A straw poll conducted during the Davidson County Republican Party’s annual summer picnic on Saturday found U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to be the favorite candidate among Republicans in the 2026 gubernatorial election.
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The YMCA removed several webpages outlining policies that allow boys who identify as girls to access female cabins, showers and locker rooms following backlash from a national parent group.
The takedown came days after the American Parents Coalition published a warning to families Wednesday about YMCA summer camps permitting biological males into private spaces designated for girls. The now-removed materials — which were archived — included guidelines encouraging staff to affirm “gender identity” over sex and to withhold such information from parents.
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A few Democrat officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people.
The Biden administration killed what was left of it in a number of ways.
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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a stay granted on Wednesday requiring the Trump administration to continue paying grants to Voice of America (VOA) grantees. The cuts were led by Kari Lake, who was appointed as advisor to the acting CEO of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees VOA.
Lake posted on X after the ruling, “Judges are trying to take the authority away from the President to run executive branch agencies. This is a gross encroachment on the President’s Article II Powers. The American people voted loud and clear for President Trump and his agenda. We will appeal this ruling as high as possible.” The Trump administration is planning an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court.
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Ashley Brooks, also known as the Georgia Gypsy, is an emerging country powerhouse who grew up and still resides in the North Georgia countryside. And though her dad was in a band, music was not part of her life per se. When Brooks was younger, she was the Georgia State Champion in karate.
As an adult, Brooks was in healthcare. She explained, “I’d be humming something over there while hooking up like an EKG machine or something. My patients were like, ‘You should really be a singer or try out for American Idol.'”
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President Donald Trump accused China on Friday of breaking a short-term trade deal with the U.S.
Earlier this month, the two countries reached a 90-day deal to reduce high tariffs on trade between the world’s two largest economies. The global superpowers agreed to slash tariffs that had been so high that nearly all trade between the two nations stopped. The U.S. reduced its tariffs on China from 145% to 30% while the two nations continued to talk. China cut its levies on U.S. imports from 125% to 10%.
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The Trump administration has created a merit-based hiring plan, ending the use of race, sex, and religion data for diversity, equity, and inclusion purposes in hiring for federal jobs.
The Office of Personnel Management released a “Merit Hiring Plan” that was sent Thursday to heads and acting heads of departments and agencies, directing them to not use race, sex, ethnicity, national origin statistics or “the broader concept of ‘underrepresentation’” to hire or recruit.
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America’s eighth-largest school district handed taxpayer cash to Planned Parenthood to train teachers that biological sex is a “myth,” according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Philadelphia School District (PSD), which oversees almost 200,000 students, paid Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania (PPSP) nearly $40,000 in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HIV grant funds to provide up to 70 trainings which decry biological sex as a “myth,” support medical child sex-changes and normalize men in women’s sports, according to documents obtained by the DCNF through a public records request.
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The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration on Friday to revoke legal status for nearly 500,000 migrants.
The majority allowed Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to end a Biden-era program that gave temporary legal status to 532,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
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Axios The Centers for Disease Control is recommending that children over six months old can get COVID shots after a consultation with a medical provider, contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s push to drop the shots for healthy kids. An update the CDC posted online late Thursday adds a new wrinkle to shifting federal recommendations on the shots, and Kennedy’s efforts to do away with a COVID booster strategy for healthy children. The CDC now says healthy from six months to 17 years old may get COVID vaccines but that decision should be “informed by the clinical judgment of a healthcare provider and personal preference and circumstances.” READ THE FULL STORY
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Washington Examiner President Donald Trump hit his predecessor over autopen use on Friday, predicting that it could become a legendary scandal in time. “I think the autopen is going to become one of the great scandals of all time,” Trump said during an Oval Office press conference with Elon Musk. Republicans allege that former President Joe Biden was not in control of his own administration and that his aides may have been behind executive orders and pardons signed with an automatic pen device. READ THE FULL STORY
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Breitbart President Donald Trump gifted Elon Musk a key to the White House for leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during his send-off press conference in the Oval Office on Friday. Friday marks the end of Musk’s special government employee tenure, which is capped at 130 days. Trump lauded Musk for the work that DOGE has done in exposing waste, fraud, and abuse. “Today, it’s about a man named Elon, and he’s one of the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced. He stepped forward to put his very great talents into the service of our nation, and we appreciate it,” Trump said. READ THE FULL STORY
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Two reports published Friday indicate Democratic activists in Nashville are considering an attempt to recall Metro Nashville Council Member David Benton due to his recent appearance with U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05), as well as a collection of state lawmakers and federal immigration officials, at a press conference announcing the congressional probe into Mayor Freddie O’Connell for his actions in response to federal immigration enforcement.
