Veteran novelist and screenwriter Roger Simon said his upcoming novel EMET represents both a new literary series and a deeper purpose in his writing career.
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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled in court documents unsealed Friday that the Justice Department cannot subpoena Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, stating it was using the subpoenas as a tactic to pressure Powell into lowering interest rates.
The Justice Department issued the grand jury subpoenas as part of a criminal investigation into Powell, which is led by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
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Breitbart A convicted pedophile who targeted children as young as five in Sacramento, California, was granted early release under a law the state’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom signed in 2020. Fifty-seven-year-old Gregory Lee Vogelsang had been sentenced to 355 years in prison after being convicted of kidnapping and molesting several children between the ages of five and eleven in the 1990s, the New York Post reported Friday. A three-person board granted him parole in November, and the Post noted the law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed allows inmates who are 50 years and up and who have served 20 or more years behind bars to receive parole consideration. READ THE FULL STORY
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Tiffin Ohio A new poll of likely November 2026 Ohio voters shows Democrat Amy Acton leading Republican Vivek Ramaswamy by 10 percentage points in the race for governor — a striking reversal from just six months ago, when Ramaswamy held a double-digit lead of his own. The survey, conducted by EMC Research from Feb. 10 to Feb. 22, found Acton leading 53% to 43% among 1,343 likely November 2026 voters, with a margin of error of ±2.7 percentage points. Newsweek was among the first outlets to report on the results. The result is the latest indicator of a race that has moved sharply in Acton’s direction. In August 2025, an Emerson College poll had Ramaswamy up by 10 points — 49% to Acton’s 39%. By December, that same pollster found the race statistically tied, with Acton at 46% and Ramaswamy at 45%. The new February numbers represent an additional lurch in Acton’s favor, driven in part by what analysts and polling data suggest are several compounding vulnerabilities for the Republican front-runner. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Hill A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration unlawfully took the position last year that it couldn’t request more funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). U.S. District Judge Edward Davila ordered the agency’s acting director, Russ Vought, to continue requesting the necessary funds from the Federal Reserve to carry out the CFPB’s obligations. It’s a legal loss for top Trump administration officials as they look to curtail the consumer watchdog agency. Created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis with largely Democratic support, many conservatives have targeted the CFPB as unaccountable. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Trump administration won’t enforce a key law that could limit the abortion pill crisis facing Republican states.
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has continued Biden-era opposition to enforcing the Comstock Act, a 1873 law that prohibits mailing anything “designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion,” while resisting lawsuits by pro-life states seeking to stop the flood of mifepristone entering through the mail.
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A Chinese Communist Party connected organization gave millions of dollars to an environmental law non-profit that targets energy projects in Louisiana.
The Pelican Institute For Public Policy published a report outlining the institutional barriers preventing Louisiana from developing its energy industry. Earthjustice, an environmental law organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and receives millions of dollars in funding from a non-profit organization with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) connections, according to the Pelican Institute.
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The senior U.S. Justice Department official leading a campaign to force states to clean up their voter rolls said she personally witnessed either “incompetence” or “malfeasance” in Maricopa County during past elections where she served as an election lawyer.
Maricopa County, Arizona, home to the state’s largest city, Phoenix, was recently forced to turn over election records to the FBI pursuant to a grand jury subpoena.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities says it cancelled a University of Florida professor’s grant to research LGBT cartoonists as well as another scholar’s work on “multethnic graphic literature.”
The NEH website lists a $60,000 grant, beginning on January 1 of this year, to English Professor Margaret Alice Galvan. The grant would aid Galvan’s research on “how LGBTQ+ cartoonists innovated comics through grassroots formats in the 1980s-90s.”
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Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, on Friday vowed to oppose all legislation from the Senate until it approved the SAVE America Act, a marquis voter ID bill that Trump supporters have heavily pressured the Senate to pass.
“I’ll be voting ‘no’ on all Senate bills – other than DHS funding – until the Senate passes the SAVE America Act,” he posted on X. President Donald Trump previously vowed to block any legislation that reached his desk until the Senate passed the bill.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is wounded, and “likely disfigured.”
Hegseth did not elaborate on or provide evidence regarding Khamenei’s condition, The Associated Press reported.
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Federal attorneys in Middle Tennessee on Thursday submitted another response to the habeas corpus lawsuit filed by Estefany Rodriguez Flores, the Colombian journalist detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Nashville, who has claimed her arrest violated the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution.
In the response to the complaint requested by U.S. District Court Judge Eli Richardson ahead of a March 17 hearing, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) began by claiming Rodriguez Flores misrepresented the circumstances of her arrest to the court while making her Fourth Amendment argument.
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U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) on Friday announced plans to file a sweeping immigration bill targeting chain migration, the H-1B visa program, and Diversity Lottery visas, while also strengthening character requirements and the amount of vetting required for approval to immigrate to the United States.
Ogles signaled in a post to X that his legislation would repeal the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965, which critics say radically changed the country’s immigration system to favor third-world migrants over European countries that traditionally drove immigration to the United States, while also targeting programs created under the Immigration Act of 1990.
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The Justice Department charged a man Friday for allegedly selling a gun to the suspected Old Dominion University shooter despite the suspect’s criminal record.
Authorities charged Kenya Chapman with making a false statement during a firearm purchase and engaging in the business of firearms dealing without a license after he allegedly sold the weapon to Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former Army National Guard member, who used it to kill one person and injure two others during the shooting Thursday.
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After the petition returned by Tennessee State Representative G.A. Hardaway (D-Memphis) for his 2026 reelection campaign was determined to have included an insufficient number of signatures, a spokesman reportedly confirmed the 10-term lawmaker intends to challenge the decision, or else begin a write-in campaign in order to keep his seat.
Following the March 10 deadline, the Commercial Appeal reported on Thursday that Hardaway was one valid signature short, leaving no candidates qualified for the District 93 race. The outlet reported that Hardaway would need to launch a write-in campaign for the Democratic Party’s nomination by June 16, or if he decides against running in the party’s primary, to declare his write-in candidacy for the general election by September 14.
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The deadly shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia is being investigated as a possible terror-related attack after authorities identified the suspect as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former extremist offender who had previously pleaded guilty to attempting to support the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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As the United States prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, America250 organizers have revealed plans for a historic project designed to speak directly to Americans centuries in the future.
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The Tennessee State House passed a bill on Thursday that would prevent the state’s Medicaid program from covering gender transition procedures for minors.
State representatives passed House Bill (HB) 2498 by a vote of 73 to 14. State Representative Kip Capley (R-Summertown) is the sponsor of this bill proposal.
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Tennessee Conservative Coalition Executive Director Aaron Gulbransen warned that a Tennessee bill targeting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) could undermine President Donald Trump’s new prescription drug pricing initiative, arguing the proposal threatens the goals of the recently launched TrumpRx.gov.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, warned that a Tennessee bill targeting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) could disrupt prescription access for veterans and military families while potentially triggering constitutional challenges if it becomes law.
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The former FBI agent who ran the bureau’s warrantless spying program said this week that he personally witnessed the director and other senior officials recruiting agents based on political leanings, not qualifications, during Director James Comey’s tenure.
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A month into the partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — thanks in no small part to separating DHS funding from the rest of the government combined with an unwillingness to address Senate filibuster rules — there have been two Islamist terror attacks on U.S. soil in Austin, Texas and New York City as the war in Iran rages on.
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The attorneys general for 17 states filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday arguing that its new order demanding voluminous piles of student admissions data in an attempt to thwart covert affirmative action is onerous, untenable, and in some cases impossible to fulfill.
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