Black Democrats Fired By Tenn. GOP Peers After Gun Protest

Black Democrats Fired By Tenn. GOP Peers After Gun Protest

Tennessee House Republicans voted to expel Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson after they led a protest on the floor of the chamber in response to a recent deadly school shooting in Nashville.

Rep. Gloria Johnson, who also participated in the protest, held on to her seat by a single vote and suggested that's because she is white.

And the Biden administration released a report shifting blame for the chaotic final days of American troops in Afghanistan to the Trump administration. The document offered little information about what errors may have led to the deaths of 13 American soldiers amid a chaotic exit that left a number of Afghan allies stranded.

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