Chris Ruddy, CEO and Chairman of Newsmax, is encouraging Americans to invest in the media company as it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) last month.
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U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Representative Mark Green (R-TN-07) were both honored as Legislator of the Year by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearm industry trade organization, for their efforts opposing the Biden administration’s attempt to impose new rules on gun manufacturers.
In a post to the social media platform X on Wednesday, Green said the two Tennesseans receiving the honor proves, “Tennessee continues to lead the way in protecting our Second Amendment rights.”
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Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) Chief John Drake is under investigation by the department’s Office of Professional Accountability over claims that he engaged in a romantic relationship with a Metro Nashville employee during work hours, the department confirmed to The Tennessee Star on Monday.
MNPD Public Affairs told The Star the complaint naming Drake was filed by Mario Mitchell, a 44-year-old man who was arrested for felony aggravated stalking earlier this month after a woman identified in a police report as his ex-wife, Watechia Lawless-Mitchell, who currently works as the Director of Children and Youth Initiatives for Metro Nashville, filed a police report related to an April 1 incident.
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The Tennessee Star learned on Wednesday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the South American gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) who was deported to El Salvador under President Donald Trump amid legal action claiming the removal was by mistake, was suspected of being engaged in human trafficking by a Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) officer who detained him in his vehicle on December 6, 2022.
The Star learned from a source that Abrego Garcia was driving without a license when he was detained by a THP officer.
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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against the state of Maine after it refused several requests to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive banning males from competing in female sports.
In a joint press conference with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, Bondi said the action was a last resort by the administration after months of warning the state and threatening federal funding.
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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled Wednesday that “probable cause exists” to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt after they violated his orders by continuing deportation flights, according to CNN. The ruling follows the Supreme Court determining that Boasberg’s court was in an improper venue for the case altogether.
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As the U.S. struggles to attract concessions from adversarial nations, Washington appears ready to use those nations’ people within its borders on a visa as an apparent source of leverage.
Under Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the U.S. has already begun revoking visas for pro-Palestinian organizers and international students who joined with them, but the administration now appears to be mulling similar actions against other nations.
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Congressional GOP leaders are demanding a non-profit organization explain how it has used taxpayer money after an undercover video purportedly showed its employees instructing audience members how to avoid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest.
The Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC), a behemoth non-profit group based in New York City, must hand over documentation and communication relating to its immigration seminars and explain how roughly a million dollars in taxpayer funds were used in the past several years, according to a House Homeland Security Committee letter first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The demands come as the Trump administration has made clear that overtly obstructing ICE operations will not be tolerated.
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Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen is expected to be in El Salvador on Wednesday to try to check on a man who was his constituent who was deported to El Salvador.
A Justice Department attorney said in a court filing the deportation was a mistake, but the Trump administration has since disputed that argument.
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ICE announced this week that it has arrested over 1,000 illegal alien workers since President Donald Trump took office on January 20th.
Homeland Security Investigations acting Executive Associate Director Robert Hammer said this is the highest arrest rate in its history.
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California filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his administration, arguing that he lacks the authority to implement widespread tariffs.
On April 2, Trump announced tariffs on countries with which America has a trade imbalance. A week later, except for China, he suspended those tariffs for 90 days. The communist country has a tariff of 145 percent on its goods.
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Paul Teller, executive vice president of Advancing American Freedom, sat down with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy on Tuesday for an exclusive interview to discuss his journey in the conservative political movement through the years and how is working to advance conservative principles through Advancing American Freedom.
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The Trump administration has revoked more than 1,100 foreign student visas since it launched its mission against alleged terrorist sympathizers and antisemitism, according to a report.
A database from Inside Higher Ed indicates a sudden and dramatic rise in orders stripping foreigners of the ability to legally study in the U.S., weeks after Secretary of State Marco Rubio put the number at around 300. Many of the students lost their visas over their alleged anti-Israel or pro-terrorist advocacy and previous criminal records, the outlet said, citing mostly public news reports and university statements.
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Illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia was arrested in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 12 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Allegedly a member of MS-13, he was deported to El Salvador and has resided in El Salvador’s Terrorist Confinement Center for more than a month.
Abrego Garcia’s case has become a cause célèbre on the Left, where Democrats and their open borders allies have peddled the story that he was “mistakenly deported.”
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A Joint Legislative Ad Hoc Committee on Family Court Orders met on Monday to discuss reforming the family court system. The committee focused on complaints about “therapeutic intervention” (TI), when courts order a therapist to deal with parents who have split up. HB 2256, sponsored by State Representative Rachel Keshel (R-Tucson) and amended in a striker bill by State Senator Mark Finchem (R-Prescott), would prohibit a court from ordering a party against their will to pay for and work with one of these individuals.
The hearing was part of a series of hearings looking into family court problems that will extend through the summer. The Arizona Legislature issued a press release about the hearing afterwards. “As a legislator and a mother, I can’t stay silent while Arizona families are being torn apart behind closed courtroom doors,” said Keshel. “What we heard in the committee was heartbreaking — but not surprising. Parents are being silenced, children are being traumatized, and the people responsible hide behind the bench or a therapy license. We have a duty to expose this abuse and fix a system that no longer serves the best interests of the child.”
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Ira Dean comes from a musical family. His brother is Billy Dean, but not that Billy Dean. “It’s a joke because Billy Dean’s royalty checks used to go to my brother,” Ira Dean said. But his brother and father were both very much in the business. His father played guitar, sang, and even had his own radio show when he was 13, so the music business is all Dean’s ever known.
“It was either make it or wear a hairnet and say, ‘Do you want fries with that?'” he joked.
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