Day: June 3, 2026

MNPS Returns to Louisville for Summer Retreat amid $1.5 Million Alignment Nashville Contract for Event, Conference Planning

Tom Pappert
Adrienne Battle

Details were published about the annual “Principal Splash” event held for Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) leadership and principals, revealing hundreds planned to return to Louisville, Kentucky, where, in 2023, The Tennessee Star first reported the administrators met for a taxpayer-funded retreat.

According to May reporting by education blogger TC Weber, who has been published by The Star, the principal retreat began this week. It will include three days and two nights in Louisville for about 250 attendees in total. Weber wrote the retreat would include “[t]hree days of meals and snacks” for all attendees, with “extra days” set aside for senior staff members under MNPS Superintendent Dr. Adrienne Battle.

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Nashville Mayor Claims $735,000 ‘Grant’ for Pro-Illegal Alien Nonprofit to Provide ‘High-Quality Legal Services’ and Community Support

Tom Pappert
Freddie O'Connell

A spokesperson for Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell on Wednesday told The Tennessee Star that his request for Metro Nashville Council to pass a budget including $735,000 for the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) reflects a potential city grant, which the spokesperson said would allow oversight of how the nonprofit organization that advocates for illegal aliens is able to use the money.

The mayor’s request was first reported by The Pamphleteer last week, and after U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) amplified the reporting, O’Connell’s office defended his request in a statement to Fox 17, stating the money would support those “working to adjust or maintain their lawful immigration status or U.S. citizenship.”

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DOJ Accuses Iranian-Californian Tech CEO of Supplying U.S. Equipment to Iranian Military

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Jamshid Ghomi

Federal agents arrested a dual United States and Iranian citizen Wednesday for allegedly violating U.S. sanctions against Iran by supplying its nuclear and military establishment with American equipment. 

The Justice Department said 63-year-old Jamshid Ghomi of Newport Coast, California, has been charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.

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Pappert: Hawkins County’s Alliance with Environmental Law Group ‘Playing into the Democrats’ Hands’

Kaitlin Housler
Tom Pappert

Tom Pappert, lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, warned that Hawkins County’s decision to accept pro bono legal representation from the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) in a lawsuit challenging its ban on cryptocurrency mining and AI data centers could inadvertently advance a broader anti-Trump narrative embraced by Democrats and draw heightened national media attention.

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Obamacare Enrollment Fraud May Cost Taxpayers Billions in 2026, New Study Shows

Daily Caller News Foundation
doctor and patient

Widespread fraud across Affordable Care Act exchanges is projected to cost American taxpayers billions in 2026, according to a Paragon Health Institute report released Tuesday.

The newly released study alleges that approximately 6.2 million or nearly 27% of all ACA exchange sign-ups were improper in 2026. The analysis also estimates U.S. taxpayers will pay up to $25 billion in improper subsidies in 2026, almost a quarter of total projected ACA subsidy spending for the year.

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Analysis: Teachers Unions Help Turn Schools into Leftist Activist Pipeline, Starting in Kindergarten

Daily Caller News Foundation
Teacher and students

Teachers unions and education associations have helped turn schools into pipelines for leftist activists as early as Kindergarten, according to a parent advocacy group.

The American Parents Coalition (APC) documented multiple examples of left-wing teaching practices that education organizations like the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) prioritized, according to an APC report.

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House Passes Resolution to End the Iran War

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BREAKING NEWS

The Hill   House lawmakers on Wednesday passed legislation designed to force President Trump to end the Iran War, marking a victory for Democrats and the constitutional purists who say the conflict is illegal without explicit congressional approval. The tally was 215-208, with four Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Tom Barrett (Mich.) and Warren Davidson (Ohio) — joining every Democrat in supporting the measure. The development is largely symbolic, since there are lingering disputes about whether the measure, known as a concurrent resolution, carries the force of law. And Trump is certain to contest the authority of the measure even if it’s also passed by the Senate, where it’s headed next. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Social Security Checks Could Be Cut by $500 a Month in 2032, Report Finds

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BREAKING NEWS

CBS News   The millions of Americans who rely on Social Security could see their monthly benefit checks slashed by an average of about $500 if the program’s retirement trust fund becomes insolvent, a scenario currently projected for the end of 2032. The reduction would amount to a 24% cut in the typical benefit payment, according to a new analysis from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a fiscal policy think tank. Social Security’s trust fund helps cover the gap between the program’s income and benefit obligations, which have outpaced revenue as the baby boom generation retires and the number of beneficiaries grows. Once the fund is depleted, benefits would be automatically reduced unless Congress acts to shore up the program’s finances. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Trump Says Vance-Rubio Ticket in 2028 Would Be ‘Very Unbeatable’

