Day: August 7, 2025

Trans Covenant School Shooter Credited Media’s Support for ‘LGBT Movement’ for Help Understanding Voice Inside Her Head

Tom Pappert
Audrey Elizabeth Hale

Nearly 500 pages of journal entries written by Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale were released to The Tennessee Star by the FBI on Tuesday, and with many of the entries dated as far back as 2018, these journals offer insight into the killer’s state of mind in the years before she killed six at the Christian school she once attended in Nashville. 

Within these journals, Hale seemed to claim that she first experienced same-sex attraction as the result of an “imaginary boy,” which she experienced as a voice inside her head, which expressed a desire to “express himself,” including through romantic relationships with girls, from the time when she was a fourth grade student at the Covenant School. 

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Two Chinese Nationals Arrested for Illegally Shipping AI Microchips to China: DOJ

Just the News

Two Chinese nationals have been arrested in connection with illegally shipping AI microchips to China, according to the Justice Department.

Chuan Geng, 28, of Pasadena, Calif., and Shiwei Yang, 28, of El Monte, Calif., allegedly exported to China tens of millions of dollars’ worth of sensitive microchips used in AI apps, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced Tuesday.

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Commentary: Redistricting and the Cure to Gerrymandering

American Greatness
Texas Capitol

Few events in politics are more consequential while being less understood than redistricting. The consequences are obvious. If your party controls a state legislature, then once every ten years, when it comes time to redraw district boundaries for state legislative seats and seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, you can redraw them to your advantage.

The methods are less obvious, but intuitive enough. Create geographical boundaries that concentrate registered members of the opposition party into a single district, thereby shifting the majority in your favor in surrounding districts. Or, equally effective, disburse registered members of the opposition party into carefully apportioned districts where they will not have a majority anywhere, completely nullifying their voting power.

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