The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday announced early results after the first day of the joint deployment of state and federal agencies as part of the Memphis Safe Task Force recently announced by President Donald Trump.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a Tuesday post to X, “Our operation in Memphis is now underway, and we’re just getting started.”
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President Donald Trump’s presidential library will be built in Miami, Fla., his son Eric confirmed on Tuesday.
I am extremely proud to announce a UNANIMOUS vote by the Florida Cabinet for the conveyance of land for the [Trump] Presidential Library which will be located in… MIAMI, FLORIDA!” Eric Trump posted on X. “It will be the greatest Presidential Library ever built, honoring the greatest President our Nation has ever known. A large thank you to [Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla.] & [state Attorney General James Ulthmeier] who have been incredible partners in this endeavor.”
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On Monday, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a peace plan to end their conflict with Gaza. Hamas must now agree to the terms.
“This can be done the easy way or the hard way, but it must be done,” Netanyahu said in a statement to the press at the White House.
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Several major auto companies are rushing to enlist dealers in programs that would effectively extend the $7,500 electric vehicle (EV) tax credit and help secure buyers before it sunsets on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Ford and General Motors (GM) have reportedly launched programs for their dealerships in which the company’s financing arm makes down payments on EVs, according to Reuters. While the Biden administration pushed for EVs through tax credits and allowed California to effectively impose a national de facto EV mandate, Congress and President Donald Trump have blocked the mandate and slashed many federal EV incentives.
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LGBT activists are driving the transgender agenda forward in Ohio despite President Donald Trump’s mission to stop child sex-changes.
Cuyahoga County became the first Ohio county to ban healthcare professionals from helping gender-confused children become comfortable with their natural sex through therapy in an ordinance passed by the county council on Sept. 9. The ordinance defines “conversion therapy” as “any practice or procedure that seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity,” considering such efforts to be unlawful behavior. The ban says healthcare providers who engage in so-called conversion therapy operate under the “erroneous assumption that non-heterosexual, non-cisgender identities are mental disorders” and that “gender identity can and should be changed.”
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The Hill The Trump administration on Tuesday announced plans to launch TrumpRx.com, an online platform that it says will direct Americans to lower-priced drugs. The announcement came one day after President Trump’s deadline for drugmakers to comply with his “Most Favored Nation” (MFN) executive order, which included a mandate for companies to establish direct-to-consumer for medicines, cutting out middlemen. Chris Klomp, deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said on Tuesday that drugs would be made available through the platform “often at full MFN, and always at lower prices than currently available. This is bypassing middlemen. It increases transparency, and many instances, prices are 80 percent lower than they are today.” READ THE FULL STORY
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Axios The Congressional Budget Office estimates that approximately 750,000 federal employees will be furloughed each day of a government shutdown. Those furloughed employees, as well as congressional staffers, will not receive paychecks, putting pressure on lawmakers and the White House to find an agreement to reopen the government. The daily cost of those employees’ compensation will be “roughly 400 million,” CBO director Phillip Swagel wrote to lawmakers on Tuesday. READ THE FULL STORY
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Washington Examiner The Justice Department opened an investigation into Iowa’s largest public school district hours after Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained its superintendent. ICE officers detained Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, on Monday, alleging he was living and working in the country illegally. He has lost his state license and has been placed on unpaid leave. On Tuesday afternoon, he resigned from his position. The DOJ sent a letter to the system’s interim superintendent, Matthew Smith, informing him of the investigation into the district’s alleged diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon is informing the district of the Title VII inquiry, and acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Eric Sell will lead it. READ THE FULL STORY
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CBS News On a warm Sunday afternoon, thousands of people converged on a private cove in Southern California for a spiritual rebirth, part of what organizers call the world’s largest synchronized water baptism. The event, Baptize America, drew participation from more than 650 churches nationwide, with around 30,000 people baptized. The gathering represents a broader trend: A worldwide surge in adults becoming baptized into the Christian faith, particularly among an unlikely demographic: Gen Z men. “Water baptism is identifying in the death, the burial, in the resurrection of Jesus Christ,” said Pastor Mark Francey of Oceans Church, a non-denominational Christian church in Orange County. “Getting in the ocean to do something so transcendent in a transcendent place like the ocean, it’s just a really special way to connect with God.” READ THE FULL STORY
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The immigration attorneys who filed both lawsuits against the federal government by Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the citizen of El Salvador charged with human smuggling, said in a Tuesday response to a filing by government attorneys that their client is ready for an “immediate” removal to Costa Rica, if the government consents to send him to the Central American nation.
