Day: March 9, 2026

Exclusive: Jack Smith Subpoenaed Phone Records of Former Kansas Attorney General Who Led Outside Challenge to 2020 Election Results

Tom Pappert
Phill Kline

A new document obtained by The Tennessee Star reveals that former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline was among the 430 individuals or organizations who were subpoenaed as part of the Arctic Frost probe into the 2020 election contest by President Donald Trump and other Republicans, revealing for the first time that former special prosecutor Jack Smith extended his investigation to legal experts and organizations who sought to contest the results from outside the White House.

The Star obtained correspondence from Verizon last week, notifying the Kline family on February 25 that its records had been subpoenaed by the U.S. Senate. The records requested related to an earlier subpoena obtained by Smith, and Verizon attached records revealing the special prosecutor’s office contacted the telecommunications company on August 1, 2023, to inform them of their obligation to produce Kline’s records to comply with a grand jury subpoena.

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Memphis Safe Task Force Announces 48 Arrests in One Day, Including Illegal Alien Accused of Fatally Shooting Man 14 Times

Tom Pappert
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The Memphis Safe Task Force (MSTF) arrested 48 people last Thursday, according to the U.S. Marshals Service, who reported the arrests in a Friday press release.

The Marshals highlighted three of those arrested, including Allishon Torres, 18, who was charged with first-degree murder, and allegedly found in possession of a handgun with defaced serial numbers. 

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Before FBI Subpoena, Congressional Observers Flagged Commingled Ballots at Maricopa County Center

Just the News

Before the FBI subpoenaed election records involving Arizona’s largest county this month, congressional staffers dispatched to monitor Maricopa County’s vote-counting process in 2024 reported “alarming” concerns that completed mail-in ballots were stored in the same room as blanks and were sorted by a third-party printing company that had no government officials or partisan observers on site, according to a copy of the observer’s report obtained by Just the News. 

The concerns about one of Maricopa’s third-party run centers were detailed in a memo written during the 2024 presidential election in which Trump won, including in Arizona. That memo memorialized the observations of a Republican staff member sent by the House Administration Committee with a Democratic colleague to monitor election procedures in the county.

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United States Was ‘Likely’ Responsible for Bombing of Girls’ School in Iran, per Early U.S. Assessment

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CBS News   The U.S. may be responsible for the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran that killed 168 people, many of them children, on Feb. 28, sources told CBS News. The preliminary U.S. assessment suggests that the United States is “likely” responsible for the deadly attack but did not intentionally target the school and may have hit it in error, possibly due to the use of dated intelligence which wrongly identified the area as still part of an Iranian military installation, a person briefed on the preliminary intelligence told CBS News. Israel’s military was also not operating in the area, two sources told CBS News. READ THE FULL STORY 

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Roughly Three in Four Oppose Sending U.S. Ground Troops into Iran: Survey

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The Hill   Nearly three-quarters of respondents to a new Quinnipiac University poll do not support the U.S. sending ground troops into Iran, as the conflict in the Middle East hits 10 days on Monday. The survey, released Monday, found that 20 percent of respondents support such a move, while 74 percent oppose it. Just 3 percent of Democrats, 19 percent of independents and 37 percent of Republicans support putting boots on the ground. More than half of surveyed Republicans, in fact, are against such an action. Some members of President Trump’s MAGA base, including former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Tucker Carlson, have criticized the president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for launching the war. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Report: Gavin Newsom’s Wife Pocketed over $3M from Her Charity for Herself, Her Company

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Breitbart   California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, has allegedly pocketed over $3 million from her charity for herself and her company over the past few years, according to a recent report. Documents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) show that Siebel Newsom has “been paying herself and her company, Girls Club LLC” income from The Representation Project, “a charity that fights against ‘intersectional gender stereotypes,’” according to the Daily Mail. Siebel Newsom has reportedly pocketed “over $3.7 million over the past decade”: IRS documents from recent years show Gavin Newsom’s wife has been paying herself and her company, Girls Club LLC, up to a third of her nonprofit’s entire income each year – pocketing over $3.7 million over the past decade. READ THE FULL STORY   

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FBI Secretly Seizes Election Records from Arizona’s Largest County as Voting Probe Expands

Just the News

The FBI is expanding its criminal probe into suspected election irregularities, secretly obtaining a large tranche of voting records from Arizona’s largest county with a recent grand jury subpoena, multiple people familiar with the probe told Just the News.

