Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters said President Donald Trump’s formal endorsement of Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in the governor’s race is imminent, signaling a potential boost for the GOP candidate as she narrows the gap against Democrat Abigail Spanberger.
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Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Committee, is warning that Virginia’s job growth and worker freedom will be significantly harmed if Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins the gubernatorial election.
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) on Tuesday announced that Director David Rausch was sworn in as the President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), the world’s largest organization for police leaders.
Rausch continues to serve as the TBI’s director, and the state law enforcement agency wrote in a Tuesday post to X that his position at IACP was an honor for TBI and Tennessee. TBI additionally uploaded images showing Rausch receive the organization’s oath of office during its ceremony in Denver.
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Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Wednesday announced that she plans to sue former members of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) who were served during the Biden administration, including former special counsel Jack Smith, who the Senate Judiciary Committee recently revealed ordered the surveillance of Blackburn and other Republican senators in 2023, as part of his investigation into the 2020 election contest by President Donald Trump.
Blackburn announced her plan to file a lawsuit during an appearance on “Just the News, No Noise,” telling host John Solomon that she was considering Smith, as well as the former FBI team that conducted the surveillance at his request, were likely defendants.
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Walmart confirmed this week that it had paused hiring employees with H-1B visas in the wake of President Donald Trump’s reforms to the program.
“Walmart is committed to hiring and investing in the best talent to serve our customers, while remaining thoughtful about our H-1B hiring approach,” the company confirmed to multiple outlets.
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is heading into the midterm cycle at a steep financial disadvantage versus Republicans, hamstrung by lingering debt from former Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign and lackluster donor enthusiasm.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) brought in $10.7 million in September and holds $86 million in cash reserves, according to the latest fundraising totals released this week. By contrast, the DNC raised $10.3 million and had just $12 million on hand.
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Axios ICE expects to deport more than 600,000 undocumented immigrants by the end of the year, President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said at Axios’ Future of Defense Summit on Wednesday. The estimate comes as the Trump administration touted that approximately 1.6 million undocumented immigrants have “voluntarily” self-deported, and another 400,000 were deported in the first 250 days of Trump’s second term. “If you’re in the United States illegally, you’re not off the table,” Homan told Axios’ Brittany Gibson in Washington D.C. “If we find you, we’re going to arrest you.” READ THE FULL STORY
Read the full storyWashington Examiner The total national debt of the United States has hit $38 trillion, an unwelcome milestone that comes as lawmakers grapple with a looming fiscal reckoning. The unwanted achievement comes amid a government shutdown and was reflected in the Treasury Department’s daily updates to the national debt. The federal debt per citizen has now climbed to over $110,000. Republicans and some centrist Democrats have sounded the alarm about the growing debt and deficits, with the debt first crossing the $1 trillion mark in 1981. But lawmakers have done little to reduce debt and deficits, although Republicans have long called for spending cuts. READ THE FULL STORY
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CBS News The U.S. struck another alleged drug vessel Tuesday night, this time on the Pacific side of South America, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirmed Wednesday. In what is the eighth known U.S. attack on a boat since Sept. 2, two individuals aboard the vessel were killed, Hegseth said. The other seven strikes targeted vessels in the Caribbean. A defense official confirmed the vessel was in international waters off of Colombia. Hegseth wrote on social media that the Defense Department conducted the strike at President Trump’s direction and alleged the vessel was operated by a “designated terrorist organization and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific.” READ THE FULL STORY
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Breitbart Japan’s first female prime minister, Takaichi Sanae, laid out an ambitious conservative agenda after winning her office in a parliamentary vote on Tuesday. Her nascent administration also signaled a desire to build closer defense ties with the United States. Much of Takaichi’s agenda lines up with her longstanding political beliefs, as an admirer of global conservative icons like Margaret Thatcher, and a protege of the late Prime Minister Abe Shinzo. She is also being prodded to make policy concessions by her LDP party’s last-minute alliance with the Japan Innovation Party (commonly known as Ishin, which means “renewal”). READ THE FULL STORY
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President Donald Trump took aim at cattle ranchers amid industry backlash to his plan to purchase beef from Argentina to stabilize that industry and lower costs for Americans.
