U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) leads a field of potential appointees to replace U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) if she wins the 2026 gubernatorial election, according to a new statewide poll of likely Republican voters.
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TruthSocial During a heated exchange on Wednesday’s Piers Morgan: Uncensored between Ronna McDaniel and Cenk Uygur, the former Republican Party Chair revealed socialist firebrand Hassan Piker is the nephew of progressive pundit Cenk Uygur. CLICK TO WATCH
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Kevin Kreutz, who recently left his position as Deputy Attorney General of Tennessee, will be the latest attorney to pass from that office to Holtzman Vogel, the company announced on Tuesday.
Prior to leaving his position for the Tennessee Attorney General’s office, Kreutz was the lead counsel in a major challenge to Tennessee’s pharmacy benefit manger (PBM) laws, the counsel of record for Tennessee in a legal action that resulted in $25.6 million in restitution and $25.6 million in penalties against a precious metals company, and participated in Tennessee’s lawsuit over the Biden administration’s attempt to shield certain patient records from Medicaid fraud investigations.
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SCOTUSBlog The Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon, asking the justices to temporarily pause an order by a federal judge in Boston that blocks the government from implementing parts of a U.S. Postal Service rule on mail-in ballots. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the court that the order by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani “partially nullifies the Postal Service’s efforts to address the risk that the federal mails will be used to perpetrate voter fraud—a particularly pernicious species of fraud that dilutes the votes of lawful voters, prevents election results from reflecting the will of the American people, and undermines ‘public confidence in the integrity of the electoral process.’” Thursday’s filing was the second time in less than six weeks that the Trump administration came to the Supreme Court seeking to clear the way to implement restrictions on mail-in voting. In March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that directed federal agencies to take a series of steps on mail-in voting. The first provision instructs the Department of Homeland Security to create lists of the adult U.S. citizens in each state and to send those lists to states at least 60 days before a federal election.…
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday told The Tennessee Star that Marco Sabillon-Urbina, who was among the more than 120 arrests made on Sunday at the Memphis nightclub El Corralón, is a previously deported illegal alien who previously pleaded guilty to using a controlled substance while in possession of a firearm.
The confirmation from DHS came one day after the Memphis Permits Office told The Star that El Corralón, which also uses the name Marisqueria El Corral, had obtained neither a beer permit nor a dance permit from the City of Memphis.
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NBC News The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state’s redrawn congressional map cannot be used in this year’s midterm elections, dealing a blow to Republicans. The court ruled that a referendum on whether the state can use the map going forward must be included on the November ballot, meaning Missouri’s fall elections will take place under its previous district lines. The new map was designed to draw one of the two Missouri Democrats in Congress, longtime Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, out of his seat. READ THE FULL STORY
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Central Magnet School in Murfreesboro has been named the best high school in the nation in the 2026-2027 rankings released by U.S. News & World Report.
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The Trump administration on Thursday launched Foundry School, a new State Department–backed national training program aimed to prepare entrepreneurs, engineers, technicians and industrial leaders for what officials describe as America’s manufacturing comeback. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio headlined the event.
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The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service on Thursday proposed rules that would bar private schools from federal tax-exempt status if they discriminate on the basis of race, including race-conscious admissions, scholarships, and other campus programs.
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The Ohio State University has agreed to pay the federal government a $2.1 million settlement over allegations the school didn’t disclose employee affiliations with China when seeking federal research funding, becoming the latest university to settle over such allegations.
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I spent 21 years in the Army before I spent years representing Montgomery County, a district shaped by Fort Campbell. In that overlap, I sat with more veterans than I can count who told me some version of the same thing. The hardest part of coming home wasn’t the transition itself. It was learning to live without the people who understood them.
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Three people were killed, including the suspected gunman, and six others were wounded after gunfire erupted Wednesday afternoon inside a downtown high-rise apartment building, officials said. Casualties included three Minneapolis police officers.
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Polling released Thursday morning shows U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) holds a 21-point lead over the Democrats’ nominee, Jerri Brown, in the race to become Tennessee’s next governor.
Beacon Center of Tennessee’s analysis of its poll, conducted by Targoz Market Research from August 15 through August 26, found that 55 percent of likely voters prefer Blackburn, while just 34 percent would vote for Green.
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House Democrats blocked a proposed Constitutional amendment on Wednesday, which would have capped the Supreme Court at nine justices if it had secured the two-thirds majority it needed to pass.
The vote, which failed in a 212-206 split, comes as calls to pack the court have grown in recent years, largely due to the success of Republicans in confirming conservative justices to the bench, who have gone on to rule in landmark cases favoring the right.
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“THE FAKE POLLS USED BY OUR CROOKED MEDIA ARE OUT OF CONTROL, AND SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT IT. FCC TO THE RESCUE!”
That was President Donald Trump on Truth Social on Aug. 30, suggesting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could be looking at television and radio over-the-air licenses for stations that publish what the President is calling “fake polls”.
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