Day: June 2, 2025

Nashville News Outlets Included in $1.6 Billion Franchise Tax Refund Appear Not to Disclose Windfall

Tom Pappert

The parent companies of at least two Nashville media outlets appear to have received franchise tax refunds as part of the $1.6 billion in rebates signed into law last year. Despite covering the rebates, these outlets did not appear to disclose the windfall it offered their parent companies.

The Tennessee Department of Revenue on Saturday made available the names of thousands of companies who received a franchise tax rebate via a data portal which will only remain active until June 30, revealing the parent companies of The Tennessean and Fox 17 Nashville each received more than $10,000 from the State of Tennessee. 

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Metro Nashville Council Resolution Recognizing ‘Immigrant Heritage Month’ Condemns Arrests of Illegal Aliens

Kaitlin Housler
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A resolution to be debated by the Metro Nashville Council this week to recognize “Immigrant Heritage Month” also condemns last month’s joint operation between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Tennessee Highway Patrol conducted in the city, which saw the arrests of 196 criminal illegal aliens.

The resolution, RS2025-1291, was filed on May 27 and is sponsored by Council Members Terry Vo, Jeff Preptit, Jennifer Gamble, Joy Styles, Antoinette Lee, Kyonzte Toombs, Brandon Taylor, Delishia Porterfield, Zulfat Suara, and Tasha Ellis.

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ICE Director Confirms Agents Now Wearing Masks amid 400 Percent Increase in Threats

Tom Pappert
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Todd Lyons, the Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), clarified on Monday that ICE agents and officers routinely wear face due to the recently announced increase in threats to federal immigration officials, including to their spouses and family members. 

Lyons confirmed the use of face masks by ICE agents during a Monday press conference, explaining the practice began after agents were doxxed during a joint operation with U.S. Secret Service in California earlier this year.

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Shelby County Mayor Complains ‘Due Process Rights Being Flouted’ in Response to DHS Addition to List of Sanctuary Jurisdictions

Tom Pappert
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris on Friday said in a statement that “due process rights are being flouted” by the Trump administration in response to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) classified the county as a sanctuary jurisdiction where law enforcement actively ignores federal immigration officials. 

In response to the DHS classification, Harris said in a statement to local media that Shelby County rejects “cliched labels that try to divide us up and define us,” and disputed that the county is a sanctuary jurisdiction.

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DIA Employee Arrested After Allegedly Attempting to Give Classified Information to Foreign Govt: DOJ

Just the News
Nathan Laatsch

A Defense Intelligence Agency employee was arrested after allegedly attempting to give classified information to a foreign government, according to the Justice Department.

IT specialist Nathan Laatsch, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia, was arrested Thursday for attempting to transmit national defense information to an officer or agent of a foreign government, per the DOJ.

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ICE Arrests Almost 1,500 Illegal Immigrants in Massachusetts

Daily Caller News Foundation
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Federal immigration authorities arrested well over 1,000 illegal migrants during a month-long enforcement operation across Massachusetts.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, working alongside a slate of other federal partners, arrested 1,461 illegal migrants throughout the Bay State during the month of May, the agency announced Monday. Most of the apprehended foreign nationals carried significant criminal histories, such as drug traffickers, sex offenders and murderers.

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U.S. Nuclear Deal Offer Allows Iran to Enrich Uranium

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Axios   The nuclear deal proposal the U.S. gave Iran on Saturday would allow limited low-level uranium enrichment on Iranian soil for a to-be-determined period of time, Axios has learned, contradicting public statements from top officials. White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have said publicly that the U.S. will not allow Iran to enrich uranium and will demand the full dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear facilities. The secret proposal shows far more flexibility on both points. Iran has consistently said it won’t sign any deal that bans enrichment for civilian purposes — a red line that is irreconcilable with the U.S. public posture. READ THE FULL STORY                 

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Colorado Terror Attack Suspect Charged with Hate Crime, Murder, Assault

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Mohamed Sabry Soliman

The suspect in the Colorado terror attack was charged on Monday with a federal hate crime by the Justice Department and with murder and assault by the state.

Egyptian foreign national Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, was arrested after allegedly yelling “Free Palestine” and using a makeshift flamethrower on Sunday to attack participants in an outdoor vigil in Boulder, Colo., for Israeli hostages in Gaza.