Abrego Garcia’s attorneys stated their client’s willingness to be deported to Costa Rica while reasserting their claim that federal immigration authorities have violated the law by attempting to deport their client to nations other than Costa Rica, where Abrego Garcia has twice identified as his preferred country for removal, despite also claiming he fears persecution or torture if deported there.
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The Young America’s Foundation’s (YAF) National Journalism Center and the Dao Feng and Angela Foundation have unveiled the finalists for the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism, with The Tennessee Star securing two spots in the Best Local Journalism category.
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The attorney representing Ian Andre Roberts, who was arrested by federal immigration authorities last week, announced at a press conference on Tuesday that his client would resign from his position as superintendent of the Des Moines Public Schools, following the Iowa Board of Education’s revocation of his license and demand for his resignation.
Attorney Alfredo Parrish confirmed Roberts’ intention to resign on Tuesday, stating that the citizen of Guyana gave the lawyer permission to share a letter announcing the resignation.
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A Tennessee woman received 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to international parental kidnapping, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday.
Kate Carson, a 38-year-old from Lewisburg, relocated to Portugal with her nine-year-old son in 2023, according to the DOJ. At the time, Carson was going through a custody battle with her ex-husband. The Detroit News reported that Carson and her ex-husband divorced “soon after” the birth of their son in 2014.
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Workers at the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant began receiving strike training meetings from the United Auto Workers (UAW) on Tuesday to prepare for a possible walk out if contract negotiations with the auto company fail.
In April 2024, Volkswagen employees at the Chattanooga plant voted to join the UAW after two prior attempts to unionize failed. Workers continue to negotiate their first union contract with Volkswagen nearly 18 months after joining the UAW.
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Governor Bill Lee has endorsed his former cabinet member, Matt Van Epps, in the special primary election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District.
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A White House meeting between Congressional leaders, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Monday failed to produce a deal that will avert a government shutdown.
The 2025 fiscal year is set to end on Tuesday, meaning a shutdown would take place as soon as Wednesday morning.
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We have no idea whether the current DOJ indictments will lead to a conviction of James Comey, namely that he authorized FBI subordinates to leak to the media and then lied about it, obstructing Congress in the process.
It may come down to the word of Comey, a known fabricator, against the testimony of his former subordinate, Andrew McCabe, an admitted liar. Take your pick.
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In two days, the federal government is set to run out of money, which would deprive service members of their hard-earned paychecks, halt grants to state and local law enforcement, jeopardize care for seniors, and freeze other services that Americans depend on. This shutdown is completely avoidable. Yet Senator Schumer (D-N.Y.) and his Democrat colleagues are determined to make it happen.
Republicans in the House of Representatives already passed a stop-gap funding bill that would keep the government open through November 21. By keeping spending at current levels, it would provide us the time we need in Congress to pass all of Senate Republicans’ appropriations bills through regular order. This would ensure that President Trump’s America First agenda is reflected in government spending, which is exactly what the American people voted for in November.
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A left-wing activist group that received millions of dollars from the Soros family’s organization is spearheading a pressure campaign to push Democratic senators to vote against funding the government and force a partial shutdown.
Indivisible — the organization behind many of the recent “No Kings” protests and other demonstrations part of the so-called “resistance” against President Donald Trump — has embarked on a recent effort to goad Senate Democrats to fight against a funding bill in the face of a partial government shutdown. The group’s website currently hosts a form enabling people to easily contact their Democratic senators by phone, complete with a script of what to say.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the case surrounding Dr. Ian Andre Roberts, the now-arrested superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, exposes serious failures in public-sector hiring practices.
