Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti’s office is warning Tennesseans impacted by Hurricane Helene to be wary of scammers and knowledgeable of price gouging in the aftermath of the storm.
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Ohio launched the first-ever statewide human trafficking hotline on Monday, marking the first statewide hotline to exist in the U.S. aside from the national human trafficking hotline.
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Wyatt Rampy, the Republican nominee for Tennessee State Senate District 20, said he is working hard to talk to as many people as he can in Davidson County to get out the vote and defeat incumbent State Senator Heidi Campbell (D-Nashville) in the November 5 general election.
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Tennessee U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) announced Monday that he is suspending all campaign fundraising activities and instead urging his supporters to direct their monetary donations to relief efforts benefiting those impacted by Hurricane Helene.
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Jeff Clark, former acting assistant attorney general during the Trump administration, said Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be a “liar” and is “misrepresenting her record” as a comprehensive search into her background as a prosecutor has failed to produce evidence that she ever led the prosecution of a single case at the local or state level.
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Tennessee leaders from the state and federal level surveyed storm damage and met with local officials in areas of East Tennessee devastated by Tropical Storm Helene this weekend.
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Director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies Jessica Vaughan said immigrants that are arriving in the U.S. are not being assimilated to American culture as they once were, making it difficult for migrants, especially children, to grow up and embrace the American way.
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Two Tennessee cities have been ranked among the top 25 cities in the U.S. for having the worst drivers, according to ConsumerAffairs’ 2024 study analyzing driving records in the country.
The ConsumerAffairs Research Team took into consideration five crash factors to create a “crash score” for U.S. cities and states – the total car crash fatalities per 100,000 people; the number of fatal crashes due to bad driving per 100,000 people; the number of fatalities due to positive blood alcohol content per 100,000 people; the number of fatalities due to speeding per 100,000 people; and the number of fatalities involving driving under the influence per 100,000 people.
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National political reporter Neil W. McCabe said after two assassination attempts of former President Donald Trump, it appears as if the personnel assigned to protect the former president “don’t seem all that motivated” to wholeheartedly carry out the job.
McCabe said earlier this year, he spoke with “a few people in Trump world” who said that the former president was “aware” at the time “that he is going to be targeted with an assassination attempt.”
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Jack Windsor, president and editor-in-chief at The Ohio Press Network, said the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policy is allowing American companies to turn to hiring migrant workers for cheaper labor over hiring Americans or moving production out of the U.S., which is how cities like Springfield, Ohio has led to being flooded with Haitians.
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Tennessee U.S. Representative Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-01) said she still has faith in U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA-04) after House Republicans failed to band together and pass a continuing resolution tied to the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act and instead opted for a continuing resolution without the SAVE Act.
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Icelandair announced Wednesday that it will begin offering a new seasonal nonstop flight route from Nashville International Airport (BNA) to Reykjavík, Iceland next year.
Flights from Nashville to Reykjavík will commence four days a week – Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday – beginning May 16, 2025 through October.
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Oshrit Sabag, a survivor of the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel, detailed the first bone-chilling minutes of the attack, which saw her and her children race to their safe room in their home after hearing warning sirens and explosions outside during an exclusive sit-down interview with The Michael Patrick Leahy Show on Thursday.
Sabag, who was born in Israel in a city outside Tel Aviv, moved to Kibbutz Nahal Oz – a small Israeli community located approximately 700 meters from Israel’s border with the Gaza strip – 23 years ago.
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Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, described the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) release of a hand-written letter by Ryan Routh, the man accused of attempting to assassinate former President Trump on September 15, as “deeply concerning.”
In the letter, which the DOJ publicly released on Monday, Routh confirmed his intent to assassinate the former president and offered a $150,000 bounty to whoever could “complete the job.”
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Tennessee U.S. Representatives Tim Burchett (R-TN-02), Andy Ogles (R-TN-05), and John Rose (R-TN-06) were the only Republicans in the state congressional delegation to vote against a continuing resolution which did not include the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act on Wednesday.
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Tom Zawistowski, president of the We the People Convention, said he believes Bernie Moreno, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Ohio, will emerge victorious over incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) in the November 5 general election.
While Brown has consistently led Moreno in previous polling taken over the last several months, a poll released Wednesday by the Napolitan News Service shows Moreno leading Brown by two percentage points (48 percent – 46 percent) among likely voters.
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti sent a letter to Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk on Wednesday announcing that he would not pursue charges against the 20th Judicial District Attorney General’s Office following a 19-month investigation into wiretapping concerns.
