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March 15, 2024

Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade Steps Down from Trump Case After Judge’s Ruling

Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor whom Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hired to pursue her case against former President Donald Trump, officially resigned from the case on Friday after Judge Scott McAfee indicated that either he or Willis must...

March 15, 2024

Federal Judge Orders FBI to Turn over Covenant Killer Documents for In-Camera Review

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to turn over all documents related to Covenant School shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale, including the killer’s manifesto, for a private review of materials. The FBI was ordered to turn...

March 15, 2024

Judge Delays Manhattan DA Bragg’s Trump Case by 30 Days

Justice Juan Merchan on Friday ordered a 30-day delay of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against former President Donald Trump.

March 15, 2024

Report: 89 Incarcerated Prisoners in Tennessee Dept of Corrections’ Care Receiving Gender Hormone Therapy

Sources tell The Tennessee Star that 89 prisoners currently incarcerated in the Tennessee Dept of Corrections are receiving gender hormone therapy. The program apparently began as an unpublicized policy under the Haslam administration. The policy was not available on any...

March 15, 2024

Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s ‘New Americans Director’ Finally Becomes U.S. Citizen

Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell's "Director of New and Indigenous Americans" finally became a U.S. citizen on Thursday after living in the country for apparently many years. O'Connell posted the news to X that the Nashville government staffer, Jacky Gomez, was...

March 15, 2024

Judge Rules Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis Can Stay on Trump Election Interference Case

A judge in Georgia ruled Friday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can remain on the case in which former President Trump and 18 co-defendants are accused of meddling in the 2020 election results.

March 15, 2024

Bill Prohibiting Local Government from Restricting Duties of Law Enforcement Passes General Assembly, Heads to Governor Lee’s Desk

A bill that would prohibit local governments from limiting the ability of a law enforcement agency to conduct routine traffic stops passed the Tennessee Senate on Thursday.

March 15, 2024

‘Make Voting Great Again’: GOP Warns Against Government Election Meddling

The Biden administration appears poised to put the government’s thumb on the scale in the 2024 election, House Republicans say. The administration’s lack of transparency about implementing President Joe Biden’s executive order for federal agencies to help get out the vote—combined...

March 15, 2024

Semiconductor Giant Faces U.S. Delays While Racing Ahead in Japan amid Biden Chips Funding Uncertainty

A major Taiwanese chip manufacturer’s plan to build a key factory in the U.S. has been plagued with significant delays. Meanwhile, the chipmaker is on schedule to open a separate facility in Japan. One of the plants Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)...

March 15, 2024

Lawmakers Aim to Ban Colleagues from Market Trading While They Still Buy and Sell

Four members of Congress recently reported buying and selling financial assets, despite co-sponsoring a bill that would ban such trades, disclosures show. Democratic Reps. Mary Gay Scanlon of Pennsylvania, Jeff Jackson of North Carolina, Bill Keating of Massachusetts and Republican...

March 15, 2024

Biden to Oppose Foreign Acquisition of U.S. Steel in Bid to Sway Blue Collar Voters

President Joe Biden is expected to announce his opposition to the foreign acquisition of the iconic American company U.S. Steel on Thursday as he looks to win over blue collar voters, according to The Associated Press. The Japanese Nippon Steel...

March 15, 2024

Feds Seize Massive Amounts of Cocaine in Marine Operations

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations (CBP-AMO) agents and U.S. Coast Guard crews are seizing large quantities of cocaine attempting to be smuggled to the U.S. by boat. In five recent operations, they seized nearly $290 million...

March 15, 2024

DNC Forms First-Ever Team to Combat Third-Party Candidates in 2024

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is forming a team to help combat third-party and independent candidates in 2024, which it views as a threat to President Joe Biden’s candidacy, NBC News reported on Thursday. Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “Justice...

March 15, 2024

Proposed Virginia Budget Would Eliminate Audit of 2024 Presidential Election Results

The biennial budget proposed by Virginia lawmakers contains a provision that would forbid the commonwealth from conducting an audit of the 2024 presidential results in November. While Virginia law mandates a "risk-limiting audit" be administered after every presidential election, an...

March 15, 2024

Jim Jordan to Hold Fani Willis in Contempt of Congress Unless She Complies with Subpoena by March 28

Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH-04) revealed on Thursday he sent a letter expressing his intention to hold Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in contempt of Congress if she does not comply with a subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee by...

March 15, 2024

Commentary: America’s Priorities Need to Change in Order to Protect Its Citizens

The horrific murder of Laken Riley by a repeated felony offender and illegal alien Jose Ibarra, 26, a Venezuelan citizen, was preventable—had federal immigration laws simply been enforced by the Biden administration. When called out in his recent State of the Union...

March 15, 2024

Florida Prepares for Surge in Illegal Aliens from Haiti

As the government of Haiti appears poised to collapse in the face of a violent revolution by criminal gangs, the nearby U.S. state of Florida is preparing for a tidal wave of illegal aliens from the devastated island nation. According...

March 15, 2024

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs Asks Congress for over $750 Million for Illegal Immigration After Vetoing Border Invasion Act

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs asked Congress on Wednesday to support a request by Senators Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) to provide more than $750 million in funding to support the southern border. While Hobbs urged the U.S. Congress...

March 15, 2024

Congo, Syria, Burma, and Afghanistan Top List of Countries Represented Among Georgia Refugee Intake

According to a report on refugee resettlement, more refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo have been resettled in Georgia than from any other country since October of last year, following a trend among other states. According to the report,...