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The unsolved case of two pipe bombs planted at the major political parties’ headquarters in Washington D.C. before the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot is facing new mystery after FBI Director Kash Patel transmitted to Congress the lab analysis and interviews with a key witness who is challenging the official timeline of events.
The documents obtained by Just the News show that both bombs — one planted at the Democratic National Committee and the other at the Republican National Committee — were filled with chemical building blocks of black powder, each was equipped with a 60-minute kitchen timer, and each had destructive potential.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told hundreds of U.S. military officials at an in-person meeting Tuesday that the era of politically correct” leadership is over and that those who don’t agree with his approach should resign.
“The era of politically correct, overly sensitive don’t-hurt-anyone’s-feelings leadership ends right now at every level,” Hegseth said at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia.
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Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) told The Tennessee Star on Friday that it received a complaint about one its officers displaying a tattoo depicting Vladimir Lenin, the communist dictator who centralized power and suppressed political opposition after forming the Soviet Union upon conclusion of the Russian Civil War.
The Star inquired about the officer after a reader submitted a photograph that appeared to show the Lenin tattoo being displayed by an officer identified by his name plate as C. Cantrell. The officer’s uniform appears to indicate he is a member of the MNPD Traffic Section.
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The illegal immigrant with a criminal record caught running Iowa’s largest school district championed and helped pass a policy that makes it easier for criminals to be hired in the district.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Friday arrested Ian Roberts, a Guyanese national who is in the country illegally but was nevertheless serving as the Superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS). When he was hired, Roberts already had a criminal history relating to the illegal possession of a firearm and which the district knew about at the time, according to the Des Moines Register.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday warned that the government would implement mass layoffs in the event of a shutdown, warning that Democrats demanding changes to a continuing resolution would be responsible.
The fiscal year is set to end on Tuesday. While the House approved a bill to keep the government afloat, it did not survive Senate scrutiny. Trump has already implemented both mass firings and myriad buyouts to reduce the size of the federal government, but a shutdown could see the federal workforce shrink further.
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Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams has officially ended his reelection bid — but analysts are split on what this means for the socialist frontrunner in the Big Apple’s mayoral race.
Adams announced the end of his longshot reelection campaign in a video posted to X on Sunday afternoon. In the announcement, the mayor also warned viewers to “beware of those who claim the answer is to destroy the very system we built together over generations,” seemingly in reference to Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, an avowed socialist.
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CNN YouTube agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump after he was suspended by social media platforms following the January 6, 2021, insurrection. This makes Alphabet-owned YouTube the last of the three Big Tech social media companies sued by Trump — which included Meta and then Twitter, now called X — to settle over his removal from their platforms. YouTube will pay $22 million to settle the claims made by Trump to the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall, which is “dedicated to restoring, preserving, and elevating the National Mall, to support the construction of the White House State Ballroom,” according to a court document. READ THE FULL STORY
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Maryland Freedom Caucus Chairman and State Delegate Matt Morgan (R-St. Mary’s County) confirmed on Monday that the individual named Ian Andre Roberts who appears in Maryland’s voter database, and is actively registered as Democrat, is the illegal immigrant from Guyana who was working the Des Moines Public Schools superintendent until his arrest last week by federal immigration authorities.
