The Memphis Safe Task Force (MSTF) averaged about 28 arrests per day throughout August, according to the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), which said more than 850 alleged criminals were taken off the streets by task force members.
A USMS press release sent Monday said task force members made 853 arrests last month, averaging about 27.5 per day. As a result of the arrests, the MSTF also seized 118 illegal firearms, or about 3.8 per day.
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Former Nixon White House attorney and longtime Watergate researcher Geoff Shepard said the Watergate defendants were denied the fair trials guaranteed to them under the U.S. Constitution, arguing documents he uncovered show prosecutors and federal judges engaged in improper conduct during the proceedings.
Shepard detailed his research during an appearance Wednesday on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show about Leahy’s new eBook and documentary, How the Deep State Took Down Richard Nixon.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has revealed that the unlicensed driver arrested in July, and charged with Vehicular Homicide by intoxication for his alleged role in a fatal motorcycle accident, entered the United States illegally under President Joe Biden.
In a Wednesday press release, ICE said that Alfonso Vasquez-Morales is a Mexican national who illegally crossed the border into the United States sometime in 2023. The agency said Vasquez-Morales “entered the United States without authorization through Arizona and has resided in the country illegally for approximately three years.”
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Liberal donors, advocacy groups and corporate interests collectively played a key role in defeating conservatives and Freedom Caucus members, replacing them with left-leaning Republicans in August’s Wyoming primaries.
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U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) leads a field of potential appointees to replace U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) if she wins the 2026 gubernatorial election, according to a new statewide poll of likely Republican voters.
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Kevin Kreutz, who recently left his position as Deputy Attorney General of Tennessee, will be the latest attorney to pass from that office to Holtzman Vogel, the company announced on Tuesday.
Prior to leaving his position for the Tennessee Attorney General’s office, Kreutz was the lead counsel in a major challenge to Tennessee’s pharmacy benefit manger (PBM) laws, the counsel of record for Tennessee in a legal action that resulted in $25.6 million in restitution and $25.6 million in penalties against a precious metals company, and participated in Tennessee’s lawsuit over the Biden administration’s attempt to shield certain patient records from Medicaid fraud investigations.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday told The Tennessee Star that Marco Sabillon-Urbina, who was among the more than 120 arrests made on Sunday at the Memphis nightclub El Corralón, is a previously deported illegal alien who previously pleaded guilty to using a controlled substance while in possession of a firearm.
The confirmation from DHS came one day after the Memphis Permits Office told The Star that El Corralón, which also uses the name Marisqueria El Corral, had obtained neither a beer permit nor a dance permit from the City of Memphis.
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Polling released Thursday morning shows U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) holds a 21-point lead over the Democrats’ nominee, Jerri Brown, in the race to become Tennessee’s next governor.
Beacon Center of Tennessee’s analysis of its poll, conducted by Targoz Market Research from August 15 through August 26, found that 55 percent of likely voters prefer Blackburn, while just 34 percent would vote for Green.
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House Democrats blocked a proposed Constitutional amendment on Wednesday, which would have capped the Supreme Court at nine justices if it had secured the two-thirds majority it needed to pass.
The vote, which failed in a 212-206 split, comes as calls to pack the court have grown in recent years, largely due to the success of Republicans in confirming conservative justices to the bench, who have gone on to rule in landmark cases favoring the right.
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“THE FAKE POLLS USED BY OUR CROOKED MEDIA ARE OUT OF CONTROL, AND SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT IT. FCC TO THE RESCUE!”
That was President Donald Trump on Truth Social on Aug. 30, suggesting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could be looking at television and radio over-the-air licenses for stations that publish what the President is calling “fake polls”.
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The Memphis nightclub where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made more than 120 arrests on Sunday previously received two Payment Protection Program (PPP) loans during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an online database containing more than 11 million PPP loan records.
Though U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and pro-illegal alien activists in Memphis have described the establishment as a nightclub named El Corralón, the building where Operation Corral Light was conducted indicates it has been named Marisqueria El Corral since at least 2019.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he planned to hit the campaign trail in the 30 days ahead of the midterm elections.
“I’m gonna be campaigning for numerous people, both Congress — a few governors, I love the governors — but we’re interested in the Senate and we’re interest in the House,” he said.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday floated renaming the Strait of Hormuz to the “Trump Strait” amid the ongoing war with Iran.
“Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be ‘hotter’ than ever before!” he posted on Truth Social.
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti on Tuesday announced that U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker last week upheld the Tennessee law prohibiting courts from considering a defendant’s ability to pay when setting their bond.
Among other complaints, the litigation alleged that the law was unconstitutionally vague. Tennessee still allows its judges and magistrates to consider a defendant’s employment history, overall financial circumstances, and other statutory factors, but specifically prohibits considering a defendant’s “ability to pay” when setting a bond amount.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) The Tennessee Star on Tuesday that more than 120 illegal aliens were arrested on August 30 at the Memphis nightclub, El Corralón, during a multi-agency operation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE).
DHS told The Star that Operation Corral Light resulted in arrests of illegal aliens with prior criminal history, including arrests or convictions for “larceny, drug possession, domestic violence, driving while intoxicated, assault, child endangerment, and prostitution.”
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Activists with Vecindarios 901 claim that more than 100 people were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during an enforcement operation in Memphis on Saturday, while a spokesperson for the federal agency only told The Tennessee Star that a “multi-agency targeted enforcement operation” was ongoing in the area.
According to a social media post by Vecindarios 901, the enforcement operation took place at the Memphis bar El Corralón. Authorities at the scene reportedly included ICE, the Memphis Police Department, and members of the Memphis Safe Task Force (MSTF), according to the activists.
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The sports betting industry spent roughly $76 million so far on the 2026 midterm elections in an attempt to fight state bans and restrictions as Americans continue to rack up massive gambling-related debts.
Most of the money went to Win for America, a super political action committee (PAC) funded by sports betting companies, which received about $72 million from companies like DraftKings, FanDuel, Fanatics and bet365 between Nov. 5, 2025, and June 30, according to Federal Elections Commission (FEC) records. The PAC routed the money to American Future and the American Conservative Fund, which spent on Democratic and Republican state races, as Americans increasingly struggle with gambling addictions.
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Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, met individually with Jewish party leaders over the weekend to apologize for controversial statements he made in the past. The meetings are part of an effort to win over skeptical Jewish Democrats, CNN reported.
“I don’t ever want my comments to hurt anybody’s feelings. It’s important to me that people understand that I take seriously the pain of all communities in this state,” El-Sayed told CNN.
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Longtime political reporter Neil W. McCabe, a U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Army veteran, said President Donald Trump’s decision to establish a commission to design a proposed U.S. Space Academy reflects the growing importance of space operations to America’s military.
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Governor Bill Lee and the Metro Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) have confirmed that plans to rename the BNA Nashville International Airport to honor Dolly Parton are underway after the iconic singer, songwriter, actress, and philanthropist died last week at age 80.
The governor confirmed in a Friday press release that his office and the MNAA were working together on the proposal to rename the airport, and that Parton’s team was “touched by the idea and open to continuing the conversation.”
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Eagle Forum President Kris Ullman announced the organization’s 54th annual Eagle Council will be held in Nashville next month.
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New data on arrests of illegal immigrants from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reveals that the Trump Administration is delivering on deportation, with nearly 50,000 arrests of illegal aliens made in the month of July alone.
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A public charter school in Nashville has removed LGBT children’s books from its library months after clearing the record of a Christian teacher who was disciplined for refusing to read from literature that “promotes same-sex marriage.”
According to the First Liberty Institute, a national group which defends religious freedom, administrators at Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) Nashville, “have eliminated books that could violate Tennessee law regarding parental consent.”
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday revealed details of the investigation which led to the conviction of Camilo Campos-Hurtado, an illegal alien from Mexico who recorded his sexual assaults on Nashville children who he drugged, after gaining access to youth through a soccer program. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison last month.
In its press release, ICE appeared to reveal for the first time that investigators learned that Campos-Hurtado was in the country illegally after Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigators “recovered electronic devices containing child sexual abuse material and numerous counterfeit immigration and identification documents.”
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Leftist nonprofits are using pass-through organizations to boost voter registration for demographics most likely to vote for Democrats, a new report alleges.
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Leaders in the Tennessee State House confirmed on Thursday that they have begun discussions of how to honor the legacy of Dolly Parton, the country music legend who died on Tuesday at age 80.
