Film executive Chris Fenton said Tennessee is emerging as a new hub for American-made entertainment as he prepares to release his latest film, Bad Counselors, a PG-13 summer camp comedy that he says was produced entirely with American labor.
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Los Angeles Times Five people were killed when two teenage gunmen opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday morning in an attack that sparked widespread shock and condemnation. Police swarmed the center after receiving calls of an active shooter and found a crime scene that expanded across several blocks in the area. According to police, officers arrived within four minutes of the first report. Authorities said two males, 17 and 19 years old, arrived at the center and opened fire. READ THE FULL STORY
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In a Monday notice to the court, the four Memphis residents represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who are suing over claims they faced retaliation from the Memphis Safe Task Force (MSTF) due to Tennessee’s law making it a crime to stand within 25 feet of police after being ordered to move, confirmed their litigation will directly challenge the constitutionality of the law.
The lawsuit filed on Wednesday accuses the MSTF of maintaining an unconstitutional policy, pattern, and practice of retaliation against individuals in the city who observe, gather information, and record the task force’s operations in public, alleging that law enforcement has engaged in harassment, surveillance, intimidation, unreasonable stops, and abuses of Tennessee’s Halo Law, which made it a Class B misdemeanor to intentionally approach or remain within 25 feet of a law enforcement officer after being ordered to move.
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Legal commentator and retired attorney Mark Pulliam said the U.S. Supreme Court “has to” take former Trump attorney John Eastman’s appeal of his California disbarment, warning that failing to intervene would give a “green light to this tyrannical oppression” and further erode First Amendment protections for lawyers who provide controversial legal advice.
Pulliam, during Monday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, criticized California’s attorney discipline system, calling it a “kangaroo court” and comparing the proceedings against Eastman to “Star Chamber” tactics and “the Spanish Inquisition.”
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Some school districts appear to go to great lengths to hide curricula, psychological interventions and which adults have access to students, even invoking copyright law and forcing parents to navigate state and federal courts to bring an open-records lawsuit.
They don’t seem as reticent to hide their outsourcing of curricular decisions to a progressive group that went from fighting the Ku Klux Klan to allegedly funding the Klan’s progeny to create the appearance of a thriving white supremacy movement and thereby goose its fundraising and swing Southern elections.
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The pro-Israel lobby has spent millions on an effort to unseat Rep. Thomas Massie in the Kentucky Republican Primary on Tuesday, making it the most expensive House primary on record.
Pro-Israel interest groups have dropped $9 million into the effort, and prominent Republican pro-Israel donors spent millions more on a super PAC supported by President Donald Trump’s political operations, which has spent $7 million on the race. Altogether, spending on the race has topped $32 million, according to Politico, which cited figures from AdImpact.
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Federal court documents released on Monday reveal that Candace Owens has retained Robert A. Peal, recognized as a “Super Lawyer” from the Nashville firm Sims Funk, to represent her in the defamation lawsuit by Brian Harpole, the former head of security for Charlie Kirk.
Peal announced his appearance on behalf of Owens in a notice to the court last week, confirming he will represent Owens personally, as well as the associated limited liability company (LLC) and the incorporated entity named as defendants in Harpole’s lawsuit.
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California’s two-term treasurer, Fiona Ma, has met with high-level Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials and intelligence personnel dozens of times in the last several decades, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.
During these many meetings in the U.S. and China, the Democratic frontrunner in California’s 2026 lieutenant governor race has introduced American lawmakers to Chinese intelligence officials and also repeatedly presented awards to CCP members and influence operatives, according to DCNF translations of Chinese government and state media reports.
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The Hill President Trump will hold off on attacking Iran again at the request of leaders from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, he announced on Monday. Trump in a Truth Social post, said the strike was scheduled for Tuesday, but he was asked to hold off because “serious negotiations are now taking place, and that, in their opinion, as Great Leaders and Allies, a Deal will be made, which will be very acceptable to the United States of America, as well as all Countries in the Middle East, and beyond.” He said the request came from Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. READ THE FULL STORY
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CNBC President Donald Trump will swear in Kevin Warsh, his hand-picked choice to lead the Federal Reserve, during a ceremony Friday, a White House official told CNBC. The move will end a process that started in the summer of 2025 and culminated last week with the Senate confirming Warsh in a nearly total party-line vote. The new chair will succeed Jerome Powell, whose term expired Friday but who continues to serve on a pro-tempore basis until Warsh officially takes over. READ THE FULL STORY
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CBS News At least six Americans were exposed to Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, sources with international aid organizations told CBS News, although it was unclear if any had been infected. Three of the Americans faced a high-risk contact or exposure, the sources said, and one was symptomatic. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the Americans are still in Congo. The health news organization STAT was first to report on the exposures. The World Health Organization this week declared the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda a “public health emergency of international concern.” At least 80 suspected deaths have been reported, the WHO said Saturday. READ THE FULL STORY
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President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice on Monday settled a lawsuit with the IRS over the leak of his tax returns.
Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion in January of this year over the 2023 incident in which IRS contractor Charles Littejohn leaked his personal tax records. Littlejohn pleaded guilty and received a five-year prison sentence.
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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said Monday that his country has no “aggressive plans or intentions” to attack any country including the United States – following a news report that the Communist-run island nation has acquired over 300 drones with possible plans to use them to attack American military vessels, the U.S. military base at Guantanomo Bay, Cuba, and possibly Key West, Florida.
According to Axios, which based its report on classified intelligence that was shared by a U.S. official, the findings could become a pretext for U.S. military action against Cuba.
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The White House on Monday rejected Iran’s latest peace proposal.
While the proposal submitted Sundayincludes more statements about Iran’s commitment not to pursue nuclear weapons, it has no detailed commitments about suspending its nuclear uranium enrichment, according to Axios, which cited an unnamed source.
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Owners of the National Football League (NFL) are expected to vote on whether Nashville will host Super Bowl LXIV in February 2030, according to NFL Network.
League owners reportedly will decide on Nashville as the host city for the 2030 Super Bowl during Tuesday’s Spring League Meeting.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, argued Democratic lawmakers in Tennessee have abandoned offering policy alternatives in favor of pure opposition to Republicans and President Donald Trump, saying the party is now primarily motivated by hostility toward conservatives at every level of government.
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EJ Haust, official guest host of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, criticized Fairfax County, Virginia, immigration and prosecution policies following a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing titled “Fairfax County, Virginia: The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Policies.”
The hearing, held before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, examined the impact of sanctuary policies and featured testimony from Fairfax County officials, immigration experts, crime victims’ families, and legal advocates.
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Civicity, a new security company founded in March by the Kentucky-based Block by Block, reportedly joined law enforcement patrolling downtown Nashville over the weekend, amid the suspension of the city’s last private security partner over allegations its security guards posed as uniformed police, whose five-year contract just expired.
Originally reported in April to be the new choice of the Central Business Improvement District (CBID), which collects a portion of revenue from downtown businesses and directs them to the nonprofit District Management Corporation (DMC), which in turn is operated by the Nashville Downtown Partnership (NDP), Civicity has reportedly already been contracted to provide services for the remainder of the year.
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