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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As President Donald Trump trades barbs with the Kremlin, both the administration and the Senate are mulling imposing tougher sanctions on Putin’s Russia to force the country to the negotiating table and end its war in Ukraine.
Despite reported deliberations inside the second Trump administration, the president has so far declined to ratchet up sanctions on Putin’s regime in the hopes of facilitating good-faith negotiations. The administration’s options in generating incremental financial leverage over Russia are somewhat limited.
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Tennessee State Representative Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville) on Wednesday joined other local elected leaders in a letter accusing President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Justice, and Republican officials across the country of attempting to intimidate local Democrats.
Sent by the progressive activist organization, Local Progress, the letter accuses Trump and other Republicans of attempting to intimidate Democrats through the criminal charges recently filed against U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver (D-NJ-10), who allegedly assaulted federal law enforcement at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in New Jersey.
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Public records reveal that Conexion Americas, the second of three nonprofits Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell and his office said provided seed money to the “Belonging Fund,” used to “support immigrants in Nashville during moments of crisis,” received nearly $1 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money from Metro Nashville over 2023 and 2024.
The 2023 Full Cost Plan published by Metro Nashville revealed Conexion Americas received $394,140 in ARPA money that year, with the entry listed as “Conexion Americas Eviction Serv.” There was no overhead or other expenses reflected in the report, suggesting Metro Nashville merely transferred the money to Conexion Americas.
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Border czar Tom Homan said he plans to visit Nashville in the “near future” to oversee increased immigration enforcement operations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as the city’s mayor, Freddie O’Connell, advances efforts to shield illegal aliens from law enforcement.
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is among a coalition of 28 state attorneys general demanding answers from Meta Platforms, Inc. after reports that the company’s social media artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, known as Meta AI, may expose children to sexually explicit content and allow adults to simulate the grooming of kids.
On Tuesday, the attorneys general sent a letter to Meta Platforms expressing serious concerns about how Meta AI – which is deployed across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp – is reportedly exposing children to sexually explicit content, allowing adult users to engage in sexual role-play with AI personas identifying as minors, and enabling users to create and interact with personas that participate in grooming-like behavior.
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Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, criticized the reporting by so-called “local” Nashville television stations about Monday’s “Stop the Invasion: Defend Tennessee” event hosted by U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) to rally support for immigration enforcement efforts in the Volunteer State.
On Monday, Ogles and various Tennessee lawmakers and victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens spoke in support of the efforts by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to remove illegal immigrants from the Volunteer State during an event held at the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville.
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Nolensville Board of Commissioners will host a special meeting on Thursday to hear feedback regarding a proposal to nearly double its property tax rate.
According to The Williamson Herald, the town is considering increasing the rate from $0.29 per $100 of assessed value to $0.55 per $100.
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Governor Bill Lee signed a bill last week that gives tax benefits to nuclear energy companies.
House Bill (HB) 1133 amends the state tax code to make nuclear energy production facilities eligible for the same type of tax benefits as wind source companies.
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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a bill on Tuesday to create a registry of “persistent domestic violence offenders” within the Tennessee Bureau of investigation (TBI) to be available for public inquiry on the internet, similar to the state’s sex offender registry already in use.
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The Trump administration warned state governments Tuesday that it plans to crack down on Medicaid dollars subsidizing the health care of illegal immigrants.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) warned state officials in a letter that it is “ramping up financial oversight activities” by closely scrutinizing state Medicaid programs to ensure their beneficiaries are American citizens.
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This week, a slew of media outlets have claimed that the housing industry is getting rocked by President Trump’s new tariffs. But is it really?
The reality is that home ownership is coming back into reach for countless American families. Mortgage rates are down. New home applications are surging. And while liberal pundits wring their hands over Trump’s tariffs, they conveniently ignore the common-sense moves this administration is making to lower costs and boost supply.
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In the decades ahead, artificial intelligence has the potential to transform Americans’ lives for the better. From advanced manufacturing and health care to agriculture and finance, this emerging technology is improving efficiency, increasing productivity, and aiding innovation.
As AI develops and relies on more and more data, however, it is imperative that Congress provide guardrails to protect Americans’ intellectual property.
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In President Trump’s inspirational speech to the Department of Justice this spring, he triumphed, “I pardoned hundreds of political prisoners who had been grossly mistreated.” I am forever grateful to President Trump because I am one of those political prisoners.
The president’s speech was more than just a victory lap. It was a call to do better: “We’re turning the page on four long years of corruption, weaponization, and surrender to violent criminals, and we’re restoring fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law.”
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