Knoxville voters on Tuesday rejected a ballot measure that would have increased the city’s sales tax rate by half a cent.
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Senator Blackburn Demands Answers from PimEyes over Facial Recognition Technology Used to Dox ICE Agents
Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is demanding answers from the face recognition search engine PimEyes over its image recognition software being used to dox federal officers.
Read the full storyJay Jones Beats Scandal to Take Virginia Attorney General Race
Virginia Dogwood Democrat Jay Jones is projected to defeat Republican incumbent Jason Miyares and will become Virginia’s next attorney general. Decision Desk HQ made the call at 8:26 p.m. ET. As of publication time, unofficial results show Jones winning 50.7% of the vote compared with 48.9% for Miyares, with 62% of the vote reported. READ THE FULL STORY
Read the full storyMetro Nashville Council to Vote on Resolution Marking ‘Transgender Day of Remembrance’
The Metro Nashville Council is set to vote on a resolution at its Tuesday meeting to recognize Transgender Day of Remembrance.
The resolution, filed as RS2025-1624, is sponsored by Metro Councilmembers Olivia Hill, Emily Benedict, Tasha Ellis, and Russ Bradford.
Read the full storyTexas Republican Files Articles of Impeachment Against Judge Boasberg over Arctic Frost
Texas GOP Rep. Brandon Gill on Tuesday formally filed articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who has been at the center of the Trump administration’s efforts to invoke the Alien Enemies Act against Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
Gill first teased the impeachment effort last week after Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz urged the House to impeach the judge. The House impeaches civil officers, the president and the vice president, while the Senate convicts and removes them.
Read the full storyRobby Starbuck Says More Google AI Products Smear Republicans After Access Limited to Gemma Following Letter from Sen. Marsha Blackburn
Conservative filmmaker and pundit Robby Starbuck said on Monday that multiple of the artificial intelligence (AI) products offered by Google had allegedly defamed him, citing his ongoing lawsuit against the technology company, after Google reduced access to one of its AI models that allegedly defamed Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
The company reduced access to its AI chatbot, Gemma, after Blackburn notified Google CEO Sundar Pichai of her concerns in a letter last Thursday, specifically informing Pichai that his company’s AI products spread “defamatory and patently false material” about Starbuck and others.
Read the full storyAuthorities Make over 2,000 Arrests Since Deployment of Memphis Safe Task Force
More than 2,000 arrests have been made since the deployment of the Memphis Safe Task Force on September 30, according to a City of Memphis data portal that provides daily updates about the city’s crime statistics since the federal law enforcement arrived.
In just over one month since the task force deployed, the portal shows that law enforcement has made 883 felony arrests and 1,164 misdemeanor arrests, with 303 arrests involving violent warrants, for a total of 2,048 alleged criminals taken off the streets since the end of September.
Read the full storyComey Boomerang: Ex-Director Confronted with Personal Emails, Notes After Playing Victim Card
James Comey played the victim card in fighting his indictment on charges of misleading Congress, but that strategy boomeranged when prosecutors and his old agency released an avalanche of new evidence showing the ex-FBI director hoped to please Hillary Clinton, cheered on media leaks he claimed he did not sanction, and wrote emails and notes that directly conflict with his past congressional testimony.
Part of that unflattering portrait of Comey, prosecutors revealed Monday, came from long-hidden files that the new FBI Director Kash Patel found in burn bags and secret storage rooms at the bureau’s headquarters.
Read the full storyPoll: Majority of Voters Want Biden’s Aides Prosecuted over Autopen Use
A total of 52% of voters want former President Biden’s aides prosecuted for allegedly unauthorized use of his autopen, according to a new poll.
Rasmussen Reports released a poll on Monday that found 52% of voters believe Biden’s aides should face criminal prosecution for unauthorized actions during his administration, with 32% who disagreed and 17% who were unsure.
Read the full storyPam Bondi: Jack Smith Seized Trump’s Government-Issued Phone, Subpoenaed His Calls
Breitbart Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday said that the Biden-era Special Counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s personal phone records as well as his government-issued phone as part of its investigation into January 6. Bondi wrote: During the Arctic Frost Investigation, we found that Special Counsel seized President Trump’s government-issued phone. This means the Biden Administration turned over President Trump’s phone to Special Counsel — an UNPRECEDENTED action. In addition, Special Counsel subpoenaed all of President Trump’s PERSONAL phone records. We can never again allow this kind of government weaponization in America. I submitted these new documents to our partners on Capitol Hill. I commend our team at the FBI for working diligently to expose this. Bondi’s revelation is the latest exposure of the investigation into the protests on January 6, 2021, formally known as “Arctic Frost.” As part of the investigation, Smith issued 197 subpoenas to 34 individuals and 163 entities, which included banks and political groups. READ THE FULL STORY
Read the full storyGlenn Youngkin’s Election Day Message to Republicans: ‘When We Vote, We Win’
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin said the key to victory today for Republicans in the general election is voter turnout.
