NASA has a new interim leader with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy the latest Trump cabinet member to wear multiple hats.
Trump made the announcement Wednesday evening through a social media post, commending Duffy’s leadership of the Department of Transportation.
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Nearly 46 million acres of forest and farmland are held by foreign investors, including by countries hostile to America, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The Foreign Farm Land Purchases map, unveiled to the public Thursday, highlights the increase of “foreign persons” buying up land across all 50 states and Puerto Rico, which many lawmakers have deemed a national security risk.
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The death toll from the catastrophic Texas Hill Country flood has reached 119 with at least 173 confirmed missing in Kerr and Travis counties.
As of Wednesday, 94 deceased had been recovered in Kerr County, including 59 adults and 36 children, the sheriff’s office said. Identification is pending for 14 adults and 13 children. Five Camp Mystic campers and one counselor remain unaccounted for.
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Tennessee sixth graders improved five percentage points in math on statewide assessment scores and overall scores were up, the Department of Education said.
The results of the 2024-25 Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program show that students bested their scores from last year by almost four percentage points in English I, English II and social studies, according to the results. The program includes end-of-course exams from fall of 2024 and spring of 2025.
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The Trump administration filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the California Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation for allowing transgender athletes to compete in female sports.
The lawsuit, filed by the Department of Justice, claims the CDE and CIF have “have engaged in illegal sex discrimination” against female athletes by letting males compete in school sports against them.
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A Coca-Cola driver in Houston, Pennsylvania says leaders of his local Teamsters union threatened to fire him if he didn’t join the organization and pay dues.
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Arizona members of Congress are calling on the federal government to release $118 million in education funding.
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At least 99 people were killed in Kerry County, Texas, during historic Independence Day flooding.
As of Monday morning, officials have identified 75 deceased in Kerr County, including 48 adults and 27 children. Fifteen adults and 9 children are pending identification.
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Fireworks, parades, and military flyovers will happen across the country in celebration of 249 years since America declared its independence from England through the Declaration of Independence.
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Tennessee teachers looking for the $2,000 bonus that is part of the bill that created Education Freedom Scholarships could see it in the next two months.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to take up two cases in its next term on laws banning transgender women from participating in girls and women’s sports, based on biological sex.
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The Washington State Office of the Attorney General has launched a taxpayer-funded hotline in three counties that would allow residents, including foreign nationals and illegal immigrants, to report U.S. citizens for engaging in legally protected speech and activity, in addition to hate crimes.
The launch of the hate crimes and bias incidents hotline in King, Clark and Spokane counties occurred almost exactly a year after The Center Square reported that Oregon’s hate crime and bias incident hotline mostly tracks legal activities.
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Progress on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” ground to a halt Wednesday in the U.S. House as Republican leaders continue to haggle with fiscal hardliners behind the scenes.
As of early Wednesday evening, four Republicans continue to refrain from voting on an amendment that would allow House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to delay or reschedule the vote on the bill’s final passage if needed.
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From China to Houston to cities and military bases in Oregon, Washington and California, federal agents tracked down and arrested two alleged Chinese spies for acting as agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) targeting U.S. Navy personnel.
Last week, the culmination of a multi-agency investigation resulted in law enforcement officers disrupting a “clandestine PRC Ministry of State Security Intelligence network operating in the United States,” the Department of Justice said.
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The Trump administration has released more than 13,000 inadmissible noncitizens into the U.S. in the first four full months of his administration who arrived at ports of entries (POEs) nationwide, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data evaluated by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonpartisan organization founded at Syracuse University.
The data includes case-by-case CBP Office of Field Operations data reported at POEs nationwide in records TRAC obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests.
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Bryan Kohberger, the man accused in the Nov. 2022 stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, is due in Latah County Court in Idaho on Wednesday after accepting a deal to plead guilty and avoid the death penalty.
Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were killed at an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13, 2022. All four were repeatedly stabbed in their beds in the early morning hours.
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The U.S. Department of Justice Monday filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles’ sanctuary city policies, citing the supremacy clause regarding the preemption of federal statutes over state and local law in the U.S. Constitution. According to Los Angeles City Council members, one in 10 Los Angeles residents may be an illegal immigrant.
The city of Los Angeles passed a new sanctuary city ordinance after President Donald Trump’s election, barring city resources from being used for immigration enforcement or cooperating with federal authorities engaged in immigration enforcement.
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The Trump administration threatened to cut all federal funding from Harvard Monday after an investigation found the school failed to protect Jewish students from harassment.
