Starbucks will be investing $100 million in Tennessee as it opens a new corporate office in Nashville.
The coffee company said on Tuesday its expansion into the Volunteer State will create up to 2,000 jobs to support coffeehouse growth and customer demand, while working with its global headquarters in Seattle.
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The litigation between FBI Director Kash Patel and The Atlantic, which published an article claiming Patel has a serious drinking problem that impacts his job performance, raises a number of questions about the outlet’s editorial policies, as well as the legal footing for the lawsuit, which the nation’s top law enforcement officer has called a “legal lay up.”
The Atlantic published its high-impact article last week, alleging Patel alarms colleagues with his “episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences,” citing information provided by more than 24 anonymous sources. The outlet also included specific allegations, including that Patel allegedly became visibly intoxicated at a private club in Washington, D.C., and a members-only establishment in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Legal commentator and retired attorney Mark Pulliam argued that the disbarment of constitutional scholar and former Trump attorney John Eastman represents a significant constitutional dispute that is likely headed for review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday unanimously passed the First Responder Network Authority Reauthorization Act of 2026, which would create new oversight and transparency requirements for FirstNet, the wireless communications network used by first responders, while also extending the service’s legal authority until 2037.
A $25 billion, taxpayer-funded service operated by AT&T, FirstNet provides communications for emergency services nationwide. In 2023, Tennessee became the first state in the nation to integrate FirstNet in all of its 9-1-1 call centers in a move called a “crucial milestone for public safety” by the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance.
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Months before the 2020 presidential election, U.S. intelligence issued a secret but stark warning that foreign adversaries had the capability to “compromise” America’s voting infrastructure and raised specific concerns about the vulnerability of voter registration databases that later would be penetrated by China and Iran, a newly declassified memo obtained by Just the News shows.
The National Intelligence Council’s (NIC) concerns were so extensive that officials personally briefed President Donald Trump at the White House in February 2020, according to photos obtained by Just the News showing top CIA, FBI and Homeland Security officials joining with NIC analysts to inform the president.
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The Hill The antitrust division at the Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating whether large meatpackers engaged in criminal anti-competitive conduct, according to multiple reports. Bloomberg reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter, that DOJ lawyers are investigating Cargill, JBS, National Beef and Tyson Foods. Cargill and Tyson are based in the U.S., while JBS is headquartered in Brazil and National Beef is owned by Brazilian multinational company Marfrig. The Hill has reached out to all four companies for comment. A spokesperson for the DOJ declined comment. READ THE FULL STORY
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CBS News Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida resigned from Congress on Tuesday, moments before the House Ethics Committee was set to determine whether she should be sanctioned for allegations of theft and other misconduct. Cherfilus-McCormick has been charged with stealing nearly $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds for her campaign and has pleaded not guilty. She was likely to be expelled from the House in the coming days if she had not resigned. “This was not a fair process,” Cherfilus-McCormick said in a statement. “Rather than play these political games, I choose to step away so that I can devote my time to fighting for my neighbors in Florida’s 20th district. I hereby resign from the 119th Congress, effective immediately.” READ THE FULL STORY
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WTVO Rockford A landmark legislation was passed in Parliament on Tuesday that would make it illegal for anyone born after 2008 to buy tobacco in the United Kingdom. The Tobacco and Vapes Bill passed through both the House of Commons and House of Lords and is set to become law if it gets royal assent from King Charles III. The bill is part of a series of health reform bills designed to combat smoking, including other measures that would make it illegal to vape in cars with children and outside schools. READ THE FULL STORY
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House lawmakers advanced a farm bill in March that would spend more than $1 trillion over a decade without putting a dent in the U.S.’ massive spending deluge.
The legislation seeks to leave in place SNAP policy changes first implemented in the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) in July 2025, while expanding federal control over pesticide labeling and directs additional funding to broadband, climate and conservation initiatives. The bill also includes a provision affecting ranchers, setting up a possible showdown between rival factions of GOP lawmakers.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced he would extend the ceasefire with Iran to give the Tehran government time to coordinate a unified proposal.
“Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal,” he posted on Truth Social.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s not open to extending the two-week ceasefire with Iran when it expires on Wednesday but he’s confident the U.S. and Iran will come to an agreement soon.
