President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will attend a Supreme Court hearing Wednesday on the consitutionality of his Birthright Citizenship executive order.
The case centers on Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to interpret the 14th Amendment as excluding birthright citizenship to the children of illegal migrants and tourists.
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The board of directors for the Rutherford County Library System on Monday terminated the employment of Director Luanne James, who oversaw all five libraries overseen by the board, after she refused to comply with its March 16 decision to remove controversial LGBT literature from the children’s section to the adults’ section.
James was fired in an 8-3 vote despite video captured by local news reporters, and posted to social media, showing her fans shouting their support for the librarian as she prepared for termination over her refusal to move 132 books containing controversial material.
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President Donald Trump’s administration announced an extension of Title X grants to Planned Parenthood for an additional year in a move that has irked pro-life supporters, The Daily Wire first reported on Tuesday. The move comes after the White House halted the Biden-era Title X grants in 2025, resulting in a spate of lawsuits from Planned Parenthood and other affiliated groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, The Daily Wire reported. The Department of Health and Human Services notably released the grants in January 2026, sparking backlash among pro-life activists, according to the outlet.
White House Spokesman Kush Desai confirmed the report in a statement provided to The Daily Caller News Foundation on Tuesday afternoon, saying the Trump administration “has issued the fifth and final year of Title X grants that were locked in place during the Biden presidency.”
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A new lawsuit was filed on Tuesday against U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, the Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as the FBI, and Director Kash Patel, by three of the former FBI agents who obtained subpoenas for the phone records of eight U.S. Senators, including Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN). They were fired by Patel last year as part of his effort to restore public confidence in the nation’s top law enforcement agency.
In their complaint, fired FBI agents Jamie Garman, Blaire Toleman, and Michelle Ball ask the court to grant them class certification, and to declare their firings part of an illegal “retribution campaign” for their work on Arctic Frost, the DOJ code name for the federal investigation into President Donald Trump and his allies for their efforts to contest of the 2020 presidential election.
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A federal judge Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s order to cut funding for National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service, alleging the executive order violates the First Amendment because it amounts to “viewpoint discrimination.”
Trump signed the executive order last May, stating that NPR and PBS no longer served a meaningful purpose warranting taxpayer funding because there are so many private media choices in the digital era.
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EJ Haust, the official guest host of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, said the U.S. Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision to revisit Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors is a major win for First Amendment protections.
The case, Chiles v. Salazar, involves a challenge to Colorado’s 2019 law prohibiting licensed therapists from engaging in “conversion therapy” with minors. Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch said lower courts applied the wrong legal standard and must reconsider the law under strict scrutiny, which is the highest level of constitutional review.
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What did he know and when did he know it? That’s a question former Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland may soon face as the size and scope of Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s dragnet to criminally prosecute Donald Trump comes into fuller focus.
Evidence released in the past week by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley shows Smith’s team prepared a briefing memo in January 2023 – as the presidential race between then-President Joe Biden and Trump was heating up – which alerted Garland that prosecutors were obtaining the communications of as many as a dozen Trump private lawyers and allies and Congress.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for LGBT minors.
The court ruled in favor of a Christian therapist, rejecting the state’s law that prohibited mental health professionals from trying to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBT minors, The New York Times reported.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Monday his committee has received information showing the United States’ Census Bureau in 2020 miscalculated the number of Americans in a way that cost Republicans multiple House seats.
Comer claimed the basic count was biased against Republicans because the bureau made estimations instead of doing a physical count during the COVID-19 pandemic, and estimated high in Democratic areas like major cities and underestimated in suburban areas known to be more friendly to Republicans.
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Gas surged to $4 a gallon on Tuesday amid the United States’ continued conflict with Iran.
The national gas average spiked by over $1 in one month, according to AAA. Tuesday’s milestone price arrived after consistent volatility in global energy markets.