A letter signed by Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights, to Harvard’s President, Alan Garber, said that the university is in “violent violation” of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
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Following pushback from a growing coalition of politicians and public interest groups, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, proposed an amended version of his plan to sell off public lands.
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Attacks against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are now up by 500%, the Department of Homeland Security says, up from 431% earlier in the month.
As attacks increase, assailants continue to be arrested, including members of the terrorist organization Tren de Aragua, a Mexican national who dragged an ICE officer 50 yards by car, and a Salvadoran national charged with attempted murder of a U.S. attorney.
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Sales of existing-homes in the U.S. rose 0.8% in May from the prior month, the National Association of Realtors said Monday.
Sales grew in the Northeast, Midwest and South, but retreated in the West. Year-over-year, sales progressed in the Northeast and Midwest but contracted in the South and West.
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Several major health insurance companies are vowing to make changes to simplify their prior authorization process and improve Americans’ access to timely health care.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Medicare & Medicaid Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced the changes during a news conference Monday afternoon.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday it halted all new clinical trials that entail sending Americans’ genetic data to international labs.
Based on “mounting evidence,” the FDA said, some U.S. companies did not inform trial participants that their living cells were sent to foreign labs, including in China, for genetic engineering before reinfusion into patients.
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Oral arguments were heard Thursday in a lawsuit for a case involving two Michigan brothers wearing “Let’s Go Brandon” apparel to school.
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Paid agitators and rioters, including those with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), attacked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers tasked with apprehending violent criminals off of the streets.
Over the weekend, ICE agents arrested 118 illegal foreign nationals, including five gang members and those with criminal histories of “alien smuggling,” assault, cruelty to children, domestic violence, drug trafficking and robbery.
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The U.S. House has passed legislation barring all noncitizens, except permanent residents from acquiring Small Business Administration loans.
The American Entrepreneurs First Act of 2025, which passed in a 217-190 vote Friday, would require the SBA to verify the citizenship status and age of every applicant, codifying reforms recently implemented by the agency.
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by Bethany Blankley Citibank this week dropped a policy it implemented in 2018 restricting the Second Amendment rights of clients. While claiming it “has always been fully committed to treating all current and potential clients fairly,” it said concerns were raised “regarding ‘fair access’ to banking services.” Six years later, under a second Trump administration, it’s now changing its policy to comply with “regulatory developments, recent Executive Orders and federal legislation that impact this area,” it announced. This includes updating its employee Code of Conduct and customer-facing Global Financial Access Policy “to clearly state that we do not discriminate on the basis of political affiliation in the same way we are clear that we do not discriminate on the basis of other traits such as race and religion. This will codify what we’ve long practiced, and we will continue to conduct trainings to ensure compliance.” It also said it will “no longer have a specific policy as it relates to firearms. Our U.S. Commercial Firearms Policy was implemented in 2018 and pertained to sale of firearms by our retail clients and partners. The policy was intended to promote the adoption of best sales practices as prudent risk management and…
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The state senate’s proposed Ohio budget was back in front of the Finance Committee on Wednesday for the first time since Republican leadership called its two-year plan bold.
The plan, which includes the final phase-in of a flat income tax rate, the elimination of property tax levy options and a ban on certain school districts from asking for new taxes, is getting both applause and criticism.
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U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, wants the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider any efforts to eliminate the Energy Star program.
The Trump administration has proposed ending the program, but in a letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Gallego wrote Energy Star saves Arizonans money by providing them independent assurance that products from appliances to homes are energy-efficient investments.
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The Beacon Center and the city of Nashville have settled a class action lawsuit over stormwater capacity fees.
Peyton Pratt sued the city after he was charged more than $6,000 in fees when he expanded his residence, according to a release from the Beacon Center, which represented Pratt.
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The American Dream is back in reach and our nation is back on the path to prosperity, security, and sanity, thanks to the actions of the House of Representatives last week. With the House’s passage of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” we’ve shown that it is possible to return common sense to our government, protect taxpayers, secure our borders, and chart a course for national Golden Age – all in one package.
It’s a declaration that the American people – not bureaucrats, radical liberal activists, or unelected judges – are in charge again. This bill delivers on the promises that President Trump and Republicans made to voters last fall.
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The FBI has arrested Yunqing Jian, a graduate student from China at the University of Michigan, on charges of conspiracy, smuggling goods into the United States, false statements, and visa fraud.
Jian and her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, are accused of smuggling a “dangerous biological pathogen” called fusarium graminearum into the United States to study.
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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would not have supported the budget bill if she knew it had a clause that banned states from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years.
Greene, R-Ga., said in a social media post she did not know the “big beautiful bill” contained the clause when she cast her vote.
