An 80-year old retired nurse practitioner who specialized in psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center was arrested and charged on Monday after being carried out of a Tennessee Senate committee meeting by Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers.
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Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) confirmed through the report published upon the conclusion of its investigation into the Covenant School shooting that Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the biological female who identified as a transgender man when she killed six on March 27, 2023, left a “will” that contained specific instructions for the “distribution” of key personal items, including her “possessions, thumb drives, writings, and artwork.”
This fact seemingly contradicts the previous claim made in probate court by the killer’s parents, Ronald and Norma Hale, whose attorney stated in a June 2023 court filing that their daughter did not have a will and died intestate.
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Internal FBI documents obtained by independent journalist Breanna Morello via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, suggest the agency’s Behavioral Analysis Unit-1 (BAU-1) was enlisted by the FBI’s Memphis Field Office to assist with its investigation into Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale on March 30, 2023, just three days after Hale, who identified as a transgender man at the time of her death, claimed the lives of six at the Nashville school she once attended on March 27.
The documents, which are heavily redacted and pertain to evidence gathered by the FBI’s field office in Memphis and BAU-1 pursuant to the Covenant investigation, were provided to The Tennessee Star on Friday.
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Ford Motor Company announced on Thursday it is offering “employee pricing” for all U.S. consumers. Dubbed “Ford Motor Company: From America, For America,” the program effectively drops the price of new Ford and Lincoln vehicles by thousands of dollars.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, called out the Metro Nashville Police Department’s (MNPD) lack of interest and work in obtaining the full mental health record of 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the self-identified transgender man who carried out the Covenant School shooting on March 27, 2023.
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Homicide detectives with the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) “abandoned” efforts to obtain the complete mental health records for Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the biological female who identified as a transgender man when she killed six at the Covenant School on March 27, 2023, after internal case files were obtained by The Tennessee Star and “Louder with Crowder” months after the attack.
MNPD closed its investigation and released its final case file on Wednesday, more than two years after the attack that claimed the lives of three 9-year-old students and three staff members at the Covenant School, which revealed that law enforcement “abandoned” efforts to obtain medical records from Hale’s final therapist, as well as those from an eating disorder clinic where the killer attended an intensive outpatient program in 2017, over unspecified leaks to the media.
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Commodities prices and interest rates collapsed across the board following President Donald Trump’s Wednesday announcement of reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trade partners despite Congressional Democrats’ predictions that inflation would increase as a result of the tariffs.
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Republican Utah Rep. Burgess Owens introduced legislation Thursday to codify President Donald Trump’s executive orders protecting children from radical gender ideology.
The “Say No to Indoctrination Act” would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to prohibit federal funds from going towards schools teaching or advancing “radical ‘gender ideology,’” according to the bill’s text first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The bill would also affirm that there are only two sexes and that “Gender identity” has no basis in reality.
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President Donald Trump rolled out his controversial array of reciprocal tariffs on nations around the world, but a lesser reported element of his new trade policy is the removal of a tax exemption for Chinese packages sent from companies like Shein and Temu into the U.S.
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Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, said allowing members of Congress to vote on legislation via proxy raises concerns under Article I, Section 5, Clause 1 of the Constitution.
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Federal law enforcement officials arrested a Texas man after he allegedly threatened to harm deportation officers and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem herself.
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What happened in the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday afternoon can’t be underestimated, an undeniable shot heard throughout the world of global trade. President Donald Trump imposed a nearly universal 10% tax on most foreign products entering the United States, and in so doing ended the era of free trade.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposed sweeping 10% tariffs on all imports, vowing his historic “Liberation Day” strike would rebalance global trade, reduce the national debt and “supercharge” the U.S. economy to the benefit of long-suffering American workers.
“American steel workers, auto workers, farmers and skilled craftsmen,” Trump told a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House.”We have a lot of them here with us today. They really suffered, gravely. They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream.
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Throughout the developed world, birth rates have crashed. But the “population bomb” that author Paul Ehrlich warned us about in the 1970s still exists; it’s just confined to the nations with the lowest per capita income. The correlation is almost perfect. The average number of children per woman in extremely poor nations is still extremely high.
For example, births per woman in Niger stand at a world-leading 6.6, which means that every generation the population of that nation will more than triple. Meanwhile, the per capita income in Niger, even based on purchasing power parity, stands at a dismal $2,084 per year. Exponential national population growth is occurring across most of the African continent, where in 1950, the population was estimated at around 225 million compared to an estimated 1.5 billion today. By 2050, Africa’s population is estimated to rise to 2.5 billion and is not estimated to level off until 2100 at nearly 4 billion people.
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The progressive fundraising platform ActBlue changed its donation policies twice during the 2024 election cycle to make its standards “more lenient” and received donations from foreign sources, a congressional investigation has found.
Three House Committees launched probes last year after reviewing evidence that the platform accepted donations from foreign sources and employed lax verification standards.
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Recently, Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson once again chose to put personality over policy and disrupt a committee hearing in a way that was extremely counterproductive. His outrage, which included talking over the chairman of the committee and physically getting in the face of Rep. Andrew Farmer, had nothing to do with being a statesman; but everything to do with creating chaos and making headlines along the way – which unfortunately is his modus operandi.
Nationally, the same can be said for Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett who recently demeaned Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and also advocated for violence, including against Elon Musk. Thankfully, Tennessee Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger spoke up against both Congressman Crockett and Rep. Pearson.
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