Day: August 27, 2026

Metro Nashville Still Withholding Covenant Shooter’s Will Despite Court Ruling

Kaitlin Housler
Audrey Hale

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, and Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Star, said Metro Nashville is continuing to withhold the will of Covenant School shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale despite a recent Tennessee Supreme Court decision clearing the way for the release of records related to the 2023 mass shooting.

During Thursday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Pappert and Leahy discussed the ongoing records battle and the significance of the will, which the Metro Nashville Police Department reportedly identified in its final investigative report as a document left by Hale.

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Tennessee House Leaders Confirm Discussion of Plans to Honor Dolly Parton amid ‘9-to-5 Day’, Airport Name Change Proposals

Tom Pappert
Nashville International Airport

Leaders in the Tennessee State House confirmed on Thursday that they have begun discussions of how to honor the legacy of Dolly Parton, the country music legend who died on Tuesday at age 80. 

Tennessee Deputy House Speaker Jason Zachary (R-Knoxville) told WKRN that his colleagues “began to have those discussions” about how to honor Parton the previous night, questioning, “How do you honor someone that is so worthy and beyond anything of a statue, a bust?”

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Nashville Man Charged with Attempted Murder, Leaving Victim Paralyzed, Just Released After Eight-Year Sentence for Armed Robbery

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Devonte Sherley

Devonte Sherley, a convicted felon now charged with attempted murder after a gunshot left a Nashville man paralyzed, was previously out on bond for felony gun and drug charges when he was implicated in a 2019 fatal robbery. That case did not conclude until last year, and Tennessee records show his resulting eight-year sentence ended just six weeks before the latest shooting.

Sherley, 29, is currently in Davidson County Jail, with Fox 17 reporting that Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) detectives said he was suspected of entering his sister’s apartment and shooting a man in the neck and knee on August 19.

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Chattanooga Police Launches Drone Program to Respond to 911 Calls

Kaitlin Housler
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The Chattanooga Police Department (CPD) launched a Drone First Responder pilot program designed to give officers real-time information about emergency calls before they arrive on scene.

CPD said the program uses two prepositioned unmanned aircraft systems located at Chattanooga Fire Department Stations 4 and 9, which police said were selected based on crime data identifying areas where violent crime occurs most frequently.

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Former Federal Worker Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Transmit Classified Intel to a Foreign Government

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The Justice Department announced Thursday that a former federal employee has pleaded guilty to transmitting national defense information to an undisclosed foreign government.

The department said 29-year-old Nathan Vilas Laatsch of Alexandria, Virginia, started working for the Defense Intelligence Agency as an IT specialist in 2019 and pleaded guilty Wednesday to transmitting classified information to a friendly foreign government. 

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Homeland Security Warns of Chinese Parts in Election Machines, Will Require Paper Ballot Audits

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The Homeland Security Department will require random audits of paper ballots in the midterm elections, citing long-simmering concern that the nation’s largest voting technology companies use Chinese parts in their voting machines, according to a letter from Secretary Markwayne Mullin released Thursday.   

Mullin sent the letter to the White House Transparency Task Force earlier this week outlining the dangers posed by Chinese components in American voting machines and the way that these components could be exploited by hackers or other malicious actors.

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Karoline Leavitt on Her Last Day as Press Secretary: ‘It’s Very Bittersweet’

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Breitbart   Thursday marks Karoline Leavitt’s last day on the job, after a historic 20-month run as the youngest press secretary in White House history. Leavitt caught up with reporters on her last day on the driveway on the North Lawn of the White House, telling them it is “bittersweet” to depart her post. “It’s very bittersweet,” Leavitt told reporters. “I‘ll miss you guys. I know that’s probably not something anyone would expect me to say, but obviously it’s been great working with all of you.” READ THE FULL STORY   

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Nvidia Launches Corporate PAC, Expanding Washington Footprint

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The Hill   Technology giant Nvidia is entering the election spending arena, launching a new corporate political action committee funded by employees. Nvidia filed a statement of organization Thursday, with the PAC’s official name being the Nvidia Corporation Employees Federal Political Action Committee. The super PAC, first reported by Bloomberg Government, will be funded by eligible employees who can give up to $5,000. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment. READ THE FULL STORY   

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ICE Agent Charged in Minneapolis Shooting Released from Texas Jail

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CBS News   The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent charged in a Minneapolis shooting during Operation Metro Surge has been released from a Texas jail, the Associated Press reports. The release follows a federal judge’s Wednesday denial of Minnesota’s request for a temporary restraining order to halt Christian Castro’s release. The shooting occurred the night of Jan. 14, when a Venezuelan migrant was shot in the leg by officer Castro, and two others were arrested. Castro was charged in Minnesota with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime. Castro accused the man of assaulting him with a broomstick and shovel before the shooting, but investigators say footage from a nearby camera helped prove that was a lie. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Gov’t Study Finds Link Between Belief in Gender Ideology and Support for Political Violence

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Proponents of “radical gender ideology” are more likely to “hold left-wing authoritarian beliefs and believe political violence is justified,” according to a Department of Health and Human Services study out Wednesday.

The HHS-commissioned study also claims that individuals who held left-wing authoritarian beliefs “were more likely to justify political violence as well than non-left-wing participants.”

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Congressional Lawmakers Introduce Bills Seeking to Regulate Flock

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Lawmakers have introduced several bills to restrict Flock Safety cameras and automated license plate readers (ALPRs).

Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle opposed Flock cameras and put forth legislation to restrict them, although no one has put forth a bill as of Thursday that would completely ban them. All of the bills introduced thus far would place restrictions on using ALPRs at the federal and local level, and some lawmakers have floated the idea of outright banning these technologies.

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Ratcliffe in Moscow Trip Warned Russian Intelligence Officers Not to Attack NATO Countries: Reports

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John Ratcliffe

CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s personal visit to Moscow this week saw him warn Russia against any strikes on NATO nations, multiple outlets have reported.

Ratcliffe visited Russia this week and met with intelligence officials, but not President Vladimir Putin. The meeting came amid reported concerns from Washington that Russia could attack one of the Baltic States, all of which are in NATO, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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GOP Senator Hawley Opens Investigation into Flock Cameras’ Surveillance Program

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Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley sent a letter Wednesday to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley, questioning the company’s “collection, retention, and dissemination of the data” from its AI-powered surveillance cameras.

The probe comes as the company faces bipartisan blowback for its network of 120,000 cameras, which help law enforcement track the movement of vehicles. 

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