Day: March 4, 2026

NES Asked Workers to ‘Consider’ ‘Connection’ to Those of Different Race, Sexual Orientation in One of 102 DEI Training Sessions, Report Shows

Tom Pappert

Presentation slides from a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training session held by Nashville Electric Service (NES) in 2023 were published by The Daily Wire on Wednesday, revealing employees were asked to “consider” their “connection” to individuals with different backgrounds and beliefs, including those of different races and with different sexual preferences.

Daily Wire reported the training session corresponding to the slides included in its reporting was conducted in 2023, suggesting it was one of 102 DEI events for employees, revealed by NES in an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) report, held from 2023 until early 2024.

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Colorado Gov Jared Polis Suggests Possible Clemency for Ex-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters

Just the News
Tina Peters

Colorado Democrat Gov. Jared Polis has suggested possible clemency for former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is serving a nearly nine-year prison sentence related to the 2020 election.

Polis made the suggestion Tuesday, after former Democrat state Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis was sentenced last week to two years of probation and community service after being convicted in January of four felony charges, including attempt to influence a public official, according to The Hill newspaper.

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Data: ICE Deported Fewer than 40,000 Illegals Between October and Late February

Daily Caller News Foundation
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At first blush the Trump administration’s deportation numbers reflect an unparalleled effort to remove vast numbers of illegal immigrants. However, internal data — and the delayed release of the administration’s annual enforcement report — tells a more complicated story.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted slightly over 35,500 deportations from Oct. 1, 2025 to late February, according to internal figures obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Unlike publicly available figures that conflate deportation with border turnarounds and voluntary departures, the internal data only pertains to deportations of foreigners under an order of removal by an immigration judge.

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Vast Majority of Republicans Think Trump Broke Promise to End Foreign Wars

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Most Republican voters think President Donald Trump broke his “promise” to stop foreign wars, according to a new poll.

A Democracy Institute poll released Tuesday found that 80% of respondents believe Trump abandoned his 2024 campaign pledge to end foreign wars, including 85% of Republicans and 73% of Democrats. The survey’s release comes after the U.S. and Israel launched military strikes against the Islamic regime early Saturday, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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House Oversight Committee Concludes Tim Walz’s Administration Knew of Fraud, Failed to Act

Just the News
Tim Walz

Senior Minnesota government officials, including Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, were aware of claims of widespread fraud in the state’s federally funded welfare programs for years, but failed to act other than to retaliate against whistleblowers, the House Oversight Committee concluded in a report released Wednesday.

Both Walz and Ellison are scheduled to testify before the committee on Wednesday at 10:00 AM, the committee previously announced. They are likely to face questions from the committee about fraud schemes estimated to have cost taxpayers as much as $18 billion and that were first reported by Just the News in summer 2024.

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Supreme Court Unanimously Backs Immigration Agencies in Row over ‘Persecution’ Standards

Just the News
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously that immigration courts must defer to executive agencies on key findings of fact during certain immigration proceedings, handing a modest, procedural win to the Trump administration.

Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson, writing for the entire court, said “[w]e granted certiorari to determine whether the Court of Appeals applied the appropriate standard of review under the INA. We conclude that the statute requires application of the substantial-evidence standard to the agency’s conclusion that a given set of undisputed facts does not constitution persecution. According, we affirm.”

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Reports Claim U.S. Arming Kurds to Fight Iran

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BREAKING NEWS

Breitbart   Several media outlets in the U.S. and Israel have reported that the U.S. has asked the Iranian Kurds to join the fight against the regime in Tehran, potentially neutralizing security forces in western Iran and paving the way for another popular uprising. CNN on Tuesday cited “multiple people familiar with the plan” who said the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is “working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran.” A senior Iranian Kurdish official told CNN the plan is fairly advanced, and the Kurds could begin a ground operation “in the coming days,” emboldened by their belief that they have a “big chance” to topple a regime crippled by devastating U.S. and Israeli airstrikes. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Trump Signs Agreement with Big Tech to Cover Data Center Electricity Costs

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BREAKING NEWS

The Hill   President Trump and major tech firms announced an agreement Wednesday to have Big Tech companies cover the cost of the electricity they consume as development of artificial intelligence shows no signs of stopping. Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI, and Amazon have agreed to sign onto the “Ratepayer Protection Pledge,” the White House said Wednesday, describing the pact as an agreement to build, bring or buy new power to support their data centers in order to prevent higher electricity costs for consumers. Trump, during Wednesday’s roundtable with the companies’ leaders, said that companies would make five promises in accordance with the pact: This includes a commitment to provide or pay for all power generation and electricity needed for AI projects, along with adding electricity generating capacity to the grid through new power plants when possible. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Senate Rejects Attempt to Rein in Trump’s Power to Wage War on Iran

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BREAKING NEWS

CBS News   The Senate defeated a war powers resolution that sought to block President Trump from using further military force against Iran, rejecting a Democratic push to rebuke the president amid the administration’s shifting justifications for the war and warnings about more American casualties to come. In a 47 to 53 vote, the resolution fell short of the simple majority it needed to advance. With Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania voting against the measure, it needed the support of at least five Republicans. Only GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky supported it. It’s the second time in less than a year that Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia forced a vote on a war powers resolution related to Iran. The upper chamber voted down a similar effort in June 2025, after the U.S. bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Notre Dame Football Icon Lou Holtz Dies at 89

Just the News
Lou Holtz

Iconic college football coach Lou Holtz, who spent 33 years leading teams including the University of Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish, died Wednesday in Orlando, Florida, at the age of 89.

