This weekend, public service announcements will remind us daylight saving time is over. This means you have to set your clocks backwards an hour at 2 a.m. on November 1.
The practice of resetting clocks is not designed for farmers, whose plows follow the sun regardless of what time clocks say it is. And it does not create extra daylight – it simply shifts when the sun rises and sets relative to society’s regular schedule and routines.
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EJ Haust, official guest host of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, said she found independent Tennessee gubernatorial candidate David Hatley “clearly untrustworthy,” “completely inadequate,” and “woefully naive” on state issues after personally meeting with him at a campaign event earlier this week.
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The feds’ top prosecutor in Alaska confirmed Friday that the Justice Department is investigating allegations of a plot to confuse voters in the midterms by recruiting a candidate with the same name as the state’s incumbent senator.
U.S. Attorney Michael Heyman said the investigation has been going on for a while, but the confirmation comes after The New York Times reported this week that Alaska Senate Democratic nominee Mary Peltola’s campaign helped recruit a retiree named Dan J. Sullivan to run against Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan in next week’s elections.
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Conventional wisdom holds that Halloween is essentially a secular and pagan holiday, the result of the Christian Church appropriating an ancient Celtic harvest festival. But one strain of critical opinion tends to the view that the holiday was thoroughly Christian from the start.
In the church calendar, Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) is the beginning of a triduum of holidays commemorating the dead, continuing with All Saints’ Day on November 1 and All Souls’ Day on November 2. It was common practice among the early Christians to commemorate the deaths of various martyrs at the places of their demise. In the 9th century Pope Gregory IV decided that the time had come for a single universal feast to commemorate all the saints, as well as a day to pray for one’s deceased loved ones. The pope chose a time of year—the end of harvest and the beginning of winter—when many people’s thoughts naturally turned to the idea of death.
The macabre aspects which have grown up around Halloween in modern times—the emphasis on witches, ghosts and other ghoulish figures, the glorification of gore and violence—have led many people to doubt its Christian character and many Christians to shun it. Yet according to some historians, these demonic elements of the holiday originated from a distinctively medieval Christian idea of exorcising evil by ridiculing it. Christian theology holds that Jesus conquered sin and death; and death loses its sting precisely when one is able to laugh at it.
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I recently spoke at Chatham House in London, one of Europe’s leading globalist think tanks—and hostile territory for American conservatives. While there, I heard firsthand some of the factors and the stark denialism behind the horrific riots that erupted in France and other European countries this month.
What began in late September as student blockades of overcrowded, understaffed high schools in the Paris suburbs exploded on October 17 and 18 into some of the worst violence France has seen in decades. More than half a million people marched against rising living costs and failing public services. Rioters, many carrying Palestinian flags, torched cars and a town hall, damaged or looted at least 3,000 businesses, and injured more than 500 police officers. Nearly 2,400 people were arrested, and the government imposed curfews in parts of Paris and other cities. Similar protests spread to Belgium and Italy.
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The U.S. Marshals Service on Wednesday announced the arrest of Fernando Gonzalez Ramirez, a 32-year-old Panamanian citizen who is wanted in Franklin, Tennessee, where the Marshals said “he is alleged to have sexually assaulted multiple boys while helping run a youth baseball program” from 2023 to 2024.
According to the press release, federal law enforcement tracked Gonzalez Ramirez to Mexico, Japan, and Panama before the Marshals arrested him in the Dominican Republic “within hours” after their foreign field office received a tip about his location.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s ex-husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi — whom President Donald Trump accuses of being her brother — described himself as a “gay man” in an August 2026 academic paper.
Elmi, a University of Bristol doctoral researcher, wrote that studying violence against gay individuals in Africa was “not just an academic undertaking” due to “the complexities of [his] identity” as a “gay man of the East African diaspora.”
