In a shocking move, the Minnesota DFL Party vacated the Minneapolis DFL’s endorsement of Sen. Omar Fateh for mayor of the city. The move comes after Mayor Jacob Frey asked the state party to nullify the endorsement citing problems at the city’s convention.
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Federal prosecutors gathered evidence from James Comey’s top lieutenants that he authorized the leak of classified information to reporters just before the 2016 election but declined to bring criminal charges, according to recently declassified memos that call into question the former FBI director’s testimony to Congress.
The bombshell revelations involving ex-FBI general counsel James Baker and ex-Comey chief of staff James Rybicki were memorialized in documents that FBI Director Kash Patel discovered earlier this year, but the passages were originally redacted by the Justice Department in versions sent to Congress earlier this month.
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed in a Wednesday legal filing that Kilmar Abrego Garcia will be fitted with an ankle monitor by the U.S. Marshals Service and pretrial services in Tennessee ahead of his anticipated, though possibly temporary, release from federal custody on Friday.
Acting U.S. Attorney Robert E. McGuire confirmed the condition for Abrego Garcia to be released in a court filing made on Wednesday, when the DOJ reiterated its opposition to Abrego Garcia’s release from its custody, but said it did not oppose a modification to his release order that would give the alleged human smuggler 48 hours to report to pretrial services in Maryland.
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Law enforcement arrested Lewisburg City Manager Roy Haislip on Wednesday, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) announced.
Haislip faces aggravated burglary, theft of property, and stalking charges. He was taken into the Marshall County Jail and issued a $10,000 bond, TBI said.
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ABC 7 Both houses of the California Legislature approved a redistricting plan that could slash five Republican-held House seats to counter Texas’ mid-decade redraw of its congressional map. Lawmakers in the state Assembly and Senate approved the redistricting plan on Thursday afternoon. California Democrats introduced the plan last week that could slash five Republican-held House seats in the liberal-leaning state while bolstering Democratic incumbents in other battleground districts. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Hill The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling Thursday, enabled the Trump administration to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants linked to diversity initiatives. The decision partially lifts a Boston-based judge’s ruling that declared the cancellations illegal and blocked the administration from moving forward. Five of the court’s six Republican-appointed justices sided with the administration: Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. READ THE FULL STORY
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Axios A federal judge on Thursday ruled that Alina Habba has been acting without legal authority as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey for almost two months. Habba’s actions since July 1 may be considered void, U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann wrote. “Because she is not currently qualified to exercise the functions and duties of the office in an acting capacity, she must be disqualified from participating in any ongoing cases,” he wrote. READ THE FULL STORY
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Breitbart The rise of AI cheats and scammers using deepfake technology to trick interviewers is leading companies to revert to a more traditional hiring practice — the in-person job interview. The Wall Street Journal reports that the advent of remote work and the desire to expedite the hiring process have made virtual interviews the norm in recent years. However, the increasing prevalence of AI tools has introduced new challenges that are prompting employers to reconsider their approach. One of the primary concerns is the potential for candidates to cheat during virtual interviews, particularly in technical roles. By using AI tools to feed them answers off-screen, some job seekers are able to manipulate the interview process and present themselves in a misleading light. This has led recruiters to question the reliability and effectiveness of virtual interviews in accurately assessing a candidate’s skills and qualifications. READ THE FULL STORY
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President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will move Memphis, Tennessee, to a position “early on the list” of cities where federal law enforcement is set to receive some form of federal support, following the federalization of the Washington, D.C. police force, during a Thursday appearance on “The Todd Starnes Show.”
Citing the president’s August 11 decision to invoke his authority to federalize Washington, D.C. police and activate the National Guard, the talk show host asked Trump whether he planned to offer support to Memphis, which FBI Director Kash Patel recently called the “homicide capital” of the United States.
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Weeks before a rebranding effort by the Tennessee-based Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., famous for its 660 Southern-themed restaurants, would send the company’s stock price tumbling 12 percent, America First Legal (AFL) last month urged the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti to investigate the company for allegedly racist hiring practices, citing its adherence to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Co-founded by White House Deputy Chief of Policy Stephen Miller, AFL said in a July press release that it requested the investigations into Cracker Barrel after the company rebranded a DEI page on its website, kept language it said reflects “apparently unlawful commitments to provide unique employment benefits to certain races and sexes.”
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is set to undergo a massive overhaul and cut 40% of its workforce, continuing the Trump administration’s efforts to slash bureaucratic bloat across federal agencies.
