Alexis Wilkins, Country Star Girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, Sues MS NOW for Defamation

Alex Wilkins

Alexis Wilkins, the conservative pundit and country music singer who has separately filed defamation lawsuits over claims she was an Israeli “honeypot” sent to influence FBI Director Kash Patel, has filed a defamation lawsuit against MS NOW over the cable news outlet’s December 2025 article asserting one of her allegedly inebriated friends was driven home by an FBI security detail.

In her lawsuit, Wilkins denies the outlet’s claim and alleges that the reporters were aware the claim was false at the time of publication.

Read the full story

Pro-Trump Hawkins County Retains SELC to Defend Crypto Mining Ban amid Environmental Group’s Role in Lawsuits Against Musk’s xAI, EPA

bitcoin

Despite more than 84 percent of Hawkins County, Tennessee, voters casting their ballots for President Donald Trump in November 2024, the county’s government officially agreed to be represented by a progressive legal group, the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), which will defend its prohibition on data centers and cryptocurrency mining operations.

The Hawkins County Commission voted to accept the offer by the SELC to defend the county in the lawsuit on May 18, only weeks after local attorney Crystal Jessee described the environmentalist group as a legal “sledgehammer” to defend the county in the lawsuit filed by ExoticRidge, the Kentucky-based cryptocurrency mining company, during a commission meeting in April.

Read the full story

Rubio: Iran Supreme Leader ‘Increasingly Engaging’

BREAKING NEWS

The Hill   Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday said Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is “increasingly engaging” in negotiations between the U.S. and Iran amidst continual efforts to end the war. “We haven’t seen him publicly. And I would imagine given what’s happened to multiple leaders in that system, being very public is probably not something that’s recommended for them internally,” Rubio told senators on the Foreign Relations Committee. “But that said, I think there are indications out there that he is increasingly engaging at some level. Although all of his communications have been in writing and through intermediaries,” he added in his first public testimony since the beginning of the Iran war. READ THE FULL STORY   

Read the full story

White House Correspondents’ Dinner Rescheduled for July 24 After Shooting Disrupted Initial Event

BREAKING NEWS

CBS News   The White House Correspondents’ Association announced Tuesday that it will reschedule its annual press dinner for July 24 after the initial event was disrupted when a gunman attacked the gathering attended by President Trump, senior administration officials and scores of journalists. Weijia Jiang, who is the president of the association and a CBS News senior White House correspondent, said in an email to members of the White House Correspondents’ Association that the rescheduled event would be a “more intimate gathering” and feature “significantly enhanced safety measures and new access procedures.” Mr. Trump said he has accepted an invitation to speak at the dinner next month, calling it a “‘HOT’ ticket!” READ THE FULL STORY   

Read the full story

Oz Announces 160 More Drugs Being Added to TrumpRx

BREAKING NEWS

Breitbart   Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced on Tuesday that 160 more drugs are being added to the TrumpRx website, where Americans can purchase discounted prescriptions and compare prices. Oz told reporters during Tuesday’s White House press briefing, where he stood in for press secretary Karoline Leavitt, that the additions will now bring the total number of prescriptions offered via TrumpRx.com to more than 750. “I’ve got an announcement that today we are adding 160 more drugs to this site. Now, the site already has… 600 or so drugs, so it’s going to take it over 750 total,” Oz said. READ THE FULL STORY  

Read the full story

Cortes: Michigan Voters Reject Mass Muslim Migration in New Statewide Poll

muslims

Steve Cortes, former senior spokesman and strategist for the 2016 and 2020 Trump campaigns and current head of the League of American Workers, said new polling shows Michigan voters are increasingly opposed to additional Muslim immigration in the state.

TechnoMetrica (TIPP) conducted an online survey of 1,456 registered voters in Michigan for Cortes’ League of American Workers from May 20 to May 23, 2026.

Read the full story

EPA Boss Made Criminal Referrals Alleging Democrats ‘Self-Dealing’ in Lucrative Green Energy Grants

Lee Zeldin

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin says he has made several criminal referrals after uncovering a major political enrichment scandal that routed billions in Biden-era green energy grants to Democrat cronies. “It’s about self-dealing,” Zeldin tells Just the News.

Zeldin said he has canceled or stopped about $29 billion in EPA grants – including one for $2 billion to a nonprofit tied to longtime Georgia Democrat election activist and failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams – after unmasking a series of pass-through groups used to route taxpayer monies to the politically connected.

Read the full story

Breitbart’s Matt Boyle Details Serbian President’s Praise of Trump, Growing Global Support for American Leadership

Trump and Serbia

Washington Bureau Chief for Breitbart News Network Matt Boyle discussed his recent exclusive interview with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic during an appearance Tuesday on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, describing President Donald Trump’s extraordinary popularity in Serbia and highlighting what he called a growing international appetite for American leadership.

Speaking with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy, Boyle said that Trump’s support in Serbia is rooted in both historical grievances and admiration for the president’s policies and leadership style.

Read the full story

Trump Issues Executive Order to Boost Advanced AI ‘Innovation and Security’

AI

President Donald Trump on Tuesday privately signed an executive order aiming to bolster advanced artificial intelligence innovation and security.

Trump’s new executive order ​directs federal agencies to “establish or expand” programs and cybersecurity services that “enhance AI-enabled defensive tools.” It also seeks to “expedite and prioritize” the cyber defense of civilian federal government information systems in order to safeguard the U.S.’ “vital functions.”

Read the full story

States Complain About High Price Tag of Medicaid Work Requirements

worker

Some U.S. states are complaining about the high cost of Medicaid work requirements, Politico reported on Sunday.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim final rule on Monday enacting a new statutory requirement for some adults enrolled in Medicaid to meet an 80-hours-per-month work requirement to continue eligibility for coverage. States must generally implement this requirement by Jan. 1, 2027, according to CMS.

Read the full story

The Boring Company’s Music City Loop Second Tunnel Machine Nears Launch

Music City Loop

The Boring Company said construction of its Music City Loop transit system continues to accelerate, with the project’s first tunnel boring machine actively excavating beneath Nashville and a second machine scheduled to begin tunneling later this month.

In the latest project update, released Monday on its website, The Boring Company reported that Prufrock-MB1 has been tunneling since April while undergoing continuous upgrades to improve speed and reliability.

Read the full story

Trump Says ‘I Don’t Care’ If Peace Negotiations with Iran Are Over

Trump cabinet meeting

President Donald Trump said Monday that he does not “care” if peace negotiations with Iran are over, stating that the negotiations had been taking too much time.

The comment comes after Iran said it was suspending talks with the United States over the continued fighting in Lebanon, with the Iranian foreign minister asserting that the ongoing ceasefire agreement included Lebanon.

Read the full story

Commentary: Congress Should Not Turn Away from Judges Behaving Badly

judge

When the Framers penned Article III, they designed a judiciary insulated from the fleeting whims of majoritarian factions, granting federal judges life tenure to protect their decisional independence “during good Behaviour.” They did not, however, intend to create a separate caste of unaccountable magistrates operating entirely above the moral and legal constraints of the citizens they judge.

Yet, if we examine the recent internal disposition of Judicial Complaint No. 11-25-90212 by the Judicial Council of the Eleventh Circuit and its subsequent affirmation by the Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability (C.C.D. No. 26-01), it is clear that our jurists have transformed constitutional insulation into a guild privilege.

Read the full story