Holtz, who was also known for being a friend of President Donald Trump, was surrounded by loved ones and had reportedly entered hospice in January. The football coach’s cause of death was not immediately clear.

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Trump to Endorse in Texas Senate Primary, Will Ask Non-Recipient to Drop Out

Just the News
Texas GOP primary

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he planned to make an endorsement in the Texas Senate primary and urge the non-recipient to leave the race, so as to avoid a protracted primary battle.

“The Republican Primary Race for the United States Senate in the Great State of Texas, a State I LOVE and won 3 times in Record Numbers (the HIGHEST vote ever recorded, by far!!!), cannot, for the good of the Party, and our Country, itself, be allowed to go on any longer,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “IT MUST STOP NOW! We have an easy to beat, Radical Left Opponent, and we have to TOTALLY FOCUS on putting him away, quickly and decisively!”

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NES Reportedly Activated Only 160 Linemen Ahead of Winter Storm, Ran Out of Power Poles During Restoration

Tom Pappert
Nashville Electric Service Worker

Nashville Electric Service (NES) had only 160 linemen ready to work before Winter Storm Fern, according to new reporting published on Tuesday, despite the company publicly claiming it had more than twice that number available at the beginning of the storm. 

According to WSMV 4, citing internal NES documents obtained by the Nashville television station, just 160 linemen were listed as activated within internal NES systems on January 25. Though the number rose to 300 at 8 a.m. on the next day, it would not reach 600 until 10 p.m. that night, well after the company publicly asserted that 345 linemen were ready to respond to the damage caused by Winter Storm Fern. 

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Metro Nashville Council Delays Vote on Resolution Calling for NES to Fire CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin Until June

Tom Pappert
Teresa Broyles-Aplin

The Metro Nashville Council on Tuesday deferred action on the resolution that would call for the Nashville Electric Service (NES) board to fire their embattled chief executive, Teresa Broyles-Aplin, until June 2. 

Originally introduced on February 10 with bipartisan support from Councilmembers Emily Benedict (District 7) and Courtney Johnston (District 26), the council previously opted to delay action during a February 17 meeting, citing their desire to learn more about NES’ response to the storm, which left about 230,000 people without power, including thousands who did not have service restored for almost two weeks. 

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NASA Astronaut Butch Wilmore Takes Steps to Enter Tennessee Governor’s Race

Kaitlin Housler
Butch Wilmore

Barry “Butch” Wilmore, a Middle Tennessee native and recently retired NASA astronaut, is weighing a bid for Tennessee Governor as a Republican, according to the latest candidate filings on the Tennessee Secretary of State website.

Wilmore was issued gubernatorial paperwork on February 25, but has not yet completed the final step required to enter the race, which includes filing a petition with at least 25 valid voter signatures by the March 10 deadline.

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Public School Test Scores Continue to Decline Since Pandemic

The Center Square

Academic achievement in U.S. public schools continues to fall behind pre-pandemic levels, with national test data showing a persistent decline in math and reading scores years after COVID-19.

Test results from the National Center for Education Statistics show that average scores on 12th-grade math and reading assessments dropped three points from 2019. Among fourth graders, average math scores were also three points lower than before the pandemic, while eighth graders saw math scores decline by eight points over five years. Reading scores for fourth and eighth graders dropped five points between 2019 and 2024.

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Iran War, Saudi Outage to Boost U.S. Propane, Butane Exports

The Center Square
LNG ship

Chaos in global energy markets following the launch of Operation Epic Fury is expected to drive record demand for U.S. exports of propane and butane, analysts said Monday.

Following a military strike by the U.S. and Israel that killed Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and approximately 40 senior officials, Iran launched missile attacks on Saudi Arabia’s largest oil field and targeted civilian and energy infrastructure in at least nine countries including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Jordan.

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Commentary: Trump’s Way of War

American Greatness
Trump situation room

War is the use of arms to settle differences—tribal, political, religious, cultural, and material—between organized groups. It is unchanging. The general laws of armed conflict stays immutable, given the constancy of human nature.

However, the manner in which war is conducted remains fluid. New weapons, tactics, and strategies elicit counterresponses in an endless cycle of tensions between defensive and offensive superiority.

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