News - Friday, November 6, 2026

Growing up, Max Jump heard the same thing over and over again: He looked like his father. And apparently, the resemblance went beyond appearances.

For a boy approaching his teenage years, this was not welcome news.

“You hit middle school and that teenage rebellion kicks in,” Max recalls. “You’re like, ‘I don’t want to be like my dad. Why would I want that?’”

Legal Aid of East Tennessee recognized four attorneys, law firms and community partners for their contributions to equal access to justice during its annual Chattanooga Pro Bono Night celebration Oct. 29 at Chattanooga Whiskey Event Hall.

The event, which included an appearance by Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Dwight Tarwater, honored individuals and organizations whose volunteer work and financial support have helped provide civil legal services to low-income East Tennesseans.

NOV. 6-8: The Little Debbie Hamilton County Fair returns to McDonald Farm in Sale Creek with three days of family-friendly entertainment, agricultural exhibits, livestock competitions, fair food, rides, rodeo events, lumberjack shows, pig races and live music. Country artist Rodney Atkins will headline the Saturday night concert with Hamilton County native Brandon Davis opening, while David Leonard and Amber Carrington will perform during Sunday’s Christian concert. Admission includes amusement rides, concerts and most attractions, and parking is free. Children 10 and younger are admitted free, with discounted tickets available for veterans, active military members, seniors, first responders and teachers. Information

Over the years, I’ve worked with first-time buyers who have told me they wish they’d learned more about money, credit and homeownership when they were younger. By the time they’re ready to buy, many are trying to understand several financial concepts at once while also making one of the biggest decisions of their lives.

The idea has never been more appealing: quit your 9-to-5 decades ahead of schedule and spend your days on your own terms. You may have heard of the FIRE movement, but what is it, really, and does the hype live up to reality?

FIRE stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early. While some FIRE advocates focus on retiring early, others are more interested in achieving enough financial independence to gain greater flexibility over their career, lifestyle and future.

U.S. District Judge Curtis Collier received the Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award during an Oct. 29 ceremony at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

Presented annually by the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation, the award is the highest honor a federal judge can receive. It recognizes outstanding contributions to the administration of justice, the rule of law and society.

The city of Chattanooga launched four new litter collection trucks Monday as part of its Keep Chattanooga Beautiful initiative, an effort to reduce litter along city streets, in neighborhoods and near waterways.

The trucks, which cost slightly more than $300,000 each, represent a total equipment investment of more than $1.2 million. Each is equipped with a vacuum system designed to collect litter along roadsides and will operate with a crew responsible for collecting larger debris, including discarded tires and other items that cannot be picked up by the vacuum equipment.

Shaun Townley has spent much of his professional life telling other people’s stories. Now, after nearly two decades with WTCI PBS, the Chickamauga native finds himself at the center of one of his own.

In September, Townley stepped into the role of interim president and CEO of the Chattanooga public television station, succeeding Bob Culkeen, a mentor who had long encouraged him to consider a future in leadership. The transition came sooner than Townley expected, but it also brought him to a place for which his years in television had gradually prepared him.

A $100 million residential development planned immediately north of Erlanger Park will break ground Friday, Nov. 13, at 10:30 a.m., marking a major step toward transforming Chattanooga’s Foundries District into a mixed-use neighborhood.

The six-story development will include approximately 287 apartments and a nearby parking garage with 550 spaces. Located adjacent to the ballpark’s left field concourse and the Tennessee Riverwalk, the apartments will offer views of Erlanger Park, Lookout Mountain and the Tennessee River.

Food City presents a $10,000 donation to Northside Neighborhood House in support of its annual Santa’s Workshop program.

The initiative allows eligible families in Northern Hamilton County to select holiday gifts for their children while also helping ensure they have the food needed to enjoy the holiday season.

Erlanger Health has distributed more than 4,000 free gun locks to families this year, nearly doubling its 2026 goal of 2,026.

Expanded in March through a partnership with SaferTN.org, the program provides free gun locks and safety materials to families with newborns at Erlanger hospitals. Gun locks are also available to anyone at all Erlanger emergency departments and Labor and Delivery locations.

CINCINNATI – Up until Sunday’s game against the Bengals, the Tennessee Titans’ bold support of Cam Ward had felt like lip service.

After all, they had drafted him first overall last year, which seemingly made obvious that they would have to stand by their man, even though the statistics and won-loss record showed little in the way of good vibes or good play.

CINCINNATI – As the Tennessee Titans head into their bye week, it would be hard to say they have a true identity when it comes to anything other than their struggles to find the win column.