The Maryland State Board of Elections voter lookup portal shows that Roberts most recently registered as a Democrat on February 1, 2017, using the address of an upscale apartment building in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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Axios Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he supported President Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza during a press conference at the White House on Monday, with both leaders saying it was now up to Hamas to agree. The plan the White House released on Monday includes a step-by-step process for ending the war and governing Gaza into the future — initially with Trump chairing a “peace board” for the enclave. “If Hamas rejects the deal, Bibi you will have our full backing to do what you have to do,” Trump said, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname. READ THE FULL STORY
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Washington Examiner The Trump administration filed a pair of petitions to the Supreme Court asking the justices to hear appeals on its birthright citizenship order, which could add to the growing list of questions related to President Donald Trump‘s actions that the high court will consider in its term. The two petitions appeared on the Supreme Court’s public docket on Monday after being filed late Friday, and they urged the justices to take appeals in both cases, which were brought by Democrat-led states and a group of people who could be affected by Trump’s order. The question presented to the high court in both petitions centers on the president’s January executive order claiming that birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment does not include children born on U.S. soil to parents who are in the country illegally or on a temporary basis, such as on a visa. The order, which would not be retroactive, states that if one of the parents is a permanent resident or U.S. citizen at the time of the child’s birth, then the child would get citizenship at birth. The Supreme Court has been asked to determine if the executive order is lawful under the 14th Amendment. READ THE…
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The Hill The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Monday it is looking to exclude Harvard University from federal funding because of alleged inaction on campus antisemitism. HHS said it is referring Harvard for suspension and debarment proceedings. If the university is found guilty, it could mean the elimination of federal funding and new federal contracts for the nation’s oldest and richest institution. READ THE FULL STORY
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Sunday reporting from the New York Times failed to accurately state the facts behind the federal charges accusing Kilmar Abrego Garcia of working in a human smuggling ring for nearly a decade, as the newspaper incorrectly stated the year Abrego Garcia was stopped by Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP), as well as the number of Hispanic male passengers he was allegedly smuggling.
An archive showing the first version of its Sunday article reporting the transfer of Abrego Garcia from federal facilities in Virginia to Pennsylvania initially claimed that Abrego Garcia was stopped by THP in 2019.
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Turning Point USA (TPUSA) spokesman and “Charlie Kirk Show” executive producer Andrew Kolvet told The Tennessee Star that Lipscomb Academy should “set things right with clear action” after students honored the organization’s founder, Charlie Kirk, by wearing red ties last Friday. The students were initially prohibited from wearing the ties and suit jackets by a school administrator on the day after Kirk was assassinated.
Lipscomb Academy confirmed last week to The Tennessee Star that head of school Jesse Savage prohibited students from wearing red ties and suit jackets on September 11, citing a dress code violation, but later claimed that students instead agreed to help faculty plan a chapel service as an opportunity to speak about their faith.
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The criminal defense attorneys representing Kilmar Abrego Garcia in his federal human smuggling case last Friday submitted a court filing announcing that, earlier that day, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moved their client to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, following their complaints about the difficulty reaching Abrego Garcia at a detention facility in Farmville, Virginia.
Despite being geographically closer to his attorneys at the New York-based law firm, Hecker Fink, the new filing claims that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Pennsylvania may be more difficult for the legal team to access than the Virginia detention center.
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Cooper Moran, a law student at The University of Alabama School of Law and former reporter for The Tennessee Star, recently participated in oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
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Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) announced last week that he would introduce a bill to encourage the use of classical architectural styles in federal public buildings.
The legislative proposal would codify President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO), which promotes the use of classical architecture in federal public buildings. Trump’s EO applies to federal buildings that are expected to cost more than $50 million in 2025 dollar value.
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A second member of the Grundy County School Board has resigned in the wake of the board’s controversial decision earlier this year to reject state funds intended as one-time bonuses for teachers.
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A source told The Tennessee Star on Friday that Ben Schrader, the former U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor who reportedly resigned over his opposition to the federal human smuggling case brought against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is among the candidates under consideration for a magistrate judge position by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Schrader’s interest in a magistrate judge position comes following the announcement earlier this year that Magistrate Judge Alistair Newbern will retire on January 2, 2026, prompting the court to issue a call for applications in July.
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A total of four candidates are seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination to represent Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. With early voting started, Nashville businessman and political consultant Darden Copeland and State Representatives Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville), Vincent Dixie (D-Nashville), and Bo Mitchell (D-Nashville) are making their case to Tennessee Democrats ahead of the primary election on October 7.
