A man accused of nearly killing his girlfriend by slashing her throat during a brutal 2024 attack in Campbell County has been captured following an extensive multi-state manhunt, according to the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS).
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Davis Hunt, founder of the Nashville-based publication The Pamphleteer, said during an interview Thursday with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy that low voter turnout in Metro Nashville elections has allowed progressive political organizations to exert outsized influence over city government, while arguing that increased participation could reshape the city’s political landscape.
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Shelby County General Sessions Clerk Tami Sawyer was suspended from her position on Wednesday, just days after the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee unsealed a federal grand jury indictment in a “significant” public corruption case that could land the Memphis Democrat behind bars for up to 20 years if she is convicted.
A court order first reported by NewsChannel 3 revealed that Sawyer was suspended from her office for 60 days by the General Sessions Court for Shelby County, effective on Wednesday, in accordance with Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA) 18-1-302.
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U.S. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) was considered as a target by those accused of planning a drone-and-sniper attack at the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC): Freedom 250 event held on the White House lawn on Sunday, according to criminal complaints filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) against two of the alleged plotters.
All four of the criminal complaints against the five named defendants appear to contain similar allegations, including the DOJ complaint filed in the Northern District of Nebraska against the plot’s alleged ringleader, Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, who illegally remained inside the United States after his visa expired in 2001, and was later granted Deferred Action Against Childhood Arrivals (DACA) by the Obama administration in 2014.
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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced a bill designed to end the Optional Practical Training visa program, which incentivizes employers to hire foreign students.
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The Hill The Education Department said Thursday it will reduce interest rates by 1 percent on student loans for borrowers enrolled in automatic payments starting on July 1. The reduction will be in effect through June 30, 2028. In order to benefit, borrowers must enroll in auto pay by Sept. 30 of this year — if they are not enrolled already. Borrowers who use auto pay already receive a 0.25-percentage-point reduction on their interest rates. The Education Department noted those borrowers do not have to take any action to receive the full-point decrease, as their servicer will automatically reduce their rate by an additional 0.75 percent. READ THE FULL STORY
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Politico Rep. Tom Kean Jr., the New Jersey Republican who has been missing from Capitol Hill since March 5, will return to work later this month — 117 days after his last vote. Harrison Neely, a spokesperson for Kean, said the 57-year-old lawmaker plans to attend the June 30 House session. It is the first time Kean’s office has provided a specific date for his return. READ THE FULL STORY
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The number of Americans applying for initial unemployment benefits fell last week, with layoffs remaining at the historically low level of recent years.
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X / Rapid Response 47 “We believe international waterways should be free of tolls…that’s what you see in the 60 days of the MOU,” says @VP. “The MOU contemplates that the Omani’s, the Iranians, and the Gulf coalition together will figure out a proper security framework for the straits in the future, and what I mean by that is that we don’t ever want this to happen again. That’s not about tolling—that’s about ensuring that the Straits are never used as a chokepoint for the global economy ever again.” WATCH THE FULL STATEMENT
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Midjourney, the AI company best known for its generative image tools, announced Wednesday a major pivot into healthcare with the launch of Midjourney Medical, a new division developing a radiation-free, full-body imaging system it calls “Ultrasonic CT” or full-body ultrasound.
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Nestlé announced Monday that it has fully eliminated artificial colors from all of its U.S. food and beverage products.
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As Nashville prepares to host its biggest Independence Day celebration yet, the city’s annual Let Freedom Sing! Music City July 4th event is set to be broadcast to a nationwide audience through Disney’s live television special, “Disney Celebrates America: Nashville’s Star-Spangled Bash,” as part of the America 250 commemoration.
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The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that a drug user could not lose his Second Amendment rights, in a case that put the ACLU and the National Rifle Association on the same side.
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Mayor Freddie O’Connell lauded the Metropolitan Council’s approval of the Fiscal Year 2027 operating budget Tuesday night, highlighting a half-cent reduction in the local grocery tax and the largest-ever local investment in affordable housing.
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The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that the alleged ringleader of a foiled plot to carry out a mass-casualty attack on the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House is a Mexican national in the country illegally.
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As the development of data centers in the U.S. faces intense criticism from local communities and legal action, project supporters are claiming “foreign influence” could be fueling the fire.
House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie, Pennsylvania Republican Rep. John Joyce and Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Latta sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel demanding an investigation into “foreign influence campaigns” that are allegedly working to slow U.S. AI development. Meanwhile, investors and tech companies have been echoing that message.
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America’s largest cities are increasing their spending at almost unprecedented rates.
A RealClearInvestigations analysis of cities with at least 500,000 residents found they cumulatively raised their per-person spending by 18% over the last 10 budget cycles, accounting for inflation. The only equivalents on record are the spending surges ignited by the Great Society programs of the 1960s and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal during the 1930s.
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