Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) announced Tuesday that Democratic lawmakers will be removed from all House standing committees and subcommittees following disruptions to last week’s special legislative session on congressional redistricting.
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A United States Court of Appeals on Tuesday paused a lower court’s order that determined President Donald Trump overstepped his authority with his latest attempt at global tariffs.
The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled 2-1 last week that Trump overstepped his authority by invoking Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 to impose a 10% global import duty, which he did without congressional approval.
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A forensic expert who testified in numerous high-profile American murder trials spent decades training China’s police alongside U.S. law enforcement officials at his federally-funded institutions in Connecticut, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.
Dr. Henry C. Lee, who was born in China and became famous testifying as an expert defense witness in O.J. Simpson’s 1995 murder trial, served as Connecticut State Police commissioner and investigated dozens of notorious cases including the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart and the murders of JonBenét Ramsey, Chandra Levy and Laci Peterson.
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International fraud networks have targeted Medicaid programs all across the country, bilking US taxpayers of billions of dollars, according to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz.
As the Trump administration continues its crackdown on fraud, waste and abuse, Dr. Oz has zeroed in on five states: California, New York, Florida, Minnesota, and Maine.
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The Hill Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) has called a special primary election for August following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could allow the state to hold 2026 elections using a previously blocked GOP-drawn congressional map. “I will continue to say: Alabama knows our state, our people and our districts best,” the governor said in a statement on Tuesday, praising the Supreme Court’s decision as “plain common sense.” State lawmakers convened for a special session in Montgomery last week, where they approved a plan to move the state’s May 19 primaries as the state awaited the high court’s decision on it could revert to a previous congressional map ahead of the November midterms. READ THE FULL STORY
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Breitbart American voters appear to not be quite so keen on Democrats as the crucial midterms loom, according to a recent CNN poll. The percentages show Democrats sliding as the days tick by and as Republicans are also gearing up for the 2026 midterm elections. “The poll finds registered voters closely split in their partisan preference ahead of the midterms, with 45% saying they’d support a Democratic candidate for Congress, 42% a Republican candidate, and 14% neither,” the CNN article said. “Polling on congressional preference this year, including previous CNN surveys, has largely given Democrats the advantage. Voters who aren’t sold on either party’s economic message tend to prefer the Democrats on the generic ballot, the CNN survey finds.” READ THE FULL STORY
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CBS News The neighbors just aren’t visiting the way they used to. A study by the University of Toronto suggests a roughly 42% reduction in visits to U.S. cities by residents of Canada last year. The drop — much steeper than official border crossing statistics suggest — is largely attributed to mounting political and trade tension between the two countries. By tracking cellphone activity, University of Toronto researchers found “a year-over-year median decline of approximately 42% in Canadian visits to U.S. metropolitan areas.” READ THE FULL STORY
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The estimated cost of the war in Iran has now hit nearly $30 billion, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
Department of War Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer Jules W. Hurst III said during a congressional testimony on Tuesday that the Iran war has cost about $29 billion in total thus far, citing an “updated repair and replacement of equipment cost and also just general operational cost” as the main reasons for the increase. The announcement comes after the Pentagon estimated on April 29 that the total cost of the war was roughly $25 billion, Reuters reported.
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chief Dr. Marty Makary is resigning after 13 months in the position, Politico reported Tuesday, citing an “administration official.”
His ouster reportedly came at the best of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kyle Diamantas will assume the role in an acting capacity.
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State and federal investigations have been confirmed after at least nine schools in Metro Nashville and the surrounding area were reportedly targeted with alleged swatting attempts, resulting in lockdowns or lockouts as local police verified there were no threats.
Threats were called in on Monday to at least nine schools in Nashville, Jackson, Franklin, Smyrna, La Vergne, Murfreesboro, and Clarksville, according to WSMV 4, while WKRN reported that the same school targeted in La Vergne was swatted a second time on Tuesday.
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The Trump Administration has been leveling sanctions against an array of Chinese companies profiting off of illicit Iranian oil sales and propping up the Iranian military ahead of a high-stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing this week.
