Tennessee U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) sent a letter to the chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce calling for an investigation into the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show, which featured Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny, alleging that the broadcast included explicit and indecent content inappropriate for a prime-time family audience.
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The FBI has “substantiated” some major irregularities in how votes were counted in Georgia’s largest urban area in the aftermath of the 2020 election and is probing whether those failures were intentional efforts to violate federal election law, according to a bombshell affidavit unsealed by a federal court on Tuesday.
FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans first filed the affidavit last month to establish probable cause for a raid that seized about 700 boxes of Georgia 2020 elections ballots from a storage warehouse in the Atlanta area, after getting a referral from Trump Whote House election integrity czar Kurt Olsen.
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A 2023 Metro Nashville document reveals that the city ended its relationship with FINN Partners, the public relations firm that contracts with Nashville Electric Service (NES) and provided pro bono services in response to Winter Storm Fern, after the company submitted a quote for over $2 million. Metro Nashville instead selected vendors who bid about half of FINN Partners’ proposed amount.
The bid by FINN Partners was detailed in an Intent to Award notice released by Metro Nashville in December 2023, which included information on proposals from other companies and the city’s evaluation of their terms.
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Breitbart President Donald Trump dismissed sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as “disgusting” and decried his procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell as “evil” back in 2006, a now-retired cop informed FBI agents in 2019. The revelation is contained in a newly unsealed court document released Monday by the Department of Justice. CNBC reports Trump personally called the then-Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter “to tell him ‘thank goodness you’ [are] stopping [Epstein], everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Reiter told the FBI in October 2019, according to the FBI document, known as a 302. The document stated whistleblower Trump “was one of the very first people to call” the police when word spread Epstein was under investigation. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Hill Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) are teaming up to “break up big medicine.” The lawmakers introduced legislation to crack down on health care conglomerates that own multiple parts of the industry — including pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), which act as a conduit between insurers and drug manufacturers, and pharmacies themselves. Warren and Hawley’s “Break Up Big Medicine Act” proposes prohibiting parent companies from owning a medical provider or management services organization and a PBM or insurer. It also proposes prohibiting parent companies of prescription drug or medical device wholesalers from owning a medical provider or management services organization. READ THE FULL STORY
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CBS News A federal judge on Tuesday rebuffed the Justice Department’s effort to obtain sensitive voter information from Michigan, joining a growing number of judges who have tossed out lawsuits brought by the Trump administration in its bid to secure voter registration lists from states. U.S. District Judge Hala Jarbou granted a request from Michigan officials to dismiss the lawsuit from the Justice Department seeking voter registration data from the state, finding that federal voting laws do not require the records to be disclosed. Judges in Oregon and California have also rejected attempts from the Justice Department to force those states to hand over their voter rolls. READ THE FULL STORY
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Clint Brewer, Founder and Managing Partner of PR Firm Imperium Public Strategies, said renewed calls for a state takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools are rooted in long-standing mismanagement, arguing that audit findings show a system that has failed both teachers and students.
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A recent watchdog report revealed that several top-ranked American universities have brought in Chinese academics who have links to Chinese military-linked technology firms like tech behemoth Huawei and other Chinese firms linked to the CCP’s state security endeavors.
A conservative non-profit watchdog group, the American Accountability Foundation, reported that it found nearly two dozen Chinese academics working at elite U.S. schools and labs “who, because of the dual-use threat of their research, close ties to the military research sector in China, and/or clear ties to the Chinese Communist Party” and as such “should be expelled from the United States or never be re-admitted.”
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President Trump is set to repeal an Obama-era climate finding that was the basis for federal greenhouse-gas regulation, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Repealing the finding, which was a scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, would remove the legal basis for greenhouse gas regulation, Reuters reported.
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Arizona State University (ASU) is facing a second federal complaint after another faculty member admitted the school is secretly continuing its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) march despite federal orders.
Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) filed a complaint against the school on Monday after an associate dean was caught on a hidden camera saying ASU only changed the language used, but programs still teach DEI topics. PPT already filed a complaint against ASU on Jan. 28 after an associate program director was filmed making a similar admission.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, on Tuesday announced that she would not support the SAVE Act or the MEGA Act, asserting that the Republican-driven election integrity bills ran contrast to GOP opposition for federalizing elections.
“Once again, I do not support these efforts. Not only does the U.S. Constitution clearly provide states the authority to regulate the ‘times, places, and manner’ of holding federal elections, but one-size-fits-all mandates from Washington, D.C., seldom work in places like Alaska,” she posted on X.
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An immigration court has rejected the Trump administration’s deportation bid of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish national and pro-Palestinian Tufts University student.
Öztürk’s lawyers announced the court’s decision on Monday, saying that it had found the government “had not met its burden of proving removability” and terminated her deportation proceedings, The Hill news outlet reported.
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Nashville Electric Service (NES) on Monday told The Tennessee Star that FINN Partners provided its services free of charge during the municipally owned utility’s response to Winter Storm Fern, which left thousands of customers without power for over a week.
Without disputing reports indicating NES entered into a contract worth up to $10 million with the New York-based public relations firm, a NES spokesman told The Star, “FINN Partners has been providing pro bono services (i.e. storm-related communications, customer messaging, media strategy, press coordination etc.) to NES throughout the duration of Winter Storm Fern.”
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A Tennessee bill would impose a criminal penalty for obstructing a religious service.
State Representative Greg Martin (R-Hamilton County) introduced House Bill (HB) 2264 last week, which would create a misdemeanor offense for interfering with a religious institution.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released newly recovered Nest doorbell video and surveillance images showing an armed individual outside the home of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “TODAY” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, who was reported missing on February 1.
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Ahead of an expected vote on the SAVE America Act in the House, nearly 100 conservative leaders are urging the Senate to pass the election integrity measure using the talking filibuster.
The SAVE America Act, an updated version of the SAVE Act, would secure America’s elections by requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and requiring voter identification.
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If you take a close look at some of the major news stories that have captured our collective attention over the last few weeks, you may notice a peculiar pattern.
We’ll start in Minneapolis, with the story that has dominated the headlines for weeks. Although Tom Homan, President Trump’s “border czar,” has deftly negotiated a de-escalation of tensions in the nation’s most aggressive, bizarre, and aggressively bizarre sanctuary city, protests there continue. More to the point, state and local politicians continue to behave as if federal laws are irrelevant and as if they have no responsibility whatsoever to abide by rules that they have decided are unpleasant.
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