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Despite his campaign spending $438 on software from Anthropic, which has contracted to use the SpaceXSI Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, independent Tennessee gubernatorial candidate David Hatley previously said data centers for artificial intelligence (AI), also referred to as super intelligence (SI) by the Trump administration, “terrify” him when asked specifically about the Elon Musk-owned facility.
Anthropic, which develops the Claude chatbot, announced an agreement with Musk’s SpaceXSI on May 6, with the deal providing Anthropic access to more than 300 megawatts of computing capacity at Colossus. The company said the additional computing power would benefit subscribers to its Claude Pro and Claude Max products.
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The Trump administration continues to investigate and arrest illegal immigrants accused of unlawfully registering to vote or voting in American elections.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced on Thursday that it had arrested dozens of illegal immigrants for alleged voter fraud, including many accused of actually casting a ballot illegally.
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Poland appears to be in a state of constitutional crisis on Friday after Prime Minister Donald Tusk sent police to install a loyalist to control the nation’s constitutional court, in defiance of President Karol Nawrocki and the judicial body.
Video footage showed police entering the Constitutional Tribunal on Friday evening. President Nawrocki was en route to Senegal, but has turned his plane around to address the situation.
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Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed directly solicited support for his campaign inside Islamic centers whose imams and guest speakers called America the “the House of Shaitan [Satan]” and urged Allah to “take the worst revenge upon” Zionists, according to a review of their videotaped services.
Experts said the video evidence, first uncovered by the Middle East Forum and verified by Just the News, could open the door to potential investigations into the nonprofit status of places of worship and provide a stark reminder to voters in the final days of the 2026 election about El-Sayed’s ties to other controversial activists, who include Hasan Piker.
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Republican Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird pressed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Friday about whether American tax dollars were used to support projects benefiting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Bird asked in the letter, exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, whether American tax dollars were ever funneled through the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) under the Biden administration to support institutions with ties to the CCP. Bird raised concerns about the ELI’s close relationships with Chinese government entities and demanded the EPA disclose whether any American grants were used to benefit Chinese institutions.
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Breitbart A video of a Minnesota official telling Somali residents they can show up to vote in Tuesday’s election without being registered has prompted concerns about election integrity in the North Star State. “If you’re already registered to vote, you don’t need to bring anything with you,” Minnesota Voter Outreach Director Melanie Hazelip can be seen saying on Somali TV. She continued, “You just show up to your early voting location, which is usually the county office or City Hall. Minneapolis and the bigger jurisdictions have a lot of extra places where you can go, like a lot of libraries or community centers. As long as you’re registered to vote, you don’t need to bring anything with you.” READ THE FULL STORY
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The Hill The national debt topped the entire gross domestic product (GDP) for fiscal 2026, according to new data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). From the fourth quarter of 2025 through the third quarter of this year, the country’s economic output was more than $32.2 trillion, according to the BEA’s non-seasonally adjusted statistics. As of Sept. 30, the final day of the third quarter, debt held by the public was more than $32.4 trillion, per the Treasury Department. Debt held by the public is what the federal government owes to outside entities, including banks, state and local governments and foreign nations. READ THE FULL STORY
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CBS News Pope Leo XIV has become the first pontiff to vote in a U.S. election. The Vatican confirmed Friday that the American-born pope submitted a mail-in ballot in his native Chicago ahead of November’s midterm elections, citing his longstanding belief in civic participation. The pope, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, “has exercised his right to vote as a United States citizen, whenever he was eligible to do so,” the Holy See press office said. “The Holy Father expresses his belief in the right and the duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes,” the Vatican said in a statement. READ THE FULL STORY
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Microsoft was seeking to raise at least $25 billion in its first U.S. bond sale in more than nine years Thursday as the technology giant pursues a massive artificial intelligence expansion expected to push its capital spending to approximately $170 billion in 2026.
The planned borrowing marks Microsoft’s return to the American investment-grade bond market for the first time since 2017, underscoring the costs associated with building the infrastructure powering the AI boom. The offering follows the company’s disclosure Wednesday that it expects to spend more than $50 billion on capital expenditures during the current quarter alone, raising questions about how even the nation’s most profitable technology companies will finance their growing AI ambitions.
