Day: May 20, 2025

Biden Spokesperson Says Former President Was Never Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer Before Last Week

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Joe Biden

A spokesperson for former President Joe Biden on Tuesday pushed back on speculation that the former president was previously diagnosed with prostate cancer, and that his White House had hidden his condition.

Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer on Friday, which had already spread to his bones. The form of cancer, which is characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5), is not untreatable but is incurable. The cancer does appear to be hormone-sensitive, which allows for effective management.

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Bill Banning Birth Tourism Filed amid White House’s Push to End Birthright Citizenship

Tom Pappert
new born baby

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) filed legislation on Tuesday that would specifically prohibit birth tourism. Blackburn said her bill would complement the effort by President Donald Trump to end birthright citizenship.

The Ban Birth Tourism Act would amend the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act to include provisions specifically stating that any foreigner seeking entry to the United States for “the primary purpose of obtaining United States citizenship for a child by giving birth to such child is inadmissable,” closing what Blackburn’s office called a loophole that allows wealthy foreigners to purchase American citizenship for their children.

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Congressman Andy Ogles Says Nashville Mayor ‘Enabling Nashville Liberals’ to ‘Obstruct ICE’ amid Call for Congressional Probes

Tom Pappert
Aftyn Behn

U.S. Representative Andy Ogles on Tuesday highlighted videos recently uploaded to social media by State Representative Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville), during which the state lawmaker appears to take credit for briefly impeding the recent joint immigration enforcement operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP). 

According to Ogles, such behavior is enabled within Metro Nashville by Mayor Freddie O’Connell.

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Department of Education Says Nomination Process for Penny Schwinn Remains Ongoing

Tom Pappert
Penny Schwinn

The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday told The Tennessee Star Penny Schwinn remains the White House nominee to serve as the Deputy Secretary of Education, stating that contrary information given to The Star is false.

This suggests Schwinn, the former Tennessee Commissioner of Education, has been waiting more than four months for approval by the U.S. Senate. She was nominated to serve under Education Secretary Linda McMahon on January 18. 

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Parental Rights Groups Sue Colorado over Mandating Trans Pronouns

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Jared Polis

Parental rights groups filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado on Monday over a newly-signed law forcing people to use transgender individuals’ preferred name and pronouns or risk investigations, lawsuits and fines.

Democrat Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed the law on Friday which declares “deadnaming and misgendering” as “discriminatory acts” prohibited by the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. Defending Education, Do No Harm and others allege the law violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments and “cannot stifle viewpoints it doesn’t like simply because it finds those views offensive or disagreeable.”

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Illegal Migrants Can Now Book Their Own Deportation Flights

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ICE Flights

The Trump administration on Monday conducted a first-of-its-kind voluntary deportation flight, transporting dozens of migrants who sought to self-deport rather than face forced removal.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assisted with transporting 68 participants back to their home counties of Honduras and Colombia under Project Homecoming, according to a press release from the administration. The illegal migrants were offered generous incentives for participating: a free flight, a $1,000 stipend and a chance to, someday in future, return to the U.S. legally.

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FDA Plans to Require Clinical Trials Before Approving Annual COVID Vax Boosters for Healthy People

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Vaccine COVID

Food and Drug Administration plans to require new clinical trials before approving annual COVID-19 vaccine boosters for healthy Americans under 65 years old.

The plan appears in a paper published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s vaccine chief, wrote any new COVID shot must undergo placebo-controlled clinical trials, NBC News reported.

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President Signs Legislation Criminalizing ‘Revenge Porn’

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Donald Trump and Melania Trump

Members of Congress and others gathered in the White House Rose Garden Monday for President Donald Trump’s ceremonial signing of first-of-its-kind federal legislation to criminalize “revenge porn,” or the sharing of nonconsensual explicit images online.

First Lady Melania Trump actively advocated for the bill – which received near-unanimous support in Congress – as part of her Be Best initiative, a public awareness campaign focusing on the well-being, online safety and opioid abuse prevention for children. Trump largely credited her with the legislation’s passage.

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Doctors Say Biden Likely Had Cancer in Office, Scrutiny on Mental Decline Ramps Up

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Joe Biden

Several doctors seem to be part of the developing consensus that former President Joe Biden’s advanced prostate cancer likely began several years ago — in the midst of his presidency — raising further concerns about an administration that fought against transparency in the decision-making and health concerns of its chief executive. 

Joe Biden’s diagnosis with “aggressive” metastatic prostate cancer, which was announced by his personal office on Sunday, comes just about four months after the former president left office in January. It also comes as the former president and his staff are battling scrutiny again over the administration’s lack of transparency about apparent memory issues and fitness for office. 

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Secretary Linda McMahon: Federal Education Grants to Prioritize Reading, Choice, and State Leadership

Kaitlin Housler

U.S. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon is proposing that the first three priorities for discretionary grant programs administered by the federal education department under the Trump administration should promote evidence-based literacy, expanding education choice, and returning education to the states.

The Department of Education’s discretionary grant programs are federal grants awarded at the Department’s discretion rather than through mandatory funding, allowing the administration to “align discretionary grant competitions with its priorities.”

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Majority of Fentanyl, Known, Suspected Terrorists Coming Through Northern Border

The Center Square
Fentanyl

Because the U.S., working with Mexico, has practically shut down illegal border crossings at the southwest border, fentanyl trafficking and known or suspected terrorists are primarily coming through the northern border from Canada, FBI Director Kash Patel says.

The Trump administration in its first few months “has sealed the border,” Patel said, referring to the southwest border, in an interview with Fox News Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “So where’s all the fentanyl coming from still? Where’s the trafficking coming from still? Where are all of the narco traffickers going to keep bringing this stuff into the country? The northern border.”

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Senate President Warren Petersen Holds Campaign Kickoff for Attorney General with Rep. Andy Biggs, Law Enforcement

Rachel Alexander
Warren Petersen

State Senate President Warren Petersen held a packed campaign party Saturday, launching his bid to challenge Attorney General Kris Mayes in 2026. Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ-05), who is running for governor against Katie Hobbs, attended and spoke to hundreds of attendees, as did several sheriffs and Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller. 

Yavapai County Sheriff David Rhodes said it was “time to take back Arizona’s executive offices” from the Democrats. He said the current elected officials were “not there when you need them.” In contrast, he said Petersen has been there for sheriffs, sponsoring bills like the Arizona ICE Act to crack down on illegal immigration. Hobbs vetoed that bill. In contrast, he said Biggs has pledged to sign it on day one of becoming governor. 

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New Law in Arizona Requires 18+ ID or Age-Verification System to Access Online Pornographic Sites

Rachel Alexander
Young Man on Laptop

Arizona joined 21 other states last week to require an ID for Arizonans in order to view pornographic sites on the internet. HB 2112, sponsored by Representative Nick Kupper (R-Surprise) and signed into law by Governor Katie Hobbs, requires Arizonans who access the online smut sites to prove they are at least 18 by providing a government-issued ID or using an age-verification system that relies on “transactional data.” The bill passed along party lines, with only one Democrat in the State Senate and two Democrats in the State House voting yes. 

“Arizona families have had enough,” said Kupper in a press release from the Arizona House of Representatives. “Hardcore pornography has been just one click away from kids for too long, and the companies behind it have looked the other way while cashing in. This law forces them to take responsibility and keeps minors off their platforms.”

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