Day: October 7, 2025

Trump-Endorsed Matt Van Epps Easily Wins TN-7 GOP Special Election Primary

Kaitlin Housler
Matt Van Epps

U.S. Army veteran and former Lee administration official Matt Van Epps has been projected as the winner of the Republican special primary for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District. Decision Desk HQ called the race just 27 minutes after polls closed.

At 8:30 p.m., less than two hours after polls closed, unofficial election results published by the Tennessee Secretary of State’s office showed Van Epps with 15,389 votes, followed by State Representative Jody Barrett (R-Dickson) with 8,370 votes, and State Representative Gino Bulso (R-Brentwood) with 3,684 votes.

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Federally Funded Researchers Bury Results on COVID Vaccine Effect on Liver, Kidney Risks in Youth

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The Trump administration’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put the nail in the coffin of one-size-fits-all COVID-19 vaccine recommendations Monday, updating its children and adult vaccination schedules to encourage physicians, nurses and pharmacists to discuss harms and benefits from vaccination specific to each patient before they get jabbed.

Parents may get an incomplete picture from healthcare providers who don’t look too closely at federally funded research that promotes indiscriminate COVID jabs for kids, though.

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Tennessee Drops Racial, Gender Diversity Rules for TDOT Contracts in Blow to Biden-Era Law

Tom Pappert
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The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) ended its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goals on October 2. TDOT announced the decision just days after the U.S. Department of Transportation released new guidance that warned the previous guidelines, issued during the Biden era, likely violated the Constitution.

TDOT’s decision was revealed in a Monday post to X by attorney Dan Lennington of the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, who represented The Tennessee Star in its litigation to compel the FBI to release the writings by the transgender Covenant School killer.

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Federal Judge Orders DOJ to Work on Kilmar Abrego Garcia Lawsuits Despite Government Shutdown

Tom Pappert
KAG

A federal judge on Monday ordered the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys representing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the lawsuit brought by Kilmar Abrego Garcia during the government shutdown, despite the attorneys telling the court that their continued work on the case would be illegal without funding. 

Obama-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis on Monday declined prosecutors’ requests to stay future deadlines, and instead ordered the DOJ to produce witnesses capable of explaining what steps, if any, the government has taken to deport Abrego Garcia to Eswatini, the landlocked African nation, for an evidentiary hearing on Friday.

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Trump Admin Reportedly Floats Selling Parts of $1.6 Trillion Federal Student Loan Portfolio

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The Trump administration is considering selling off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market, according to Politico.

The matter has been discussed by senior officials in the Department of Education (ED) and the Treasury Department, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing three anonymous sources. The talks center around the idea of selling well-performing parts of the government’s giant portfolio of student debt, the outlet reported.

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Senator Blackburn Demands Transparency, Prosecution in Wake of FBI Monitoring Scandal

Kaitlin Housler
Marsha Blackburn

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) condemned the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) surveillance of her and seven other Republican senators, calling it illegal and unprecedented.

On Monday, Fox News first reported that former Special Counsel Jack Smith was allegedly tracking the private communications and phone calls of Blackburn and seven other Republican U.S. senators as part of his “Arctic Frost” investigation into the January 6, 2021, Capitol protest.

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Joe Biden’s Team Blocked CIA from Distributing Report on Son Hunter’s Ukraine Business Dealings

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Then-Vice President Joe Biden’s team intervened in February 2016 to prevent the CIA from disseminating an intelligence report to policymakers about the perceptions senior Ukrainian officials held about his son’s business dealings, newly declassified memos show. 

The request that the intelligence community withhold the report from others in the U.S. government by Biden’s national security advisor was “extremely rare and unusual,” a senior CIA official told Just the News. 

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Pentagon Pushes Golden Dome Deadline After ‘Considerable Interest’ in Massive $151 Billion Project

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The Pentagon is pushing back the deadline for industry proposals for the Golden Dome missile defense project due to a massive surge of interest from America’s defense industrial complex, DefenseOne reported Tuesday.

“Considerable interest” from defense contractors in the Trump administration’s potential $151 billion project has spurred the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to extend the deadline for proposals, DefenseOne reported. The agency said its Sept. 10 solicitation “generated considerable interest, resulting in over 1,500 questions from industry,” according to the outlet.