All seeking to win a seat ranked solidly Republican by the Cook Political Report, the Democrats have suggested different approaches to secure a majority. Multiple candidates have suggested strategies to expand the Democratic coalition into rural Tennessee, while Behn has argued the winning candidate must increase Democratic turnout will swing the district.
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Earlier this month, S&P Dow Jones Indices introduced an S&P 500 Christian Values Screened Index. This new index “strives to adhere to expressions of Christian values while maintaining institutional rigor.”
More specifically, the index seeks to screen companies from the S&P 500 based on whether their business activities align with an “Evangelical Christian Framework”.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Friday announced new rules for issuing commercial driver’s licenses that seek to make it more difficult for migrants to acquire the licenses.
The Transportation Department said the new rule – “effective immediately” – comes in response to an ongoing nationwide audit by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and “a recent series of horrific, fatal crashes caused by non-domiciled drivers.”
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Mark Harris, general consultant for the Winsome Earle-Sears-backed firm ColdSpark, is optimistic about Republican performance seen throughout the early voting period for the 2025 Virginia general election.
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Earlier this month, the hashtag #trumpisdead went viral on X, and the term “TRUMP DIED” earned millions of likes and views online. Anonymous left-wing social media accounts likely planted the rumor of Trump’s death, which similarly inclined journalists then amplified to create a “permission structure” to write about his demise.
What they don’t understand is that Donald Trump will never die.
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The Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association (VHHA) and VHHA Foundation hosted its 2025 Virginia Behavioral Health Summit in Richmond on Thursday.
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday asked Obama-appointed District Court Judge Paula Xinis to delay her October 6 hearing for the latest lawsuit filed by Kilmar Abrego Garcia against the Trump administration, which sought to delay the government’s previous effort to deport him to Uganda.
Noting that Abrego Garcia recently asked for Xinis to grant discovery against the Trump administration to determine how it selected Uganda, despite the government now seeking his removal to Eswatini, a landlocked African nation, and citing their earlier admonitions that many Abrego Garcia’s claims should be adjudicated in immigration and appellate courts, the DOJ attorneys asked Xinis to delay the hearing until at least two weeks after his immigration disputes conclude.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested of Ian Andre Roberts, a school superintendent for Des Moines Public Schools, who the agency said was issued a final order of removal under the Biden administration.
In a press release, DHS stated that Roberts was identified and approached on Friday by ICE Des Moines agents, but that after the agents stated their identities, “he sped away.”
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Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Virginia on charges he made false statements to Congress when he denied leaking to the media – putting himself in legal jeopardy after having doubled down on his 2017denials during Senate testimony in 2020.
Comey’s alleged leaking was already part of the FBI’s prior Tropic Vortex classified leaks inquiry and was reviewed by then-U.S. Attorney John Durham. However, he never faced criminal charges over his alleged leaks – until the grand jury charged him with lying to Congress and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.
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The pharmaceutical company behind Tylenol privately acknowledged the likelihood of an association between its drug in pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders like autism in children seven years ago, company documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show.
“The weight of the evidence is starting to feel heavy to me,” said Rachel Weinstein, U.S. director of epidemiology for Janssen, the pharmaceutical arm of Johnson & Johnson, in 2018. Johnson & Johnson marketed Tylenol at the time but in 2023 spun off its consumer products division into a separate company called Kenvue.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a memorandum that directs federal agencies to intensify investigations into groups they suspect of supporting political violence.
The order is directed at what officials call “domestic terrorism and organized political violence being perpetrated by radical, politically motivated groups, according to CNN. It also follows the Sept. 10 killing of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) deployed a significant number of agents to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, many of whom later complained that the bureau was driven by political bias, according to an after-action report obtained by Just The News.
The 50-page document shows the FBI sent agents to the Capitol during the riot, including inside the building, without clear instructions, Just The News reported on Thursday. The report, located by FBI Director Kash Patel’s team, was recently turned over to the House Judiciary Committee’s special subcommittee investigating the incident, according to the outlet.
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