The Trump administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism on Monday announced it was freezing $2.2 billion in federal funding for Harvard, after the Ivy League school declared it would not comply with the administration’s demands.
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Records made public by the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office (DSCO) show that 19-year-old Raymundo Juan Reyes Cornelio, who was arrested by Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) on Friday after a 12-year-old allegedly gave birth to his child, is being held in a Davidson County jail after he was requested to be detained for transfer to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
MNPD announced the arrest of Reyes Cornelio by its Youth Services detectives on Friday, confirming he was charged with the rape of an 11-year-old child following, “an investigation that began after the girl gave birth to a boy on February 14.”
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Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu’s 2021 campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a fundraiser who is listed by a Chinese intelligence agency as an official, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.
Gary Yu, the founder of Boston International Media Consulting, helped raise over $300,000 for Wu with the help of a Chinese civic association he leads. However, Yu — whose Chinese name is Yu Guoliang — is listed as an official by an agency of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), and also operates as a recruiter for the Chinese government, according to reports from the CCP, Chinese state media and civic associations led by Yu.
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John Solomon, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Just the News, is calling for the creation of a “transparency czar” within the Trump administration to oversee the public release of documents including the recently-declassified FBI files relating to Crossfire Hurricane.
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The U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) did not respond to multiple press inquiries from The Tennessee Star after the committee reportedly received the 1,299 pages of journals written by transgender Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale from the FBI under Director Kash Patel. Shortly after the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) concluded its investigation into the attack at the Covenant School, where Hale killed six on March 27, 2023, independent journalist Megyn Kelly reported on April 7 that the FBI allowed her to analyze and report the contents of Hale’s writings, while restricting her from publishing the pages. The Star published Hale’s full 2023 journal last September, releasing about 90 pages of her writings from the months before her attack on her former Christian school. Kelly also stated that the FBI, in an effort to engage in transparency, provided the documents to HPSCI so that Congress might review their contents. The Star contacted HPSCI and its chairman, Representative Rick Crawford (R-AR-01), but did not receive a response from the chairman or his committee to its April 8 inquiry. Inquiries to the committee’s vice chairman, Representative Trent Kelly (R-MS-01), and to committee member Representative J. French Hill (R-AR-02), made by…
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Pennsylvania authorities arrested a suspect in connection with the alleged arson of Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence.
Cody Balmer, 38, was charged with attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson, burglary and other related offenses, according to the Dauphin County District Attorney’s office and the police criminal affidavit. The suspect allegedly hopped the fence outside of Shapiro’s Harrisburg home and “actively evaded troopers” who were searching for him before entering the residence, setting it on fire and then leaving, Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said during a Sunday afternoon press conference.
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NBC Montana President Donald Trump on Sunday announced he was launching a lawsuit against CBS and its news program “60 Minutes” over what he claims are “defamatory” stories about him. The show on Sunday aired two stories relating to Trump on the war in Ukraine and the president’s push to acquire Greenland. He responded in a post via Truth Social accusing the show of depicting him “falsely, inaccurately, and fraudulently.” “I am so honored to be suing 60 Minutes, CBS Fake News, and Paramount, over their fraudulent, beyond recognition, reporting,” he wrote. “They are not a ‘News Show,’ but a dishonest Political Operative simply disguised as ‘News,’ and must be responsible for what they have done, and are doing.” READ THE FULL STORY
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President Donald Trump on Monday declined to ask El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to return an El Salvadoran citizen whom authorities mistakenly deported. Bukele, for his part, suggested that to return the man to the U.S. would be to smuggle a terrorist into the United States and that he would not do so.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a citizen of El Salvador, was deported by the Trump administration by mistake, though the Supreme Court ruled that the administration must facilitate his return. During an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Bukele, neither leader committed to returning the man.
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White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is suggesting the White House has as many as 90 pending, renegotiated trade deals with other countries that could be finalized before the end of President Trump’s 90-day pause on the tariffs he imposed on them.
“We’ve got 90 deals in 90 days possibly pending here,” Navarro said Sunday on NBC News. “And it was par for the course, actually it was a birdie for President Trump, to do exactly what he did, which was pause for 90 days. And we’re going to get this done for the American people.”
