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  • Lipscomb Academy Asks Parent, TPUSA Spokesman to Sign Non-Disclosure Agreements After Charlie Kirk Controversy
    Lipscomb Academy Asks Parent, TPUSA Spokesman to Sign Non-Disclosure Agreements After Charlie Kirk Controversy
TN Top Story: Gov. Bill Lee Says Federal Memphis Safe Task Force to Remain Deployed ‘Forever’
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TSNN Featured: Lipscomb Academy Asks Parent, TPUSA Spokesman to Sign Non-Disclosure Agreements After Charlie Kirk Controversy
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National Guard
October 14, 2025

Gov. Bill Lee Says Federal Memphis Safe Task Force to Remain Deployed ‘Forever’

Governor Bill Lee said the federal Memphis Safe Task Force will remain deployed to the city "forever" during a Tuesday press conference. He also announced the total number of arrests since the deployment began has surpassed 800.  The governor confirmed the indefinite nature of the operation during remarks delivered just...
Lipscomb Academy
October 14, 2025

Lipscomb Academy Asks Parent, TPUSA Spokesman to Sign Non-Disclosure Agreements After Charlie Kirk Controversy

Matt Van Epps
October 14, 2025

Latinos for Tennessee PAC Endorses Matt Van Epps for TN-7 Seat

No Kings Protest
October 14, 2025

Far-Left ‘No Kings’ Targets 33 Tennessee Towns for Anti-Trump Protests

Matt Van Epps, Boots Jeans, BBQ and Beans event
October 14, 2025

TN-7 Republican Nominee Matt Van Epps Confirmed Special Guest at Jack Johnson’s ‘Boots & Jeans BBQ’ Event

Charlie Kirk Billboard
October 13, 2025

Small Business Owner Purchases Billboards Across East Tennessee Honoring Charlie Kirk

Pearson and Cohen
October 13, 2025

Progressive PAC Known for Backing AOC Endorses State Rep. Justin Pearson in TN-9 Primary Against Congressman Steve Cohen

October 13, 2025

Metro Council to Give $355K to Nonprofit for Homeless Healthcare

Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, Kilmar Abrego Garcoa
October 13, 2025

Immigration Lawyer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia Slams DHS for Lack of Plan to Deport Client to Costa Rica, Admits ‘He’s Going to be Removed’

NewsChannel5 - Accurate Energetic Systems explosion footage
October 13, 2025

Explosion at Tennessee Manufacturing Plant Leaves 16 Presumed Dead, Blast Remains Under Investigation

Braden H. Boucek
October 10, 2025

Senate Judiciary Committee Approves U.S. Attorney for Middle Tennessee Braden Boucek for Final Confirmation Vote

Tami Sawyer
October 10, 2025

Shelby County Republicans Demand Resignation of Court Clerk After Bodycam Video Shows Racist, Anti-Police Tirade

ICE arrest
October 10, 2025

AG Bondi Says Federal Deployment to Memphis Racks Up Over 500 Arrests, Seizes 144 Illegal Guns

News from the States

Josh Hawley
October 14, 2025

Labor Expert Warns Senator Josh Hawley’s Union Contract Bill Expands Federal Control

A bill introduced by U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) aimed at speeding up the process of reaching a first contract between newly unionized workers and employers is being criticized by a national labor expert who warns the bill is a dangerous expansion of compulsory unionism and government power over private...
Virginia debate
October 11, 2025

Post Debate Takeaway: Winsome Earle-Sears Says She Couldn’t Let Spanberger’s Lies Stand

News10 WAVY Virginia Gubernatorial Debate
October 10, 2025

Earle-Sears, Spanberger Clash over Political Violence, Transgender Policy, and Shutdown in Heated Virginia Debate

Gov. Glenn Youngkin
October 10, 2025

Gov. Glenn Youngkin: Virginia Democrats Supporting Jay Jones Are ‘Complicit’ in His Calls to Kill Police Officers, Murder Children

office worker
October 9, 2025

Commentary: Strengthening Career Education Depends on a Robust Workforce Pell Program

Morgan Griffith
October 9, 2025

Virginia U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith: Government Shutdown a ‘Bullying Tactic’ by Democrats

Jay Jones
October 8, 2025

Virginia Fraternal Order of Police Calls on Jay Jones to Withdraw from Attorney General Race

Jason Miyares
October 7, 2025

Virginia AG Miyares on Jay Jones: ‘This Race Isn’t About Left vs. Right – It’s About Right vs. Wrong’

Tim Anderson
October 7, 2025

Anderson: Virginia’s 97th District ‘Number One Chance’ for GOP to Flip the House of Delegates

National News

Congress
October 15, 2025

Senate Fails to Advance Republican Continuing Resolution in Eighth Vote

The Senate on Tuesday night failed for the eighth time to make serious headway on passing a House-passed continuing resolution that would keep the government open through Nov. 21.  The government entered a shutdown at the beginning of the month, after the Senate failed to pass the House's continuing resolution, or a...
Barack Obama
October 15, 2025