But perhaps an identity is beginning to form for this beleaguered franchise.

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As more EVs enter the used car market, buyers with a budget of around $25,000 can now find newer electric SUVs that offer the benefits of gas-free motoring without the eye-watering price tags attached to many new electric vehicles. The challenge, naturally, is figuring out which ones are actually worth your money.

NEW YORK (AP) — A brutal sell-off swept through Wall Street Thursday, led by stocks tied to the buildout of AI data centers. The wipeout more than erased the U.S. stock market's gain from the day before, which was its best in three months.

The S&P 500 fell 4.4% for its worst day since President Donald Trump shook markets worldwide in April 2025 with his "Liberation Day" tariffs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 1,833 points, or 3.4%, while the Nasdaq composite tumbled 5.5%.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As he takes stock of his Republican Party's midterm drubbing, President Donald Trump now faces the difficult question of what to do about his unpopular 8-month-old war against Iran.

For weeks, Trump has threatened to return to a full-scale bombardment of Iran once the U.S. elections were in the rearview mirror if Tehran did not come to a settlement under terms acceptable to him.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is vowing that Democrats will not allow President Donald Trump to put "a right-winger" on the Supreme Court once they take power, raising the possibility that his party could block a presidential nominee if there is a vacancy in the next two years.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that he'll change all death sentences in the state to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Newsom's decision comes as he prepares to leave office after eight years. In 2019, he placed a moratorium on executions in the state but hundreds of people remained on death row.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — President Donald Trump's plan to allow imports of Russian diesel appeared to falter this week after state and federal officials warned that handling any shipments could bring legal consequences and two tankers initially bound for the United States changed course.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal panel deciding whether to give final approval Thursday to President Donald Trump's proposed memorial arch in Washington began its hearing with the chair of the commission praising Trump for pursuing an arch that was called for more than a century ago under a law passed in the 1920s.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Anthropic is developing its artificial intelligence systems around twice as quickly as it was a year ago amid the CEO's calls to slow down the technology's pace of improvement, according to an analysis released Thursday by an independent monitoring group.

TOKYO (AP) — Global shares tumbled Friday following a broad selloff on Wall Street of shares related to artificial intelligence as the prospect of more regulation in the wake of the US midterm elections compounds fears about high levels of debt and spending in the sector.

DENVER (AP) — Steven Stamkos scored a power-play goal 2:18 into overtime, Justus Annunen made 30 saves and the Nashville Predators beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 on Thursday night.

It was Stamkos' 247th goal on the power play, tying him with Luc Robitaille for fifth-most in NHL history. Stamkos also drew the penalty.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers created a surprising 165,000 new jobs last month, and the unemployment rate dipped to 4.1%.

Hiring was far stronger than the 65,000 new jobs that economists had expected.

The jobs report comes three days after voters delivered a stunning defeat to President Donald Trump and his Republican Party in midterm elections. Frustrated with the state of the economy — and especially the high cost of living – Americans handed full control of Congress to the Democrats.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — After a campaign season filled with outrage against artificial intelligence data centers, the midterm elections ushered in a wave of Democrats pledging to clamp down on the energy-hungry behemoths.

A tougher regulatory environment for AI giants and data center developers is expected to follow, even if President Donald Trump — perhaps the industry's biggest champion — stalls any federal crackdown.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Salon, one of the early internet's most influential websites that featured sharp voices and political and cultural journalism with a liberal sensibility, announced Thursday it would shut down after 31 years of publication. "It has been an extraordinary privilege," the outlet said in a farewell note.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The race to replace Sen. Marsha Blackburn is intensifying in Tennessee, just days after she won the race for governor, with one Republican congressman publicly expressing interest and speculation swirling around Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Clergy members and other Democratic candidates with an unapologetically Christian message to "love your neighbor" helped their party flip control of Congress.

It was a striking midterm victory that demonstrated the strength of the religious left as a counter to the stalwart evangelical support for President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans.

NEW YORK (AP) — AI stocks bounced back Friday and recovered some of their sell-off from the last two days. The rest of the U.S. stock market was mixed, though, following a whirlwind few days of Wall Street trying to sort out what this week's sweeping victories by Democrats in the U.S. midterm elections will mean for the economy.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that Stephen Miller was replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, installing as his closest adviser a loyal, combative bulldog for his "America First" agenda as the president prepares to stare down a newly empowered Democratic Congress next year.