The U.S. naval blockade has stopped Iranian vessels from making it to China and elsewhere to sell their sanctioned oil, while the State and Treasury departments have hit Chinese companies with significant sanctions over their roles in the illicit Iranian oil market and in helping provide the Islamic Revolutionary Guard with dual-use technologies and with satellite intelligence that could be used to target U.S. forces in the region.
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In the wake of the party’s failed Virginia redistricting gambit, Democrats and their allies in the media and academia have been floating radical proposals to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. In response to their defeat at the Virginia Supreme Court, the Democratic leaders have promised to remain defiant and have labeled the judicial decision “undemocratic” and discriminatory against minorities.
“Even after being aided and abetted by blatantly undemocratic court decisions, the failed GOP majority will not be able to gerrymander themselves back into power,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic Minority Leader, wrote in a letter to his caucus on Monday. “Republican extremists spent the last few days applauding their ongoing effort to rig the midterm elections based on two egregious judicial decisions dripping with far-right partisanship,” he also wrote. “We remain undeterred.”
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As multiple lawsuits challenge Tennessee’s newly enacted congressional redistricting plan, State Representative Gino Bulso (R-Brentwood) defended lawmakers’ actions, arguing that partisan redistricting is deeply rooted in American constitutional history, tracing its origins to the political battle that helped produce the Bill of Rights.
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Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis) was accused of using “race baiting” in his campaign advertisement announcing the relaunch of his campaign for the Democratic nomination for the 9th Congressional District, where first launched his campaign to unseat U.S. Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) before the Governor Bill Lee signed the newly redrawn districts into law.
As part of the redistricting legislation, candidates must refile, or file notice they no longer intend to run, by Friday. With his video, Pearson confirmed he intends to run in the same district, despite most analysts saying the district now leans overwhelmingly Republican.
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Inflation increased 0.6% in April, with an overall rate of 3.8% over the last 12 months, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The energy industry remained a key driver of the inflation increase, rising by 3.8% in April. Energy prices were responsible for more than 40% of the overall monthly item increase, largely due to gas prices.
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Defendants with alleged ties to Tren de Aragua (TdA) are facing serious time behind bars.
Maikel Jesus Albornoz-Jimenez, Eduard Jesus Velasquez-Matute, Faren Aldahir Marquez-Cruz, Jose Luis Baza-Rodriguez, and Luis Manuel Tovar-Virguz are being charged with numerous federal crimes ranging from drug trafficking to firearms trafficking.
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is demanding the Southern Poverty Law Center hand over donor information, fundraising solicitations, and other internal documents after a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC for allegedly funding members of the very hate groups the SPLC claims it exists to “dismantle.”
Marshall’s office issued a formal subpoena to the Montgomery-based nonprofit on Monday, launching an investigation under Alabama’s law against deceptive trade practices.
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In recent years, a quietly radical idea has gained traction in certain environmental circles: stop having children. Some members of Extinction Rebellion in the UK have embraced an anti-natalist position, arguing that a shrinking human population is one of the most powerful levers available for reducing environmental damage. If fewer people exist, the thinking goes, then less energy gets consumed, fewer habitats get destroyed, and the planet gets a much-needed chance to breathe. It is an emotionally compelling argument. But is it actually true? The evidence suggests not. A growing body of research indicates that population decline, by itself, is a surprisingly weak instrument for environmental repair. The relationship between fewer people and a healthier planet is messier and far less automatic than anti-natalists tend to assume.
Perhaps the most fundamental problem with the anti-natalist climate argument is one of timing. Climate change is seen as an urgent crisis demanding decisive action over the next few decades. Population decline, by contrast, operates on a generational timescale, and the two simply do not align in the way that environmental campaigners often hope. To understand why, researchers constructed a rigorous thought experiment. They compared two long-run visions of humanity’s demographic future: one in which global fertility continues falling below replacement level, eventually leading to a shrinking world population, and another in which fertility rates stabilize at replacement level, sustaining a population roughly 90 percent larger by the year 2200. These are dramatically different futures in human terms. Yet when scientists ran both scenarios through a leading climate and economic model, the difference in projected global temperatures by 2200 was less than one-tenth of a degree Celsius.
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