On February 10, 2023, Skrmetti launched a criminal probe into Funk’s office after revelations of listening devices being installed around the district attorney’s offices in downtown Nashville, as previously reported by The Tennessee Star.
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EJ Haust, a digital marketing expert and former journalist who lived in Minnesota for 12 years before relocating to Tennessee, thinks the vice presidential debate next week between U.S. Senator JD Vance (R-OH) and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will not so much persuade voters to vote differently, but energize the bases of each campaign going into the November 5 general election.
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Jeff Hutt, a spokesman for the new Make America Healthy Again super political action committee (PAC) and former national field director for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign, detailed how the new PAC is working with donors in the battleground states to help elect former President Donald Trump in the November 5 general election.
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti applauded the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision to reject a full circuit review of the Friends of George’s, Inc. v. Steven Mulroy case which challenges Tennessee’s Adult Entertainment Act.
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Tennessee political commentator and documentary filmmaker Robby Starbuck said Attorney General Merrick Garland should be “removed immediately” following the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) release of a hand-written letter by Ryan Routh, the man accused of attempting to assassinate former President Trump on September 15.
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Roger Simon, the co-founder of PJ Media and author of the newly-launched Substack “American Refugees,” said 100 percent of Jewish voters should support former President Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election.
Simon called Trump “the best president for Israel ever.”
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Sheila Matthews, co-founder of the national non-profit parent organization AbleChild, said the mental health industry needs to be “booted” out of out of the educational system, explaining how the pharmaceutical industry has infiltrated schools across the nation and is actively working, on taxpayer funds, to “market” mental health and treatments for diagnoses to children.
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Former President Donald Trump has come out against a proposed constitutional amendment in Ohio that would change the state’s redistricting process set to be presented to voters on the November 5 general election ballot as Issue 1.
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Matt Boyle, the national political editor at Breitbart News, said the Democratic mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan endorsing former President Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election is a “unifying message” that may lead to Trump’s victory in the state over Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Alfredo Ortiz, CEO of the Job Creators Network, said the new filing requirement for certain small businesses created under the Corporate Transparency Act is “ridiculous” and urged Americans to push back on the measure.
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Rachel Alexander, lead reporter at The Arizona Sun Times, said Arizona U.S. Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-03), who is running for the U.S. Senate, “cannot hide” from his record supporting open borders policies while he has served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted to approve a new name for this week’s highest peak in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will now be known as Kuwohi, the Cherokee name for the mountain, which translates to “mulberry place.”
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Anthony Constantino, co-founder of Sticker Mule, joined Friday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show to discuss the creation of his online company, which sells custom merchandise, as well as his recent decision to launch a political action committee (PAC) supporting former President Donald Trump.
Constantino said he founded Sticker Mule in 2010 in the small town of Amsterdam, New York with an initial $100,000 investment from his co-founder.
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti provided an update on prominent lawsuits his office has filed under his leadership and discussed his goals for the remainder of his eight-year term during an exclusive sit-down interview this week on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Skrmetti, who began serving as attorney general in 2022 after being appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court, said, “I’ve been blessed with a great team and there is a lot of work for us to do.”
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Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, detailed how the Immigration Act of 1990, signed into law by then-President George H. W. Bush, is the gateway legislation that led to the influx of migrants overtaking U.S. communities under Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
The Immigration Act of 1990 created TPS, which creates a temporary immigration status for nationals of countries facing armed conflict, environmental disasters, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, is raising multiple questions about Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspected assassin in the second foiled attempt to end former President Donald Trump’s life.
On Sunday, Secret Service spotted a barrel of a gun poking out of the shrubbery at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, where the former president was playing that afternoon.
After shooting in the direction of the spotted gun, Routh is reported to have fled the scene in a stolen vehicle.
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Aaron Gulbransen, executive director of the Tennessee Faith and Freedom Coalition, and Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, said Republicans have an opportunity to gain a seat in the Tennessee State Senate by flipping District 20, currently represented by Democrat Heidi Campbell (D-Nashville).
Campbell, who was elected to the Senate in 2020, is up for reelection this year and will face Republican nominee Wyatt Rampy in the November 5 general election.
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A new political action committee (PAC) in support of former President Donald Trump was launched this week by the CEO of Sticker Mule, Anthony Constantino, in an effort to “stop anti-Trump hate.”
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The Tennessee Titans and WeGo Public Transit have partnered to offer free bus service on days the NFL team plays at Nissan Stadium in Nashville.
“We’re excited to expand and enhance our collaboration with WeGo into the full Titans season,” Burke Nihill, Titans president and CEO, said in a statement. “Free bus service is an incredible addition to the many ways to get to Titans home games.”