The sources, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because of the secrecy of the grand jury probe, said FBI agents are receiving terabytes of electronic election data from Maricopa County, about a month after the bureau first disclosed an investigation into election irregularities by raiding a warehouse near Atlanta and seizing ballots from the 2020 election conducted in Fulton County, Georgia’s largest metropolis.

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Records Reveal What NIH Said About China When COVID-19 Emerged

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In the summer of 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology was set to become the headquarters for the Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, according to documents from the National Institutes of Health and National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

In less than a year, biosafety seemed an unlikely description for the Wuhan lab that was widely suspected as the site where COVID-19 originated.

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Pappert: Federal Filing Reveals Key Timeline in ICE Arrest of Nashville Noticias Reporter

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Estefany Rodriguez

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, detailed a federal filing that has revealed new details about the immigration case of Colombian-born Nashville Noticias journalist Estefany Rodriguez, who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Nashville on March 4.

According to reporting by Pappert, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) narrative included in a court filing states that Rodriguez married a U.S. citizen 13 days after receiving a call-in letter from ICE ordering her to appear before immigration officials.

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Schumer Presses Trump to Tap Strategic Petroleum Reserve amid Record-High Oil Prices

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Chuck Schumer

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on President Trump to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve amid high oil prices due to the war with Iran.

“The instability created by Trump in this war is already hitting families in their wallets,” Schumer said Sunday, NBC New York reported. “The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is for moments just like this.”

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CENTCOM Announces Deaths of Two American Service Members as Operation Epic Fury Continues in Iran

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U.S. Central Command announced Sunday the deaths of two American service members as Operation Epic Fury continues in Iran: one from wounds sustained in an Iranian attack in Saudi Arabia and another from a “health-related incident” in Kuwait.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a Sunday post to X that an American service member targeted by an Iranian strike in Saudi Arabia succumbed to wounds Saturday night.

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Pentagon Spent $93 Billion in One Month ‘Use-It-or-Lose-It’ Spending Spree

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The Pentagon spent an historic $93 billion on grants and contracts just in September in 2025, according to a new report obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

According to the report, produced by government watchdog Open The Books (OTB), the Department of War (DoW) has not seen a level of spending at the end of a fiscal year so high since at least 2008. The Department spent over $50 billion on grants and contracts in the last five business days of September alone—spending that Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst chalks up to “binge-buying bureaucrats.”

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Leading GOP Candidate in Georgia Governor’s Race Sues Trump-Backed Opponent for Defamation

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Billionaire health care executive Rick Jackson on Monday filed a defamation lawsuit against Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, his Republican primary opponent in the state’s 2026 gubernatorial race.

The lawsuit alleges that Jones, who has President Donald Trump’s endorsement in the race, made three separate “defamatory” statements about Jackson on social media this past week. The complaint was filed in the Superior Court of Fulton County this morning, according to Jackson’s campaign.

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Federal Filing Claims Colombian-Born Journalist Arrested in Nashville Married U.S. Citizen 13 Days After Receiving Letter from ICE

Tom Pappert
Estefany Rodriguez-Florez

An exhibit included in the federal response to the habeas corpus petition filed by Estefany Rodriguez Florez, the Colombian journalist detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while living in Nashville, claims that she married a citizen of the United States about two weeks after she received her first letter from ICE. 

The claim was made by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a Record of Deportable/Inadmissible Alien file created after Rodriguez was arrested on Wednesday, which was included as Exhibit B in the Department of Justice (DOJ) response to Rodriguez’s lawsuit against ICE, in the summary portion of the document.

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