Both The Nashville Banner and The Tennessee Lookout published reports on Friday claiming a possible recall effort could be underway targeting Benton, with The Lookout specifically reporting that “Nashville Democrats” are behind the effort.
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Lenny Magill, founder and CEO of the GlockStore, previewed the GlockStore’s fifth annual open house event happening this Saturday marking the company’s move from San Diego, California to the Volunteer State during an exclusive interview with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy.
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People who make reckless threats of mass violence in Tennessee may face a felony charge if they are deemed credible.
Governor Bill Lee signed House Bill (HB) 1314 into law last week. State Representative William Lamberth (R-Portland) introduced this bill.
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Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell said during a Friday press conference that he was “puzzled” by the decision by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to designate Nashville a sanctuary city, claiming that the Metro government worked to comply with a Tennessee law banning such cities in the Volunteer State.
The mayor also told reporters he is “not particularly concerned” over the congressional probe unveiled by U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) on Friday, which seeks information from the mayor and Metro Nashville over his actions in response to recent federal immigration enforcement in Tennessee, including O’Connell’s executive order mandating Metro employees report interactions with federal immigration officials, and the new “Belonging Fund” for illegal immigrants which received seed funding from nonprofits awarded Biden-era stimulus money by Nashville.
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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell and the Metro government’s Office of New Americans for publishing the names of federal law enforcement officials and their interactions with local law enforcement and emergency services.
Earlier this month, O’Connell amended his Executive Order 30 to mandate that Metro Nashville employees report contacts with federal immigration officials to him and the Office of New Americans.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified Nashville and Shelby County as Tennessee’s only “sanctuary jurisdictions” actively obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws.
On Thursday, DHS published a list identifying all sanctuary jurisdictions in the U.S. that are “deliberately and shamefully obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws endangering American communities” as mandated by President Donald Trump’s executive order titled, “Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens.”
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U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) on Friday published a letter sent by Congress to Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell, informing the mayor of a congressional probe investigating his actions in response to the recent federal immigration enforcement in Middle Tennessee which netted nearly 200 arrests.
O’Connell, in response to the recent joint operation between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP), signed an executive order requiring rapid Metro Nashville employees to rapidly inform the mayor and the Office of New Americans of any interactions with federal immigration officials. He also announced a new “Belonging Fund,” which received seed money from nonprofits that were awarded millions in Biden-era stimulus money by Metro Nashville.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said he believes the Metro Nashville government, specifically Mayor Freddie O’Connell, realizes it is facing serious legal consequences as a result of its efforts to thwart federal immigration enforcement operations.
O’Connell, following an immigration enforcement operation conducted in Nashville earlier this month that resulted in the arrests of 196 criminal illegal aliens, has worked to shield illegal aliens from law enforcement by launching a “Belonging Fund” to “support immigrants in Nashville during moments of crisis” and by amending his Executive Order 30 to mandate that Metro Nashville employees report contacts with federal immigration officials to him and the Office of New Americans.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged six individuals, including one federal employee, in an alleged multi-million dollar food stamp fraud case.
The defendants allegedly defrauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, according to a press release Thursday from the DOJ. The scam, involving a USDA employee, reportedly amassed over $66 million in transactions through the use of unauthorized Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) terminals at retail locations and with the assistance of fraudulent codes provided by the employee to redeem SNAP uses at stores, the agency stated.
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The crux of the debate centers around whether the Federal government should auction additional portions of the electromagnetic spectrum to private industry, or if it should refrain from doing so in the name of national security.
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A few Democrat officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people.
The Biden administration killed what was left of it in a number of ways.
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For decades, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) operated with the noble promise of bringing affordable, reliable energy to the people of Tennessee. While covering all of Tennessee, it also serves a larger seven state region including portions of Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. However, today it’s clear that TVA – a federal entity – has drifted far from its original mission. What was once a respected public utility has become an unaccountable bureaucracy – plagued by mismanagement, bloated salaries and misplaced priorities – including a focus on green energy and woke policies like fully embracing far-left ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) initiatives and net-zero.
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Tennessee State Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) and U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) toured the new xAI facilities in Memphis housing the company’s Colossus supercomputer on Thursday.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, in a unanimous decision, limited the judicial authority of courts to block infrastructure projects over environmental concerns.