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BREAKING NEWS

Breitbart   President Donald Trump said Tuesday that a potential 2028 Republican presidential ticket of Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio would be ” very unbeatable.” Trump told the New York Post’s Miranda Devine on Pod Force One that he studies the relationship between his vice president and secretary of state. “So I watch them together. They get along great. They have a good relationship. They’re sort of similar in a lot of ways, but they’re very talented,” he said. “I think the two of them running together as a team would be very unbeatable.” READ THE FULL STORY  

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Red States Spark Trend in Abolishing Property Taxes amid State Budget Surpluses

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Ron DeSantis

As home values skyrocket, taxpayers grow increasingly frustrated with “dinner table issues” such as confidence in a secure financial future and anxiety over “affordability.” Republican-led states enjoy budget surpluses, as a new trend of eliminating property taxes is emerging in red states.

On Tuesday, the Florida State Legislature approved a November ballot measure that would abolish property taxes for most primary homeowners across the sunshine state.

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DOJ Unveils New SPLC Allegations in Superseding Indictment

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Todd Blanche

The Department of Justice this week unveiled a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), adding further allegations that the organization funded efforts to fabricate and expand extremist groups.

A federal grand jury in April approved charges against the organization for alleged wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and other offenses. At the time, the DOJ asserted that the SPLC was working to inflate extremism numbers and manufacture incidents to fuel its own operations.

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CDC Shrugs When Asked for COVID Vaccine Safety Data at Advisory Committee Meeting on Updated Jabs

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CDC

Two days after CBS News broke the informal media blackout of COVID-19 vaccine “safety signals” suppressed by the Biden administration’s Food and Drug Administration, the outside advisers to the Trump administration’s FDA voted to recommend updated COVID vaccines despite receiving no safety data, as one adviser had requested.

It’s déjà vu all over again for the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, which similarly complained about the prior administration hiding data sought by advisers to make informed decisions about COVID vaccine recommendations.

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Mullin Reviewing DHS Contracts Noem Signed

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Mark Wayne Mullin

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin this week confirmed that he was reviewing several contracts that Kristi Noem pursued amid scrutiny over their links to her political allies.

Mullin replaced Noem after Trump fired her over a disastrous appearance before a congressional committee that saw her claim Trump signed off on a controversial ad campaign featuring herself. That assertion reportedly motivated Trump to remove her after months of controversy. She also faced scrutiny over allegations that she awarded contracts to people linked to her subordinates and political allies.

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HUD Housing Crackdown Under Operation Clean House Leads to 24 Arrests in Memphis

Kaitlin Housler
CBP arrest

Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies have arrested 24 individuals during a coordinated enforcement effort targeting criminal activity in and around federally subsidized housing in Memphis, the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) announced Monday.

The operation, known as Operation Clean House: Memphis, was conducted through a partnership between USMS, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General (HUD OIG), and the Memphis Safe Task Force.

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Tennessee Nurse Found Guilty of Illegally Distributing Nearly 1 Million Opioid Pills

Zachery Schmidt
Lifeforce

A Tennessee nurse practitioner is facing a lengthy prison sentence after being found guilty of drug-related offenses.

A jury found Heather Marks, a 43-year-old, guilty of conspiracy to illegally distribute controlled substances and eight counts of illegally distributing controlled substances. She will be sentenced on September 1st and faces up to 20 years in prison for each count of conviction.

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Johnson Confirms Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund Is ‘Off the Table’

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Todd Blanche

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday confirmed that the chamber was unlikely to approve the Department of Justice’s “anti-weaponization fund” due to the GOP’s narrow majority and internal scrutiny from the rank-and-file lawmakers.

The DOJ originally announced the $1.776 billion fund as part of a settlement to end President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns by contractor Charles Littlejohn, who pleaded guilty. The fund was intended to provide restitution to alleged victims of political weaponization from the Biden DOJ, but faced pushback from Republicans over concerns it would be used to reward Trump allies.

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Commentary: It’s Time to Act Against China’s Maritime Tsunami and Rebuild America’s Shipyards

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Trump and shipyard

The numbers do not lie and they are a national security emergency.

The latest data available from BRS Shipbrokers (BRS), China’s share of global commercial shipbuilding has exploded from 51 percent in 2022 (2,107 ships) to a staggering 70.9 percent in 2025 (4,055 ships). South Korea, Japan, Europe, and the rest of the world are watching their market shares shrink while Beijing’s shipyards churn out vessels at a pace we can barely comprehend.

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