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Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will hold a town hall event in Springfield, Ohio, to “have open and honest dialogue” as the city struggles with the effects of mass migration.
Ramaswamy said the town hall event will be held on Thursday evening in the Edward Wren Room at the Bushnell Events Center and is open to hearing “diverse voices from the local community, including Haitian immigrants.”
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Tennessee U.S. Representative Mark Green (R-TN-07), who is chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, delivered opening remarks Wednesday during the committee’s hearing to examine how “Biden-Harris’ open borders policies have undermined our safety and security.”
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Rachel Alexander, the lead reporter at The Arizona Sun Times, detailed how the disbarment case of former President Donald Trump’s former attorney and constitutional legal scholar, John Eastman, sets a bleak tone for cases challenging election results nationwide.
On Wednesday, Alexander published a report on Eastman’s filing of an opening brief with the California State Bar Court last week appealing his disbarment for assisting Trump with legal representation regarding the 2020 election illegalities.
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Tennessee U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) introduced a bill this week to lower housing costs for U.S. veterans by reducing U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) home loan fees.
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Matt Boyle, the national political editor at Breitbart News, explained how former President Donald Trump has an opportunity to infiltrate Vice President Kamala Harris’ strategy to win the election, which is by wooing women voters while at the same time keeping men voters “sullen, but not mutinous.”
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Jack Windsor, president and editor-in-chief at The Ohio Press Network, said the mainstream media outlets are too “distracted” by reports of Haitian migrants in the town of Springfield, Ohio, that are allegedly stealing residents’ pets for consumption that the overarching issue of nearly an entire U.S. town being “invaded” by Haitians is being ignored.
“Springfield has been invaded by Haitian immigrants, and right now, mainstream outlets are really distracted by this idea that the Haitians may be eating cats or geese. But, it’s about more than eating cats and geese. It’s really about the cultural divide and the fast and explosive migrant growth in Springfield,” Windsor explained on Wednesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
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An 11-year-old male student at Vine Middle Magnet School was arrested and charged on Tuesday evening for the threat of mass violence after he allegedly “made a school shooting threat,” according to the Knoxville Police Department (KPD).
KPD said one of the department’s school resource officers responded to Vine Middle Magnet School to investigate a report that the student had made a school shooting threat.
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Former U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Dan Foote said the United States’ latest efforts to “re-establish security” and “build security conditions conducive to holding free and fair elections” in Haiti is part of the “same tired playbook that has failed” to bring order and reform to the Caribbean country for decades.
On September 5, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with interim Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where the pair discussed a peacekeeping mission in the Caribbean country authorized by the UN Security Council in an effort to reform the country and reclaim it from violent gangs.
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Mary L. Wagner was officially sworn in as a Tennessee Supreme Court justice by Governor Bill Lee this week.
Lee appointed Wagner to serve on the Tennessee Supreme Court earlier this year after Justice Roger A. Page announced his retirement from the bench.
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Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is urging his supporters nationwide to vote in the November 5 general election for Republican nominee former President Donald Trump.
Kennedy, who suspended his presidential campaign on August 23 and subsequently backed Trump, initially encouraged his supporters in reliably Democratic or Republican states to vote for him in the general election.
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EJ Haust, a digital marketing expert and former journalist who lived in Minnesota for 12 years before relocating to Tennessee four years ago, discussed what she expects from tonight’s presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris which will begin at 9:00 EST.
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The entire Tennessee congressional delegation sponsored a resolution this week celebrating the Scarboro 85 students from the Scarboro neighborhood in Oak Ridge. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, these students made history by entering all-white classrooms.
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that separating children in public schools based on race was unconstitutional.
In a second opinion issued on May 31, 1955, the Supreme Court decreed that schools should be desegregated “with all deliberate speed.”
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Tom Pappert, reporter at The Georgia Star News, detailed the unfortunate series of events that reportedly transpired just minutes before 14-year-old Colt Gray allegedly killed four and injured nine more at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia last week, which, if acted upon, may have prevented the shooting.
Gray, who surrendered to law enforcement Wednesday after allegedly carrying out the shooting, was on the FBI’s radar last year, as the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office interviewed him and his father in May 2023 after the FBI received “several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting.”
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Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said there is no evidence that the “superhighway” immigration route via the Darien Gap has been closed despite an agreement between the U.S. and new Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino.
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Jeff Hutt, a spokesman for the new Make America Healthy Again super political action committee (PAC) and former national field director for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign, said the new PAC is working to help former President Donald Trump get elected by engaging former Kennedy volunteers and supporters to get out the vote for Trump.
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