Commentary: The Obamacare Sweeteners Poisoning Budget Negotiations

Trump and Israel
October 14, 2025

Trump’s Historic Israel-Hamas Deal Sets Stage for New Overtures to Iran and Russia, If They Want It

Trump and China
October 14, 2025

Bessent Says Trump, Xi Jinping Will Meet for Trade Talks

Maine senate race
October 14, 2025

Maine Dem Gov Janet Mills Leans into Trump Rift in Announcing Bid to Unseat GOP Sen. Collins

kid on phone
October 14, 2025

Instagram Revising Teen Account Settings amid Backlash

October 14, 2025

Erika Kirk Accepts Husband’s Presidential Medal of Freedom Award: ‘Best Birthday Gift’

Jerome Powell
October 14, 2025

Jerome Powell Suggests Fed Is on Track to Cut Interest Rates Once Again

October 14, 2025

Finance Titans May Have Found Trojan Horse for ‘Climate Mandates’

Trump foreign policy
October 14, 2025

Commentary: The Pieces of Trump’s Peace

Portland Police
October 14, 2025

Oregon Now Spends More on Program Offering Free Health Care for Illegal Immigrants than State Police

Jake & Shelby
October 14, 2025

Jake and Shelby Release Debut Album, Learning to Love

October 13, 2025

Top Immigration Official Warns Naturalization Fraudsters Could Be Stripped of Citizenship

Commentary

Barack Obama
October 15, 2025

Commentary: The Obamacare Sweeteners Poisoning Budget Negotiations

Halloween could come early this year. The Democrats have named their price to avoid a government shutdown come October – an additional $350 billion for healthcare over the next decade. Critics say a big chunk of that money may go to ghosts. At issue are the generous subsidies the Biden administration created...
Trump foreign policy
October 14, 2025

Commentary: The Pieces of Trump’s Peace

October 13, 2025

Commentary: Remembering the Courage of Christopher Columbus

praying rosary
October 12, 2025

Commentary: Prayer Is the Most Powerful Weapon

Mahmoud Khalil
October 11, 2025

Commentary: Non-Citizens Are Guests and Should Not Have the Same Rights as Americans

Texas redistricting
October 10, 2025

Commentary: Republican Governors Must Follow Trump’s Lead on Census and Redistricting

office worker
October 9, 2025

Commentary: Strengthening Career Education Depends on a Robust Workforce Pell Program

business work
October 9, 2025

Commentary: Don’t Let Washington Undercut Tennessee Innovators

Tyler Robinson
October 9, 2025

Commentary: The Parents of Charlie Kirk’s Prodigal Assassin


Entertainment and Lifestyle

Jake & Shelby
October 14, 2025

Jake and Shelby Release Debut Album, Learning to Love

I featured Jake Lawson and Shelby Haim in January 2024, when they released their Just Us EP.  At that time, they were both teenagers who met while attending Cedarstone Music School in Hendersonville. Fast forward 20 months, and the pair have released their debut album, Learning to Love. And while...
John Carter Cash
October 11, 2025

John Carter Cash Releases Pineapple John

October 4, 2025

Annie Bosko Releases Debut Album ‘California Cowgirl’

October 1, 2025

Music Spotlight: The Lost Saints

Morgan Myles
September 25, 2025

Music Spotlight: Morgan Myles

September 20, 2025

38 Special Release Milestone Record

Romeo Vaughn
September 15, 2025

Music Spotlight: Romeo Vaughn

Gracee Shriver
September 12, 2025

Gracee Shriver Releases ‘Living Proof’

BoomTown Saints
September 10, 2025

BoomTown Saints Release ‘A Good Woman’


Latest News

Congress
October 15, 2025

Senate Fails to Advance Republican Continuing Resolution in Eighth Vote

The Senate on Tuesday night failed for the eighth time to make serious headway on passing a House-passed continuing resolution that would keep the government open through Nov. 21.  The government entered a shutdown at the beginning of the month, after the...
Barack Obama
October 15, 2025

Commentary: The Obamacare Sweeteners Poisoning Budget Negotiations

Halloween could come early this year. The Democrats have named their price to avoid a government shutdown come October – an additional $350 billion for healthcare over the next decade. Critics say a big chunk of that money may go to ghosts....
National Guard
October 14, 2025

Gov. Bill Lee Says Federal Memphis Safe Task Force to Remain Deployed ‘Forever’

Governor Bill Lee said the federal Memphis Safe Task Force will remain deployed to the city "forever" during a Tuesday press conference. He also announced the total number of arrests since the deployment began has surpassed 800.  The governor confirmed...
Trump and Israel
October 14, 2025

Trump’s Historic Israel-Hamas Deal Sets Stage for New Overtures to Iran and Russia, If They Want It

As he was being compared to Cyrus the Great and other legendary peacemakers in the limelight of the Israel-Hamas deal, President Donald Trump was already not so subtly working the margins on future deals with Russia or Iran. Trump has...
Lipscomb Academy
October 14, 2025