March 15, 2024

Movie Review: The Neon Highway

More than 30 years in the making, the movie The Neon Highway debuted on the silver screen this last week in Nashville. Originally written by Phillip Bellury and directed by William Wages for the likes of Johnny Cash, the deal...

March 15, 2024

Commentary: Biden, Lenin, and Immigration Language

As an historian, it has been fascinating to watch the left try to impose new language to describe people in the country illegally. The left has gradually pushed accepted language away from "illegal aliens" (the term in law), to "illegal...

March 15, 2024

Music Spotlight: RaeLynn

An artist I have been wanting to interview for years is RaeLynn. Born Racheal Lynn Woodward, the artist has a singular spunk and sass that is a huge asset in the sea of female country singers/songwriters. But her gift for storytelling...

March 15, 2024

Inflation Spiked in February More than Expected

Producer prices spiked last month, another sign of rising inflation in the U.S., according to new federal data. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday released its monthly Producer Price Index, a leading marker of inflation, which showed an...

March 15, 2024

Commentary: Eliminating Standardized Testing Had Shockingly Bad Results

For years, liberals have scoffed at the idea that standardized testing is the best predictor of academic success. The National Education Association, for instance, claims standardized tests are “both inequitable and ineffective at gauging what students know.” Activists’ campaign against standardized testing...

March 14, 2024

Beijing’s Military Hacked U.S. Nuclear Firm Before Hunter Biden Aided Chinese Bid to Acquire It

U.S. officials were acutely aware that Beijing was trying to obtain America's premiere nuclear reactor technology, including through illicit hacking, months before Hunter Biden and his business partners sought to arrange a quiet sale of an iconic U.S. reactor company...

March 14, 2024

Tennessee Star Reporter Tom Pappert ‘Very Skeptical’ of Federal Bureau of Prisons Refusal to Move Unjustly Imprisoned J6 Defendant Stewart Parks to Minimum Security Camp Based on Original Security Classification

Tom Pappert, lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, said he is “very skeptical of the federal officials at the Bureau of Prisons” after an official with the bureau formally refused a written request by Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) to move...

March 14, 2024

Democrat State Rep. Justin Jones Admitted He Walked ‘Across the Border’ with an Illegal Alien

State Representative Justin Jones (D-Nashville) admitted on the floor of the Tennessee House of Representatives on Thursday that he walked “across the border” with an illegal alien named Javier after visiting a migrant caravan camp in Mexico last week. Jones...

March 14, 2024

Immigration Expert Warns: There Will Be a ‘Marine Mass Migration’ if First Boat of Haitian Migrants are Welcomed with Open Arms

Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the way the Biden administration handles the first boat of Haitian migrants en route to the Florida Keys amid the Caribbean country’s current state of emergency will...

March 14, 2024

Outcomes of the 92 Election Cases from the 2020 Election Reveal That Judges Didn’t Review Evidence or Address Election Fraud, Part 2

The Arizona Sun Times examined the outcomes of the 92 election cases challenging illegalities in the 2020 election and determined that contrary to reports in the mainstream media, almost all of the judges did not consider evidence of election fraud....

March 14, 2024

Hunter Biden, Partners Aided Chinese Bid to Corner Nuclear Energy Market with U.S. Tech, Memos Show

While his father was still vice president, Hunter Biden and his business partners tried unsuccessfully to help a Chinese energy firm acquire one of the United States’ premier nuclear technology companies in a secret attempt to "control" the global market,...

March 14, 2024

Breitbart Editor Matt Boyle Details What Trump Must Do from Now Until November in Order to Defeat Joe Biden

Matt Boyle, the national political editor at Breitbart News, said former President Donald Trump needs to turn out the “disaffected, working class voters” in November in order to pull off a victory against President Joe Biden.

March 14, 2024

Ben Cunningham: ‘It’s Pathetic’ School Choice Advocates are not Given a Voice by Local Media Outlets

Ben Cunningham, founder of the Nashville Tea Party, said it’s “pathetic” that advocates of Governor Bill Lee’s universal school choice voucher program are not being given a voice through local news outlets across the Volunteer State.

March 14, 2024

Trump Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Says He’s Looking to Buy TikTok

Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary under the Trump administration, said Thursday that he is organizing a group to buy TikTok as a bill proceeds through Congress that would force the popular social media app to either be sold or be...

March 14, 2024

Tennessee Senate Kills Bill That Would Have Seen Driver’s Licenses Issued to Illegal Immigrants

A Tennessee Senate committee on Wednesday voted down a bill that would have required the state to provide a form of driver's license to illegal immigrants which would have conferred the same rights and privileges as official licenses issued to...

March 14, 2024

CDC Silent After Measles Outbreak Linked to Chicago Migrant Shelter

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is tight-lipped after a Tuesday CNN report linked a measles outbreak to a migrant shelter in Chicago. "The announced Sunday that there were two unrelated measles cases among children at a migrant shelter...

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BREAKING HEADLINES

Haitian Migrant Charged with Rape of 15-year-old Girl Entered via Controversial Parole Program: Sources

Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Has to Report to Prison, Federal Appeals Court Rules

Rumble Makes Offer to Buy and Operate TikTok in the U.S.

Mitch Albom Among 10 Americans Rescued from Haiti by GOP Congressman Cory Mills

Snickers Outright Rejects Biden SOTU Claim About Reducing Size of Candy Bar