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Conservative Candidate Karol Nawrocki Narrowly Wins Poland’s Runoff Presidential Election

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Karol Nawrocki

Conservative candidate Karol Nawrocki this weekend narrowly won Poland’s runoff election for president, according to Monday’s final vote count.

Nawrocki won with 50.89% of the vote, compared to liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski’s 49.11%, the Associated Press reported. Trzaskowski was ahead in an early exit poll released Sunday evening before updated polling showed a reversal.

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Research: AI Chatbots Are more Manipulative than Anyone Thought

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Breitbart   As AI-powered chatbots become increasingly prevalent, concerns are growing about the potential for these tools to manipulate and deceive users. In one study, a recovering addict was encouraged by an AI-powered therapist to take meth to get through the workday. The Washington Post reports that the rapid rise of AI chatbots has brought with it a new set of challenges, as tech companies compete to make their AI offerings more captivating and engaging. While these advancements have the potential to revolutionize the way people interact with technology, recent research has highlighted the risks associated with AI chatbots that are designed to please users at all costs. A study conducted by a team of researchers, including academics and Google’s head of AI safety, found that chatbots tuned to win people over can end up providing dangerous advice to vulnerable users. In one example, an AI-powered therapist built for the study encouraged a fictional recovering addict to take methamphetamine to stay alert at work. This alarming response has raised concerns about the potential for AI chatbots to reinforce harmful ideas and monopolize users’ time. READ THE FULL STORY                    

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White House Blames Biden for Illegal Immigrant Terrorist Attack in Boulder

The Daily Signal
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The Biden administration is to blame for Sunday’s terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, because the former president granted a visa to the illegal immigrant who threw the Molotov cocktail, according to the White House.

“The Biden Admin granted the alien a visa and then, when he illegally overstayed, they gave him a work permit,” said Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff.

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FBI’s Investigation on COVID Coverup Zeroing in on Three Separate Plots

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A sprawling FBI investigation into possible criminal coverups during the COVID-19 pandemic is zeroing in on three separate plots involving the origins of the virus; the hiding and destruction of federal records; and the manipulation of the vaccine approval process and subsequent side effects.

Agents in at least three cities — Cleveland, New York, and Baltimore — are working quickly in the investigation. The investigation was given a legal springboard in a major court ruling holding that China concealed the origins of the COVID-19 virus as well as recent information uncovered by Congress.

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Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Maryland’s Assault Weapons Ban

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CBS News   The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge to Maryland’s ban on so-called assault weapons, leaving intact a lower court ruling that upheld the law. In declining to review the decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, the high court skirts for now a fight over whether the Second Amendment allows states to regulate the rifles that have been used in a wave of mass shootings. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch disagreed with the Supreme Court’s decision to turn away the case. The Supreme Court had already turned away the legal battle over Maryland’s law last year because a federal appeals court had yet to rule. But the 4th Circuit upheld the measure last August, finding that weapons like the AR-15 could be banned in part because they are outside the scope of the Second Amendment. READ THE FULL STORY 

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EJ Haust: Nashville Mayor Obstructing Crucial Law Enforcement Operations with Efforts Supporting Illegal Aliens

Kaitlin Housler
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EJ Haust, a digital marketing expert and official guest host of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, said Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s efforts to help illegal aliens avoid law enforcement are not only undermining federal immigration operations but also obstructing the greater work of law enforcement between state and federal agencies, keeping all Tennesseans safe.

In response to a joint operation between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Tennessee Highway Patrol conducted in Nashville last month which saw the arrests of 196 criminal illegal aliens, O’Connell amended an executive order to mandate that Metro Nashville employees report contacts with federal immigration officials to him and the Office of New Americans – essentially creating an early warning system for immigrants to evade federal immigration enforcement.

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Tennessee Sheriff Links Unpaid Toll Text Scam to Credit Card Fraud by ‘Primarily Chinese Nationals’

Tom Pappert
Sheriff Tom Spangler

The Knox County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) has connected recent unpaid toll scams to a ring of “primarily Chinese nationals” who operate a sophisticated credit card scheme across the country, including in Tennessee.

KCSO on Saturday used social media to warn the public of a new scam it has been monitoring since August of 2024, confirming it has arrested more than 10 individuals for credit card fraud, and that the scam is allegedly pulled off by a ring of mostly Chinese citizens throughout the country.

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