A new report shows Oracle has not lived up to its promise to bring thousands of jobs to Tennessee.
According to LayoffHedge, Oracle has created a net gain of seven jobs from 2022 to January 2026.
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The Trump administration reached a settlement Wednesday with President Donald Trump’s former campaign aide Carter Page that amounts to $1.25 million.
Page sued the FBI, Justice Department and eight people over allegations they improperly surveilled him under a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant during the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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A Virginia County Court on Wednesday barred certification of the state’s redistricting referendum, pending appeal, according to former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and state Rep. Wren Williams, R-Va.
The Tazewell County Circuit Court issued the injunction barring certification. The order will face certain appeal and likely head to the state Supreme Court, which is already expected to address a challenge to the referendum.
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The Tennessee Star’s CEO and editor-in-chief, Michael Patrick Leahy, and lead reporter Tom Pappert argued FBI Director Kash Patel’s lawsuit against The Atlantic could become a pivotal test of both defamation law and modern journalistic standards, centering on whether the outlet’s reliance on anonymous sources and its alleged failure to address pre-publication rebuttals rise to the level of “reckless disregard for the truth.”
During Wednesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Leahy and Pappert discussed the legal standard set by New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, which requires public officials to prove “actual malice” in defamation cases.
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The Trump administration filed its notice of appeal of the February 17 decision by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, which converted an earlier order into a formal injunction blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from arresting and deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Notifying the court of its appeal to the Fourth Circuit, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) noted that Xinis first enjoined the Trump administration from detaining Abrego Garcia last September, despite the government’s request that the injunction be dissolved, first in November and again in March.
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Breitbart California Governor Gavin Newsom covertly spent $1 billion importing 400,000 migrants from poor countries to serve the state’s Democratic political machine and elite-dominated economy, according to data provided by the Manhattan Institute in New York. “Since Newsom took office, California has granted massive contracts for migrant-related services: more than $250 million to Catholic Charities; $85 million to Jewish Family Services; $12 million to Centro Legal de la Raza; $23 million to the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area; and more,” according to an article by Christopher Rufe in City Journal. The funding is in addition to California’s share of the massive federal funding directed by President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas. READ THE FULL STORY
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CBS News The Trump administration is in advanced discussions with budget carrier Spirit Airlines about a bailout, sources familiar with the negotiations told CBS News. The financing package could include a loan of up to $500 million, in exchange for warrants that would allow the federal government to take a potentially substantial ownership stake in the beleaguered airline, the sources said. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is one of the chief proponents pushing the Trump administration to take an ownership stake in the carrier, multiple sources told CBS News. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Hill Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pushed back on concerns that the department’s modernization push could replace human air traffic controllers with artificial intelligence tools. In an interview with CBS News on Tuesday, Duffy said he sees potential for AI to make the nation’s airspace safer, while insisting human controllers will retain final authority in important decisions. “AI is a tool, but we do not replace humans in how we manage the airspace. The final say, in anything we do, is going to be an air traffic controller,” Duffy told CBS News’s Kris Van Cleave. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday regarding removal proceedings against an immigrant legally in the United States, charged with counterfeiting.
The case has the potential to affect the operations of Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and immigration courts, said Art Arthur, resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies.
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The Trump administration may reclassify marijuana as early as Wednesday. The move would not legalize recreational marijuana sales, but it would make it easier to do marijuana research.
Marijuana is currently listed as Schedule I, meaning it has no accepted medical uses – the same classification as heroin. In December, Trump signed an executive order arguing that this classification is hindering research into potential medical benefits of marijuana and cannabis derivatives. The order called for the drug to be moved to Schedule III.
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Virginia voters narrowly approved a gerrymandered House map Tuesday — one expected to add four Democratic seats in the midterms.
The 2026 Virginia redistricting amendment passed with 51% of voters backing the “yes” campaign and 49% casting their ballot for “no” with 94% of votes counted, the Associated Press reported. As a result, the light blue state, where former Vice President Kamala Harris won less than 52% of the vote in 2024, will likely see 91% of its House seats drawn to favor Democrats.
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Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters said — prior to Virginians on Tuesday night voting in favor of a referendum to redraw the state’s congressional map to give Democrats 10 House members and leave Republicans with just one — that his group has a lawsuit in the legal pipeline to stop or reverse the effort.
“We already have a case that’s in the courts right now,” he said on Just the News, No Noise, prior to the vote tally in which the referendum passed 51.5% to 48.5%.
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Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), a nonprofit legal defense organization specializing in religious freedom and parental rights cases, told The Tennessee Star on Tuesday that it is “deeply concerned” over the religious accommodations at John Overton High School (JOHS) in Nashville, where up to 80 students were issued electronic hall passes in order to leave class to prayer at a reserved part of the school during Ramadan.
In addition to the daily prayer, which was proctored by a Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) employee, 10 JOHS teachers volunteered their classrooms as alternative areas for Muslim students to spend lunch during their Ramadan fasts, the school cafeteria was used for a religious iftar dinner, and lighting was changed in at least one classroom.
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The Trousdale County Sheriff’s Office reported that a foreign national who was allegedly drinking from an open beer can on the grounds of a middle school was arrested Tuesday morning.
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Veteran journalist and public affairs specialist Clint Brewer said he would not have approved publication of The Atlantic’s 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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A federal grand jury in Alabama on Tuesday indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts of wire and bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, as the Justice Department accused the group that rose to fame during the 1960s Civil Rights movement of paying members of 21st century extremist groups to stoke hatred.
“The SPLC is a nonprofit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told a news conference attended by CBS News. “The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.”
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It is difficult to determine whether the bizarro worldview of the current Democrat-media nexus can simply be attributed to either its generic Trump Derangement Syndrome or the attendant Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner obsessive/compulsive disorder. But the crazy world of the Left increasingly bears scant resemblance to reality.
In this alternate universe, Eric Swalwell was a liberal icon and invaluable asset for years, though admittedly a bit randy and occasionally a serial sexual predator—a fact that the man himself made little effort to hide.
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