The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on Monday announced that it issued an Immediate Suspension Order (ISO) to A+ Pharmacy, an independently owned pharmacy in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as its owner was accused of trading prescription drugs for sex.
According to the press release announcing the decision, an ISO “immediately suspends a DEA registrant’s authority to handle controlled substances, due to imminent danger to public health or safety.”
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Following a sweeping executive order by President Donald Trump, White House Senior Advisor for Addiction Recovery Kathryn Burgum sat down exclusively with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and editor-in-chief, Michael Patrick Leahy, to discuss the deeply personal journey that led to the creation of the “Great American Recovery Initiative.”
The executive order, signed January 29, establishes a federal task force to coordinate addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery efforts across agencies, communities, and the private sector.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday night that he has agreed to Pakistan’s proposed a two-week ceasefire with Iran if the Middle Eastern country reopens the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has not indicated whether it will agree to reopen the strait, but an Iranian official told Reuters earlier Tuesday that it is “positively reviewing” Pakistan’s proposal.
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The Associated Press Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization was “truly unacceptable” and said any attacks on civilian infrastructure violate international law. In some of his strongest comments yet against the war, the American pope urged Americans and other people of good will to contact their political leaders and congressional representatives to demand they reject war and work for peace. “Today as we all know there was this threat against all the people of Iran. This is truly unacceptable,” Leo said as he left his country house in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Hill The cost of the Iran war is weighing on Americans as joint operations from the U.S. and Israel stretch into a sixth week. Poll results released by Pew Research Center on Tuesday found that heightened gas prices resulting from the conflict in Iran are a concern for 7 in 10 Americans. The new survey found that 45 percent of people were “extremely” concerned, while 24 percent were “very” concerned about rising fuel costs. READ THE FULL STORY
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CBS News Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday that he’d be willing to serve as the attorney general permanently if asked by President Trump, after Pam Bondi was ousted from the post last week. Speaking at a press conference to announce the creation of a new National Fraud Enforcement Division, Blanche introduced himself as the acting attorney general, even though Bondi’s portrait is still hanging on the walls throughout the building, and said he still planned to travel with her Wednesday to a previously scheduled event. “I did not ask for this job,” he told the press. “I love working for President Trump. It’s the greatest honor of a lifetime, and if President Trump chooses to keep me as acting, that’s an honor. If he chooses to nominate me, that’s an honor. If he chooses to nominate somebody else and I go back to being the [Deputy Attorney General], that’s an honor. If he chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I will say, ‘thank you very much, I love you, sir.’” READ THE FULL STORY
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Breitbart John Williams, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, on Tuesday said he supported Fed chairman Jerome Powell’s plan to remain in charge of the central bank until a successor is confirmed. Powell’s term as chair of the Fed’s board of governors ends on May 15. President Trump has nominated former Fed official Kevin Warsh to succeed him but his confirmation may be delayed because a key U.S. Senator, Republican Thom Tillis of North Caroline, has said he will not vote to approve the confirmation until the Justice Department drops its investigation of Powell and the Fed. Democrats have also indicated they will not vote for Warsh while the investigation continues. Last month, Powell claimed, without evidence, that he can continue to lead the Fed until a new chair is formally in place. He also said he will not leave the Fed board until the investigation into his handling of renovations of the Fed’s headquarters is “well and truly over, with transparency and finality.” Powell’s board seat technically does not expire until January of 2028 but, with one exception, outgoing chairs have always stepped down from the board as well. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Independent A project in Los Angeles designed to address homelessness has seen a sizable portion of its participants returning to the streets, according to a new report. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed an executive order in December 2022 launching the Inside Safe program, which helps provide interim housing, typically in the form of motel rooms, to people experiencing homelessness. “Each Inside Safe site is overseen by a nonprofit service provider that administers comprehensive case management, housing navigation, and meals,” the city’s website states. “Hundreds of Inside Safe participants have been housed in life-saving permanent housing.” READ THE FULL STORY
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The criminal defense attorneys representing Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Monday acknowledged in a filing that federal investigators began building a case against their client after The Tennessee Star reported last April that he was stopped by Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) in November 2022, when the “Biden-era FBI” instructed troopers to release him.
