The Department of Education announced a sweeping reduction in force (RIF) that will cut nearly 50% of its workforce, marking a significant step in what officials describe as the agency’s “final mission” under the Trump administration. The move, impacting approximately 1,950 employees, will see affected staff placed on administrative leave starting as early as Friday, March 21.
Read the full story
The arrest of terrorist-sympathizing former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil is part of a larger effort to root out antisemitism from American universities, The Daily Signal has learned.
Read the full story
Craig Huey, California refugee and marketing expert, offered a solution that Congress could pursue to bar activist leftist judges from issuing rulings designed to block executive actions made by President Donald Trump.
Read the full story
The Tennessee State House’s K-12 Subcommittee on Tuesday advanced House Bill (HB) 793 by Majority Leader William Lamberth (R-Portland), which would allow school districts to decline enrollment to those who are in the United States illegally.
Lamberth’s legislation would specifically authorize any Tennessee public or charter school system the option to “enroll, or refuse to enroll, a student who is lawfully present in the United States.”
Read the full story
U.S. Representative Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-01) said on Monday that the continuing resolution (CR) proposed by Republicans in the House that would freeze government funding levels while extending funding for six months is a “very good” opportunity for Congress to begin reversing the trend of unchecked spending in the federal government, showing that President Donald Trump is leading the national agenda toward cuts.
During a Tuesday appearance on “The John Fredericks Show,” Harshbarger said the CR represented an effort to freeze government spending ahead of future cuts suggested to Congress by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Read the full story
The Tennessee Star learned on Tuesday from sources familiar with the situation that former State Senator Brian Kelsey was officially pardoned by President Donald Trump.
Sources confirmed to The Star that Kelsey was released from the Federal Correctional Institute in Ashland, Kentucky on Tuesday, and that the former state lawmaker was in the process of reuniting with his wife at press time.
Read the full story
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Premier of Ontario, Canada Doug Ford will meet in Washington D.C. on Thursday to discuss a “renewed” United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade deal.
Read the full story
In response to posts on X by Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) about his trip to Ukraine, X owner Elon Musk called him a “traitor” on Monday. In a thread of posts, Kelly reiterated his support for continuing to fund Ukraine in its war with Russia instead of winding the war down, and attacked President Donald Trump multiple times in the thread.
Last week, Trump engaged in tense negotiations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, resulting in a shouting match at the White House and Trump pausing intelligence sharing with Ukraine. Musk, who is working closely with Trump to cut down on bloated spending within the federal government through DOGE, has been highly critical of continuing to fund the war and prefers negotiating a peace agreement.
Read the full story
The University of Tennessee is one of 60 universities and colleges across the nation that have been sent a letter by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) warning that they could face consequences if they do not “fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus.”
Read the full story
Republican South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden signed a bill Thursday banning the use of eminent domain for carbon dioxide pipelines, ensuring land protections for farmers across the state.
Read the full story
Federal immigration authorities arrested several hundred criminal migrants in a massive Houston operation that spanned only several days.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 646 illegal migrants, 543 of which were foreign nationals charged or convicted of a criminal offense and living unlawfully in the United States, according to a press release from the agency. The extensive operation — which was conducted in the Houston, Texas, area from Feb. 23 to March 2 — was the latest in the Trump administration’s mission to arrest and deport criminal illegal migrants from the country.
Read the full story
The new U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated 12 leases across Tennessee totaling more than $6.2 million in annual lease costs.
Read the full story
Tennessee U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) is reportedly pushing for a provision to decrease the number of available Special Immigrant Visas for Afghans in exchange for his vote on the continuing resolution to temporarily fund the government over a six-month period.
Read the full story
A bill that would rename the Nashville International Airport after President Donald Trump received a bipartisan thumbs down from a committee in the Tennessee House of Representatives on Monday.
Read the full story
House Republicans over the weekend unveiled a last minute stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown that includes additional funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to jumpstart the mass deportations that President Donald Trump promised on the campaign hustings.
Read the full story
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser recently announced a coalition of 38 attorneys general and the Department of Justice have proposed a final package of remedies to end Google’s monopoly over internet search engines.
The remedies would include requiring Google to divest Chrome, as well as potentially other assets like Android if the initial remedies fail “to address the marketplace harms or if Google undermined the effectiveness of the decree.”
Read the full story
Attorney General David Yost on Monday joined a push for the U.S. Congress to allow for yearlong sales of E15 gasoline, a fuel blend for modern vehicles from which 15 percent is derived through renewable agricultural sources and 85 percent through normal gasoline, arguing bipartisan legislation submitted recently to accomplish this goal would benefit Ohio farmers and the rest of the country.
“Ohio’s motorists, farmers and energy providers all stand to gain from this proposal,” Yost said in a statement published by his office. “It’s good for our state’s economy, and it’s a key step toward energy independence for our country.”
Read the full story
An Arizona Court of Appeals panel ruled unanimously 3-0 last week that Secretary of State Adrian Fontes illegally made revisions to the state’s Election Procedures Manual (EPM) due to violating rulemaking procedures.
The Republican Party — the Arizona Republican Party (AZGOP), the Republican National Committee, and the Yavapai County Republican Party — sued Fontes over the illegal changes. Even though progressive election attorney Marc Elias and top Democratic law firm Perkins Coie represented the defendants, the court found that the 2023 version of the EPM was invalid since Fontes only provided half the time for public comment that Arizona’s Administrative Procedures Act (APA) requires.
Read the full story
Former Clinton strategist James Carville has reinvented himself at age 80 as a sage Democrat podcaster. His predictions—remember, a victorious Kamala Harris?—are usually wrong. He enjoys engaging in public duels with celebrities to gain online clicks and media appearances.
Yet sometimes he appears judicious in his effort to return his party to the Clinton glory days of 1992-2000, before the takeover of the party by the lunatic left. That said, he too has become part of the new left nihilism he supposedly despises.
Read the full story
Medical school mission statements are becoming increasingly laden with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and social justice language, a report released Monday found.
Do No Harm, a medical advocacy organization working to keep DEI and other political topics out of medicine, reviewed 158 medical school mission statements and found that 77% could be classified as “woke” in 2024, a number that increased substantially from 68% in 2021, according to a report first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. The report also found that “Higher ranked medical schools were more likely to increase the wokeness of their mission.”
Read the full story
Country singer-songwriter Tyler Rich last week released his sophomore album, Hello California. This 10-track independent project tells the story of a California native who found his voice in Nashville. It’s the first half of a double album, with the second half set to be released later this year.
I first became aware of Rich when Sirius XM’s The Highway played his debut song, “The Difference,” in 2019. A few months later, the singer released “Leave Her Wild,” which went to No. 1, and I went out of my way to get an interview with him.
Read the full story
I have long been a fan of Taylor Hughes since I first interviewed her in 2021.
Her rich contralto adds a unique depth to her songs, making them resonate with listeners who enjoy the blend of truth and grit, all with an authentic Southern drawl.
Read the full story