Georgia was voted No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 for the second time this season Sunday, unbeaten UCLA matched its highest ranking in 25 years and Ohio State's free fall continued after a wild weekend that followed the first College Football Playoff rankings of the year.

If the College Football Playoff expands to 24 teams next season, that could be the end of conference title games at the sport's top level. For now, though, the race to qualify for those championship clashes remains significant.

As the regular season winds down, here's a breakdown of each league's title chase. All records referenced are in conference unless otherwise specified:

LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) — Blades Brown is like several young players who can remember Tiger Woods making big putts and winning big tournaments and inspiring them to play. Only for Brown, it wasn't all that long ago.

Two years after his surprising decision to turn pro while a junior in high school, the 19-year-old Brown became the youngest PGA Tour winner in 95 years when he closed with a 9-under 63 and beat Ben James on the second playoff hole in the World Wide Technology Championship.

LONDON (AP) — Russell Brand was sentenced Monday to 10 1/2 years in prison for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others during a period when his comedy career built around boasts of erotic exploits was taking off.

Judge Joel Bennathan told Brand that he showed a "casual and arrogant disregard" for any woman who said no to him.

VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — Minutes before first bell, Penny Núñez-Brandão scanned the crowd outside Glen Cove Elementary School, looking for familiar faces.

"I don't see any," the fifth grader told her mom one morning in August. "None of my friends are coming."

VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — The start of a new school year can be nerve-wracking under any circumstances. But for thousands of students across the U.S., this academic year brought the added difficulty of adjusting to an entirely new school after their previous ones shuttered.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With public anxiety growing over mounting reports about out-of-control artificial intelligence agents, the tiny U.S. government division charged with assessing the safety of new AI offerings lacks a permanent leader and has stopped publishing its research.

Outdated power grids are a major hurdle in the transition to renewable energy, since older systems often can't absorb all the electricity from new, cleaner sources.

This threatens global efforts to curb climate change by reducing fossil fuels and switching to renewable energy such as solar and wind. At U.N. climate talks kicking off this week, co-hosts Turkey and Australia want more ambitious goals to slash fossil fuels, install renewables and upgrade grids.

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — World leaders, delegates and climate activists on Monday kicked off talks in Turkey on curbing climate change, which in the last year has led to rising temperatures and deadly heat waves in Europe and beyond, and played a role in disasters such as the devastating floods in Nepal.

President Donald Trump in his first major interview since his party lost control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections said he thinks his administration was too aggressive on deportations and that he thinks he can work with Democrats in the new Congress on some kind of immigration deal.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters have sent a strong election-year message to the new Democratic congressional majority and President Donald Trump: Repair the damage inflation has done to the economy.

Trump, who campaigned on the idea that a Democratic victory in the midterms would trigger a 1929-style economic depression, has maintained that the economy is booming. Since his party lost in Tuesday's voting, he has claimed he is willing to work with Democrats in the House and Senate, though that's not something he has done much of in the past.

BANGKOK (AP) — China denied on Monday it engaged in an attempt to ensnare Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, saying the spying allegations were unsubstantiated and a smear campaign against Beijing.

Huang has acknowledged he had been intimate with a business executive, issuing an apology to his wife and to the company in an open letter posted on Nvidia's website. He did not name the woman.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress returns Monday to a changed Washington, the Democrats having trounced Republicans in the midterm elections, but with President Donald Trump doubling down on his political threats despite the landmark GOP losses.

Newly elected lawmakers arrived on Capitol Hill over the weekend, creating a jumble of split-screen moments reflective of the new political landscape. Dozens of jubilant Democrats, families and suitcases in tow for freshman orientation, appeared emboldened by the party's sweep of power. The trickle of Republicans coming in spoke soberly of the GOP's vast challenges ahead.

ATLANTA (AP) — Former U.S. President Joe Biden writes in his White House memoir that Donald Trump, at once his predecessor and successor, has deeply damaged the country and world with an administration determined to "tear down institutions and inflame hatreds."

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democratic leaders are placing an early emphasis on healthcare as they discuss their immediate priorities upon the swearing-in of the new Congress on Jan. 3.

Early votes in the House next year are expected to focus on boosting Medicaid and restoring an enhanced tax subsidy that is designed to lower the cost of Affordable Care Act health plans for millions of enrollees.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday he was only kidding about making UFC boss Dana White his next White House press secretary after announcing on social media he had offered his close friend the job.

President Donald Trump and his Department of Justice are taking a combative stance toward Democrats after their election victories in the midterms, signaling intense conflict to come as lawmakers prepare aggressive investigations into the executive branch next year.