Created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, ODNI functions as the U.S. Intelligence Community’s oversight body and central hub, promoting intelligence integration and communication within the IC.
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A five-judge panel of a New York appellate court on Thursday found that a $515 million fraud judgment against President Donald Trump was unconstitutional and violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibitions on excessive fines.
Judge Arthur Engoron originally imposed a $355 million penalty as part of New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil fraud case against the then-presidential candidate. Other interest assessments, led the figure to balloon to more than half of $1 billion by August, Newsmax reported.
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A call received by Hamilton County 9-1-1 reporting an active shooter at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) is actively being investigated by local and federal law enforcement agencies.
On Thursday, UTC went into lockdown after the call received at 12:29 p.m. by the Hamilton County 9-1-1 Center reported an “armed individual with a rifle” on campus in the University Center or Library.
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As a mother raising my children in Williamson County, Tennessee, I want leaders who will protect our future and uphold the values that make our nation strong. State Representative Lee Reeves (R-Franklin) is that leader. His pledge to make his first bill in Congress one that ends birthright citizenship, combined with his alignment with President Donald J. Trump’s America First agenda, shows he’s committed to securing our borders and safeguarding our communities for families like mine.
Reeves has already proven his resolve in Tennessee. Through House Bill 749, he empowered local law enforcement to tackle illegal immigration, human trafficking, and the fentanyl crisis threatening communities across our state. His push to expand the 287(g) program, which allows local officers to work with ICE to detain criminal aliens, is critical when we consider the alarming statistic that 2,719 illegal immigrants were charged with crimes in Tennessee from October to December 2024, including 11 homicides and 447 violent offenses. As a mother, I want my children to grow up in a safe community, and Reeves’ leadership delivers on that promise.
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An “all clear” has been issued for individuals at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) after the campus was in lockdown for more than an hour following reports of an active shooter situation.
Around 12:40 p.m., UTC sent out an alert to students and faculty reading, “Possible active shooter in the University Center or Library. Run. Hide. Fight. More info forthcoming,” after the Chattanooga Police Department said it received a call from the campus library reporting shots fired.
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American copyright owners who have their property stolen by foreigners may be able to take legal action in federal court if a new bill becomes law.
Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Adam Schiff (D-CA), and Chris Coons (D-DE) introduced the Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors (Block BEARD) Act on Wednesday.
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Matt Van Epps, former commissioner of the Tennessee Department of General Services and current Republican candidate in the special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, received the endorsement of Dickson County Mayor Bob Rial on Thursday – adding to the growing list of local officials across the district backing his campaign.
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The memos show the duo submitted multiple IRS Form 211 “Applications for Award for Original Information” — which could have given them a financial reward if taxpayer funds were recovered as a result of what they had unearthed and shared with the IRS about the Clinton Foundation.
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A five-judge panel of a New York appellate court on Thursday found that a $515 million fraud judgment against President Donald Trump was unconstitutional and violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibitions on excessive fines.
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Dr. James Dobson, who founded the Christian ministry Focus on the Family and was a presidential adviser for five administrations, died on Thursday at 89.
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By fiscal year 2035, the national debt is set to surpass $53 trillion, or 120% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, according to a new estimate by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
The updated number – which CRFB reached by assuming that all current trade deals and tariffs remain in effect – is $1 trillion more than projected in the Congressional Budget Office’s January 2025 Budget and Economic Outlook.
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A few years ago, former US Senator Phil Gramm published a book that offers important insights into the status of low-income communities in the United States. Titled “The Myth of American Inequality” and scrupulously researched, the book evaluates U.S. household income by quintiles. It concludes that the bottom quintile (the lowest 20 percent) actually has income virtually equal to that of the second-lowest quintile (21-40 percent), when adjusting for the value of government benefits.
The implications of this explain a lot. America’s working poor, those living in households in the second-to-lowest of the five income groups evaluated, have no motivation to work apart from character and pride. If they did not work or performed minimal work, they would fall down to what is ostensibly the lowest category of household income, but once you count the value of the benefits they receive, they would be better off.
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday unveiled a massive reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community that will cut hundreds of positions inside her own office and put pressure on other spy agencies to do the same after bombshell revelations over politicized weaponization of intelligence.
The current plan will cut about 40% of the ODNI workforce and save taxpayers more than $700 million per year, refocusing the agency on its core mission as the central hub for integration, strategic guidance, and oversight of the U.S. intelligence community, officials said.
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