Paramount Skydance was reportedly shopping for office space in Nashville, Tennessee, as the Hollywood giant weighed shifting operations out of California while the state’s Democratic attorney general led a lawsuit seeking to block its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, warned that calls from artificial intelligence (AI) companies for government regulation could create a powerful new system of regulatory capture while acknowledging that increasingly capable AI systems pose legitimate risks.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Wednesday that it had partnered with 120 law enforcement agencies in Tennessee as of September 9, suggesting the Volunteer State could represent about about 5 percent of the 2,466 total 287(g) agreements signed nationwide.
Following the agency’s announcement it was “strengthening cooperation” with 120 local partners in Tennessee as part of the expansion of its 287(g) program, The Tennessee Star reviewed the latest information regarding by ICE, revealing a total of 139 law enforcement agencies in Tennessee had entered one of the three models.
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Peter Robinson, the former Reagan White House speechwriter who drafted President Ronald Reagan’s famous 1987 “Tear down this wall” address, will moderate discussions following a four-part lecture series featuring venture capitalist Peter Thiel in downtown Nashville later this month.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee participated in a nationwide operation targeting fraud committed in Small Business Administration (SBA) programs created during the COVID-19 pandemic, and revealed on Monday that federal prosecutors had identified around $245 million in fraud. It was described as the single largest action against alleged perpetrators of SBA fraud in its history.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Operation No Doze included officials from 20 different state and federal agencies, as well as 44 different U.S. Attorneys Offices, and took place in a “summer surge” between June 12 and September 1.
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ABC News The number of people applying for unemployment benefits dropped sharply last week, another sign that layoffs remain rare and most Americans enjoy job security. The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims slid to 196,000, the fewest since mid-July and down from 206,000 the week before. The four-week average of claims, which smooths out week-to-week volatility, dropped to 203,250. Economists had expected claims to come in at 207,500, according to a survey by the data firm FactSet. READ THE FULL STORY
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East Tennessee recently saw three local defendants sentenced for their roles in a multimillion-dollar prescription fraud scheme. Fraud on that scale understandably makes headlines. But what about schemes that, on the surface, seem to cause less damage? Or worse, the ones that go completely unnoticed?
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Andrea Wilson, head of Loam Technologies, discussed the upcoming official launch of Uplift: Bible Chat, a Bible-based artificial intelligence platform designed to provide users with AI assistance grounded in a biblical worldview, during an exclusive interview Wednesday with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy.
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Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins told the Daily Signal that she predicts beef prices will decrease before the November midterm elections.
Beef prices fell 1% in August, after a 0.8% decline in July. But Rollins said the Trump administration is not done working toward lower prices.
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Energy deregulation is not simply about eliminating rules. It is about removing regulations that exceed statutory authority, impose overly burdensome costs, and make it harder for Americans to access affordable and reliable power, often with little or no environmental benefit.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s repeal of the 2024 greenhouse gas standards for power plants does exactly that, according to the EPA.
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In Philadelphia 235 years ago today, 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the U.S. Constitution. Eleven years had passed since the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and this historic event marked an important milestone for our remarkable experiment in self-government.
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