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Poll: 78 Percent of Americans Favor Deportation of Criminal Illegal Immigrants

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Nearly 80 percent of Americans favor the deportation of immigrants who are in the United States illegally and have committed crimes, and a clear majority favor deporting all immigrants who are here illegally, according to a new poll.

President Trump’s policy of deporting criminal illegal aliens is his second most popular policy according to the Harvard Caps/Harris poll, just under lowering prescription drug prices for Medicare recipients and low income patients.

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Trump’s DHS Releases Zero Migrants into U.S. for Fifth Consecutive Month

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Breitbart   For the fifth consecutive month this year, President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released zero migrants into the United States interior. “September marked the fifth consecutive month with ZERO releases by the Border Patrol along the southwest border, compared to 9,144 releases in September 2024,” DHS officials boasted in a news release. The elimination of the federal government’s Catch and Release policy is a massive victory for the Trump administration — particularly after former President Joe Biden blew the pipeline wide open with a network. READ THE FULL STORY                 

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Justices Appear Skeptical of Conversion Therapy Ban

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Axios   The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared open to a Christian counselor’s argument that Colorado’s ban on youth conversion therapy hampers her First Amendment right to free speech. A decision backing the counselor, Kaley Chiles, could force more than 20 states to revisit their bans on the practice, which aims to change sexual orientation and gender identities to align with a person’s religious beliefs and has been discredited by leading medical associations. The conservative Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented Chiles, argued that Colorado didn’t consider less-restrictive alternatives to a conversion therapy ban, and that Colorado can’t prove the counseling causes harm. READ THE FULL STORY              

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Trump Hints at Auto Tariff Relief for American and Canadian Companies

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Washington Examiner   President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday afternoon that he is considering some tariff relief for Canadian goods. Trump’s comments came during an Oval Office meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Carney’s second trip to the White House since being sworn in during the spring. Multiple experts told the Washington Examiner that he would specifically seek relief on steel duties on Tuesday. Trump, in response to the first question he fielded on Tuesday, told reporters that he would be discussing lowering the 50% steel and aluminum tariffs for Canada. READ THE FULL STORY               

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Shelby County Government Supervisor Indicted for Allegedly Smuggling Illegal Contraband into County Jail

Kaitlin Housler
Nakesha Humphrey

A Shelby County Pre-Trial Services supervisor has been indicted and arrested following a sweeping investigation into contraband trafficking at the Shelby County Jail.

On Tuesday, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) announced 30-year-old Nakesha Humphrey was taken into custody last week after detectives uncovered her alleged involvement in smuggling illegal items into the jail.

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Supreme Court Takes Case on Post-Election Day Ballots to Determine Who Can Sue over Elections

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear oral arguments for a Judicial Watch case regarding Illinois’ law that allows mail-in ballots to be accepted for two weeks after Election Day, in which the justices will determine whether the congressman bringing the lawsuit has standing.

Judicial Watch, on behalf of Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., filed a lawsuit in May 2022 over Illinois’ law that lets ballots postmarked by Election Day be received up to 14 days after the election.

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Anderson: Virginia’s 97th District ‘Number One Chance’ for GOP to Flip the House of Delegates

Christina Botteri
Tim Anderson

Republican attorney and former Delegate Tim Anderson says his campaign to unseat Democrat Michael Feggans in Virginia’s 97th House of Delegates District could determine which party controls the House next year.

In a Wednesday interview on The John Fredericks Show, Anderson called the Virginia Beach-based seat “the number one vulnerable seat for the Democrats” and “the number one chance Republicans have to pick up a very important seat, which could decide who has the majority in the House.”

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FBI Snooped on Phone Calls of GOP Members of Congress in Wake of J6, Unearthed Docs Show

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Jack Smith, as a Biden Justice Department special counsel, reportedly snooped on the private communications of eight Republican senators and one GOP House member as part of his investigation into the January 6 Capitol riot.

An unearthed FBI record from 2023, first reported by Fox News, indicated that investigators at the bureau had “conducted preliminary toll analysis on limited toll records” tied to phone calls related to GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina; Bill Hagerty, Tennessee; Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Ron Johnson R-Wisc., Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and GOP Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa.

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