The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday announced that it has finished its third consecutive month without catching and releasing a single illegal migrant at the border.
The achievement comes after Border Patrol encounters in July fell to 24,630, setting a record low for the second consecutive month after border encounters in June saw a record low with 25,243 encounters. Border Patrol also recorded just 4,601 arrests along the southern border last month.
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A newly released journal entry written by Covenant School shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale, made public last week by the FBI to The Tennessee Star, reveals that the killer viewed her sexuality, and specifically her status as a self-identified transgender person, as an opposing force to her Christian faith.
Written more than three years prior to her March 27, 2023 attack on the Covenant School, where she killed six, Hale dated the entry May 6, 2019, and while she began by discussing religion, she concluded by writing about school shooters.
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The Tennessee Supreme Court denied a final appeal submitted by the Committee to Stop an Unfair Tax and its chairwoman, Emily Evans, who sued Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell and the City of Nashville earlier this year over the multi-billion-dollar “Choose How You Move” transit plan.
On Monday, the Tennessee Supreme Court released its Discretionary Appeals List from August 4 through August 8, listing cases appealed to the state’s highest court that it has chosen to review or deny. One out of 55 cases was selected for review by the court.
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As President Donald Trump’s tariff policies come into effect, July’s Consumer Price Index showed overall consumer prices rose 2.7% annually, slightly lower than forecasted by economists.
The CPI measures changes in price of everyday consumer goods like groceries and clothes over time. July’s CPI rose 0.2% on a monthly basis since June’s reading which came in at 2.7%.
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The foreign-born population of the United States declined by 2.2 million people since January, according to an analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
That figure includes an estimated 1.6 million illegal aliens. The CIS based its report on Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data and suggested that much of the exodus stemmed from self-deportations driven by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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The Pentagon is reportedly creating a task force specializing in quelling riots and civil disturbances in American cities, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
The “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force” would reportedly consist of at least 600 National Guard troops who would begin deploying to cities in an hour’s notice of civil unrest, according to The Post. President Donald Trump has taken interest in establishing law and order in American cities, most recently deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C., on Monday in order to tackle crime in the district.
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House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington unveiled legislation Tuesday to prevent government farm programs from discriminating against farmers based on their race or gender.
The legislation, called the No Discrimination in Farm Programs Act, would codify a July 10 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rule which prohibits the consideration of race and sex-based factors when determining benefits under various farm programs, including farm loan programs, agricultural management assistance programs and indemnity payment programs. The bill, which was first reported by the Daily Caller News Foundation, would also ensure that such farm programs are being administered in a manner that “upholds the principles of meritocracy, fairness and equal opportunity for all participants.”
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Breitbart The Democratic Party’s favorability rating has dropped to 34 percent, the lowest level ever recorded in Gallup’s trend since the survey began tracking the measure in 1992. A new Gallup survey shows Americans’ favorable view of the Democratic Party has fallen to 34 percent, marking the lowest rating in the poll’s history. Gallup’s historical trend data shows Democratic Party favorability generally ranged between the high 40s and around 60 percent through the 1990s and early 2000s. The measure has since trended lower, with notable drops in the mid-2010s and early 2020s, falling from about 54 percent in the early 1990s to 34 percent today. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Hill The Department of Justice announced Monday it is settling lawsuits challenging race-based admissions at West Point and the Air Force Academy. Students for Fair Admissions, which won the Supreme Court ruling in 2023 banning race-based admission at universities, challenged the policies at military institutions, which were left off the high court’s decision two years ago. “This Department is committed to eliminating DEI practices throughout the federal government,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi, using an abbreviation for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). “We are proud to partner with the Department of Defense to permanently end race-based admissions at West Point and the Air Force Academy — admission to these prestigious military institutions should be based exclusively on merit.” READ THE FULL STORY
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Axios Former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) will attempt a comeback Senate bid next year in Ohio, according to sources familiar with the plans. Brown, who served three terms in the Senate, is the party’s best shot at flipping a critical seat in increasingly red Ohio. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has been in hot pursuit of Brown, visiting him last month in Ohio to encourage him to run, Axios scooped. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Town of Mason, Tennessee, will decide tonight whether it will approve a contract with Corecivic to reopen an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in town.
CoreCivic closed down its Mason detention facility in 2021 after former President Joe Biden signed an executive order ending federal government contracts with privately operated criminal detention facilities. In January, President Donald Trump reversed this policy when he took office.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, argued that the newly released journals of deceased 28-year-old Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale reveal a disturbing and progressive mental decline over nearly two decades.
Last week, the FBI released a new series of writings by Hale, the transgender shooter who claimed the lives of six at the Covenant School in Nashville on March 27, 2023.
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A career intelligence officer who worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee for more than a decade repeatedly warned the FBI beginning in 2017 that then-Rep. Adam Schiff had approved leaking classified information to smear then-President Donald Trump over the now-debunked Russiagate scandal, according to bombshell FBI memos that Director Kash Patel has turned over to Congress.
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A major online abortion provider was hit with a wrongful death lawsuit on Monday.
A Texas man used abortion pills obtained from Aid Access to spike a drink he made for the mother of his unborn child, killing the baby and sending the mother to the emergency room, the lawsuit alleges.
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I missed Rachel K. Paulose’s column about George Floyd—sorry, Saint George Floyd—when it appeared in The Spectator World at the end of May. Knowing of my interest in the case, a public-spirited individual brought the column to my attention. I thought it was an appalling regurgitation of the established, but erroneous, narrative about the larcenous, drug-and-woman-abusing miscreant George Floyd and the former police officer primarily involved in his arrest.
Paulose is worried that President Trump might pardon Derek Chauvin, the former policeman who is now rotting away in prison for a long list of federal and state crimes, including multiple counts of murder, manslaughter, and “civil rights deprivation.”
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The world premiere of “Dolly: A True Original Musical is happening at The Fisher Center for Performing Arts” in Nashville until August 31st.
When musicals are designed for Broadway, New York, they often do a “soft opening” phase, which allows the creative team to see how an audience responds to the show in a live setting. It lets directors, designers, and actors fine-tune their work, adjust pacing, staging, technical elements, and overall performance based on audience reaction and their evolving vision.
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