Tennessee Deputy House Speaker Jason Zachary (R-Knoxville) told WKRN that his colleagues “began to have those discussions” about how to honor Parton the previous night, questioning, “How do you honor someone that is so worthy and beyond anything of a statue, a bust?”
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Devonte Sherley, a convicted felon now charged with attempted murder after a gunshot left a Nashville man paralyzed, was previously out on bond for felony gun and drug charges when he was implicated in a 2019 fatal robbery. That case did not conclude until last year, and Tennessee records show his resulting eight-year sentence ended just six weeks before the latest shooting.
Sherley, 29, is currently in Davidson County Jail, with Fox 17 reporting that Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) detectives said he was suspected of entering his sister’s apartment and shooting a man in the neck and knee on August 19.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America.”
The order directs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to work with the Board on Geographic Names to reflect the new name. It explains that the U.S. claims most of the lake’s volume, and its deepest parts lie within the U.S.
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New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has officially rejoined the Democratic Socialists of America group.
The congresswoman, among House Democrats’ most progressive members, signed up for an annual membership in 2018, then let her membership lapse for seven years, the news outlet NOTUS reported Thursday.
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The Republican National Committee (RNC) announced new programming details for its upcoming Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas, which the committee touted as the first midterm convention in modern American history.
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Following the recent decision by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Tuesday, a hearing was scheduled in the second lawsuit brought by Kilmar Abrego Garcia against the Trump administration after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied part of the Trump administration’s appeal of two of Xinis’ orders.
While the appellate court said it would consider whether to reverse the Obama-appointed judge’s decision blocking ICE from arresting Abrego Garcia, it rejected the Trump administration’s argument that Xinis had already constructively denied its appeal of the judge’s order barring Abrego Garcia’s deportation to Liberia.
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U.S. Representative Matt Van Epps (R-TN-07) introduced a resolution on the fifth anniversary of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, condemning the Biden administration’s handling of it.
On August 26, 2021, during the final days of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan after being in the country for almost 20 years and spending trillions of dollars, an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the airport, killing 13 American service members and nearly 200 Afghan civilians.
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Nurse N’Kiyla Jasmine Thomas has won the Democratic Senate primary runoff in Oklahoma, NBC News projects.
Thomas told NBC News that she is a “a self-proclaimed democratic socialist,” though she’s not yet a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. She described socialists as “the next generation” that is “looking to change the system.”
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Republican South Carolina Sen. Darline Graham defeated Republican South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman in Tuesday’s GOP Senate primary runoff race.
Graham and Norman advanced to Tuesday’s primary runoff because neither garnered a majority of the vote during the August 11 special primary. They defeated eight other candidates, including Republican South Carolina Rep. Russell Fry.
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A list of the “Worst of the Worst” criminal illegal aliens detained on Tuesday across the United States, provided to The Tennessee Star by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), includes a citizen of Mexico who was arrested in Lebanon, Tennessee.
Among the five criminal illegal aliens included in the “Worst of the Worst” list for Tuesday is Margarito Rosales-Altamira, who DHS described as “a criminal illegal alien from Mexico” with prior convictions “for opium or derivatives and cocaine sale” in Lebanon.
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Every day, Americans walk into hospitals trusting that the machines keeping watch over their hearts are working for them. Most have no idea that some of those machines may be working for Communist China.
Last year, FDA and federal cybersecurity officials issued a warning about a patient monitor called the Contec CMS8000, a medical device used routinely in American hospitals to track heart rate, blood pressure, and electrocardiograms. Investigators found a back door built into the software. Not a simple glitch, but a highly technological avenue to siphon patient data out of our health care facilities and into outside remote servers. The company that manufactures the Contec monitor is based in China.
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Eva Romero, the Republican nominee for Tennessee House District 60, told The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy in an exclusive interview Tuesday that rising property taxes are threatening residents’ ability to remain in their homes, making property tax relief a central focus of her campaign.
During an appearance on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Romero said she entered the race with a commitment to spend her campaign talking directly with residents and advocating for their concerns.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Friday announced it sent public records request letters to Tennessee school districts that “foolishly” display the Ten Commandments under a new law that allows them to be displayed, informing the districts that a team of nonprofits is “launching an investigation.”
According to an ACLU press release, letters were sent to records custodians at Blount County School District, Rutherford County Schools, Washington County Schools, White County Schools, and Wilson County Schools, and specifically seek “emails and other communications, as well as all board documents, regarding the display of the Ten Commandments.”