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A Louisiana federal judge has temporarily cleared a basketball player who signed an NBA contract to return to college sports and play for LSU.
Judge Ronald Johnson issued a temporary restraining order this week to allow RJ Luis Jr., a former Big East Player of the Year, to be eligible to play and practice with LSU, according to ESPN.
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The Justice Department on Friday told a federal judge overseeing a new case against former FBI Director James Comey that it is working on obtaining a grand jury indictment based on new evidence it gathered in the case concerning alleged leads to the media.
Comey is charged with allegedly conspiring to share sensitive information with a media outlet in 2016 to correct reporting from another news outlet, CNN reported.
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Former Knox County Mayor and WWE Hall of Famer Glenn Jacobs has joined the Advisory Council of Americans for Prosperity (AFP), where he will help guide the organization’s grassroots efforts to advance limited-government policies and expand individual freedom and opportunity.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, warned that serious leadership and accountability problems are plaguing the state’s correctional system, raising questions about the management and security of Tennessee’s prisons amid a series of recent incidents involving a failed execution, an inmate escape, and an alleged cartel-linked drug operation.
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According to crime statistics released Aug. 24 from the FBI, which aggregate data from the previous year to calculate crime rates, violent crime fell 9.3 percent in 2025, the sharpest year-over-year decline since the FBI began aggregating crime data in 1936.
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As the midterms approach, the Left has gone nearly berserk in its hatred of trillionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Yet its escalating venom would have been almost inconceivable before 2022, when Musk publicly declared that he would be voting Republican.
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Federal authorities during former President Barack Obama’s administration reportedly found evidence that Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar entered into a fraudulent marriage, The New York Times reported Thursday.
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Valerie Ponzio honors her Latina and Tejano roots with the release of her new EP, Reina, which captures different sides of the artist she’s become.
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A Memphis Police Department (MPD) report obtained by The Tennessee Star reveals that the mother of State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis), the Democratic nominee for Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District, was accused of slapping an election worker during a dispute at a Memphis polling location on Wednesday.
The Daily Memphian first reported that Owens Pearson was accused of causing a “disturbance,” while The Mighty 990 shared the news in a post to social media, including redacted information from the MPD report obtained by The Star.
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Sir Patrick Stewart, the classically trained British stage actor who became a global icon as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and Professor Charles Xavier in the “X-Men” films, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86. His longtime spokesperson, Kelly Bush Novak, announced the death in a statement shared on Stewart’s X and Instagram accounts, as well as distributed to news outlets. Stewart died after “a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia,” the statement said. He was “in the loving care of his beloved wife Sunny” and “held in the warm embrace of family and friends, surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, laughter and the kind of profound emotion that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all.” The statement added: “We will forever cherish the peaceful ease and reflection on his face, an enduring reminder of his invincible grace.” In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to: Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund https://t.co/luC5CdcWDy Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources https://t.co/zvNptfyuNd Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia https://t.co/XNncEVq56X — Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) October 29, 2026 In lieu of flowers, the family requested…
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday announced 24 indictments as the result of a Homeland Security Task Force investigation, which prosecutors say determined a Sinaloa Cartel-affiliated drug trafficking operation was being directed by two men serving time inside Tennessee prisons. Their conspiracy allegedly included about 500 kilograms of methamphetamine, 60 kilograms of cocaine, and $375,000 in cash.
According to the DOJ press release, all 24 defendants are charged with the same 33-count indictment, which also accuses them of distributing or possessing fentanyl, heroin, and marijuana, while nine of the defendants face additional firearm and drug trafficking defendants.
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The Tennessee Star has obtained audio of a 911 call placed on February 16, 2020, in which a woman identifying herself as the wife of Tennessee independent gubernatorial candidate David Hatley reported that he told her he had taken pills in an attempt to end his life. Hatley did not deny being the subject of the 911 call when reached by The Star.
