The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a lower court’s ruling in a case brought by Tennessee and 16 other states challenging a Biden administration-era Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) final rule on Thursday.
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President Donald Trump threw his weight behind a potential gubernatorial run by Florida U.S. Representative Byron Donalds (R-FL-19) Thursday, signaling strong support for the Republican rising star in what could shape up to be a high-profile 2026 race. In a fairly lengthy statement posted on TruthSocial, Trump praised Donalds as a “TOTAL WINNER” and offered his “Complete and Total Endorsement” should the congressman decide to vie for the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee.
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Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) predicted on Thursday that President Donald Trump and Kash Patel, who was confirmed the same day as the new FBI Director, will end the “two tiers of justice” and “political weaponization” of the FBI.
Hours before she would vote to confirm Patel, the senator told Newsmax TV’s “Wake Up America” that the public is “thrilled” to see the Senate confirming those nominated to cabinet positions by President Donald Trump.
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Dr. Carol M. Swain said her new book titled The Gay Affair: Harvard, Plagiarism, and the Death of Academic not only examines former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s alleged plagiarism of multiple academic scholars’ work but also serves as a warning to universities around the nation to hold both students and faculty to the same standards when it comes to plagiarism.
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Exactly one month after the historic inauguration of President Trump’s second term, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Kash Patel’s nomination to lead the FBI 51 to 49.
The exceptions to the party-line vote were Republican Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who joined Democrats to oppose the former Trump administration official.
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Attendees at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday cheered Vice President JD Vance’s onstage interview.
One of Vance’s discussion topics in the interview was his casual form of communication, notably his jabs against opponents and his jokes on X.
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Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell announced he will not seek reelection Thursday.
McConnell, 83, led the Senate Republican conference for nearly two decades until he stepped down from his leadership post at the end of the last Congress. There was widespread speculation that the former Republican leader would retire following his decision to oppose several of President Donald Trump’s high-profile cabinet picks and advocate against the president’s America First views.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Thursday that eight Latin American criminal organizations are now considered Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under US law. The decision, published in the Federal Register and effective immediately, targets a range of groups from Venezuela, El Salvador, and Mexico, including Tren de Aragua, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), and six major Mexican cartels: Cartel de Sinaloa, Cartel de Jalisco Nuevo Generación (CJNG), Carteles Unidos, Cartel del Noreste, Cartel del Golfo, and La Nueva Familia Michoacana.
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President Donald Trump Wednesday signed an executive order to end taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal migrants, the latest directive by the administration to discourage illegal immigration into the United States.
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The Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury sent a letter to Rutherford County Property Assessor Rob Mitchell on Tuesday alleging that the county has not complied with several requirements under the state’s property laws.
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Tennessee U.S. Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) released a statement on Wednesday professing his support for Ukraine and his admiration for its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, for being “on the front lines of democracy.”
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The White House has touted January’s 36% decline in border apprehensions—the lowest number of illegal aliens apprehended along the border in almost five years—as the “Trump effect.”
That total includes 29,116 apprehended at the border outside of official ports of entry, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. That’s the lowest since May 2020. And that compares to 47,316 apprehensions outside of official ports in December.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed Wednesday that its agents were involved in the arrest of an alleged murder and Ecuadorian national who was evading a warrant from his home country while living in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio.
An ICE press release confirmed the February 12 arrest of Luis Naula-Candelario in conjunction with the U.S. Marshals Service, with the agency describing Naula-Candelario as “a criminal alien from Ecuador who is wanted in his home country for murder.”
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President Trump often trumpets American exceptionalism, but an executive order scheduled to take effect this week seeks to uproot a longstanding policy not found in much of the developed world: granting citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants born on U.S. soil. Under his order, the babies would, instead, inherit the immigration status of their parents.
Attorneys general from 22 states have already sued in two federal district courts and won preliminary rulings to block what they call the president’s “unquestionably unconstitutional” action. A lawsuit filed by four states in the Western District of Washington claims his action “is contrary to the plain terms of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.”
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Arlington Public Schools (APS) announced a change to its public pool policy last week, with members of the public now required to undergo screening against a sexual offender database, following the arrest of Richard Cox, a registered sex offender who allegedly exposed himself to women and children in women’s facilities after claiming to identify as a transgender woman.
The public school system, which allows its pools, restrooms, and locker rooms to be used by the public when school is not in session, announced new policies that took effect on Saturday. These include requirements for visitors to have their photo taken, present identification, and consent to be scanned against a national database of sex offenders, among other requirements.
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Former Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, who was ousted in the Republican primary election last year due to his hostility to election integrity, has moved onto progressive causes since announcing he was voting for Joe Biden for president last year. He is now a board member for State Democracy Defenders (SDD), the group started by former Obama administration diplomat and longtime Democratic operative Norm Eisen, considered the architect of the lawsuits this year against the new Trump administration. SDD, which consists of both State Democracy Defenders Fund and State Democracy Defenders Action, provides funding to leading progressive election attorney Marc Elias and his lawsuits, and is funded itself by progressive billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Action Fund.
Jennifer Wright, who previously headed up the Election Integrity Unit civil side under Attorney General Mark Brnovich, posted on X, “Why does it not surprise me to find that former ‘Republican’ Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer is ON THE BOARD of Marc Elias’s project to undermine @realDonaldTrump’s presidency? https://statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/#people”
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I think what we can learn here is that we are guests in this landscape.”
– Marissa Christiansen, Executive Director of the Climate and Wildfire Institute, Los Angeles
If you’re looking for one sentence that encapsulates the mentality and premise that underlines mainstream environmentalism in America today, these words from Marissa Christiansen, quoted in the closing paragraphs of a recent article “The Lost City” in New York Magazine, are a top candidate.
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The Trump administration has warned America’s schools and universities that they have to get rid of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies or they run the risk of losing federal funding.
The Department of Education put out a memo Friday that said schools had to stop using “racial preferences” when considering hiring in admissions, financial aid or other areas, according to The Associated Press.
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