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Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc., the global alcohol giant that owns Budweiser and Bud Light, filed a new lawsuit against Tennessee, seeking a refund of nearly $2 million in taxes paid in 2022 and 2023.
Filed in Davidson County Chancery Court on Friday, the company’s lawsuit seeks more than $1.8 million, plus interest, after Anheuser-Busch sent a refund request to the Tennessee Department of Revenue in August 2025. It names Tennessee Commissioner of Revenue David Gerregano as the defendant.
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Conservative media commentator, radio host, and media founder Clay Travis on Monday announced a $20,000 reward for information about the death of Cameron Frierson, the 16-year-old Hunters Lane High School student who was fatally shot at a North Nashville football game that Travis attended.
Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) confirmed the shooting on Saturday, announcing that Frierson was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, but succumbed to his injuries while receiving treatment. Police said witnesses reported seeing the fatal shots fired from a white sedan with tinted windows.
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California Attorney General Rob Banta on Monday canceled a publicly announced meeting planned between his office and the Paramount Skydance Corporation, reportedly accusing the entertainment giant of “playing games.”
Banta leads California in a 12-state lawsuit seeking to block Paramount’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery., but on Monday was planning to hold settlement talks with the company. The lawsuit was notably filed despite an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice determining the merger could move forward.
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Matt Boyle, the Washington bureau chief for Breitbart News Network, said he would accept the position of White House Press Secretary if President Donald Trump asked him to take the job, while emphasizing that he is not actively seeking the position.
Boyle made the remarks while speaking Monday on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, after host Michael Patrick Leahy publicly recommended him to replace Karoline Leavitt, who is set to leave the position at the end of August.
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A month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood issued marching orders for state attorneys general to target crisis pregnancy centers and issue abortion-friendly legal opinions.
State actions after the July 12, 2022, memo suggest Democrat attorneys general followed much of the 14-point plan pushed by the nation’s largest abortion provider.
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Americans’ growing opposition to the prevalence of data centers has led many politicians to limit or pause their increase altogether.
Lawmakers in New York and Texas, for example, have effected stoppages of data center projects, while other states, such as Pennsylvania, have issued more restrictions on data center construction. Americans’ support for data centers has generally plummeted, as critics have linked them to higher utility bills — reflecting extraordinary water and energy usage — being experienced by local communities.
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At least one Democrat on the Metro Nashville Council claimed local politicians were caught off guard by the decision to build a call center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Nashville, while a spokesperson for Mayor Freddie O’Connell said his office has yet to learn what will happen inside the building. State Representative Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville) said the call center will house “ICE and its mercenaries of terror.”
“The Mayor’s Office is still in the process of getting a consistent depiction of what is planned,” said a spokesperson for O’Connell, according to WSMV 4. Metro Councilmember Jeff Gregg told the outlet that he and his colleagues “were blindsided by the announcement.”
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The Tennessee Sheriffs’ Association (TSA) and Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police (TACP) announced on Thursday that they are working on a framework for “responsible use of Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR/LPR) technology” amid opposition to the ALPR cameras sold by Flock Safety.
According to a press release from TSA and TACP, the associations are considering model safeguards that would require law enforcement to have a legitimate, documented need to access ALPR cameras, and to treat the images retrieved as “an investigative lead, not evidence of guilt, with human verification required before enforcement action.”
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio appears to fare better against possible Democratic presidential candidates than does Vice President JD Vance, a recent survey has found.
The latest Emerson College survey tested several hypothetical presidential races, pitting Vance and Rubio against Democratic heavyweights, including former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., former Vice President Kamala Harris, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
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Steve Cortes, former senior spokesman and strategist for the 2016 and 2020 Trump campaigns and current head of the League of American Workers, said a recent Michigan poll indicates concerns over Muslim migration could become a significant issue in the state’s closely contested U.S. Senate race.
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Veteran political reporter Neil W. McCabe discussed the upcoming departure of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and the potential candidates to succeed her during an appearance Thursday on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show live from outside the White House.
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The Cook Political Report on Thursday moved its ratings for the Iowa and Texas Senate ratings from Republican-leaning to toss-ups, marking the latest indicator that the Senate, once thought safely Republican for the cycle, may be up for grabs,
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