The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected Virginia’s appeal regarding its redistricting map, which voters narrowly approved in a referendum last month.
Virginia Democrats filed an emergency appeal Monday after the Virginia Supreme Court struck down the state’s redistricting referendum last week, ruling that the legislative process in which the referendum was created was unconstitutional.
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President Donald Trump returned to the U.S. on Friday following a 36-hour summit in China with Chinese President Xi Jinping, concluding talks that produced agreements on trade, aviation, and Iran while setting the stage for a reciprocal visit by Xi to the U.S. in September.
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Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters on Friday, shortening her nearly nine-year prison sentence related to the 2020 election.
Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2024 but an appeals court ruled last month that she needs to be resentenced after part of the sentence punished Peters for her protected speech regarding fraud claims in the 2020 election.
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The New York Post A progressive cult-like movement known as Effective Altruism (EA) has embedded over 80 journalists in mainstream newsrooms to spread its ‘philosophy,’ a Post investigation can reveal. The billionaire-backed movement aims to solve the world’s problems, but believes government welfare and foreign aid is inefficient and easily corrupted and that unchecked AI will destroy us all. Their beliefs can be summed up as: Earn to give: Send 10-50% of your earnings to philanthropic causes. Global scope: Prioritize causes like climate change, global health, poverty, pandemics. Impartiality: Everyone’s well-being matters equally, with no one person’s happiness or health above another’s. Calculated reasoning: Make philanthropic decisions based on cold hard data and algorithms, not emotion. Money goes to what data says will save the most lives. AI Doomerism: AI poses a catastrophic, existential risk to humanity that requires urgent research READ THE FULL STORY
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Breitbart The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced this week that April marked twelve consecutive months of zero releases of illegal aliens apprehended by Border Patrol at the southwest border with Mexico into the United States — a milestone officials say reflects the most secure border in American history under President Donald Trump. DHS reports a 94 percent drop in illegal border apprehensions compared to the Biden era, with daily crossings now lower than what agents encountered in a single hour at the height of the 2023 crisis. Twelve straight months of ZERO releases at the border. Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, we are delivering the most secure border in American history,” said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “The days of catch and release are over. We are enforcing the nation’s laws and sending illegal aliens back to their home countries.” Two years ago, Border Patrol agents, under orders from President Joe Biden and then-DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, released more than 68,000 illegal aliens who were apprehended at the border into the U.S. interior, according to CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Hill A veterans advocacy group is suing the Trump administration over its ban on abortion care and counseling at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The Minority Veterans of America said it brought the lawsuit on behalf of all its members harmed by the ban, including one pregnant member who has chronic medical conditions and a long history of pregnancy complications and needs access to abortion care and counseling to protect her health. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. READ THE FULL STORY
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Former Nashville Mayor Megan Barry was not included on the Tennessee Secretary of State’s list of candidates who submitted signatures to qualify for the ballot in one of Tennessee’s congressional districts, following the successful redrawing by Governor Bill Lee and the General Assembly.
Barry was included on the state agency’s Tuesday list of candidates, and the Secretary of State confirmed she had obtained a petition to begin gathering the 25 valid signatures required to obtain ballot access in the newly redrawn districts.
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Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Tennessee Star, is sounding the alarm over what he describes as a foundational crisis in America: the collapse of the nation’s public K–12 education system.
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A plurality of Americans said all of their money is currently being spent on living expenses, according to an Napolitan News Service poll released Thursday.
The newly released survey found that 44% of registered U.S. voters say all their money goes toward living expenses, down 1 point from April. Meanwhile, 51% of respondents said they can set aside money for savings, up 1 point from 2 weeks ago and a month ago, the poll shows.
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Yields on 30-year Treasury bonds spiked Friday to levels last seen during the 2007-2009 financial crisis as markets continued to react negatively to fallout from the Iran war and the federal government’s fiscal crisis.
Yields on the 30-year U.S. Treasury note reached its highest level in a year at 5.11%, and was approaching the 5.12% level from June 2007, according to Barron’s. Investors were on edge following two recent inflation readings showing prices rising on goods ranging from gas to food as well as anxiety over the federal government’s profligate spending.
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The EPA has released a proposed rule that would revise guidelines on wastewater limits on coal-fired power plants that the agency projects will save billions of dollars without compromising environmental resources.