The woman, whose name matches public records about Hatley’s second wife, claimed that she left their child at Hatley’s home that morning, but after leaving church, was contacted by Hatley, who she said informed her that he decided to commit suicide.
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The 1976 film Rocky made Sylvester Stallone a star.
Forty years later, the story behind the story fuels one of 2026’s best movies. I Play Rocky casts Antony Ippolito as a young Stallone, a struggling actor whose best chance at a Hollywood career comes courtesy of his pen.
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The FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) will return to the United States for the first time since 1988, with Tennessee set to host the international motorsports event in August 2027.
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) has increased the reward for information leading to the arrest of escaped convicted murderer Jacob Allen Morley to $15,000.
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The Muslim Sisterhood Society, a Muslim women’s organization whose stated mission is to strengthen connections to Islam, is among the groups partnering with the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) and other community organizations to promote voter outreach ahead of Tennessee’s November 3 general election.
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The Pentagon informed Congress this week that the projected cost of the Iran War to American taxpayers has increased to approximately $47.1 billion, up from $43.6 billion in September.
The price tag, which comes from the United States Central Command, is the latest estimate as of Oct. 16.
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Midterms are often used to understand the mood of the country, and this one is no different. As we barrel toward Election Day, many commenters say that this year’s midterms are a referendum on the economy—and affordability is certainly top of mind for households across the nation.
Americans don’t experience the economy in spreadsheets or monthly reports. They experience it at the grocery store, at the gas pump, and when they calculate whether they can afford a mortgage payment at today’s interest rates and home prices.
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Republican gubernatorial nominee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said she is the only conservative choice in Tennessee’s November 3 gubernatorial election, warning that voters who support her opponents would back higher taxes, fewer freedoms, and the end of key Republican-backed policies.
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Tennesseans deserve access to reliable, safe, and affordable treatment options. After more than four years since the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law under the Biden administration, it’s time for lawmakers to admit that the results are a disaster for the healthcare industry and patient access – along with long-term medical innovation and research and development.
Four years ago the IRA gave the federal government unprecedented control to set prices for certain Medicare prescriptions. Now it’s back for more. Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a rule to expand that control.
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Semi-truck drivers with vehicular manslaughter charges in the state of California remained able to operate big rigs on the road only to kill again, according to an investigation from CalMatters.
The outlet examined several cases involving commercially-licensed drivers who retained their licenses despite causing fatal collisions on the road. Not only did these drivers stay behind the wheel but often caused additional deaths with their massive vehicles, the seventh and latest investigation in CalMatters’ “License to Kill” series published on Oct. 19 found.
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An investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) – Memphis led to a guilty plea by a Guatemalan national who admitted to conspiring to smuggle 450 kilograms of cocaine, or about 992 pounds, the DEA and Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday.
According to court documents cited by the DOJ, Donelfert Monterroso Vasquez coordinated “multi-hundred-kilogram” shipments of cocaine through Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico, in order to “generate the highest profit” by selling the illicit substance in the United States.