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The Tennessee State House on Monday passed House Bill (HB) 855 by State Representative Lee Reeves (R-Franklin), which would prohibit counties from using the controversial caucus system, which has historically been opposed by Republicans, to select candidates for county level races.
Amending existing Tennessee law to include county offices among those in which candidates must be nominated through traditional primary elections, as is already required for state and federal offices, the legislation passed with 60 votes in favor and just 25 votes against. The State Senate passed its version, Senate Bill (SB) 799 by Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin), with 27 votes in favor and three against last week.
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The Tennessee General Assembly passed a bill last week that would invalidate out-of-state driver licenses issued exclusively to illegal aliens and make it a misdemeanor offense to operate motor vehicles in the state with such licenses.
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is among a coalition of attorneys general representing 28 states and Guam calling on the Trump administration to crack down on illegal Chinese e-cigarettes being flooded into the U.S.
The attorneys general request the administration’s assistance in operating a “coordinated national effort” to stop the flow of “dangerous illegal products” from China, specifically flavored e-cigarettes, which are often marketed to children.
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Garrett Ziegler, former Trump administration staffer and founder of the nonprofit Marco Polo, sat down for an exclusive interview last week with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy to discuss his group’s publication titled “Report on the Biden Laptop.”
In October 2022, Marco Polo published the comprehensive 630-page report on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop. The report documents hundreds of alleged violations of state and federal laws and regulations, which include business, drugs, and sex-related crimes.
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Former Representative Mike Rogers announced Monday that he is running for the Michigan Senate in 2026.
“President Trump needs strong allies in the Senate to help him deliver on the mandate given by the American people,” he said in his announcement on Facebook.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed another lawsuit last week against the Trump administration over its use of the 1798 Aliens Enemy Act to deport illegal immigrants.
This is the ACLU’s third lawsuit against the administration regarding this issue. The first two were filed in New York and Texas, where judges sided with the left-wing organization.
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The Tennessee Republican Party State Executive Committee (SEC) on Saturday passed a resolution in opposition to legislation that would restrict local officials from replacing traditional primary voting for county officials with caucuses, a system that has historically been opposed by Republicans ranging from President Donald Trump to the late Rush Limbaugh.
An image of the resolution posted to the social media platform X state’s the SEC’s opposition to House Bill (HB) 855 by State Representative Lee Reeves (R-Franklin) and Senate Bill (SB) 799 by Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin), which would require state parties conduct elections to county offices using the same primary method required in most other state and federal elections.
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State Representative Joseph Chaplik (R-Scottsdale) created a stir on the floor of the State House Representatives on Thursday when he accused the Scottsdale Taser company Axon of bribing legislators with funding their reelection campaigns if they vote in favor of legislation benefiting the company. Although the City of Scottsdale has seen a large increase in high-density apartment housing due to the previous left-leaning Scottsdale City Council — which resulted in their ouster by angry voters last election — Axon got legislators to run a bill, SB 1543, that would change zoning laws so it could build 1,900 more high-density apartments by its worksite.
Chaplik said during a meeting of the Committee of the Whole discussing the bill, “I’ve been here five years, and I know long before that when we carve out special legislation for one one special interest to profit, that is wrong. When we let them come here and talk to every one of these members, which I will admit, three or four of them have come to me and said they were essentially offered campaign funds if they vote yes for their next election by the company, please step up and come forward if that’s happened to you. I’ve never seen something so scandalous in my five years down here.”
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The Arizona Supreme Court issued a full opinion last week explaining why the court upheld the suspension of former Maricopa County prosecutor April Sponsel’s law license for two years. The State Bar of Arizona’s disciplinary judge Margaret Downie issued the suspension in December 2023 due to Sponsel prosecuting violent Antifa rioters who were protesting the death of George Floyd, and the Arizona Supreme Court stated last September that the justices would be issuing an opinion agreeing with the suspension.
A prominent former prosecutor told The Arizona Sun Times that this creates a very bad precedent, judges second guessing prosecutors. The opinion appeared to echo much of the Biden administration’s DOJ report about the Phoenix Police Department (PPD). That report, which focused extensively on PPD’s handling of Antifa riots, selectively left out key details exonerating the police and sided with the rioters’ versions of events, treating their statements as facts.
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