Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed Vice President JD Vance’s pledge to combat fraud in taxpayer-funded government programs, joining 25 other governors in supporting the Trump administration’s nationwide effort to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse.
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New data appear to show that President Donald Trump’s border policies are producing a dual return that is now measurable in both lower crime and lower projected taxpayer costs, as a Council of Economic Advisers analysis warns that Democratic proposals for mass amnesty would reverse those gains and impose $49 trillion in new burdens over a decade.
The report titled, “The Real Cost of Socialism in America,” examines the policy touted by the Democratic Socialists of America, and details the costs for American taxpayers associated with the far-left platform.
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The Biden administration’s “Censorship-Industrial Complex” had grander ambitions than controlling just what Americans said about COVID-19, new documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show.
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy — who served as the “nation’s doctor” shoulder-to-shoulder with Anthony Fauci during the COVID pandemic — sought to apply “maximum pressure” on social media companies like Meta and to broadly manage “health and medical misinformation” across American society.
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More than one in five Americans financing new cars are now committing to monthly payments of at least $1,000, a record as buyers take on larger loans to afford increasingly expensive vehicles, according to an October report from automotive research firm Edmunds.
The growing financial burden comes as Americans owe more than $1.7 trillion on their vehicles, exceeding the nation’s outstanding credit card debt. Meanwhile, longer repayment periods and mounting delinquencies among higher-risk borrowers are raising concerns about whether consumers can continue managing their auto debt.
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The Hill President Trump said Monday he has not yet agreed to a trilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, but he said he is open to it. “I would do it,” Trump told reporters on the White House’s South Lawn before heading to a midterm rally in Kansas. “Not so much on Ukraine because Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine, they haven’t been doing much, and the same with China,” the president continued. “We would have it to talk about weapons and denuclearization.” READ THE FULL STORY
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New York Post President Trump predicted Monday that Paris would become “a Muslim city very soon” as he accused immigrants of causing a shocking wave of rioting and looting. Trump urged French President Emmanuel Macron to reduce migration into the country and “take those bad people out” — in apparent reference to his own mass-deportation campaign in the US. “I told him a long time ago, ‘You’re making a big mistake in France. You’re letting everybody from the world come in. The whole world was coming in,’” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for a campaign rally in Kansas. READ THE FULL STORY
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NewsNation Federal agents collected garbage in hopes of obtaining the DNA of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and her family before this week’s raid at the Minnesota Democrat’s home in Washington, D.C., sources tell NewsNation. Investigators historically have used secretive “dumpster diving” to obtain DNA or other evidence when search warrants were not possible or would have tipped off investigatory targets. It is legal for law enforcement to collect trash that has been discarded for pickup and comb through it for genetic material. Multiple sources familiar with the probe tell NewsNation that potential DNA evidence is critical to the investigation into Omar. They say the case is broader than the public may assume based on longstanding accusations surrounding her immigration history and marital status. READ THE FULL STORY
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First lady Melania Trump on Monday appeared with President Donald Trump to unveil the White House’s women’s health initiatives, which creates health division for them within the National Institutes of Health.
“This is a transformative moment for women in America,” she said at the Rose Garden signing. “The ‘Advancing Women’s Health to Improve Outcomes in All Phases of Life’ Executive Order establishes a new standard for women’s health in America.”
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, will again face the potential for the death penalty after the Supreme Court denied his appeal Monday.
Justices rejected Mohammed’s bid to reinstate a plea agreement that allowed him and two co-defendants who helped plot the attack to avoid the death penalty. Mohammed and the co-defendants are scheduled to stand trial before a military court beginning June 5, 2028.
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SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said on Monday he’ll give every child a share in the company in 2027.
“This will be the first of many,” Musk said in the post on X.
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U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth visited the University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville on Saturday to meet with Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadets and administer the enlistment oath to new recruits before the Volunteers defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide at Neyland Stadium.
Hegseth’s visit was part of his “Send Me Tour,” a military outreach and recruitment initiative launched in September.
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The NFL still plans to hold a football game in France despite civil unrest.
This upcoming Sunday, the New Orleans Saints and Pittsburgh Steelers are scheduled to play in Paris at the Stade de France, which seats an estimated 80,000. The game will mark the NFL’s first game in France.
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The Department of Justice on Monday announced a string of arrests related to alleged voter fraud in California.
“This causes real damage to real elections and real damage to American citizens,” a DOJ official said in a press conference. The DOJ also announced that it was bringing charges against 28 noncitizens illegally registered to vote, including some who did cast votes.
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The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday granted a request by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to vacate a lower court decision that threatened construction of a $2.5 billion natural gas power plant in August, determining the publicly owned utility was likely to prevail in its appeal.
Proposed in 2024 to replace the TVA’s coal plant in Kingston, U.S. District Judge Curtis Collier, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton, ruled in August that TVA failed to consider a legally sufficient number of alternatives, and determined TVA improperly committed to natural gas by agreeing to build a pipeline for the new facility.
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With more than 13,500 arrests reported since it deployed last year, U.S. Attorney Todd Blanche said the Memphis Safe Task Force (MSTF) would remain in the city, calling it an investment by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and other federal agencies that compose the task force.
Blanche made the comments at a Friday roundtable event held by the DOJ to mark the one-year anniversary of the task force, which President Donald Trump authorized in September 2025 and which was fully deployed by October 2025.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said independent gubernatorial candidate David Hatley has not explained why he omitted a Virginia misdemeanor conviction from his autobiography, Tested in Tennessee, despite detailing a separate federal fraud conviction in the book.
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American education has never lacked new ideas. Each generation brings reforms, teaching methods, or programs that promise better results. Some help. Others waste time, money, and effort.
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