Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons will step down on May 31 amid an ongoing battle over funding and reforms for the law enforcement agency.
Read the full storyTop Trump Deportation Warrior Todd Lyons Leaving ICE
Day: April 16, 2026
Pappert: Year-Round Muslim Prayer Schedule at Charter School Prompts Legal, Policy Questions
Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said a second Nashville school has acknowledged accommodations for Muslim student prayer, including a modified daily schedule, raising new legal and policy questions about how public and publicly funded schools navigate accommodations for religious observance during instructional time.
Read the full storyLipscomb Academy Announces Departure of Top Administrator Months After School’s Charlie Kirk Controversy
Lipscomb Academy, the private, K-12 Christian school in Nashville, on Wednesday reportedly announced the upcoming departure of former administrator Brad Schultz, who previously announced the reassignment of the administrator that controversially prohibited students from wearing suits and ties to mourn the death of Charlie Kirk following his assassination at a college campus last year.
In an email to Lipscomb Academy community members, reported by The Tennessean and The Nashville Business Journal, the school announced that Schultz will leave the school in May. While confirming Schultz intends to leave the school to take another position, which will reportedly require him to leave Tennessee, the email apparently did not state his destination.
Read the full storyHunter Biden Hiding Out from $20M Debts at Luxury California Estate
New York Post Hunter Biden is hiding from his creditors in California, avoiding paying over $20 million he owes various people, The Post has learned. Although a lawyer for the former first son claimed he is “living abroad” in South Africa, where his wife Melissa Cohen hails from, he’s actually holed up at luxury 8,000-acre estate in Santa Ynez, two hours north of Los Angeles, sources claim. “He’s been telling everyone that he is living in South Africa because he has no money, but it’s a ruse, to show that he is broke and can’t pay his bills,” said a source close to the Biden family. READ THE FULL STORY
Read the full storyMinnesota County Prosecutor Charges ICE agent with Assault
Politico A federal immigration agent accused of pointing his gun at occupants of a car after pulling alongside them on a Minneapolis-area highway is wanted on felony assault charges, Minnesota prosecutors said Thursday. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said she believes it is the first criminal case brought against a federal immigration officer involved in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration enforcement that surged federal authorities into cities including Los Angeles, Chicago and New Orleans. “There is no such thing as absolute immunity for federal agents who violate the law in the state of Minnesota,” Moriarty told a news conference, saying the agent acted outside the scope of a federal officers’ authority. READ THE FULL STORY
Read the full storyHHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Estimates Los Angeles Hospice Scams Cost US $5 Billion
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a House committee Thursday that the total cost of hospice fraud in Los Angeles could reach $5,000,000,000.
Read the full storyCommentary: The Anti-Tariff Priesthood Exposes the Limits of Their Understanding of Real-World Economics
The anti-tariff priesthood has delivered yet another paper purporting to expose the folly of Trump’s trade strategy.
Read the full storyBoard of Nashville Charter School with Muslim Prayer Led by ‘Resistance’ Scholar, Included Lawyer Representing Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The board of the Valor Collegiate Academies, the public charter school company in Nashville whose high school principal confirmed modifying its bell schedule to accommodate Muslim prayer for students, includes board members who are prominent for their affiliation with political causes, litigation, or scholarship.
The board is currently led by Brandi Kellett, a professor at Lipscomb University who both chairs its English and Modern Languages Department and directs the university’s Liberal Arts Core.
Read the full storyTennessee Senate Approves Expansion of School Voucher Program to 35,000 Students, Bill Now Heads to Governor’s Desk
The Tennessee Senate on Thursday narrowly approved an expansion of the state’s Education Freedom Scholarship program, advancing a version of House Bill 2532 that would grow the program to 35,000 students, an increase of 15,000 scholarships from the initial amount offered during the program’s first year.
Read the full storyPresident Trump Nominates Dr. Erica Schwartz as CDC Director, Taps Additional Leadership Team to Overhaul Agency
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., a retired rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and former deputy U.S. surgeon general, to serve as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Read the full storyOver Half of Catholics Who Attend Mass Support President Trump
CBS News A new CBS poll found that 58% of weekly Mass-attending Catholics approve of President Trump’s job performance overall. Not surprising, as these are the Catholics taking the faith seriously rather than just bearing the title. SEE MORE
Read the full storyFormer Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, Wife Dead in Shocking Murder-Suicide
Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax fatally shot his wife, Dr. Cerina W. Fairfax, multiple times before turning the gun on himself in what authorities described as a domestic-related murder-suicide, Fairfax County police said early Thursday morning.
Read the full storyJohn Eastman Disbarred by California High Court, Vows Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a final order disbarring prominent constitutional scholar and former Trump attorney John C. Eastman (State Bar No. 193726), ending the latest phase of a years-long disciplinary proceeding tied to his legal advice regarding the 2020 presidential election.
Read the full storyCommentary: Jeb Boasberg’s Contempt Trap Snaps Shut
Jeb Boasberg is now the Rory McIlroy of the D.C. Circuit Court—but the Obama appointee won’t receive a green jacket or a lifetime membership at Augusta National.
Read the full storyAnalysis: AI’s Health Care Industry Overhaul
While the artificial intelligence (AI) boom is poised to improve parts of the U.S. health care system, it may also cause major issues for some patients, according to analysts.
Proponents of AI have touted the upsides of adopting the new technology in everything from identifying medical conditions to easing healthcare administrative burdens, while opponents have countered that it could raise ethical concerns. Several analysts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that while increasing AI use can potentially help bolster productivity and affordability in the health care sector, it may also result in problems such as patients receiving inaccurate medical information.
Read the full storyMusic Spotlight: Alex Miller
Country singer, Alex Miler, has released his sophomore album, More Country Than You, via Billy Jam Records.
Read the full storyCommentary: America’s Nuclear Revival
It has been more than seven years since President Donald Trump signed the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) into law – and it has taken all seven years (including four during the Biden Administration) for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to issue a final rule implementing its provisions.
Even the Washington Post admits that the new Part 53 rules, intended to reduce review times from decades to 18 months or less, will make President Trump’s goal of revitalizing the U.S. nuclear energy industry more competitive – “to everyone’s benefit,” says the Post.
Read the full story