The case, Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, relates to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the requirement that infrastructure projects supported by the federal government have environmental impact statements, Fox News reported.
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The U.S. Department of Justice filed an emergency motion Thursday asking an appeals court to pause a lower court ruling that ordered President Donald Trump to unwind most of his tariffs within 10 days.
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The Tennessee Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury said an organization that provides services to children and families in four counties “failed to retain supporting documentation justifying at least $250,453.33 in questionable credit card charges.”
The Davis House Child Advocacy Center received about 33% of its $5.3 million in funding from government sources during the investigative period, according to the report released Thursday. The audit examined records from January 2020 to August 2024 and looked at two credit cards.
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As Tennessee Lieutenant Governor Randy McNally has yet to comment on the immigration clash between Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell and U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05), who has accused the mayor of aiding and abetting illegal immigrants, The Tennessee Star can report that an aide to McNally appeared in a campaign advertisement for O’Connell a total of eight times.
Still working in McNally’s office today, Adam Kleinheider was appointed the communications director for McNally’s office in 2017, when The Wilson Post noted he previously “ran well-respected political websites for Nashville media outlets WKRN-TV and NashvillePost.com,” before serving as the communications director former Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey.
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Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell did not respond to multiple press inquiries from The Tennessee Star after Metro Nashville was accused of publicly leaking the names of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Homeland Security Investigations officials who participated in the recent immigration enforcement operation that resulted in nearly 200 arrests of illegal immigrants.
O’Connell was accused of leaking the names on Wednesday by U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05), who noted that Metro Nashville published names of DHS and HSI officials to a Nashville data portal affiliated with the Metro Office of New Americans.
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Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell, facing questions over his handling of illegal immigration, thrust an advisory council of local liberal activists into a heated clash with federal and state officials. The move is drawing scrutiny from a Republican-controlled Congress, the Trump Justice Department, and Border Czar Tom Homan over immigration enforcement policies.
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An ongoing effort to reign in property taxes in Ohio continues to move forward.
A bill that moves some power away from the state to local county auditors could receive a floor vote as soon as Wednesday.
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The U.S. Court for International Trade on Wednesday struck down President Donald Trump’s national trade emergency, the reciprocal tariffs he put into effect on April 2 and other tariffs in 2025 including those seeking foreign assist to repel the fentanyl trade, throwing the subsequent tariff negotiations with the United Kingdom, China, India, Japan, South Korea and so forth into chaos.
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A group of Tennessee lawmakers are condemning Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell for publicly leaking the names of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials and their interactions with local law enforcement and emergency services.
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A newly declassified FBI document released by Iowa GOP Senator Chuck Grassley shows that the FBI found the Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr likely lied to Congress about her contribution to the Crossfire Hurricane probe into Donald Trump but was never held accountable by the Justice Department.
The memo, which was declassified by FBI Director Kash Patel after a request from Grassley, shows the bureau assessed that Nellie Ohr likely lied to Congress in her testimony about the genesis of the infamous Steele Dossier, her interactions with Justice Department officials, and knowledge of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
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Arizona State Treasurer Kimberly Yee, who is term-limited, announced on Wednesday that she is running for Superintendent of Public Instruction, challenging incumbent Tom Horne in the Republican primary. Horne, long considered a moderate Republican, recently angered Republicans with his efforts gutting the state’s nationally renowned Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESAs) program.
Yee said in her announcement,
For nearly 30 years, I’ve fought for Arizona families and children, delivering real results. As an education policy expert, I helped write the laws in the 1990s that made Arizona the nation’s leader in school choice. As a former Chair of the Senate Education Committee, I fought to protect children from woke ideology and the kind of big government overreach we’re seeing from the current State Superintendent. As Treasurer, I delivered billions in historic new funding for Arizona classrooms. And as a mom, I have fought tirelessly to protect parents’ rights to ensure every child is able to have the best educational opportunities, no matter what their zip code. Our state’s children and their families are too important to be left paying the price for petty political games and empty campaign promises.
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On May 15, the Manhattan Institute published a brief on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Also known as the Nation’s Report Card, it is the gold standard assessment for measuring American students’ proficiency in various subjects. As a former middle school testing coordinator, I helped administer the exam once and saw the test delivered with the utmost professionalism. Students are randomly selected without cherry-picking, and the test is handled with great attention to detail.
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Tennessee has two funding sources for education, one of which is growing while the other is seeing a drop in revenues.