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Secretary of State Frank LaRose is sending evidence of voter fraud to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and attorneys general in seven other states for prosecution.
LaRose announced Tuesday he found potential fraud in noncitizen registration and double votes in Ohio, Virginia, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, South Carolina and Washington, D.C.
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The family members of the suspect in Sunday’s Colorado attack have been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and could be deported as early as Tuesday evening, according to the White House.
The wife and five children of Mohamed Soliman, the suspect in the Boulder attack linked to antisemitism and deemed a terrorist by authorities, are in “ICE custody for expedited removal.”
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President Donald Trump took to social media to urge congressional Republicans to “work as fast as they can” to send the massive budget reconciliation bill to his desk by July 4.
This four-week deadline is a tall order, especially because the Republicans are facing significant internal divisions over the contents of the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill.’
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President Donald Trump accused China on Friday of breaking a short-term trade deal with the U.S.
Earlier this month, the two countries reached a 90-day deal to reduce high tariffs on trade between the world’s two largest economies. The global superpowers agreed to slash tariffs that had been so high that nearly all trade between the two nations stopped. The U.S. reduced its tariffs on China from 145% to 30% while the two nations continued to talk. China cut its levies on U.S. imports from 125% to 10%.
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The U.S. Department of Justice filed an emergency motion Thursday asking an appeals court to pause a lower court ruling that ordered President Donald Trump to unwind most of his tariffs within 10 days.
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The Tennessee Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury said an organization that provides services to children and families in four counties “failed to retain supporting documentation justifying at least $250,453.33 in questionable credit card charges.”
The Davis House Child Advocacy Center received about 33% of its $5.3 million in funding from government sources during the investigative period, according to the report released Thursday. The audit examined records from January 2020 to August 2024 and looked at two credit cards.
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An ongoing effort to reign in property taxes in Ohio continues to move forward.
A bill that moves some power away from the state to local county auditors could receive a floor vote as soon as Wednesday.
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Tennessee has two funding sources for education, one of which is growing while the other is seeing a drop in revenues.
The growth of sports betting and the decline in Tennessee Lottery revenues became a hot topic of discussion for lawmakers during a special session of the General Assembly in January.
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Federal and state lawmakers in Arizona are responding to news that the state could recoup money spent by the Doug Ducey administration to turn shipping containers into a border wall.
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The U.S. Department of Education has opened a civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Public Schools following a referral from Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, alleging the district’s 2020 admissions changes at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology may have violated federal anti-discrimination laws.
The announcement came from the department’s Office for Civil Rights and was echoed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin during a Fox News interview, where he said Fairfax County “engineered an illegal admissions system” and “purposefully discriminated against Asian American students.”
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The Center for Union Facts, an anti-union advocacy group, ran a full-page ad imploring the Los Angeles City Council to not adopt a $30 hotel minimum wage, citing state data showing the city lost 11,000 hotel jobs in 2024 despite a growing population.
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Mercedes-Benz is growing its North American corporate headquarters in Sandy Springs, a move that would bring up to 500 new jobs to metro Atlanta, state officials said Thursday.
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With the final piece of House Bill 6 now gone, Democrat lawmakers in Ohio now want to close campaign spending loopholes that led to the largest bribery scandal in state history.
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Virginia Democratic Congressman Gerry Connolly has died following a battle with cancer.
He was 75.
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Members of Congress and others gathered in the White House Rose Garden Monday for President Donald Trump’s ceremonial signing of first-of-its-kind federal legislation to criminalize “revenge porn,” or the sharing of nonconsensual explicit images online.
First Lady Melania Trump actively advocated for the bill – which received near-unanimous support in Congress – as part of her Be Best initiative, a public awareness campaign focusing on the well-being, online safety and opioid abuse prevention for children. Trump largely credited her with the legislation’s passage.
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Because the U.S., working with Mexico, has practically shut down illegal border crossings at the southwest border, fentanyl trafficking and known or suspected terrorists are primarily coming through the northern border from Canada, FBI Director Kash Patel says.
The Trump administration in its first few months “has sealed the border,” Patel said, referring to the southwest border, in an interview with Fox News Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “So where’s all the fentanyl coming from still? Where’s the trafficking coming from still? Where are all of the narco traffickers going to keep bringing this stuff into the country? The northern border.”
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In a new investigation, a federal committee tasked with tracking COVID-19 assistance fraud found tens of thousands of dishonest or erroneous Paycheck Protection Program applications.
The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) report, released Thursday, revealed more than 40,000 instances when applicants for more than $860 million in taxpayer-funded PPP loans “significantly misrepresented their incomes.”
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