Read the full storyMigrant Children ‘Lost’ by Biden Equal Population of Salt Lake City
Washington Examiner Former President Joe Biden’s lackluster attention to the crisis his open border policies created resulted in his administration losing the whereabouts of nearly half the 448,059 unaccompanied children released into America, some ending up in strip clubs. New estimates based on data provided under the Freedom of Information Act indicate that about 215,000 migrant children who arrived alone at the border during the Biden era are unaccounted for. That is enough to match the population of Salt Lake City, Utah, the nation’s 111th largest metropolis. READ THE FULL STORY
Read the full storyLilly, Novo Near White House Deals to Cut Obesity Drug Prices, Gain Medicare Access, Media Reports
Reuters Eli Lilly (LLY.N), opens new tab and Novo Nordisk (NOVOb.CO), opens new tab are expected to announce deals with the White House to offer the lowest dose of their weight-loss drugs at $149 per month, in exchange for Medicare coverage, Endpoints News reported on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Patients in the U.S. currently pay the most for prescription medicines, often nearly three times more than in other developed nations, and President Donald Trump has been pressuring drugmakers to lower their prices to what patients pay elsewhere. In return, the drugs would gain coverage under Medicare, a federal health insurance program in the U.S. for people aged 65 and older or who have disabilities, which would open up a huge new set of reimbursement, according to the Endpoints report. READ THE FULL STORY
Read the full storyCalifornia Will Spend 28x More on Healthcare for Illegals than State Law Enforcement
California expects to spend 28 times more on health benefits for illegal aliens than on state police in the 2025-2026 budget period.
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s final budget allocates $348 million to law enforcement while the state’s own budget experts in an October report estimate the tab for giving full health benefits for illegal aliens amounts to $10 billion. The new report by the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) reveals a 35% higher figure than the $7.4 billion cost Newsom estimated in his January 2025 budget proposal.
Read the full storyNew Jersey Polling Places Moved Due to Threats
Several polling places in New Jersey were moved on Tuesday due to threats, according to the state attorney general.
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D) said in a statement, “Early this morning, law enforcement responded to threats that were received by email involving certain polling places in Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic Counties.
Read the full storyAnalysis: Five Elections to Watch on Election Day
Election Day is upon us. Though we are still a year away from the vital 2026 midterm congressional elections, there are still a number of races garnering national attention for one reason or another.
Will President Donald Trump’s 2024 red shift in blue states continue? Will the Democratic Party lurch further to the left?
Read the full storyTennessee to Give $5 Million to Food Banks
Gov. Bill Lee announced on Tuesday that Tennessee will allocate $5 million in state funds to food banks to help people facing delays in governmental food assistance.
As the government shutdown goes on, Lee said he is “grateful to non-profit partners serving Tennesseans in their time of need.”
Read the full storyFormer Vice President Dick Cheney Dies
Dick Cheney, vice president to former President George W. Bush, has died. He was 84.
Read the full storyChattanooga Volkswagen Workers Vote to Authorize Strike as Contract Negotiations Fail
Union workers at the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant voted last week to authorize a strike as contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the German auto company continue to stall.
Read the full story‘Time to Act’: Michael Patrick Leahy Calls on Republicans to Impeach D.C. Judge Boasberg
Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Tennessee Star, is calling on House Republicans to launch impeachment proceedings against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, the chief federal judge in Washington, D.C., arguing that Boasberg’s issuance of a gag order targeting nine Republican senators constitutes an abuse of judicial power and a violation of constitutional rights.
Read the full storyDHS Proposes Billion Dollar Expanded DNA Testing for Immigrants
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a multibillion dollar proposal on Monday to increase biometric scanning during the immigration process. The proposal would expand the agency’s authority to take fingerprints, DNA, facial and iris scans.
The proposal is estimated to cost $288.7 million annually and $2.5 billion over the course of 10 years. The department estimated it will increase biometric scanning to more than 3 million people.
Read the full storyRight to Work Could Define Virginia’s 2025 Governor’s Race, National Labor Expert Mark Mix Says
Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Committee, is confident Virginia’s long-standing Right to Work law will be a defining issue in the Commonwealth’s gubernatorial election Tuesday between Republican nominee Winsome Earle-Sears and Democrat Abigail Spanberger.
Read the full storyCommentary: Nigeria and the American Interest in Africa
Let me be blunt: since the Wehrmacht’s surrender in Tunisia in 1943, the African continent has offered the United States almost nothing of major consequence to its national interest. Our engagement since has been a costly, sentimental fog of humanitarian gestures and posturing, achieving little while ignoring the realities of power.
Washington’s central failure is its refusal to see the continent as it is. There are two successful models for order that have worked over large portions of Africa. The first is the default of Muslim rule. This system, even at its most functional, offers a brutal and usually racist order that threatens to return to its foundations of slavery and massacre. It offers only occasional and temporary alignments with Western interests and is utterly incompatible with Western values.
Read the full story‘Arctic Frost’ Prosecutor Could Use Cushy Big Tech Job to Target Conservatives, Watchdog Warns
A conservative watchdog group is urging the Trump administration to take a closer look at its contracts with Microsoft as the Biden-era “Arctic Frost” probe continues to unravel.
The Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) is demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) review its contracts with Microsoft after the tech giant hired former Biden Justice Department official Lisa Monaco, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The letter warns that Monaco’s senior position poses a national security risk, as she is privy to sensitive information between Microsoft and the federal government.
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