“We don’t have much time,” the president said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
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The Senate Budget Committee on Tuesday unveiled a budget resolution to fund key immigration-related agencies for the next three years.
“Republicans are doing something that must be done quickly, and that our Democrat colleagues are trying to prevent us from doing. That something is simple: fully fund Border Patrol and ICE at a time of great threat to the United States,” Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a press release.
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Biden-era FBI officials pressed forward with an investigation into Republican members of Congress after top prosecutors privately agreed central allegations lacked credibility, documents obtained by Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley show.
Based largely on claims made by then-Democratic New Jersey Rep. Mikie Sherrill, the FBI launched a probe in January 2021 to assess whether several Republican members assisted individuals or groups who organized the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, records reveal.
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The Justice Department has launched an investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center over its paid informant program, the SPLC announced Tuesday.
Bryan Fair, the group’s interim president and CEO, said in a video statement that the SPLC faces “a criminal investigation and possible charges.”
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Arrests made by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday included two child sex offenders, a drug trafficker, and a man convicted of rape, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The first arrest announced by the agency was Domingo Montejo Perez, “a criminal illegal alien from Mexico,” who DHS said was previously convicted of annoying or molesting a child in Santa Barbara, California. An online database of registered sex offenders claims Montejo Perez was additionally charged with indecent exposure.
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Tennessee has officially enacted legislation requiring the return of the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools, after Governor Bill Lee recently signed House Bill 1466 into law.
Lawmakers in the Tennessee House of Representatives voted 80-11 to pass the bill, while the Tennessee Senate voted 29-1 to send the proposal to the governor’s desk.
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Alpha News journalist Liz Collin reported on Monday that the the Osseo Area Schools district in Minnesota, which serves suburban areas northwest of Minneapolis, plans to construct a new prayer room and foot washing station at one of its high schools.
According to Collin, Osseo Schools confirmed its remodel of Park Senior High School will come with both a prayer room and foot washing stations. The district reportedly told Alpha News the upgrades, “were included in updated plans after hearing from user groups on student needs.”
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Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., on Monday became the first member of Congress to introduce legislation to repudiate the 2019 Democrat-led House vote to impeach Donald Trump, declaring evidence newly declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard showed the vote to remove the president more than six years ago “lacks legitimacy.”
Scott’s move came after Just the News reported a week ago that documents declassified by Gabbard showed Congress and Trump’s legal team were kept from evidence showing the whistleblower whose allegations about Ukraine policy prompted the impeachment had the “potential for bias,” misled investigators in his first report and only had hearsay evidence to back up his allegations.
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This past weekend, the self-proclaimed leaders of the global Left gathered in Barcelona to complain about Donald Trump and to declare that they are the real and legitimate representatives of the global masses, as they pushed back against the American president, his policies, and his purported destruction of the post-World War II institutions they profess to respect and cherish. The Global Progressive Mobilization conference, which drew some 6,000 elected representatives and activists from around the world, was organized and hosted by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who has positioned himself as Trump’s chief international critic over the last several weeks. Sanchez said that he intends to turn Barcelona into a “hub of resistance” to Trump and the global Right and told the gathering that he will “twist the arm of the people who think they are completely untouchable.”
It is not entirely clear what Sanchez can actually do to twist anyone’s arm, literally or figuratively. As the prime minister of Spain, he oversees a lower-mid-tier EU economy and commands a lower-mid-tier global military. He talks a good game and proclaims to represent the morally superior political position, but his actions belie ulterior motives. He demands an end to American and Israeli tyranny and neocolonialism, even as he openly and unashamedly embraces ideas and partners that demonstrate, at best, an indifference to genuine tyrannical and colonial behavior.
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So many of the artists I interview cite various blues artists as influences. B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Robert Johnson are just a few of the names who shaped the electric and Delta Blues sounds. Artists like T. Graham Brown, Heidi Newfield, and Slash have mentioned them to me.
So, when I was introduced to Christopher Wyze and learned that he and his Tellers composed and performed original blues music, I was intrigued. Not only that, but he also performs in Clarksdale, Mississippi, often considered the heart of the Delta Blues.
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