Day: September 28, 2026

ICE Deports Previously Removed Child Rapist After Release from Tennessee Prison

Tom Pappert
Alberto Ramirez-Diaz

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported Alberto Ramirez-Diaz, a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala who records show was sentenced to eight years in a Tennessee prison. According to ICE, Ramirez-Diaz was convicted of second-degree child rape following his 2019 arrest.

Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) records show Ramirez-Diaz began an eight-year sentence on November 12, 2019, aligning with the date ICE said the Guatemalan national was arrested in Florida.

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Real America’s Voice Launches Free Presidential Pool Platform, Opening White House Feed to Public

Kaitlin Housler
Trump speaking

Real America’s Voice (RAV) launched RAVPool.org on Monday, a free platform that gives the public and news organizations access to the presidential pool camera feed, real-time pool notes, the President’s daily schedule, and White House guidance.

Parker Sigg, vice president of RAV, announced the launch, describing it as the latest expansion of the network’s White House coverage.

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Newsom Signs Law Easing Rules Requiring Students to Learn English; Change Will Impact 1 Million

Just the News
students learning

Nearly 1 million California students designated as English learners will no longer have to pass a set of tests and benchmarks to exit the program, under a new law signed Sunday by Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom.

In a story posted Sunday by The Los Angeles Times, the newspaper states that when a child enrolls in a California public school, families are asked what language is spoken at home and that as early as kindergarten, children who mainly speak a foreign language at home could be designated as an English learner and placed in language classes. 

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Fauci Diary Reveals Alarm That U.S. Had Aerosolized Ebola Virus: ‘Never Should Have Been Done’

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Dr. Anthony Fauci privately sounded the alarm when he learned the U.S. Army had conducted an experiment a decade ago that aerosolized the lethal Ebola virus, which is not normally transmitted by air, and then shared the results publicly amid an ongoing outbreak in Africa, according to diary entries obtained by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul.

The then-top scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was particularly concerned in 2016 that the Army medical research arm’s experiment seemed to show that exposure to aerosolized Ebola caused more damaging effects in subjects that had been vaccinated. This was almost four years before he championed shutting down the U.S. economy and social life over the COVID-19 virus outbreak.

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Americans Turn to Riskier Mortgages as Borrowing Costs Explode

Daily Caller News Foundation
mortgage broker

Americans are increasingly turning to adjustable-rate mortgages to escape borrowing costs above 7%, reviving a type of home loan that played a prominent role in the housing collapse preceding the 2007-2009 financial crisis.

Adjustable-rate mortgages, or ARMs, accounted for 9.8% of mortgage applications during the week ending Sept. 18 as the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate surged to 7.12%, its highest level since May 2024, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The shift was notable because borrowers were accepting the risk of future rate increases for relatively modest savings compared with a traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

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CEO Warns of Pentagon’s Push to Expand AI Use

Daily Caller News Foundation
Tyler Saltsman

Relying too heavily on internet-connected commercial AI could introduce dangerous new vulnerabilities into warfare, a top executive told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an exclusive interview.

Artificial intelligence will inevitably become deeply embedded in military decision-making, but allowing general-purpose systems to replace human judgment rather than support warfighters could create serious risks, according to Tyler Saltsman, co-founder and CEO of EdgeRunner AI. Those risks have already surfaced as the Pentagon races to become an “AI-first” force, with an AI-assisted intelligence report this spring falsely flagging a Chinese vessel as carrying nuclear-weapons-related components and nearly triggering a U.S. operation to board the ship, according to the Department of War.

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Federal Panel of Judges Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Tennessee’s Congressional Redistricting Ahead of 2026 Midterms

Tom Pappert
Pamela Moses

A federal panel of district judges on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by independent congressional candidate Pamela Moses, challenging Tennessee’s congressional map, which was redrawn earlier this year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Louisiana v. Callais that race cannot be used as a predominant factor when during redistricting. 

In granting the defendants’ motions to dismiss the lawsuit, the judges notably cited the Supreme Court’s decision when dismissing Moses’ claim that Tennessee’s new congressional map disenfranchised minority voters, ruling she failed to establish racial bias under the new ruling. 

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Trump Education Department Finalizes Revised Title IX Rules

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Linda McMahon

The Department of Education on Monday finalized its repeal of a Biden-era Title IX rule reforming sexual misconduct investigations on campus.

The move restores Trump’s first-term rule and expands the protections a student accused of misconduct has in disciplinary proceedings, notably guaranteeing the right to call witnesses, have representation, and appear in a hearing, Politico reported.

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Brian Gaffney’s ‘School of Hard Knucks’ Book Chronicles Three Sons’ Quest to Master Baseball’s Wildest Pitch

Kaitlin Housler
pitcher

Brian Gaffney, author of School of Hard Knucks: My Three Sons and Baseball’s Wildest Pitch, joined The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy for an exclusive interview to discuss his family’s years-long journey to master one of baseball’s rarest pitches.

Gaffney said the idea for the book began in 2012 after he returned home during R.A. Dickey’s “spectacular” season with the New York Mets and discovered his young sons throwing knuckleballs in the backyard.

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Arbitrus Unveils AI ‘Judge’ Designed to Resolve Legal Disputes

Kaitlin Housler
Jack Kieffaber

Artificial intelligence (AI) could eventually serve as a decision-maker in legal disputes under a contract-based arbitration system being developed by Arbitrus, a company founded by recent Harvard Law School graduates

Jack Kieffaber, Harvard Law School Class of 2023, who serves as general counsel for the company, discussed the technology during a Friday appearance on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, where he described a product from Arbitrus Corporation designed to use AI to interpret contracts and potentially resolve disputes.

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