Lipscomb Academy Asks Parent, TPUSA Spokesman to Sign Non-Disclosure Agreements After Charlie Kirk Controversy

In the wake of Lipscomb Academy's admission that it initially prohibited students from wearing suit jackets and ties to mourn the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA (TPUSA) spokesperson and conservative influencer Savannah Chrisley told The Tennessee Star on Tuesday...
Trump and China
October 14, 2025

Bessent Says Trump, Xi Jinping Will Meet for Trade Talks

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet for trade talks, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says. The two leaders will meet at the APEC summit in South Korea, which is set for Oct. 31-Nov. 1, The Epoch Times reported.
Maine senate race
October 14, 2025

Maine Dem Gov Janet Mills Leans into Trump Rift in Announcing Bid to Unseat GOP Sen. Collins

Maine Democrat Gov. Janet Mills on Tuesday announced her expected bid to challenge incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins for her seat, mentioning President Trump by name and saying she's "never backed down from a bully." Mills' campaign-launch video includes a...
kid on phone
October 14, 2025

Instagram Revising Teen Account Settings amid Backlash

Instagram will place new safeguards to ensure content for younger, teen users is age appropriate, Meta, the social media platform's parent company, said Tuesday. The popular platform began rolling out teen accounts last year. In September 2024, Instagram defaulted to making...
October 14, 2025

Erika Kirk Accepts Husband’s Presidential Medal of Freedom Award: ‘Best Birthday Gift’

Erika Kirk, the widow of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, accepted her husband's posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom award on Tuesday, which was awarded on what would have been his 32nd birthday. 
Jerome Powell
October 14, 2025

Jerome Powell Suggests Fed Is on Track to Cut Interest Rates Once Again

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell suggested Tuesday that the central bank may be on track to lower its interest rate target range again in 2025. Powell said in a speech at an event hosted by the National Association for Business Economics that based...
Matt Van Epps
October 14, 2025

Latinos for Tennessee PAC Endorses Matt Van Epps for TN-7 Seat

Latinos for Tennessee PAC, the state's only Hispanic conservative political organization, endorsed Matt Van Epps' campaign for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District.   Pointing to Van Epps’ victory in last week’s Republican primary and his support from President Donald Trump, Raul Lopez,...
No Kings Protest
October 14, 2025

Far-Left ‘No Kings’ Targets 33 Tennessee Towns for Anti-Trump Protests

Places throughout Tennessee will be participating in an upcoming nationwide protest against President Donald Trump. Thirty-three locations will be involved in the second iteration of the “No Kings” protests, which will be taking place on Saturday.
Matt Van Epps, Boots Jeans, BBQ and Beans event
October 14, 2025

TN-7 Republican Nominee Matt Van Epps Confirmed Special Guest at Jack Johnson’s ‘Boots & Jeans BBQ’ Event

Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) confirmed that Matt Van Epps, the Republican nominee for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, is set to attend his “Boots and Jeans BBQ and Beans” event this Sunday.
October 14, 2025

Finance Titans May Have Found Trojan Horse for ‘Climate Mandates’

Major global asset managers including BlackRock and Blackstone have been looking to buy power utilities across America in a move that some industry insiders warn could harm consumers, raise electricity costs and advance a climate-driven energy agenda. In recent months,...
Josh Hawley
October 14, 2025

Labor Expert Warns Senator Josh Hawley’s Union Contract Bill Expands Federal Control

A bill introduced by U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) aimed at speeding up the process of reaching a first contract between newly unionized workers and employers is being criticized by a national labor expert who warns the bill is a...
Trump foreign policy
October 14, 2025

Commentary: The Pieces of Trump’s Peace

What did Donald Trump do differently to obtain at least temporary calm in the Middle East compared to the failed efforts of past administrations, foreign powers, and the United Nations? Let us count ten different approaches.
Portland Police
October 14, 2025

Oregon Now Spends More on Program Offering Free Health Care for Illegal Immigrants than State Police

Oregon will spend more in its current budget period on free health care for immigrants regardless of legal status than on state police by $500 million or more, according to state officials and budget documents. Oregon officials expect to spend $1.5...
Jake & Shelby
October 14, 2025

Jake and Shelby Release Debut Album, Learning to Love

I featured Jake Lawson and Shelby Haim in January 2024, when they released their Just Us EP.  At that time, they were both teenagers who met while attending Cedarstone Music School in Hendersonville. Fast forward 20 months, and the pair...
Charlie Kirk Billboard
October 13, 2025

Small Business Owner Purchases Billboards Across East Tennessee Honoring Charlie Kirk

Mason Burchette, owner and chief operating officer of the Knoxville-based company True Metal Supply, continues to purchase billboards across East Tennessee and Western North Carolina to honor the life of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk. Kirk died after being...
October 13, 2025

Top Immigration Official Warns Naturalization Fraudsters Could Be Stripped of Citizenship

After a joint operation by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) found “mass patterns” of marriage and other immigration fraud in Minneapolis, the agency’s director says denaturalization and prosecutions are on the table.  Operation Twin Shield, which was conducted by...

 

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