House Republican leadership on Tuesday promised to work quickly in order to pass President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” and send it to the president’s desk by a self-imposed Fourth of July deadline.
The statement comes after the Senate passed its version of the bill earlier Tuesday, after hours of debate and voting on amendments. The vote-a-rama process took more than 24 hours.
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President Donald Trump nominated four individuals to serve on the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors on Tuesday.
TVA’s nine-member board is nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate. Each member serves a term of five years.
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The Trump administration has released more than 13,000 inadmissible noncitizens into the U.S. in the first four full months of his administration who arrived at ports of entries (POEs) nationwide, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data evaluated by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonpartisan organization founded at Syracuse University.
The data includes case-by-case CBP Office of Field Operations data reported at POEs nationwide in records TRAC obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests.
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A top Republican senator released FBI emails Tuesday appearing to show the bureau did not pursue intelligence indicating Communist China was looking to hijack the 2020 presidential election with a potential mail-in ballot scheme to assist then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
The bureau appeared, based on the emails, afraid it would undercut then-FBI Director Christopher Wray’s assurances to Congress that foreign meddling did not pose a threat to the presidential race.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday identified a murder suspect arrested in Nashville as an illegal immigrant from Honduras who entered the country without inspection by immigration officials more than a decade ago.
An ICE press release revealed Josue Hernandez-Moxje, 23, to be a citizen of Honduras. The agency confirmed he “entered the United States without inspection around 2013 or 2014,” and was arrested in Louisiana after being charged with committing the April the murders Jaime Valdez-Garcia and Amir Wilkerson in Nashville.
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President Donald Trump announced the individuals he is nominating to serve as the U.S. attorneys for the western and middle districts of Tennessee on Tuesday.
The president nominated Braden Boucek to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, while Trump selected David Michael Dunavant to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
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The Air Force and Space Force met their recruitment goals for fiscal year 2025 three months early, the services announced Monday.
The two services have gained a total of 30,000 new recruits so far this fiscal year, already sending 25,000 to basic training, the Air Force said in statement. The Air Force, along with other branches of the armed services, struggled to gain new recruits under former President Joe Biden as his administration prioritized political missions like diversity, equity and inclusion, while the coronavirus pandemic also hurt recruitment.
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Amazon now fields more than one million robots in its warehouses and says parity with its human headcount is coming soon, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Roughly 75% of the e-commerce giant’s global deliveries already involve a robot somewhere along the line, the Journal reported, from wheeled Kiva droids that shuttle shelves to the new Vulcan bot that can “feel” its way through cluttered bins. Average staffing has fallen to about 670 employees per facility, its lowest in 16 years, even as packages handled per worker have soared more than twenty-fold since 2015.
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Bryan Kohberger, the man accused in the Nov. 2022 stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, is due in Latah County Court in Idaho on Wednesday after accepting a deal to plead guilty and avoid the death penalty.
Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were killed at an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13, 2022. All four were repeatedly stabbed in their beds in the early morning hours.
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CBS News The Federal Bureau of Investigation has selected a new headquarters building in Washington, D.C., after nearly two decades of failed attempts to find a permanent new space, the Bureau announced on Tuesday. The FBI has been headquartered in downtown D.C. at the J. Edgar Hoover building since 1975 but structural problems have plagued the building for the last 20 years, leading to redevelopment and relocation projects that until Thursday had not successfully been resolved. “This is a historic moment for the FBI,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement, adding he is “ushering FBI Headquarters into a new era and providing our agents of justice a safer place to work.” READ THE FULL STORY
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Washington Examiner President Donald Trump all but endorsed his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, on Tuesday to run for North Carolina’s open Senate seat in 2026. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), fresh off a public clash with Trump surrounding the president’s gargantuan tax and spending legislation, announced over the weekend that he will not seek reelection in 2026. Trump, who traveled to Ochopee, Florida, on Tuesday morning to visit the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention facility, briefly addressed the race when asked on the return flight to Washington who he wants to be the Republican nominee. Trump previously vowed to back a primary challenger to Tillis before the latter announced he would not seek reelection next year. READ THE FULL STORY
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Axios Ahead of the Fourth of July, a record-low share of U.S. adults — 58% — say they are “extremely” or “very” proud to be an American, according to recent Gallup polling. That’s down 9 percentage points from last year and 5 points below the previous low from 2020. That fall is largely driven by Democrats’ and Independents’ national pride sharply cratering in the first year of the Trump 2.0 era. READ THE FULL STORY
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Tennessee immigration laws passed by the General Assembly earlier this year took effect on Tuesday, including legislation authorizing state grant funding for law enforcement agencies who sign 287(g) agreements to assist U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE), as well as legislation prohibiting illegal immigrants from legally driving in Tennessee, where they are barred from applying for a driver’s license, by using a driver’s license issued by another state.