Following the February 26 evidentiary hearing called by U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, when prosecutors were called to explain why their case against Abrego Garcia is not vindictive, Abrego Garcia’s attorneys noted in their filing that Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert McGuire testified that first learned of the 2022 traffic stop after a colleague read an article from The Star.
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Illegal immigrants in Tennessee who fail to leave the state after being issued a final federal deportation order may be charged with a crime for not leaving the state.
The Tennessee Senate passed Senate Bill (SB) 1779, which would create a misdemeanor crime for illegal immigrants who stay in the state after a final federal deportation order is issued against them.
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Artificial intelligence and government officials warned that tech companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI are slated to deploy advanced models that are highly effective at hacking complex systems, Axios reported on March 29.
Anthropic is privately cautioning senior government officials that its upcoming model, presently known as “Mythos,” will increase the likelihood of massive cyberattacks in 2026, Axios reported. Axios CEO Jim VandeHei also reported that a source familiar with the upcoming models asserted a large-scale cyberattack may occur in 2026, with businesses being vulnerable targets.
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Russia and China on Tuesday vetoed a resolution of the United Nations Security Council calling for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz amid the ongoing Iran war.
UNSC resolutions require that no member oppose the move and a single objection would have doomed the vote. The resolution failed with 11 nations voting for it, two against, and two abstaining, the Associated Press reported.
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Legal commentator and retired attorney Mark Pulliam detailed two recent major federal court rulings as evidence of what he called a growing “judicial insurrection.”
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For years, China relied on exploiting U.S. sanctions to import steeply discounted oil from pariah states like Iran and Venezuela to fuel its economy and military buildup. Now, President Donald Trump’s interventions against both Caracas and Tehran have upended this lucrative arrangement.
China is suddenly confronted with a very different strategic calculus ahead of a key meeting with the American president in Beijing tentatively scheduled for next month. “I think it’s really China that all of this is centered on a grand strategic calculus,” Brent Sadler of the Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for National Security told the Just the News, No Noise TV show, referring to the Iran war and intervention in Venezuela.
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Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, made the case for Jeff Clark as a potential wildcard pick for attorney general, as President Donald Trump seeks a permanent replacement following last week’s ouster of Pam Bondi.
In the interim, Todd Blanche, a former personal attorney to Trump who had been serving as deputy attorney general, was named acting attorney general, while other names, including U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin, have reportedly been considered for the permanent role.
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The Trump administration said Monday two more major pharmacuetical companies will be launching popular medication on the discounted pharmaceutical site TrumpRx.
The White House launched the website in February, which is a government-run, direct-to-consumer portal that is considered instrumental in helping the Trump administration lower prescription drug costs in the U.S.
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Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said Monday that he does not support the United States attacking Iranian civilian infrastructure amid conflict in the Middle East, signaling a rare break from President Donald Trump’s recent actions toward Iran.
Trump has threatened to destroy Iran’s civilian power grid and domestic infrastructure if the country fails to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf by Tuesday evening.
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The longer the war with Iran drags on, the clearer it becomes that America’s allies have little interest in doing things that allies traditionally do. Some European leaders have merely said they will not participate in the war, that they have no interest in fighting Donald Trump’s battles. Others have taken concrete steps to hinder American efforts—notably, by denying American troops access to bases in their countries or denying them permission to fly over their airspace. Others still—namely, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Spain’s Pedro Sánchez—appear to have determined that their nation’s welfare no longer aligns with that of the United States, which is a legitimate position but hardly one that would define an “ally.”
The clearer it becomes that America’s longstanding erstwhile allies are unhappy with current arrangements, the more agitated President Trump’s domestic opponents—on the Left and the Right—grow. They are certain that Trump’s Middle East conflict is the straw that will break the back of the camel that is the post-World War II global order. He is an abomination, they insist, a simplistic fool who knows nothing about the history and grandeur of NATO, the importance of the trans-Atlantic partnership, or the bonds that tie “the West” together and make its preservation the central purpose of American foreign policy. He will destroy everything and leave the world and the nation worse off because of it.
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