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Davidson County saw its population increase the most of any county in Tennessee last year, according to the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK)’s Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research. Tennessee’s second most populous county gained 9,281 residents from 2024 to 2025, going from 736,623 to 745,904. The county experienced a 1.3 percent increase in population growth. Rutherford County gained the second-largest number of residents from 2024 to 2025. The Middle Tennessee county increased its population from 380,086 to 386,352, a gain of 6,266 residents. This generated a 1.6 percent increase in Rutherford County’s population. In addition to these two counties, Wilson County saw its population increase from 170,340 to 175,033, a gain of 4,693 residents. This led to its population increasing by 2.8 percent from 2024 to 2025. UTK also examined the state’s fastest-growing counties by percentage. Trousdale County experienced the highest percentage growth among counties in the state, rising 3.6 percent from 2024 to 2025. However, Trousdale County has a small population, which increased by only 434 people, from 12,189 to 12,623. Maury County saw the second-highest population growth, rising from 114,456 in 2024 to 118,131 in 2025. The third-fastest-growing population in a Tennessee county, based on percentage, was…
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A coalition of suburban mayors in Shelby County has endorsed U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) for Tennessee governor, citing her leadership on public safety and the success of the Memphis Safe Task Force.
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The Colombian journalist arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Nashville on March 4, Estefany Rodriguez Flores, now claims that her detention came one day after she published the “recognizable faces” of ICE agents, and is requesting discovery in her bid to prove she was targeted for arrest over her reporting.
In the filing, Rodriguez Flores’ lawyers argue the “temporal proximity” of her arrest to her coverage of ICE should justify discovery in her habeas corpus lawsuit, in which she has argued ICE sought retribution for activity protected by the First Amendment.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is poised to become “two or three times larger than it was last year,” according to The Tennessee Star’s Lead Reporter Tom Pappert, who says a surge of 12,000 new hires is now translating into plans for expanded office space in Tennessee and across the country.
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Last year, Georgia enacted the Promise Scholarship Act, which Mesha helped pass in 2024 by a single vote in the statehouse. This program provides up to $6,500 per year for students in the attendance zones of the lowest performing 25% of state public schools. These funds are a lifeline for Georgia families stuck in failing schools, giving them the opportunity they need to get the education they deserve.
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The Department of Homeland Security confirmed Monday that Transportation Security Administration workers have received some of the paychecks they missed during the ongoing DHS shutdown, after President Donald Trump ordered the payments last week.
Trump issued the presidential memorandum Friday as Congress remains at a stalemate over DHS funding, causing a partial government shutdown that began Feb. 14.
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Picture a Nashville warehouse supervisor. He is a churchgoer, soccer dad, and cardiology patient. No criminal record. No active investigation. But over the past two years, a private company’s license plate readers and cellular data aggregators have quietly assembled a record of nearly everywhere he’s been. Under current Tennessee law, a government official can query that record without asking a judge, establishing probable cause, or explaining why.
This is the current standard practice. House Bill 2608 and Senate Bill 2215, the Protecting Everyone from Excessive Police Surveillance (PEEPS) Act, would change it by requiring law enforcement to obtain a warrant before accessing Tennesseans’ historical location data.
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With eight Democrats plunging forward in California’s crowded gubernatorial race, Republicans have a shot at occupying the governor’s seat for the first time since 2011 when former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger departed the governor’s mansion.
Should Republicans manage to take control of the governor’s mansion, it is possible Democrat turnout in down-ticket races will be slightly depressed, opening up an opportunity for Republicans to put up a fight in at least four competitive U.S. House seats and possibly lowering Democrat turnout in other races across the state too.
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Country Radio Seminar (CRS) is an annual convention meticulously designed to facilitate knowledge exchange and foster business practices within the country music industry. With a specific focus on matters relevant to country radio, CRS serves as a vital platform for industry professionals to thrive and contribute.
CRS 2026 wrapped on March 20, after three days of live performances, informative panels, and insightful sessions.
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