The EPA and agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said in announcing the proposed rule Thursday that it would reduce electricity costs by as much as $1.1 billion annually and that increased electricity demand from data centers cannot be met with the “overly restrictive” policies of past administrations.
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The 10th District Court of Appeals this week heard arguments regarding Ohio’s school voucher program, EdChoice, and will decide whether to uphold a judge’s ruling that the program is unconstitutional.
A decision from Common Pleas Court Judge Jaiza Page was appealed last July by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, who has defended school choice.
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The Tennessee Secretary of State published a final list of candidates who had returned petition signatures to qualify for the ballot under the newly passed congressional map, revealing State Senator London Lamar (D-Memphis) submitted the necessary paperwork to compete with State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis) for the Democratic nomination to represent the newly redrawn 9th Congressional District.
News first emerged earlier this week that Lamar had pulled a petition, and in its Friday update, the Tennessee state agency confirmed that Lamar had returned the necessary signatures to qualify.
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The National Rifle Association is suing Virginia Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger for her signing of a measure to make illegal the buying, selling, importing, manufacturing and/or the transfer of assault weapons in the state.
The NRA filed lawsuits in both federal and state courts, arguing the law is unconstitutional.
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An alleged high-ranking member of a Venezuelan gang that surged in the U.S. under former President Joe Biden was extradited to Texas on Thursday, federal authorities announced.
Suspected Tren de Aragua gangbanger Jose Enrique Martinez Flores is scheduled for a Friday court appearance in Houston after Colombian officials transferred him to the U.S. on Thursday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said. He is accused of an international drug conspiracy and providing material support to Tren de Aragua (TdA), which the Trump administration designated a foreign terrorist organization in 2025.
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Attorneys for Brian Harpole, the former head of security for Charlie Kirk, who is now suing Candace Owens and her former podcast guest Mitch Snow over their statements about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, on Thursday claimed that Snow is “actively avoiding service” from process servers, and asked a federal magistrate judge to authorize the U.S. Marshals Service to intervene.
Filed as a request for miscellaneous relief, Harpole’s attorneys claim that Snow refused to accept service on multiple occasions, including an incident when the process server allegedly encountered “a hostile environment” at his home.
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Both federal lawsuits challenging Tennessee’s newly redrawn congressional map have now been assigned to U.S. District Judge William L. Campbell, who on Thursday denied the request by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to grant a temporary restraining order.
The decision was announced in a Thursday order by U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, who ruled that the claims in the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) were too similar to the first federal lawsuit filed over the new map, submitted by NAACP attorneys, to justify assignment to a separate judge.
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U.S. Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) said he has requested his name be taken off the ballot for Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District amid the state’s implementation of a new congressional map.
In a press conference Friday, Cohen, from his D.C. office, called his decision to retire from Congress “by far the most difficult moment” he has had as an “elected official.”
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Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell appointed the wife of a Democratic state legislator to be the city’s new director of the Department of Law.
Tyler Yarbro, the wife of State Senator Jeff Yarbro (D-Nashville), is set to replace Wally Dietz, who is retiring in July.
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Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) said The Boring Company’s Music City Loop underground transit system a “win-win all the way around,” praising the privately funded project as a major solution to the city’s growing traffic congestion.
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The Supreme Court reaffirmed parental rights in public schools and access to federal courts this year, reinstating a permanent injunction against California’s so-called gender secrecy policies that hide students’ gender identity from their parents and authorizing pro-life pregnancy centers to sue New Jersey in federal court to stop speech-chilling subpoenas.
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The majority of Americans across both political parties would support President Donald Trump taking executive action to vet new artificial intelligence models for safety, a new poll from Institute for Family Studies and YouGov shows.
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America First Legal is demanding information amid claims that Loudoun County Public Schools hid from parents key safety concerns about a student, who identifies as transgender, filming boys without their pants and underwear in high school bathrooms.
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Many of our conservative friends are extremely concerned that President Trump’s visit to Red China, and his effusive praise of Communist Dictator Xi Jinping, signals a weakening of our security posture towards the Communist Chinese behemoth.
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“Both countries agreed that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.”
That was the White House’s readout of the May 13 meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, conveying at least the U.S. understanding of how the meeting shaped up on the question of the Iran war — and the all-important fate of Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
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