The growth of sports betting and the decline in Tennessee Lottery revenues became a hot topic of discussion for lawmakers during a special session of the General Assembly in January.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, is warning of potential legal violations tied to Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s recently announced “Belonging Fund” aimed to “support immigrants in Nashville during moments of crisis” amid federal immigration enforcement efforts.
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Federal and state lawmakers in Arizona are responding to news that the state could recoup money spent by the Doug Ducey administration to turn shipping containers into a border wall.
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The D.C. Bar is trying to suspend Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens’ law license over her prosecution of violent rioters at Donald Trump’s first presidential inauguration on January 20, 2017. The bar conducted a disciplinary hearing in March urging a 6-month suspension for the former assistant U.S. attorney, who worked for the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office. The D.C. Bar has been accused of weaponizing the disciplinary system against conservative attorneys, including Trump’s DOJ attorney Jeffrey Clark, his former attorney Rudy Giuliani, his Weaponization Czar Ed Martin, and others.
Muyskens had an unblemished work history and has since quit the legal profession. She was accused in the complaint of violating one of the typical broad, vague ethics rules typically used by state bars to target conservative attorneys, “the duty to refrain from actions that seriously interfere with the administration of justice,” Rule 8.4(d). The other five ethics rules she allegedly violated primarily related to not disclosing some videos to the defense.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that the United States will begin revoking visas held by certain Chinese nationals.
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The United States Court of International Trade on Wednesday unanimously ruled to strike down President Donald Trump’s reciprocal trade tariffs, ruling the president exceeded his authority in doing so.
Trump imposed the tariffs last month on a wide range of countries, which were announced on the dubbed “Liberation Day,” which sought to rebalance global trade, reduce the national debt and “supercharge” the U.S. economy to the benefit of long-suffering American workers.
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Former State Department official Mike Benz told Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson on Tuesday that he believes the “worst of the worst offenders” still receiving funding is the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
President Donald Trump, since his campaign, vowed to gut wasteful government spending in Washington, D.C.
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Governor Bill Lee on Tuesday signed legislation into law making it a felony offense to smuggle illegal immigrants for profit in Tennessee, adding to the laws criminalizing similar behavior in the Volunteer State.
Introduced as Senate Bill (SB) 392 by State Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) and House Bill (HB) 322 by State Representative Chris Todd (R-Madison County), Taylor on Tuesday confirmed the governor signed the legislation into law with a post on the social media platform X.
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The Trump administration is taking North Carolina to court for allegedly failing to maintain a voter registration list compliant with federal laws.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against the state and its Board of Elections, according to a Tuesday press release by the agency. The DOJ is accusing state officials of failing to maintain an accurate voter list in violation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), demanding the names of individuals who did not provide all required information to register to vote be removed from voter rolls.
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Loretta Lynn’s granddaughter, Tayla Lynn, premieres her cover of “You’re Lookin’ at Country” with the Tennessee Star. As part of the Opry’s 100 celebrations, on May 13th, Tayla Lynn sang to honor her Memaw alongside her aunt, Crystal Gayle, and cousin, Emmy Russell.
Tayla Lynn has been a singer/songwriter since the early 2000s and used to sing alongside her famous grandmother. From 2007 to 2012, she sang in the trio Stealing Angels alongside Caroline Hobby and Jennifer Wayne. She moved to Seattle after getting married and having kids, but eventually, she answered the call to perform again, often alongside her grandmother. In 2018, they moved back to Tennessee. She also launched the Twitty and Lynn duo with Conway Twitty’s grandson, Tre Twitty, who were welcomed with open arms as they performed their famous grandparents’ hits.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced a visa restriction policy for any foreigners who censor Americans’ free speech.
“For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights,” Rubio posted on X. “Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans.
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk say the Department of Government Efficiency that he led “is just becoming the whipping boy for everything,” including matters in which the agency was not involved.
Musk made the comment in a Washington Post interview released Tuesday about the agency, which has attempted to significantly reduce the size of the federal government in large part by slashing government jobs and shuttering entire agencies. Such efforts have frequently been met by lawsuits.
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The FBI is investigating possible “targeted violence against religious groups” in Seattle after leftists crashed two Christian events over the past week and dozens of people were arrested, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday.
Seattle police arrested eight people on Tuesday evening on suspicion of assault after an Antifa-style mob clashed with protesters led by the conservative Christian group Mayday USA, The Seattle Times reported. The incident followed a Saturday event hosted by the same religious group in Seattle, where 23 people were arrested in similar clashes, grabbing the FBI’s attention.
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