Day: April 20, 2026

Leahy, Pappert Argue Atlantic Failed Basic Journalistic Standards in ‘Smear Piece’ of FBI Director Kash Patel

Kaitlin Housler
FBI Director Kash Patel

The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy and Lead Reporter Tom Pappert sharply criticized The Atlantic magazine for what they described as a breakdown in fundamental journalistic practices in its reporting on Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel that led to the director filing a $250 million defamation lawsuit against the publication.

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White House Announces Labor Secretary Lori Chavez DeRemer Is Stepping Down for Private Sector Role

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Lori Chavez

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said Monday that Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will step down from her post for a job in the private sector.

The change comes as the secretary faces three complaints that were filed by female staffers to the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission. Two of the allegations accuse Chavez-DeRemer’s husband, Dr. Shawn DeRemer, of sexually abusing them inside the Labor Department headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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Supreme Court Gives Catholic Preschools Shot at Taking Down Another Anti-Religious Colorado Rule

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SCOTUS

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge to Colorado’s exclusion of Catholic preschools from its state-funded program.

An appeals court previously backed the state’s decision to discriminate against Catholic schools seeking to participate in its universal preschool program, which provides children with 15 hours of free weekly education.

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Study: Tech Giants Like Google, Apple, and Microsoft Overwhelmingly Favor Leftist Outlets in News Aggregators

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BREAKING NEWS

Breitbart   A comprehensive analysis has found that major online news aggregators including Google News, Yahoo News, and Microsoft Bing News overwhelmingly feature content from left-leaning media outlets, while almost completely excludinng right-leaning outlets. The New York Post reports that a study conducted by AllSides, a nonpartisan organization that classifies news outlets according to their political leanings, has revealed significant disparities in the political balance of articles featured on major news aggregation platforms. The research found that only one percent of articles in non-customizable sections of Google News came from outlets classified as right-leaning, while 73 percent originated from left-leaning sources. The findings indicate that Google News exhibits a more pronounced left-wing bias than Apple News, which has previously faced scrutiny for similar issues. Apple News’ editorial team curated just two percent of its articles from right-leaning outlets compared to 50 percent from left-leaning sources, according to the study. AllSides specifically examined sections of the Apple News application that cannot be personalized by users. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Apple Taps John Ternus as CEO to Replace Tim Cook, Who Will Become Chairman

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CNBC   Apple said on Monday that John Ternus is succeeding Tim Cook as CEO, with Cook assuming the role of executive chairman on Sept. 1. Ternus, a senior vice president of hardware engineering, will join Apple’s board of directors when he becomes chief. Apple’s non-executive chairman Arthur Levinson will become the iPhone maker’s lead independent director at that time. “Cook will continue in his role as CEO through the summer as he works closely with Ternus on a smooth transition,” Apple said in a press release. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Ramaswamy Almost Tied with Democrat Acton in Ohio Governor Race: Poll

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The Hill   A new poll conducted by Bowling Green State University (BGSU) found that GOP frontrunner Vivek Ramaswamy is in a dead heat with presumptive Democratic nominee Amy Acton in the Ohio gubernatorial race. The survey of 1,000 registered voters in the Buckeye State found that 48 percent of respondents backed Ramaswamy — who has endorsements from President Trump, Vice President Vance and GOP establishment figures — while 47 percent backed Acton. Five percent of respondents said they will back another candidate, less than six months until Election Day. The poll has a margin of error of 3.9 percentage points. READ THE FULL STORY   

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California School Sent Kids on Segregated Field Trip for ‘Social Justice’

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School bus

A California school district recently organized a field trip that excluded white students and maintains several other race-based policies, documents reveal.

Albany Unified School District (AUSD) hosted the trip to Virginia for “young men and women of color” to visit Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and discuss issues such as “social justice,” according to documents obtained by parental rights group Defending Education (DE) and shared exclusively with the Daily Caller News Foundation. The trip was approved by the board of education and cost the district $42,845.

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Five Stories Democrats Told During Trump’s 2019 Ukraine Impeachment Have Fallen Apart

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Ukraine Trump

Several Republicans, including the influential House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, are throwing their weight behind an effort to repudiate or expunge the 2019 House impeachment vote against President Donald Trump after years of belated bombshells eroded most of the scandalous narrative Democrats sold to America seven years ago.

The latest evidence to boomerang on the 2019 Democrat House impeachment managers came last week when Just the News successfully persuaded Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to release long-secret memos showing the intelligence community had raised red flags about the credibility and political motives of the CIA analyst who prompted the scandal with a tale that Trump had wrongly pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate the Biden family.

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Paxton Sues ActBlue over Alleged False Statements, Fraudulent Donations

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Ken Paxton

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday announced a lawsuit against Democratic donations processor ActBlue, alleging that the organization misled consumers and that it maintained unlawful practices that allowed for foreign and fraudulent donations.

“The radical left has relied on ActBlue as a way to funnel foreign donations and dark money into their political campaigns to subvert our laws and compromise the integrity of our elections,” he said in a statement. “ActBlue lied to Congress and to the American people, and I will ensure justice is served. It has blatantly ignored state law that prohibits deceptive practices, and it must pay for its illegal conduct. Fair elections are the foundation of our democracy, and I will work to ensure no illegal campaign donation flies under the radar.”

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Fed Nominee Warsh to Back Independence on Interest Rates

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Kevin Warsh

Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to succeed Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chairman, plans to tell Congress he supports maintaining the independence of the Federal Reserve on monetary policy as the president ramps up his criticism of Powell’s hesitance to lower interest rates.

“I am committed to ensuring that the conduct of monetary policy remains strictly independent,” he plans to tell Congress, according to Politico, which obtained a copy of his prepared remarks. “I am equally committed to working with the Administration and Congress on non-monetary matters that are part of the Fed’s remit. And I commit to accountability in all the Fed’s functions.”

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EXCLUSIVE: Ally Who Spent ‘Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner’ with Patel for Months Says ‘No Possible Way’ Atlantic Claims Are True as FBI Director Sues for $250 Million

Tom Pappert
Clint Brown

A top ally of FBI Director Kash Patel, who served as the “Sherpa” for the nation’s top law enforcement officer during the transition to the Trump administration and his confirmation process in the U.S. Senate, told The Tennessee Star on Monday that there was “no possible way” for the claims published about Patel on Friday in The Atlantic to be accurate.

After The Atlantic published an article last Friday, relying entirely on anonymous sources who claimed Patel had a serious drinking problem that causes him to lash out and become unreachable to subordinates, former Senate staffer Clint Brown called the report “BS” in a post to social media, and questioned why the outlet did not contact him to corroborate its anonymous sources.

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Interim Report Confirms Vegetation Management Was ‘Contributor’ to NES Outages During Winter Storm Fern

Tom Pappert
Storm damage

The interim report commissioned by Nashville Electric Service (NES) after half its customers lost power during Winter Storm Fern earlier this year was released on Friday, revealing that the company internally acknowledged its previous vegetation management practices contributed to the significant outages. 

NES commissioned two Nashville law firms to oversee the report following Winter Storm Fern. The report itself was prepared by PA Consulting, Inc. last Wednesday, and first reported on Friday.

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Leahy: FBI Director Kash Patel Has A Strong Defamation Case Against The Atlantic and Sarah Fitzpatrick

Kaitlin Housler
Kash Patel

Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, argued that a new $250 million defamation lawsuit filed by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel against The Atlantic magazine and its reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick meets the high legal threshold required for public figures to prevail.

Patel’s lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., alleges that The Atlantic published false claims about his conduct, including accusations of excessive drinking and erratic behavior. The magazine has said it stands by its reporting.

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