Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, said the protests unfolding nationwide against federal law enforcement carrying out immigration operations are being subsidized by American taxpayer money via nonprofit and NGO funding.
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New documents obtained by The Ohio Star reveal that Attorney General Dave Yost participated in an all-expense-paid trip to France that was organized by the nonprofit Attorney General Alliance (AGA), which received more than $3 million in donations from Pfizer’s political action committee over less than a decade.
These documents, including an event programming and email correspondence between Yost’s office and AGA, reveal previously unreported details about the conference, including that Yost submitted an invoice for $12,184.60 to be reimbursed by AGA for his and his wife’s flights to France.
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Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) earlier this month announced new principals and executives for the 2025-26 school year, which included the promotion of Dr. David Martin to serve as the executive director of the MNPS Support Hub.
While the MNPS press release published on June 3 described Martin as “an experienced educational leader with more than 15 years in district and state-level administration,” it did not note that Martin resigned in 2021 from his new role as superintendent of the Alamont School System in Illinois after just six days, when concerns were raised about his past career as an openly gay professional wrestler, as well as his appearance on “The Jerry Springer Show,” which was reported in 2001.
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The Center for Transyouth Health and Development (CTYHD) at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), one of the largest youth transgender clinics in the nation, is shutting its doors due to increasing pressure from the Trump administration, The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
CTYHD — which has provided transgender-related procedures such as puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries to thousands of minors — will close on July 22, according to internal emails reviewed by The Los Angeles Times. Hospital leadership cited “increasingly severe impacts of federal administrative actions and proposed policies” against transgender procedures performed on minors.
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Far-left Democratic New York State Rep. Zohran Mamdani, once a long-shot candidate, appears to have emerged as a top contender in the New York City mayoral race — with disgraced former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo no longer viewed as the sole frontrunner.
While several recent polls have shown Cuomo leading ahead of the June 24 the Democratic primary, one survey showed Mamdani, an open socialist, ahead by 4 percentage points. The two men, along with five other candidates, clashed during the final New York City Democratic mayoral debate on Thursday night, with both Cuomo and Mamdani facing heated attacks from each other as well as some of the lower-polling candidates.
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The Department of the Interior (DOI) moved to repeal a Biden-era regulation on coal mining on Thursday.
The 2024 rule enacted under former President Joe Biden added additional regulations on the coal industry and gave the federal government more power to conduct reviews on states for potential rule violations. Biden cracked down on the coal industry by enforcing stringent regulations on coal-fired power plants and blocking new federal leases on coal mining, though President Donald Trump has moved to boost the coal industry, arguing that the power source is vital for the grid and national security.
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A federal appeals court quickly halted a lower court’s order directing President Donald Trump to turn over control of the National Guard to California Thursday night.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Trump to keep the National Guard in Los Angeles at least through Tuesday, when it scheduled a hearing to consider the issue.
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Twenty-five cities across Tennessee will participate in the “No Kings” protest on Saturday.
This nationwide protest is scheduled on Flag Day, when President Donald Trump is hosting a military parade to commemorate the Army’s 250th anniversary.
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Kilmar Abrego Garica, the citizen of El Salvador deported by the Trump administration in March, pleaded not guilty in a federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday, after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged him with participating in a criminal conspiracy to smuggle illegal immigrants throughout the country for nearly a decade.
Scheduled to be arraigned at 10 a.m. on Friday, Abrego Garcia reportedly appeared remotely from Putnam County Jail via a video stream, officially entering his not guilty plea at 10:12 a.m., when The Tennessean said the crowd of protesters outside the Fred D. Thompson Courthouse reached approximately 100.
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The Davidson County Republican Party (GOP Nashville) is set to celebrate President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday this weekend by coordinating a “Trump Train” convoy from South Nashville to the Harley Davidson store in Columbia.
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Curbing illegal immigration, increasing border security, and deporting illegal criminals are important pillars on which President Donald Trump won the popular vote, and border security continues to be one of the president’s greatest strengths according to new public opinion data.
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The masked man on the motorcycle, the one who waved a Mexican flag in front of a torched car as Los Angeles police stood by, will soon be famous. His identity remains unknown, his image iconic – but for all the wrong reasons.
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General Motors (GM) quietly backed away from its high-profile pledge to phase out gasoline-powered vehicles over the next decade, effectively abandoning the electric vehicle (EV) transition it once championed, E&E News reported Thursday.
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