Among the legislation passed during the special session called by Governor Bill Lee earlier this year was Senate Bill 2, which authorizes the creation of the Centralized Immigration Enforcement Division (CIED) within the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOSHS), where the new division’s chief executive will manage collaboration and communication with federal immigration officials, create statewide immigration enforcement strategies, and coordinate the “participation in federal immigration programs” by local law enforcement.
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State Representative Jay Reedy (R-Erin) recently filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) formally declaring his candidacy for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District.
Last week, Jay Reedy filed an FEC Form 1 to officially register his “Jay Reedy for Congress” campaign for the congressional seat.
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The Senate approved President Donald Trump’s landmark bill largely along party lines Tuesday morning after senators took dozens of votes on amendments and procedural motions in a marathon session that lasted more than 24 hours.
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Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), along with other Republican senators, reintroduced the Equal Representation Act (ERA) on Monday, which would only let American citizens be counted in the U.S. Census.
This act would require a U.S. citizenship question on future censuses to understand the American population and accurately determine the count for congressional districts and the Electoral College.
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The new Civil Rights Enforcement Division (CRED) within Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti’s Office is officially open and accepting discrimination complaints under the Tennessee Human Rights Act and the Tennessee Disability Act.
During the recent legislative session of the Tennessee General Assembly, lawmakers passed a measure reassigning the responsibility of handling key complaints from the Tennessee Human Rights Commission to the Tennessee Attorney General.
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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn on Tuesday celebrated the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by the U.S. Senate in a statement released hours after she successfully passed an amendment to kill a controversial part of the bill.
“Senate Republicans kept our promise to the American people and accomplished a once-in-a-generation victory for our country,” Blackburn said in a statement obtained by The Tennessee Star after she voted to pass the bill. “The One Big Beautiful Bill Act prevents the largest tax hike in American history and secures the largest tax cut ever for individuals and families who endured four years of crushing inflation and reckless spending.”
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A Tennessee-based company announced plans on Monday to invest $12 million in expanding its manufacturing operations in Robertson County. Tate Ornamental said this investment will create an additional 50 new jobs, bringing its workforce in Tennessee to 250. The investment and additional staff will enhance the company’s production capacity by enabling the construction of a state-of-the-art facility near its existing metal and stone plants. Construction for this operation is estimated to begin in January 2027. Tate Ornamental started in 1988 and is a family-owned design, fabrication, installation and freight company. Reacting to the news, Gov. Bill Lee said brands like Tate Ornamental shape Tennessee. Lee thanked the company for its continued investment in the state’s “highly skilled workforce.” Ronald Tate, the president of Tate Ornamental, said the company is “excited” to continue its growth in Tennessee. “While we do work all over the country and had the option to expand elsewhere, choosing to invest again in our hometown was an easy decision,” Tate explained. “White House has been a foundation for our company for many years, and we’re proud to keep building here, creating jobs here and continuing to be part of this community’s future.” White House Mayor John Corbitt…
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The U.S. Department of Justice Monday filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles’ sanctuary city policies, citing the supremacy clause regarding the preemption of federal statutes over state and local law in the U.S. Constitution. According to Los Angeles City Council members, one in 10 Los Angeles residents may be an illegal immigrant.
The city of Los Angeles passed a new sanctuary city ordinance after President Donald Trump’s election, barring city resources from being used for immigration enforcement or cooperating with federal authorities engaged in immigration enforcement.
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Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn’s (R-TN) amendment to strip a 10-year moratorium on state-level laws regulating artificial intelligence (AI) from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed the Senate in an early Tuesday morning vote.
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Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced an amendment on Monday evening seeking to strip a 10-year moratorium on state-level laws regulating artificial intelligence (AI) from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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In its last two working days, the Biden administration’s Energy Department signed off on nearly $42 billion for green energy projects – a sum that exceeded the total amount its Loan Programs Office (LPO) had put out in the past decade.
The frenzied activity on Jan. 16 and 17, 2025, capped a spending binge that saw the LPO approve at least $93 billion in current and future disbursements after Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election in November, according to documents provided by the department to RealClearInvestigations. It appears that Biden officials were rushing to deploy billions in approved funding in anticipation that the incoming Trump administration would seek to redirect uncommitted money away from clean energy projects.
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State Representative Alex Kolodin (R-Scottsdale), an election attorney, is running for Arizona Secretary of State against Democratic incumbent Adrian Fontes.
He held a campaign fundraising event in north Scottsdale last week to explain his plan to bring back election integrity to the office.
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