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FIRST ON FOX: A new House Republican bill would send any person charged and convicted for illegal activity on a college campus to Gaza for at least six months. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., introduced the bill on Wednesday alongside Reps. Randy Weber, R-Texas, and Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., in response to the ongoing anti-Israel demonstrations on college campuses across the country. Several of those protests have turned violent, with clashes between police and activists, as well as hundreds of activists being arrested across multiple campuses. While Ogles' bill text does not mention Israel or the anti-Israel groups, it specifically targets unlawful...

Republican Maury County Mayor Andy Ogles will represent much of southern Davidson County in Congress after beating Democratic nominee Heidi Campbell, a Nashville state senator, in the 5th Congressional District on Tuesday. Ogles declared victory and Campbell conceded the race shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday. “We have a lot of work to do in Tennessee, that’s obvious," Campbell said. In a conversation with the Scene, Campbell expressed concern at the state of democracy, though she says “we are not at war.” “I think when you have a party that’s willing to participate in a protracted insurrection, which is what this...