Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, explained how a proposed federal law enforcement task force in Nashville could ultimately provide political relief for city leadership, especially Mayor Freddie O’Connell, when it comes to addressing crime rates.
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Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, said he supports new legislation in Tennessee that would shield fossil fuel companies from climate-related lawsuits, calling such legal efforts baseless and financially motivated.
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Derek Barrs knew cleaning up the trucking industry would be a big job when President Donald Trump gave him the task, having spent years cracking down on commercial drivers for the Florida Highway Patrol.
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This week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, tapping Vice President JD Vance to oversee efforts through the commission to combat fraud in federal benefits programs. The opportunity could serve as Vance’s most pivotal role thus far, a chance to prove himself to any of Trump’s base who still question Vance’s viability to carry on the MAGA (Make America Great Again) cause.
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Nearly two years after the Supreme Court killed free speech, in the telling of future National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, by letting the Biden administration resume pressuring tech platforms to censor disfavored narratives on COVID-19, elections and Hunter Biden, the Trump administration has made the plaintiffs’ wildest dreams come true.
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The Biden administration pushed COVID-19 boosters for elderly people even harder after its vaccine safety surveillance systems discovered, as early as November 2022, “statistically significant safety signals for ischemic stroke” in that age group following uptake of the Pfizer bivalent, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy in a letter Monday, disclosed Wednesday.
The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations chair released nearly 2,000 pages of “relevant HHS records” in conjunction with the letter, in 10 batches, documenting the stroke signal and internal communications between officials “acknowledging significant statistical limitations in their ability to detect safety signals through their data analyses.”
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Election 2026: never has a midterm year been so important, so seminal, with so much riding on its outcome.
President Trump has unleashed one of the most consequential presidencies in American history. He has resisted the moderation of previous leaders, enacting a bold, aggressive agenda, recognizing the unique opportunities of a second-term president who can enact an aggressive policy change with the considerable support from the people.
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