage” the U.S. to be reviewed and potentially removed.

The full story from my colleagues:

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Tennessee Republicans unveil 'Immigration 2026' agenda as 'model' for rest of nation • Tennessee Lookout Tennessee Republicans unveiled a slate of legislation targeting immigrants without legal status, following a White House directive.

Tennessee GOP unveils ‘Immigration 2026’ agenda as national ‘model’
A sweeping package of legislation, imposing immigration checks in a range of state/local public services, arose from meetings between the House Speaker & Stephen Miller.
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Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...

"A fire heavily damaged Mississippi’s largest synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship in northeast Jackson that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights." mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

Happy New Year! Nothing says the start of the year like a fresh coating of snow on the ground.

Eagles keep getting away with it.

I did not miss shovelling about an inch of ice off my parents driveway this morning.

That feeling when the ringing in your ear is so loud and sharp it keeps you up in the middle of the night.

Fall 2025 is done. I need a nap.

Normal service in the Tyne-Wear derby has resumed. Ha'way the lads!

Watch Live TV | NHK WORLD-JAPAN Japan's sole public media organization delivers to the world the latest information about Japan and Asia 24 hours a day.

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Link to the NHK World feed for coverage on the recent earthquake and tsunami warning for Hokkaido and other portions of northern Japan

Map of counties in central Tennessee with blue arrows pointing to the left

Aftyn Behn is going to fall a little short here but the shift from 2024 in today's election in central Tennessee is looking like ~15 or so points to the left.

The big surprise to me is total turnout, specials normally are very low turnout but this may have more voters than the '22 midterm in TN-07

Auburn for once did not go the chaos route when selecting a football coach. Progress?

Auburn went full Auburn in the Iron Bowl.

Sunderland, till the end.

Why are you catching that punt on the two. Why.

That was not PI, but it looked like Dallas was being held while trying to run a route. So there was a penalty on the Lions secondary, just not what they called.

Um eagles what are you doing

You get the ball to Barkley and Smith in space, good things happen.

50 years later, the legacy of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald looms as large as ever The exact cause of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking is still a mystery, but the lasting legacy is this: There were more than 6,000 shipwrecks on the Great Lakes in the century prior to the wreck of th...

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Today is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior in a November storm.