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CBS News Attorney General Todd Blanche has long maintained that the so-called Epstein files, even those kept from the public, contain no secret information related to national security. When the document releases began last winter, Blanche noted that the Epstein Files Transparency Act authorized withholding information in the interest of national security or foreign policy, but said, “no files are being withheld or redacted on that basis.” “There’s not some tranche of super-secret documents about Jeffrey Epstein that we’re withholding, we’re actually not withholding anything based upon [national defense information],” said Blanche, who was deputy attorney general at the time. READ THE FULL STORY
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Breitbart The Canadian government on Tuesday introduced a bill that would allow Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), Canada’s preferred euphemism for euthanasia, to be conducted on people who have lost the mental capacity to give informed consent for the procedure. According to Justice Minister Sean Fraser, the idea is to give Canadians a way to authorize euthanasia in advance, when they are of sound mind, “so their wishes could be respected if they are diagnosed with an incurable illness that could take away the ability to make this decision.” Fraser promised there would be “rigorous safeguards to protect people and ensure the decision remains voluntary and free from external pressure.” He said, for example, that MAID would not be conducted automatically based on pre-authorization, but only for patients who are undergoing “intolerable suffering” and have lost the mental capacity to ask doctors to end their lives. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Hill Conservative influencer James O’Keefe was charged Wednesday in Minnesota after he and fellow right-leaning commentator Cam Higby misrepresented themselves using registered voters’ names at polling places during the state’s primary election in August. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced during a press conference the two men are facing felony unlawful voting and identity fraud charges. “Elections are the bedrock of democracy and their protection is one of our highest priorities,” Moriarty said in a statement. “Individuals engaging in unlawful conduct related to our elections will be held accountable.” READ THE FULL STORY
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The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday at its final monetary policy meeting before the midterm elections, despite mounting inflationary pressures that have pushed consumer and wholesale prices sharply higher since September.
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) maintained its benchmark federal funds rate at a target range of 3.75% to 4.00%, pausing after raising rates by 25 basis points in September for the first time since 2023. The decision came less than a week before voters head to the polls, with inflation and the cost of living ranking among Americans’ top concerns ahead of the elections.
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The Trump administration wants to loosen Biden-era methane rules that small oil producers say make many older wells too costly to keep running.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to ease requirements on low-producing wells and scrap a program that relies on outside groups to flag large methane leaks, according to agency materials. The agency estimates its plan would save $45 billion.
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The campaign of Alaska Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltola helped recruit Dan J. Sullivan to enter the race to draw votes away from her Republican opponent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
According to the Times, Elisa Rios, Peltola’s former campaign manager and longtime aide who was fired in August, said Peltola was “definitely aware” of the plot to recruit Dan J. Sullivan, who is running as an independent in the closely watched race that could help decide control of the Senate.
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An illegal immigrant from Mexico pleaded guilty Monday to making up her story about a kidnapping, where she claimed bounty hunters took her captive at gunpoint outside a fast-food restaurant and tried to force her to self-deport.
Yuriana Julia Palaez Calderón, 43, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to impede, obstruct, impair, and defeat the lawful function of Homeland Security Investigations within federal jurisdiction, according to a Department of Justice press release.
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A House investigative subcommittee is demanding a wide swath of records from the Smithsonian Institution after uncovering a controversial American history museum display that suggested the U.S. military had engaged in “domicide,” the intentional destruction of civilian homes to cause human suffering.
The request came Thursday in a letter from House Oversight Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee Chairman Tim Burchett, R- Tenn., and Rep. Brian Jack, R-Ga., and is the latest effort by the GOP-led Congress to stamp out what it sees as woke and inaccurate presentations of American history at the nation’s premier network of museums.
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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced Wednesday that the state will pursue hosting the proposed United States Space Academy, identifying a site in Coffee County as its preferred location for the federal institution intended to train the next generation of American space professionals.
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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a new hearing on President Donald Trump’s plan to convert a beloved public golf course into a world-class venue after he appeared to deny her stop-work order and say the project will start as scheduled.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes ordered the new hearing after granting a preliminary injunction Monday requested by a preservationist group and group of local D.C. golfers asking her to stop the Trump administration from cutting down trees at the park as part of the redevelopment project.
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U.S. Rep. Matt Van Epps (R-TN-07) defended his congressional work ethic and highlighted his perfect voting record during an exclusive sit-down interview Tuesday with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy, as the freshman congressman campaigns for reelection ahead of the November 3 general election.
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The NCAA chose Nashville as a finalist to host a future Division I men’s basketball Final Four.
Nashville, along with six other cities, is being considered to host the Final Four between 2032 and 2036. The finalists include Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, New Orleans, and Kansas City, Kansas.
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