Arizona Agenda reported on Wednesday that The Arizona Republic, which is owned by media conglomerate Gannett Co. Inc., has reportedly bought out its most well-known journalists with voluntary severance agreements due to a lack of money.
The outlet, which labeled it a “bloodbath,” said The Republic is also moving its printing operations out of state.
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A new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility is opening in West Tennessee.
On Tuesday, the Town of Mason Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved the reopening of a prison that had been closed in 2021.
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In a journal entry released to The Tennessee Star last week by the FBI, transgender Covenant School shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale wrote that she struggled to save money, often with less than $200 in her bank account. The killer wrote the entry more than a year before she would use funds from a federal Pell Grant to purchase weapons before killing six on March 27, 2023.
The 2019 journal entry adds context to Hale’s decision to use the grant money, as the killer seemed to connect her lack of funds with suicidal and homicidal plans.
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President Trump’s recent nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics has called for a pause in the agency’s monthly jobs reports until data issues are fixed.
Economist E.J. Antoni was nominated last week by Trump to replace agency Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, whom the president fired after BLS published a weak July jobs report that Trump thinks was flawed.
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Pentagon officials on Tuesday said female military recruitment is up in all services in fiscal year 2025 so far, and military recruitment in general is ahead of schedule.
The Pentagon has not released detailed information on female recruitment in each service so far, but told Fox News approximately 7,260 more women have enlisted in the military this fiscal year than in the same period of the 2024 fiscal year. The number has increased from 16,725 in 2024 to 23,985 now.
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Revenue from President Trump’s tariffs reaches $25 billion monthly, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
The bipartisan group reported that the monthly tariff revenue jumped from $7 billion a year ago to $25 billion in July, according to the Washington Times.
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Common Cause, a government watchdog group historically opposed to partisan gerrymandering, announced Tuesday that it will not oppose blue states’ push for mid-cycle redistricting while criticizing Republican-led efforts in Texas.
In a Tuesday policy statement, Common Cause, which describes itself as a “nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to upholding the core values of American democracy,” declined to condemn redistricting efforts in Democrat-run states like California. At the same time, the group accused President Trump and Republicans of “pursuing a calculated, asymmetric strategy” in Texas as part of a “broader march towards authoritarianism.”
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Texas House Democrats will end their weeks-long standoff Tuesday and return to Austin.
Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives fled to Democratic strongholds like New York and Illinois to block a special session on redistricting, a move that could have given Republicans multiple new seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The lawmakers claim they achieved their goals by derailing the first special session and drawing national attention to the Republican-led effort, according to ABC 13.
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The Hill European leaders said President Trump on Wednesday assured them he would not negotiate territorial issues with Russian President Vladimir Putin at their summit in Alaska this week, saying it is an issue that must be discussed between Ukraine and Russia. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron both said Trump made the comments during a virtual meeting with European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday. Merz made the remarks alongside Zelensky, who came to Berlin for the call. READ THE FULL STORY
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Washington Examiner A draft of California‘s new congressional districts could be released as early as Friday, a spokesman for California State Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-CA) confirmed on Wednesday. “We are aiming to release draft maps on Friday,” Nick Miller wrote in an email to the Washington Examiner. The news follows a contentious back-and-forth between California Democrats and President Donald Trump over the map. READ THE FULL STORY
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CBS News President Trump said Wednesday that the White House will seek “long-term extensions” from Congress to maintain control of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department, part of the president’s push to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital. “I think the Republicans in Congress will approve this pretty much unanimously,” Mr. Trump said. Mr. Trump announced the deployment of members of the National Guard to D.C. on Monday and said the federal government would also take control of the D.C. police. In an executive order Monday, the president directed the D.C. mayor to provide the services of the Metropolitan Police Department for federal use “for the maximum period permitted under section 740 of the Home Rule Act.” READ THE FULL STORY
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Left wing organizations in Nashville made social media posts on Tuesday targeting State Representative Lee Reeves (R-Franlin), who is seeking the Republican nomination to represent Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, after Reeves said he would work to support President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda by passing a federal ban on funding for sanctuary cities if elected.
After Reeves said that, if elected, he would work in Congress to impose a federal ban on taxpayer funding for sanctuary cities, the community organization Occupy Nashville and progressive news outlet The Tennessee Holler published posts to social media slamming the pro-Trump Republican.
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti was among the 51 attorneys general part of the bipartisan Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force who launched Operation Robocall Roundup last week, seeking to further crack down on telecommunications companies that transmit significant volumes of robocalls across the U.S.
Operation Robocall Roundup, according to Skrmetti’s office, was launched to crack down on illegal robocalls by pressuring non-compliant telecommunications companies to stop enabling scam calls on their networks.
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Billionaire Elon Musk’s tunnel construction company, the Boring Company, broke ground on its Music City Loop project this week in downtown Nashville.
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GE Appliances announced it will expand operations at its Selmer, Tennessee plant later this year as part of the company’s broader commitment to investing $3 billion in its U.S.-based manufacturing operations.
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House Republicans defied many of the White House’s requests for cuts to programs that don’t align with the president’s “America First” agenda.
In May, the Office of Management and Budget submitted its fiscal year 2026 Discretionary Budget Request, asking Congress to cut funding to programs accused of wasting taxpayer dollars pushing left-wing ideology abroad. While the House Appropriations Committee reduced or eliminated funding for some of the requests, many remain untouched or barely adjusted.
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New emails show that Arizona State University (ASU) President Michael Crow pressured Arizona PBS to offer gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs an interview after Hobbs refused to debate Republican Kari Lake — even though it went against the rules of the Citizens Clean Elections Commission, which hosts political debates. One of Crow’s aides, former publisher of The Arizona Republic Mi-Ai Parrish, told the debate sponsor that it was wrong to give an “election denier” a platform for the debate. Crow has a long history of pushing a progressive agenda at ASU. The scandal has become known as DebateGate.
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The assassination of President John F. Kennedy remains one of the most defining moments in our nation’s history. Recent disclosures by the Central Intelligence Agency related to that tragic event raise disturbing questions that demand serious, bipartisan scrutiny—not more delay, not more obfuscation, and certainly not more secrecy. The American people deserve the truth.
For the sake of our republic, Republicans and Democrats must stand united in the belief that accountability, transparency, and the public’s right to know transcend partisanship—especially when it comes to the actions of our intelligence agencies.
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Last month, Republicans made history by providing the largest-ever investment in border security in our nation’s history. With the One Big Beautiful Bill signed into law, President Trump now has the resources he needs to complete the southern border wall with hundreds of miles of new barriers. The legislation also empowers the Department of Homeland Security to hire thousands of ICE and Border Patrol agents to protect our nation from criminals, cartels, and terrorists.
In many ways, the One Big Beautiful Bill bolsters the Trump administration’s historic success in making America safe again. In July, illegal crossings reached an all-time low, with border encounters down almost 90 percent from the Biden administration. Since Inauguration Day, ICE has also arrested close to 150,000 illegal aliens, including violent criminals, drug dealers, and human traffickers.
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The mainstream media is running articles expressing concern that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will cause the price of AriZona Iced Tea to increase from its price of 99 cents, which has been in place since 1997. The corporation’s co-founder, Don Vultaggio, said the cost will likely increase due to Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports imposed on June 4, which Trump had previously implemented in his first term, and raised to 25 percent in February.
Despite its name, AriZona’s main production sites aren’t located in Arizona, but in Canada, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Vernon, California. The company’s headquarters are in Woodbury, New York.
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