Day: October 29, 2025

Tennessee Appeals Court to Hold Hearing on Tennessee Star Lawsuit Seeking Full Release of Covenant Killer Manifesto

Tom Pappert
Audrey Hale

A panel of three judges on the Tennessee Court of Appeals Middle Section on Thursday will hear oral arguments for the lawsuit brought by Star News Digital Media, Inc. (SNDM), which owns and operates The Tennessee Star, and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy. 

Leahy and SNDM first sued in May 2023 to compel Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) to release the writings left by Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who killed six at the Christian elementary school she once attended, after authorities initially claimed they would not release the manifesto until their investigation was complete.

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Memphis Democrats Urged to ‘Keep Going with Cohen’ as 20-Year Incumbent Faces Challenge from State Rep. Justin Pearson

Tom Pappert
Steve Cohen

U.S. Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) urged Memphis Democrats to “Keep Going with Cohen” in remarks published Wednesday by NOTUS, arguing that his primary challenger, State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis), has “no record” to show voters as he seeks their support. 

While the news outlet described the upcoming Democratic primary in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District as a test of the party’s desire for “generational change,” and Pearson claimed the race was about “energy,” Cohen told NOTUS that his record speaks for itself. 

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Experts Say Housing Affordability Won’t Change Much from Fed’s Rate Cut

Daily Caller News Foundation
Sale Pending Home

The Federal Reserve announced its second interest rate cut of the year on Wednesday, reducing the benchmark rate by a quarter-point to lower the target range to 3.75%-4.00%.

The decision, made by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) after a two-day meeting, follows a quarter-point reduction in September. The move comes amid softer labor market conditions and a federal government shutdown that has stalled most economic data releases.

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Sean Davis: Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Marks Start of Dangerous New American Era

Kaitlin Housler
Charlie Kirk

Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, described America as entering a dangerous new phase he calls the “post-Charlie Kirk era,” claiming that the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk marked the nation’s first true instance of Christian martyrdom.

On Wednesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Davis argued that Kirk was murdered because his Christian faith shaped every part of his political beliefs, and that his death represents a moral and cultural breaking point for the U.S.

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Top DOJ Official Threatens to Punish States That Don’t Clean Up Voter Rolls, Follow Law

Just the News
Harmeet Dhillon

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon announced that states that do not comply with Justice Department requests to examine voter rolls face lawsuits, eight of which have already been filed. 

“We’ve been asking states to produce the data of their voter rolls, to be able to make sure that they only have citizens on the rolls and that they don’t have duplicates and have people voting in multiple jurisdictions,” Dhillon told Just The News. “So we’ve had to file eight lawsuits throughout the United States to enforce our data requests, which is something that they have to comply with under the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act of 1960.”

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Mamdani’s Dad Claimed ‘Moral Equivalence’ Between U.S. and Al-Qaeda, Compared Afghan War to 9/11

Just the News

Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood — a prominent leftist in his own right — penned a book in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 where he argued that there was a “moral equivalence” between the United States and al-Qaeda, compared the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan to the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center, blamed the U.S. for 9/11 and al-Qaeda, and much more.

Mahmood Mamdani is a longtime tenured Columbia University professor, where the school says he “specializes in the study of colonialism, anti-colonialism, and decolonization.” Raised in Uganda and of Indian descent, the likely future mayor’s father also previously taught at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania, Makerere University in Uganda, and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. The leftwing academic wrote a 2004 book — Good Muslim, Bad Muslim — which may help explain his son’s views on terrorism.

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Maryland Democrat Refuses to Go Along with Party’s Gerrymandering Push

Daily Caller News Foundation
Bill Ferguson

Democratic Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson on Tuesday blocked his party’s effort to redraw congressional maps, halting plans to target the state’s only Republican lawmaker.

In a three-page letter to his Democratic colleagues, first obtained by Politico, Ferguson said he would not support holding a special session to redraw the maps and warned that a mid-cycle redistricting effort would be “catastrophic.” Despite controlling the governor’s office and holding supermajorities in both chambers, Democrats cannot advance a redistricting plan without Ferguson’s support.

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn Highlights ‘Disturbing’ Comments from Tennessee Professors for Hearing on Political Violence

Tom Pappert
Marsha Blackburn

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Tuesday highlighted the “disturbing” comments made by three Tennessee professors following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), during a hearing on political violence.

Blackburn made the remarks as Daily Wire host and author Michael Knowles testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, which on Tuesday held a hearing examining the potential threat of political violence to the nation.

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Tennessee County Signs Deal to Partner with ICE

Zachery Schmidt
Sheriff Sexton

The Washington County Commission approved a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that will allow the county to take part in the federal government’s Section 287(g) program.

This federal law enforcement program allows the federal government to enter into agreements with local and state law enforcement so they “can perform certain functions of an immigration officer,” the MOA states.

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House Chairman Comer Calls on AG Bondi to Invalidate All Biden Pardons, Orders Signed by Autopen

Just the News
Biden signature

The chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Tuesday demanded that Attorney General Pam Bondi take steps to invalidate all of Joe Biden’s pardons and executive orders signed by autopen, saying there was ample evidence the former president did not follow the law and was unaware of actions being taken in his name by staff.

“We’ve handed this to Pam Bondi on a silver platter. We’ve done all the heavy lifting,” Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said in a wide-ranging interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show. “We’ve done the depositions. We’ve combed through the emails. I mean, this is the hard, tedious work of an investigation.

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Commentary: The Fed Must Act Now Before the Job Market Cracks

RealClearWire

America’s labor market is flashing red, and the Federal Reserve is watching the light change instead of hitting the brakes. Job openings have fallen to 7.26 million, the lowest level in 4½ years. Private-sector hiring has turned negative, with September’s ADP data showing -32,000 jobs after August was revised down to -3,000. Employers’ plans to add workers have plunged 71% from last year, and year-to-date hiring announcements are the weakest since 2009. The Fed must move decisively by cutting rates 50 basis points in both the October and December meetings to prevent further deterioration in employment and restore confidence to the private economy.

For the first time since early 2021, there are more unemployed Americans than job vacancies. If the Fed waits until 2026 to cut rates meaningfully, it will be too late. Monetary policy works with long and variable lags. By the time a policy shift filters through credit markets and small-business balance sheets, another million jobs could be lost.

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