A law invalidating out-of-state driver licenses issued exclusively to illegal aliens and making it a misdemeanor offense to operate motor vehicles in the state with such licenses is set to take effect in Tennessee this week.
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Europe is less Christian than at any other time in its modern history. Overall church attendance is in decline, it’s increasingly common for Europeans to identify as agnostics or atheists, and, among the faithful, Christianity is no longer the continent’s default religion.
Yet, unlike the United States, Europe has never experienced anything resembling a “War on Christmas” – no backlash about the holiday and no push to remove religious symbols from public life.
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Beth Macy, a 2026 Democratic candidate for Virginia’s 6th Congressional District, has drawn some comparisons to a liberal version of Vice President JD Vance, Politico reported on Monday.
Macy previously served as an award-winning reporter for the Roanoke Times for 25 years and has also authored five nonfiction books, including “Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America,” which was released in October and highlights the decline of her hometown of Urbana, Ohio, Politico reported. Vance similarly wrote “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” a 2016 memoir which in part covers the socioeconomic issues facing his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, as Politico notes.
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Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s office said on Sunday it launched new investigations in response to a viral video further documenting evidence of fraud in the state.
A new documentary produced by independent journalist Nick Shirley highlights visits to more than 20 licensed childcare and healthcare providers participating in state-funded assistance programs that appeared to be non-operational during the visits. Walz’s office responded to the video in a statement provided to FOX News, claiming his administration has “strengthened oversight,” in response to the documented fraud schemes.
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The FBI on Monday released new writings by Covenant School killer Audrey Hale, who identified as a transgender man when she killed six on March 27, 2023, revealing the killer listed hatred for religion as reason to attack the Christian elementary school she once attended.
Hale included the motivator in a list of “advantages” and “disadvantages” the killer titled, “The Covenant School – Alternate Target / 2nd Choice,” which also noted her past history at the school, her knowledge of its layout, but also listed that it was a “bigger school,” and a “private school,” as well as a “school/church,” which meant “more revenue real estate.”
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The suspect charged with planting two pipe bombs at the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee the day before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot claimed he was not trying to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 election despite his reported admission that he believed the election was stolen, prosecutors said in a new court filing seeking to keep him detained pending trial.
“When asked why he placed the devices at the RNC and DNC” during a multi-hour interview, Brian Cole of Virginia answered “‘I really don’t like either party at this point'” and “‘they were in charge,'” claiming said he got the idea to use pipe bombs “from his interest in history, specifically the Troubles in Ireland,” ABC News reported.
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Newsmax Nearly 2 million illegals have self-deported under the second Trump administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The striking figure, 1.9 million voluntary departures between January and mid-December, was announced by DHS in a year-end release on the department’s accomplishments in 2025. The Washington Examiner reported that the self-deportation total was evidence that President Donald Trump’s White House strategy of pressuring illegal aliens to leave on their own is producing results, even as Democrats and activist groups denounced the messaging as harsh. READ THE FULL STORY
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Politico Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the current draft peace framework includes 15 years of security guarantees from the U.S., with Kyiv pushing for that to be extended for up to 50 years. At a meeting in Florida on Sunday, Zelenskyy said U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed strong security guarantees for Kyiv, with both leaders expressing optimism that they were on the precipice of a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine. “Yesterday we confirmed this with [Trump], that we will have strong security guarantees from the United States. Indeed, now it is not forever. In the documents it is for 15 years with the possibility of extending these security guarantees,” Zelenskyy told reporters via WhatsApp chat on Monday. READ THE FULL STORY
Read the full storyThe Hill The United States pledged $2 billion in United Nations humanitarian assistance Monday, as part of a deal aimed at streamlining the way international aid is distributed. In Geneva, the U.S. State Department and the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) signed a memorandum of understanding, creating a new umbrella fund from which OCHA can funnel U.S. and other aid to individual U.N. agencies, rather than U.S. contributions going to scattered appeals for aid. The U.S. “anchor commitment” of $2 billion represents a significant reduction compared with past U.S. aid to U.N. agencies and comes as the Trump administration has slashed funding to international aid initiatives. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Wrap After a slight dip in layoffs in 2024, the entertainment and media industry jobs suffered through another difficult year. In 2025, over 17,000 jobs were cut across television, film, broadcast, news and streaming in the first 11 months of the year. This figure was up 18% from last year, continuing a trend from the past few years as the industry has wrestled with consolidation and other pressures like the double strikes in 2023. News alone, including broadcast, digital and print, suffered 2,254 job cuts to date, 179 of which occurred in November, but for the year, cuts were down 50% from the 4,537 job losses announced during the same period last year. READ THE FULL STORY
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A filing submitted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in the second immigration lawsuit filed by Kilmar Abrego Garcia against the Trump administration reveals that the alleged human smuggler is now subject to electronic tracking from two federal agencies, with both the U.S. Marshals Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) now monitoring his location.
The Friday filing informed U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, that ICE served Abrego Garcia on Wednesday with a new notice informing him of his new conditions of release from immigration detention, which was ordered by the judge on December 11.
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Tennessee politicians reacted to the death of a Tennessee police officer.
On Sunday, Blount County Deputy Justin Mowery died in a car crash while in the line of duty, according to the Blount County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO).
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Billionaire Elon Musk weighed into a growing Tennessee GOP controversy after conservative activist and Tennessean Robby Starbuck called out Oscar Brock, Tennessee Republican Party (TNGOP) Executive Committee member and committeeman to the National Republican Committee (RNC), for working with The Washington Post to criticize Musk, who Starbuck described as the party’s largest donor tied to Republican campaign wins.
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The FBI on Monday released another 230 manifesto pages written by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the biological female who identified as a transgender man on March 27, 2023, when the 28-year-old killed six at the Covenant School in Nashville, the Christian elementary school she once attended.
This latest journal appears to have been written sometime in late 2021, and includes lengthy sections about the weapons the killer planned to use to commit a mass shooting at a school sometime that year.
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Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson announced Friday that he was undergoing a major medical operation after discovering a “serious” health issue.
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Tricia McLaughlin, the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), on Saturday noted that her department is barred from publicly commenting on the human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was recently released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis despite admitting in 2019 that he illegally entered the country, while Abrego Garcia is publicly posting to social media.
“So we, at [DHS], are under gag order by an activist judge and Kilmar Abrego Garcia is making TikToks,” wrote McLaughlin in a post to X. “American justice ceases to function when its arbiters silence law enforcement and give megaphones to those who oppose our legal system.”
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The independent law firm appointed to review the allegations against Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) completed their investigation earlier this month, determining the claims raised last year by retired member of the police department either were not borne out by evidence or did not rise to the level of a policy violation or official misconduct.
Enlisted by Mayor Freddie O’Connell last year to investigate the whistleblower complaint submitted by retired MNPD Lieutenant Garet Davidson, the law firm Butler Snow announced on December 18 that it completed its report, which was published December 22 by Nashville Banner.
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