Tennessee Governor Bill Lee delivered his seventh State of the State Address on Monday in the House Chamber of the Tennessee State Capitol where he laid out his $59.5 billion budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025-2026.
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President Donald Trump said that if the U.S. takes over the Gaza Strip and rebuilds it, Palestinians won’t have the right to return to the region.
“No, they wouldn’t, because they’re going to have much better housing … much better,” Trump said during an interview with Fox News that was pre-taped on Saturday and aired Monday.
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The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) on Monday declined to provide additional details to The Tennessee Star about the firearms legally purchased by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the biological woman who identified as a transgender man when she killed six at the Covenant School on March 27, 2023.
MNPD declined to provide the information just days after a source told The Star that a police captain ordered officers not to complete standard evidence documentation procedures during the search of Hale’s residence, and that the FBI absconded with certain evidence without no chain of custody documenting its transfer.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) handed out $59 million to “luxury” hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants, Elon Musk said Monday.
Musk — who leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a temporary agency within the Trump administration tasked with weeding out frivolous spending by the federal government — said it was his DOGE team that made the discovery. The top White House official said the payment was in violation of President Donald Trump’s executive order and efforts would be made to recover the funds.
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A federal court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan migrants to the U.S. detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
The decision Sunday by a U.S. District Court judge in New Mexico, where the migrants are being held, is in response to a legal filing by their lawyers that argues, “the mere uncertainty the government has created surrounding the availability of legal process and counsel access [at Guantanamo] is sufficient to authorize the modest injunction.”
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Breitbart The leading South African opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), has filed a lawsuit in a provincial court against the Expropriation Act, which U.S. President Donald Trump criticized in an executive order last week. As Breitbart News reported, Trump issued an executive order suspending aid to South Africa over its legislation allowing expropriation of property without compensation, as well as its attacks on Israel and support for Iran. READ THE FULL STORY
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Washington Examiner Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the military to stop accepting transgender applicants in a memo last Friday. Hegseth’s directive, which was sent to senior DoD leaders, commanders of the combatant commands, and others, comes on the heels of multiple executive orders from President Donald Trump regarding the reversal of the Biden administration’s 2021 move to allow transgender people to serve, which overturned Trump’s ban from 2017 during his first term. “Effective immediately, all new accessions for individuals with a history of gender dysphoria are paused, and all unscheduled, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with affirming or facilitating a gender transition for service members are paused,” the memo said. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Associated Press Scores of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers who showed up for work Monday at its Washington headquarters were turned away after the Trump administration stripped the aid agency of its lease. The Trump administration on Monday told The Associated Press that it had taken USAID off the lease of the building, which it had occupied for decades. The eviction comes as a court temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that would have pulled all but a fraction of workers off the job worldwide. USAID’s eviction from its headquarters marks the latest in the swift dismantling of the aid agency and its programs by President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally, Elon Musk. Both have targeted agency spending that they call wasteful and accuse its work around the world of being out of line with Trump’s agenda. READ THE FULL STORY
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Another judge ruled against President Donald Trump’s executive order on Monday ending birthright citizenship.
This is the third time a federal judge has ruled against this executive order since Trump signed it on his first day in office.
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A new CBS News/YouGov poll shows that most Americans approve of Donald Trump’s first weeks in office.
The poll released Sunday found that 53 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s term so far.
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A senior pastor at Greater Second Missionary Baptist Church of Chattanooga made the case during Sunday’s service for violence and fighting over the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) work to root out and cut wasteful government spending.
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The Harriman Utility Board (HUB) announced last week a public meeting scheduled for February 10 to reveal their “broadband business plan” that would see taxpayers in the East Tennessee community back newly developed government-owned broadband services.
A notice posted to the HUB website explains the February 10 meeting is for the purpose of notifying the public the agency intends to proceed with the plan, stating that it will allow the agency to provide “additional services to the customers of its other utility services and continue the modernization of those utility system.”
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In just his first weeks back in the Oval Office, President Trump has taken strong action to secure our border. Through executive actions alone, the President has restored the successful Remain-in-Mexico policy, restarted border wall construction, ended catch-and-release, sent troops to the southern border, conducted deportations, and done so much more to Make America Safe Again.
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U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy surveyed the damage I-40 sustained at the Tennessee-North Carolina state line during last year’s Hurricane Helene on Monday.
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Despite the fact President Donald Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of all the January 6 defendants on his first day in office last month, The 65 Project, which files bar complaints against conservative election attorneys, filed another complaint on Thursday against one of the J6 attorneys. The organization – circuitously funded by Leftist dark-money groups – submitted the complaint to the D.C. Bar, alleging a small technical violation by Edward Martin, a previous chair of the Missouri Republican Party who was appointed by Trump last month to serve as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
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On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that the United States Treasury will stop minting new pennies, amidst concerns regarding the cost of doing so.
As Axios reports, the president made the announcement on his Truth Social account, declaring that he had ordered newly-confirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to “stop producing new pennies.”
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