“The Cattle Ranchers, who I love, don’t understand that the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put Tariffs on cattle coming into the United States, including a 50% Tariff on Brazil,” he posted on Truth Social.
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North Carolina Republicans on Wednesday approved a new set of congressional district maps that added an additional GOP-leaning seat at the expense of an incumbent Democrat.
The state Senate approved the new slate on Tuesday, with the House following suit on Wednesday. Gov. Josh Stein, D-N.C., does not have the authority to veto redistricting legislation, according to CNN.
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Most Americans support the U.S. recognizing a Palestinian state as perceptions of Israel’s actions in Gaza continue to sour, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released Wednesday.
Nearly 60% of Americans now support recognition, split between 41% of Republicans and 80% of Democrats, according to the poll. U.S. opinion on Israel and Palestine has undergone a sea change in recent years as stalwart support of Israel from Republicans and Democrats continues to wane among lawmakers and voters alike.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, detailed the recent incidents of criminal activity committed by illegal aliens in Tennessee, particularly in Nashville and Memphis.
On Wednesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Pappert reported on two major developments: the arrest of an illegal alien teenager involved in a high-speed police chase in Nashville, and the Department of Homeland Security’s release of information on illegal aliens arrested in Memphis as part of the federal Memphis Safe Task Force.
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Three far-left legal groups assisted Tennessee Democrats in filing a lawsuit aimed at halting the National Guard deployment in Memphis.
On Monday, Davidson County Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal denied the Democrats’ request for a temporary restraining order; however, she scheduled a court date for November 3 to determine the temporary injunction order in the lawsuit.
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Mike Dunavant was sworn in as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee during a brief ceremony in Memphis.
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Resurfaced social media posts from a Harvard University dean show the administrator openly going off on conservatives, calling police racist, and describing “Whiteness” as an ideology designed to “annihilate.”
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Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are approaching a point of no return with their ill-advised government shutdown in a desperate bid to indefinitely continue expanded tax credits for 24 million Obamacare exchange recipients and to put illegal aliens back on government health care rolls.
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The Tennessee conservative commentator and documentarian Robby Starbuck on Wednesday announced that he filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming its artificial intelligence (AI) knowingly lied about him to millions of users for more than two years, despite his attempts to resolve the issue with the company.
Starbuck said in a video posted to X on Wednesday that he filed the lawsuits after attempting to address the lies produced by Google’s various AI products since at least 2023, and that some of the false claims made about him include, “elaborate rape allegations that Google created, a lengthy criminal record including stalking, drug charges, and resisting arrest, elaborate accusations that I’ve been investigated for murder, and much, much more, including even an accusation that I flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane and sexually assaulted a minor.”
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At an event in Franklin, Tennessee on Sunday, Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) praised Memphis Mayor Paul Young’s cooperation with federal authorities in the Memphis Safe Task Force effort, which has taken gang members off the streets and rescued missing children involved in trafficking. Young is a Democrat.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday referred former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution, alleging Brennan knowingly made false statements during his transcribed interview before the panel in 2023.
Jordan, an Ohio Republican, says Brennan made “numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact” that were contradicted by the record established by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the CIA.
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Democrats who denounce federal indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James as unprecedented weaponization of the Justice Department exhibit amnesia about the norm-eviscerating, undemocratic lawfare they launched during the Biden administration.
A federal grand jury in Virginia indicted Comey last month for lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding by “willfully and knowingly” lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he testified that he had not “authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports” concerning the FBI’s 2016 investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of private email for confidential information.
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Harper Grace is a 24-year-old Texas native who has been coming to Nashville since she was 14 years old.
The rising country star’s initial experience in the spotlight came at just 11 years old when her first public performance of the National Anthem didn’t go as planned, eliciting widespread criticism from an array of online observers and media outlets. But that didn’t deter her.
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