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"A rewarding retrospective, not dissimilar to the kind revered artists get at major museums": Elvis Presley's Memphis recordings are immortal gold

Memphis is a mammoth, probably definitive set of Elvis Presley's Bluff City belters

Louder

Notable Golfers on the FedEx Cup Playoff Bubble (Plus One Who Is Skipping It) at the Wyndham Championship

Only the top 70 players advance to next week’s playoff opener in Memphis, where even regular-season wins don't guarantee a spot.

Sports Illustrated

WK Kellogg to close Omaha plant, downsize in Memphis as it shifts production to newer facilities

WK Kellogg Co. is closing one U.S. cereal plant and downsizing another as part of a plan to consolidate its operations in newer facilities

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Memphis, Tennessee, officer, motorist killed in car crash; 2nd officer critical

Authorities say a Memphis police officer and a motorist who was driving with a gunshot wound have been killed in a car crash

The Independent UK

I studied ShotSpotter in Chicago and Kansas City – here’s what people in Detroit and the more than 167 other cities and towns using this technology should know

Like many large cities in the U.S., Detroit’s gun violence rate has fluctuated since the COVID-19 pandemic and the unrest after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. The city’s murder rate increased nearly 20% that year, meaning the city had the second-highest violent crime rate after Memphis, Tennessee, among…

The Conversation

Brickbat: Caught a Big One

The city of Memphis, Tennessee, lost $773,000 in a phishing scam in 2022, but officials did not disclose the loss until a local media outlet asked about it recently. The city was making regular payments to a local construction company. "Following a request from who they believed to be Zellner…

Reason

Elon Musk fires up ‘the most powerful AI cluster in the world’ to create the 'world's most powerful AI' by December — system uses 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs on a single fabric

Tech baron Elon Musk has taken to Twitter/X to boast of starting up “the most powerful AI training cluster in the world.” Today, xAI’s Memphis Supercluster began AI training using 100,000 liquid-cooled Nvidia H100 GPUs connected with a single RDMA fabric.

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US Transportation Department to invest nearly $400 million for new Interstate 55 bridge in Memphis

Officials say the U.S. Department of Transportation is providing nearly $400 million to build a new Interstate 55 bridge connecting Tennessee and Arkansas across the Mississippi River

The Independent UK

Tegna Names Christopher Franklin President & GM at WATN and WLMT

Franklin has been serving as interim GM since earlier this year

TV Tech

Tegna Names Christopher Franklin as President and GM of WATN-WLMT Memphis

Promoted from interim GM, he arrived at ABC-The CW duopoly in 2020

Broadcasting & Cable

Graceland steward Jack Soden and soul man Wilson Pickett among 9 named to Memphis Music Hall of Fame

Twelve years ago, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame inducted its inaugural class of 25 luminaries at a rousing ceremony, honoring legends spanning generations and genres, from Elvis Presley to Three 6 Mafia

The Independent UK

This Tennessee city honored one of its golf legends by naming new clubhouse for him

Former PGA Tour pro Loren Roberts was among those on hand to honor Hudson.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Elon Musk selects Memphis for xAI's supercomputer site

It’s the largest single private-sector investment in the city’s history.

Fortune

A trial date has been set for a man charged in the kidnapping, killing of a Memphis school teacher

A judge has set a trial date for a man charged in the kidnapping and killing of a school teacher while she was on an early morning run in Tennessee

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Supreme Court sides with Starbucks in labor case that could hinder government’s ability to intervene in some unionization disputes

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Starbucks in a case that could make it harder for a federal agency to enforce labor laws in disputes that can arise during organizing campaigns. On June 13, 2024, the court announced that eight of the nine justices had signed onto a…

The Independent UK

Moneybagg Yo's 'A Gangsta's Pain' went No. 1. He's back to soundtrack your summer with 'Speak Now.'

In 2021, you heard it: Moneybagg Yo’s “Wokesha” blaring from cars and corner stores

The Conversation

Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice

Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., who died on June 9, 2024, at the age of 95, was a Methodist minister and a powerful advocate of nonviolence during the Civil Rights Movement.

France 24

'Strategist of nonviolence': US civil rights leader Rev. James Lawson dies at 95

The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, has died, his family said Monday. He was 95.

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Report: Rockets talking to Nets, Grizzlies about trades involving No. 3 draft pick

Brooklyn (Mikal Bridges) and Memphis (No. 9 pick and more) are potential trade partners for the Rockets with their No. 3 overall draft pick, Kevin O’Connor reports.

The Independent UK

Trial in the fatal daytime ambush of rapper Young Dolph reset to September

A judge has reset the trial date for a man charged with killing rapper Young Dolph in a daytime shooting ambush at a cookie shop in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee

LiveScience

Why are so many ancient Egyptians buried at the Saqqara necropolis?

The ancient Egyptians buried their dead at Saqqara for thousands of years. Why was the necropolis so important to them?

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Federal Judge Considers Evidence In Memphis Police Beating Case

Federal judge in Memphis considers allowing evidence from deceased victim's car in trial of former police officers.

The Independent UK

Defense lawyers in Tyre Nichols case want jury to hear evidence about items found in his car

A federal judge is considering whether the eventual jury at the trial of four former Memphis police officers charged in the beating death of Tyre Nichols should hear evidence that Nichols had a hallucinogenic drug and stolen credit cards in his car that night

The Independent UK

Failed Graceland sale by a mystery entity highlights attempts to take assets of older or dead people

A mysterious company has caused a stir for trying to auction Elvis Presley's Graceland property in a foreclosure sale

The Independent UK

At the 'Super Bowl of Swine,' global barbecuing traditions are the wood-smoked flavor of the day

Memphis barbecue is elevated to fine dining under the sun at the annual World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest

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