A new congressional bill seeks to prevent biological males from joining an organization dedicated to the American Revolution.
Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced the Daughters of the American Revolution Membership Integrity Act, which would amend the Daughters of the American Revolution’s federal charter to ensure only biological females can become members.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced plans for a major overhaul of Dulles International Airport, the main international airport near Washington, D.C.
Trump made the announcement in the Oval Office with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced on Tuesday that Tennessee ranked among five states selected as potential homes for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, which the agency said are part of a federal “effort to strengthen and modernize the nation’s full nuclear fuel cycle.”
According to the Tuesday press release, a total of 28 applications were submitted from 28 states, and Tennessee was selected as a “potential host” along with Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Utah. The federal agency reported that each state’s governor has already signed a memorandum of understanding with the DOE.
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Author and retired college professor Dr. Carol Swain and The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy weighed in Wednesday on former White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision to repeatedly invoke his Fifth Amendment rights during a U.S. Senate hearing led by U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), arguing the testimony raised additional questions about Fauci’s conduct during the pandemic.
Fauci, who was pardoned by former President Joe Biden on his final day in office, declined to answer questions before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination after stating he believed Paul was attempting to entrap him in a “perjury trap.”
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Following the Shelby County Commission’s decision to borrow more than $100 million to meet its payroll expenses, State House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) questioned whether Memphis voters were “tired of being blue” in a social media post.
“This is what happens when liberals are in charge: higher taxes, more debt, and budgets so poorly managed they have to borrow money just to make payroll,” Sexton wrote in a post to social media.
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Federal agencies are creating pointless cybersecurity risks and violating the First Amendment rights of nonprofits and investors through routine yet sweeping data dragnets that also violate the latter’s Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights, according to lawsuits against the IRS and Securities and Exchange Commission.
Young America’s Foundation is targeting mandatory disclosure of donor information on Form 990, required of most 501(c)(3) tax-exempt groups, after the IRS told the conservative nonprofit that convicted contractor Charles Littlejohn may have leaked its own information.
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The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Tuesday endorsed State Representative Johnny Garrett (R-Goodlettsville) in the Republican primary for Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District.
In a post on X, CPAC announced, “CPAC is proud to endorse Johnny Garrett for Congress. He is a proven conservative who delivered real wins in Nashville and will do the same in Washington. Early voting ends August 1st, so get out and vote in the August 6 primary!”
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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Tuesday joined more than a dozen of her colleagues who have argued the Senate should remain in session, skipping its normal summer recess, in order to pass the Safeguard America Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.
Blackburn made the comments during an appearance on Newsmax TV after being asked whether President Donald Trump was driving a wedge between Republican voters and the Senate by repeatedly calling for the passage of the election integrity legislation.
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The Trump administration announced Tuesday it has officially banned gain-of-function research, claiming it has the potential to threaten lives and undermine national security if not properly restricted and controlled.
The State and Health and Human Services departments claim that although biomedical research has produced lifesaving vaccines and medical breakthroughs, it must never come at the expense of public safety or national security.
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Breitbart President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will fast-track decisions on asylum cases in an effort to cut down the massive backlog left by former President Joe Biden’s administration. On Monday, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Joe Edlow announced a rule change that allows the agency’s adjudicators to refer asylum applications to federal immigration judges without first interviewing the applicant. “This rule will shorten the total time that it takes asylum officers and Immigration Judges to adjudicate asylum applications,” a news release from USCIS states. “Among other reasons, USCIS is making this change to reduce the asylum backlog.” READ THE FULL STORY
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CBS News Recent reports of immigration arrests at U.S. airports, some of them captured in videos that have gone viral, stem from increased collaboration between the Transportation Security Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE sources tell CBS News. TSA has been sharing more information about noncitizen travelers with ICE, including on immigrants who lack criminal records but are suspected of civil immigration violations, like overstaying their visas, the sources say. TSA agents are increasingly giving ICE “tips” or “leads” so that agency can arrest, detain and process for deportation individuals who are deemed deportable by the federal government. READ THE FULL STORY
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Department of Education The U.S. Department of Education (ED) launched an investigation into the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) to ensure compliance with the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) after a complaint was received on behalf of parents regarding the use of “transgender dolls” in schools. In a complaint sent to ED’s Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO) by Defending Ed, Minnesota parents expressed their concern that their statutory and constitutional rights were violated as they were not notified or given the opportunity to opt their children out of an activity that used “transgender dolls” in the classroom. According to news reports, “MyGenderDolls” will be available to Minnesota educators for use in classrooms with students as young as four years old this fall. The dolls – developed via a taxpayer-funded University of Minnesota program – feature removable, interchangeable internal and external genitalia, gender-neutral names, and clothing (including undergarments) for both sexes. READ THE FULL STORY
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Two House members are engaged in a bipartisan effort to allow the federal government to slow down or shutter AI models that threaten to cause security breaches and other issues.
The measure, introduced last week, follows an incident in which OpenAI’s models GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model escaped its secure testing environment and hacked the widely used, open-source model AI platform Hugging Face, where developers from around the world share their code, datasets and AI models for free, according to the Associated Press.
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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday opted to keep interest rates steady, despite the installation of Kevin Warsh as Fed chairman, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Trump had appointed Warsh to replace Powell, whom he repeatedly criticized for his hesitance to lower interest rates.
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A canceled meeting between Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche might slow his confirmation process.
Cornyn and Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis demanded that the Department of Justice (DOJ) formally end the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund and rewrite language in an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) settlement that currently restricts Trump and his family from tax audits. Blanche’s scheduled meeting with Cornyn was abruptly called off Wednesday, endangering Cornyn’s support for advancing Blanche’s nomination out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment Wednesday in response to questions from Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“On advice of counsel I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution,” Fauci repeatedly said in response to Paul’s questions during the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing.
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Legal commentator and retired attorney Mark Pulliam said a new bill sponsored by U.S. Senator Jim Banks (R-IN) and U.S. Representative Brandon Gill (R-TX-26) could provide Republicans with a new legal avenue to restrict birthright citizenship despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision striking down President Donald Trump’s executive order on the issue.
In June, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Trump v. Barbara that Trump’s executive order ending automatic birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present in the country violated the 14th Amendment.
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Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) has endorsed former U.S. Representative Van Hilleary in the upcoming August 6 Republican primary for Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District.
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The age of artificial intelligence is fueling a generation of fragile, developmentally stunted and gender-dysphoric children, two analysts warned parents.
Classroom devices, smartphones and, increasingly, AI chatbots are stunting children’s cognitive and emotional development and driving a youth mental-health crisis, Michael Marinacio, executive director of the Center for Responsible Technology, and Nicole Runyon, a former child psychotherapist and parent coach, said during an online event hosted by parental rights group Moms for Liberty.
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Fear about “affordability” supposedly fueled the new, strident socialism.
Yet annual inflation during Biden’s four years averaged almost 5 percent. It peaked at over 9 percent, while prices for some key staples rose by 30 percent over his tenure—all to silence from the Left. (By contrast, annual inflation during Trump’s first term averaged 1.9 percent. In his second term, it averaged 2.6 percent in 2025—and may rise to 4.5 percent in 2026, given the war with Iran.)
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