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November 2, 2024

Woke Media Caves to the Power of X: NewsChannel 5 Broadcasts Trump-Themed Ads for DT McCall’s

The Tennessee Star learned Friday that Scripps Media, Inc., the corporate owner of NewsChannel 5 in Nashville, agreed to broadcast an advertisement for Tennessee retailer D.T. McCall & Sons that includes an impersonator of former President Donald Trump. The decision...

November 2, 2024

Private Sector Jobs Vanish into Thin Air While Feds Add Even More Workers to Payroll

The private sector hemorrhaged jobs in October while the federal government expanded its workforce to even bigger levels, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released Friday. The U.S. economy lost 28,000 private sector jobs while the...

November 2, 2024

Tennessee U.S. Rep Steve Cohen Predicts ‘Chaos,’ ‘Blood’ If Trump Loses, Reveals Democrats Plan to Install Fences in D.C.

U.S. House Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) predicted "blood" and "chaos" will follow should former President Donald Trump be declared to have lost the presidential election but dispute the election results, and revealed House Democrats already have plans to install security...

November 2, 2024

Poll: Wisconsin Voters Evenly Split Between Trump and Harris

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are locked in a dead heat in Wisconsin, the latest polling shows. In a two-way race, both candidates garner 48% support, with 2% still undecided, according to the American Greatness-TIPP poll...

November 2, 2024

Pennsylvania Attorney General Claims Fraudulent Voter Registration Schemes Discovered, ‘Defeated’ in Four Counties

Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry on Thursday confirmed at least four counties in the commonwealth had "defeated" fraudulent voter registration schemes after multiple counties went public with their findings. The attorney general, a Democrat who was nominated to the position...

November 2, 2024

Helene: Recovery Loans Available to Virginia Farming, Forestry Small Businesses

Virginia agricultural and forestry small businesses impacted by Hurricane Helene now have another place to turn for help. Individuals and state and local governments in federally designated disaster zones can already apply to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance,...

November 2, 2024

Marijuana Home Delivery to Begin in Arizona

Arizonans can now have marijuana brought to their doorstep. The Arizona Department of Health Services announced the change will go into effect on Friday.

November 2, 2024

Commentary: America’s Adversaries Are Rooting for Kamala Harris

Although America’s ferociously anti-Trump media refuses to admit it, there is a powerful group of people who cannot vote in the U.S. presidential election but are rooting for Kamala Harris to win: the leaders of China, Russia, Iran, North Korea,...

November 2, 2024

Michigan Is a Road to the White House, Rep. Huizenga Says

Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., said he has seen a political shift in the swing state of Michigan. “It’s interesting to see how Michigan has just grown in importance, and as a crossroads,” Huizenga told The Daily Signal, “quite literally the...

November 2, 2024

Polls Show Sherrod Brown Has Slight Lead in Ohio Senate Race

Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown holds a slim lead while outspending his Republican opponent, Bernie Moreno, nearly four-to-one in one of the most expensive Senate races this cycle. Ohio’s Senate race is currently the most expensive in the country, totaling...

November 2, 2024

Georgia Supreme Court Says Strip Club Tax Is Constitutional

A tax on strip clubs that goes into a fund to help child sexual exploitation victims is constitutional, the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled. Georgia voters approved the tax through a ballot question. The collections go to the Safe Harbor...

November 2, 2024

Poll Shows Trump, Scott Leading in Florida

A poll released by Florida Atlantic University shows former President Donald Trump with a big lead in the presidential race and also has good news for incumbent U.S. Sen. Rick Scott. The poll of 913 registered voters by the Florida Atlantic University...

November 2, 2024

Music Spotlight Artists Shine at the Josie Awards

The Josie Music Awards 2024 winners were announced on October 27 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee. Click here for the complete list of winners. The Josie Music Awards is the largest music award show in the...

November 2, 2024

Texas Sees 51 Percent Drop in Border Apprehensions After Operation Lone Star Expands

Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal border crossers in Texas dropped 51% in one year, according to federal data. The stark decline comes after Gov. Greg Abbott expanded Operation Lone Star border security efforts in the state. In fiscal 2023, Border Patrol...

November 1, 2024

Biden-Harris DOJ, FBI Silent on Alleged Shooting of Jewish Man by Illegal Immigrant Who Reportedly Shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’

The Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI did not respond to Friday press inquiries from The Tennessee Star that sought to establish whether the federal government is investigating the Mauritanian illegal immigrant who allegedly shot an orthodox Jewish man...

November 1, 2024

ACLU Sues Georgia County over Alleged Failure to Send Out Election Ballots in Timely Manner

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Southern Poverty Law Center sued a Georgia county on Friday, over allegations that it failed to send out approximately 3,000 absentee ballots by a requested deadline.

November 1, 2024

Neil W. McCabe: Trump Campaign Is ‘Completely Aligned,’ ‘Perfectly in Sync’

National political reporter Neil W. McCabe said the Trump campaign is “completely aligned” and “perfectly in sync” going into the November 5 general election, which has led to the campaign dominating the news cycle and taking coverage away from Vice...

November 1, 2024

Biden-Harris Admin Adds Nearly No Jobs in Last Report Before Election

The U.S. added 12,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in October as the unemployment rate remained unchanged, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Friday. Economists expected 110,000 jobs to be added in October, far lower than the initially reported 254,000 job gain in September,...

November 1, 2024

White House Press Office Doctored Transcript of Joe Biden Calling Trump Supporters ‘Garbage’ over Stenographer’s Objections

The White House press office altered the official transcript of Joe Biden insulting Trump supporters over the objections of the White House stenographer, according to two government officials, and an email obtained by the Associated Press. House Republicans have launched an investigation...

November 1, 2024

Steve Bannon: Trump Victory on Tuesday Is ‘Within Our Grasp’

Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist and host of the popular show War Room, is confident that victory for former President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates on November 5 is “within our grasp.” “We've got this fight teed...