A public charter school in Nashville has removed LGBT children’s books from its library months after clearing the record of a Christian teacher who was disciplined for refusing to read from literature that “promotes same-sex marriage.”
According to the First Liberty Institute, a national group which defends religious freedom, administrators at Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) Nashville, “have eliminated books that could violate Tennessee law regarding parental consent.”
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday revealed details of the investigation which led to the conviction of Camilo Campos-Hurtado, an illegal alien from Mexico who recorded his sexual assaults on Nashville children who he drugged, after gaining access to youth through a soccer program. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison last month.
In its press release, ICE appeared to reveal for the first time that investigators learned that Campos-Hurtado was in the country illegally after Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigators “recovered electronic devices containing child sexual abuse material and numerous counterfeit immigration and identification documents.”
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Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon White House attorney and longtime Watergate researcher, detailed what he says were significant due process violations surrounding the Watergate prosecutions during an exclusive interview this week with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy.
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President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order establishing a Presidential Commission to design the United States Space Academy, a proposed NASA-led federal academy meant to prepare the next generation of Americans for careers across the military, civil, and commercial space enterprise.
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Leftist nonprofits are using pass-through organizations to boost voter registration for demographics most likely to vote for Democrats, a new report alleges.
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Williamson County School Board Vice Chair Dr. Claire Reeves, who holds a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology and previously worked in biomedical research, is calling for stronger protections for children online following Tennessee’s $17.1 billion settlement with Meta.
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America’s housing affordability crisis isn’t a result of too little government intervention or socialism, but a tragic consequence of massive federal intervention gone awry, a new Heritage Foundation report argues.
“When it comes to housing, our problem isn’t a lack of socialism but too much socialism,” John Gibbs, Heritage’s economics director, told the Daily Signal. “Heavy government involvement in mortgages promised to make homes more accessible but instead made them more expensive.”
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For years, America’s biggest technology companies were the loudest corporate cheerleaders for wind and solar.
Microsoft pledged to match its electricity use with 100% renewable energy and to become carbon negative by 2030.
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Bronwyn Keith-Hines, who goes by the stage name “Bronwyn,” is a Grammy-winning Americana/bluegrass artist and two-time IBMA “Fiddle Player of the Year.” Her name is Welsh, but you can tell from her looks that she has a lot of Irish ancestry.
Though no one in her family played music, they were always very supportive. She was three years old when she first saw a female fiddle player busking on the street, and that inspired her to ask for violin lessons. “I’ve been playing as long as I can remember,” she stated.
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