Spirit Airlines Expanding Service at Nashville International Airport with Five New Routes

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Spirit Airlines is expanding its services at Nashville International Airport (BNA) this year by offering five new routes to destinations in three states beginning in March, the airline company announced.

The company is adding two destinations – George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas (IAH), and Boston Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts (BOS) – to its Nashville route map beginning on March 5.

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Plaintiffs Confirm Appeal Following Judge’s Dismissal of Lawsuit Declaring Nashville Transit Referendum Illegal

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The head of the Committee to Stop an UnFair Tax that opposed Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s Choose How You Move transit referendum told The Tennessee Star on Monday that her group will appeal the Monday decision by Davidson County Chancery Court Judge Anne Martin to dismiss the group’s lawsuit.

Emily Evans, who led the committee and is a plaintiff in the lawsuit, told The Star that Martin’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit under grounds that it was not a proper election contest was “not really unexpected,” and “sort of the pattern that we’ve seen in recent years.”

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Two Federal Judges Rule for Small Businesses, Halt Corporate Transparency Act

Office Work

Within one month of each other, two federal judges ruled that a law passed by Congress is “likely unconstitutional” and ruled in favor of small businesses.

At issue is the Corporate Transparency Act, which Congress passed in 2021, overriding a veto issued by then President Donald Trump. The law requires entities incorporated under state law to disclose the personal information of their stakeholders, including current address, identification documents, and other sensitive information, to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

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Biden’s Student Loan Relief Tops $183 Billion After Latest Round of Forgiveness

Washington Examiner   President Joe Biden announced possibly his final round of student loan debt relief Monday, bringing the total student loan forgiveness extended over the past four years to more than $183 billion for five million federal student loan borrowers. Biden announced Monday morning that the latest round of forgiveness will affect 150,000 borrowers, including 85,000 who “attended schools that cheated or defrauded their students,” 61,000 borrowers with permanent disabilities, and 6,100 public servants. In a statement, the president championed his action on debt, specifically highlighting changes he made to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and increasing Pell Grants. READ THE FULL STORY                 

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Ohio Company Says It Still Wants to Buy U.S. Steel

Axios   The CEO of steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs reiterated he still wants to acquire rival U.S. Steel, in a news conference filled with intense and vehemently anti-Japan rhetoric. Why it matters: This is the buyer that the United Steelworkers union wants, but it presents major antitrust challenges. Catch up quick: Cleveland-Cliffs offered to buy U.S. Steel in late 2023, but U.S. Steel believed it was more likely to gain regulatory approval for a $14.9 billion offer from Nippon. READ THE FULL STORY                       

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Hundreds of Navy SEALs, Veterans to March in D.C. to Support Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation as Defense Secretary

Breitbart   Five hundred Navy SEALs, veterans, and other supporters are planning to march in support of Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth as he appears before senators for his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. That morning, his supporters will meet at the Vietnam Memorial Wall at 9 a.m. EST and march to different war memorials, including the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the D.C. War Memorial, and the World War II Memorial, and conclude near Capitol Hill with remarks from military leaders and prominent supporters. Participants will carry American flags as they march. The march is being organized by Navy SEAL veteran Bill Brown, who also organizes the yearly NYC Seal Swim — which Hegseth, a combat veteran, has taken part of in support of Navy SEALs. Robert Sweetman’s 62romeo organization is co-organizing. READ THE FULL STORY                 

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JD Vance Says That People Who Were ‘Prosecuted Unfairly’ over J6 ‘Should Be Pardoned’

January Six Riot

Vice President-elect JD Vance said that people who “committed violence” on Jan. 6, 2021, during the Capitol riots, should “obviously” not be pardoned by President-elect Donald Trump. 

“I think it’s very simple, look, if you protested peacefully on Jan. 6, and you had Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned,” Vance said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”

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Legal Expert Mark Pulliam Details How President-Elect Trump Should Handle Relief Requests for Damages Caused by Los Angeles Wildfires

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Mark Pulliam, a retired attorney and Misrule of Law blogger, shared his thoughts on how President-elect Donald Trump, once he assumes office, should handle the state of California and city of Los Angeles’ request for federal assistance following the ongoing wildfires which have since resulted in the death of 24 individuals.

The wildfires in California, which began burning on Tuesday, have since destroyed nearly 41,000 acres, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

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Biden-Harris Admin Imposes New Export Controls on AI Chips

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The Biden-Harris administration announced on Monday that it would restrict exports of chips used for artificial intelligence (AI) and technology, according to a White House press release.

The new regulations, which were unveiled just a week before President Joe Biden is set to leave office, will cap the number of AI chips that can be exported to most countries, according to the press release. The export controls are intended to continue “to ensure that advanced semiconductors sold abroad are not used by countries of concern to train advanced AI systems,” the announcement states.

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Immigration Expert: FBI Closes First Illegal Alien Terrorist Attack Without Providing Answers

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Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) quietly closed its case into the first known terrorist attack by a “border-crossing Muslim migrant” on a Jewish American victim last year without providing answers to questions still concerning the Jewish community impacted by the attack.

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