Day: May 26, 2025

Department of Justice Drops Biden-Era Investigation into Memphis Police Department

Tom Pappert
Memphis Police Officer

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division (CRD) last week announced it would terminate and retract the findings of the Biden administration’s multiple investigations into various law enforcement agencies for alleged civil rights abuses, including the Memphis Police Department (MPD), which was urged last year to enter into a consent decree with the federal government.

A DOJ press release announced the decision last Wednesday. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said the move would reverse a “failed experiment” undertaken by officials working under former President Joe Biden.

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Trump Threatens to Strip Harvard of $3 Billion in Grants and Give Money to Trade Schools

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Donald Trump Harvard

The conflict between the Trump administration and Harvard University took a new turn Monday as President Donald Trump threatened to take some $3 billion in federal grants from the university and redirect them to trade schools.

This follows the earlier freezing of $2.2 billion in grants, based on concerns over antisemitism on campus. Trump is now accusing Harvard of being “very slow” to turn over information on foreign students, according to Fox News. 

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Trump Honors America’s Fallen Heroes in Memorial Day Speech at Arlington National Cemetery

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President Donald Trump gave a Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery, where he paid tribute to America’s fallen service members. He pledged to “never forget out debt” to those who served this country in uniform. 

“We certainly know what we owe to them,” the president said during his address, according to the New York Post. “Their valor gave us the freest, greatest, and most noble republic ever to exist on the face of the earth, a republic that I am fixing after a long and hard four years.”

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Congressman Fleischmann Explains ‘Tightening Up’ Medicaid Requirements, ‘Not Hurting People’ After House Passes ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

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Chuck Fleischmann

U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN-03) said the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which was narrowly passed by the House of Representatives last week, will make necessary cuts to federal programs that will allow them to continue to exist into the future, while also preventing significant tax increases scheduled to occur when the Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts of 2017 expires later this year.

Fleischmann specifically said that the planned changes to Medicaid involve changing work requirements, which will ensure that government-funded health insurance goes to those in need, during his Friday remarks to NewsChannel 9.

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Protesters Pound on Tennessee Capitol Windows as Congressman Andy Ogles Blasts Mayor for ‘Reckless Rhetoric’ on Immigration

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Andy Ogles protest

Protesters were recorded pounding on the windows of the Tennessee State Capitol by U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) on Monday as he held a “Stop the Invasion” press conference inside, where he was joined by various Tennessee lawmakers who expressed support for the efforts by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to remove illegal immigrants from the Volunteer State.

Ogles held the press conference after his requests for congressional probes into Mayor Freddie O’Connell over the city’s response to the recent ICE immigration enforcement operation in Nashville, which saw nearly 200 arrests. O’Connell’s response included an executive order requiring Metro employees to inform him and the Office of New Americans of any contact with federal immigration officials, and the announcement of a new “Belonging Fund” to raise money for immigrants.

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Tennessee University Hit with Civil Rights Complaint over 17 Race-Based Scholarships

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Middle Tennessee State University

Middle Tennessee State University is facing a federal civil rights complaint alleging it offers 17 scholarships that “discriminate based on race, color, and/or national origin.”

One example cited in the complaint is the Whitney Stegall scholarship, which states, “Preference will be given to students who are African-American or Native- American.”

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Female Softball Player Injured by Male Pitcher Sues Minnesota to Keep Males Out of Her Games

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Males that identify as the opposite sex and compete in girls’ sports have dominated swimming, track, pole vaulting, powerlifting, basketball and volleyball, to name a few, sometimes severely injuring females including Payton McNabb and unidentified players in a professional hockey tournament and college field hockey.

Deep-blue states that require coed competition in the name of transgender equity are now facing a two-front battle against the White House and in court, and pressure from all-time great athletes, even as they threaten school districts that segregate sports by sex.

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VA Greets Veterans with Good News This Memorial Day: 10 New Medical Facilities

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Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins, highlighted for Memorial Day what he called progress that the Trump administration was making at the agency, including the opening of 10 new medical facilities. Collins made the announcement on social media earlier this month.

“We’re continuing the work that has been done over the last few years,” Collins said on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. “Some of this even goes back to the first Trump administration–making sure these facilities are getting open, [including] newer facilities.

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Man Arrested After Car Plows into Pedestrians During Liverpool Football Club’s Victory Parade

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CNN   UK police have arrested a man after a car plowed into Liverpool fans during the soccer club’s Premier League trophy parade on Monday evening. “The man arrested is a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area,” Merseyside police said in a statement, urging people not to speculate on the circumstances of the incident. The local police force previously said they were contacted just after 6 p.m. local time (1 p.m. ET) “following reports a car had been in collision with a number of pedestrians” in the city center. READ THE FULL STORY                 

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Bongino Says FBI Looking at ‘A Number of Cases of Potential Public Corruption’

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The Hill   The FBI’s No. 2 official said Monday the agency had either reopened or shifted resources toward “a number of cases of potential public corruption,” including the leaked Supreme Court draft decision on abortion and an incident involving cocaine found at the White House during former President Biden’s term. “Shortly after swearing in, [FBI Director Kash Patel] and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest,” Dan Bongino, the FBI’s deputy director, said in a post on social platform X.   “We made the decision to either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention, to these cases,” he added. “These cases are the DC pipe bombing investigation, the cocaine discovery at the prior administration’s White House, and the leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case.” READ THE FULL STORY                 

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Moldovan National Allegedly Tied to Antioch High School Shooting Extradited by DOJ

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Michail Chkhikvishvili

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday extradited a Moldovan national and alleged cult leader who allegedly authored a manifesto meant to inspire antisemitic and racist attacks, and was an alleged source of inspiration for Solomon Henderson, who killed a fellow student before taking his own life at Antioch High School earlier this year.

Michail Chkhikvishvili, a 21-year-old citizen of Tblisi, Moldova, was extradited on Friday according to a DOJ press release, which revealed the alleged cult leader is also known as Mishka, Michael, Commander Butcher, and Butcher.

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Catholic Charities of Nashville to Lay Off over 50 Workers After Trump ‘Effectively Dismantled the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program’

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Judy Orr, Executive Director of Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Nashville

Catholic Charities of Nashville announced last week a major “restructuring” of the nonprofit’s activities after President Donald Trump and his administration “effectively dismantled the U.S. refugee resettlement program,” impacting its bottom line.

Judy Orr, the executive director of Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Nashville, confirmed last Wednesday that the nonprofit, “is undergoing a major restructuring, necessitated by recent federal funding cuts which effectively dismantled the U.S. refugee resettlement program.”

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