Veteran journalist and public affairs specialist Clint Brewer said “elections matter” after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration may move forward with terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for Haiti and Syria.
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Although Donald Trump’s defenders describe the Russia hoax and other efforts to frame the president as a “grand conspiracy,” RealClearInvestigations has learned that the man now leading the probe of that scandal is pursuing multiple conspiracy prosecutions that are smaller and more manageable, according to several sources with direct knowledge of the probe.
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Three House committee chairs are asking a former Biden White House counsel to comply with their investigation into Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue, after the counsel in her private practice issued a blistering review of ActBlue’s process for screening out foreign contributions.
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The Metro Council Office on Wednesday said it was still working to determine whether it has records showing its justification for the nearly $1.5 million in grants Nashville awarded two pro-illegal immigrant nonprofits in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget passed earlier this month. The office said it will need until July 1 to make this determination and provide a response.
In a response to the Tennessee Public Records Act (TPRA)-pursuant request sent by The Tennessee Star on June 12, the Metro Council Office on Thursday announced, “It has not yet been determined whether the records responsive to your request exist.”
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In the fourth and final decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Mullin v. Doe, a case concerning whether the Administration may terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations.
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Did Anthony Fauci manipulate the intelligence community (IC) investigation of the origin of COVID as outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claims?
Gabbard recently released previously unseen documents and communications during the COVID pandemic between the IC and the key member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Dr. Anthony Fauci. She claims they show that Fauci and the IC coordinated the investigation of the origin of the COVID to suggest it was a natural occurrence rather than a laboratory leak. She further charges that the documents reveal Fauci’s direct role in influencing and manipulating IC assessments in an attempt to discourage the lab-leak hypothesis.
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Jeffrey Fancher, one of the two Republicans vying to represent District 11 in Tennessee’s State House following the decision by State Representative Jeremy Faison (R-Cosby) to retire at the end of his current term, recently said that he prefers teaching students who are in the country illegally.
The Republican candidate for State House made the comments during his Monday appearance on the Charlie Cook Podcast, stating, “I live by the philosophy, you know, don’t bother me, don’t bother you, and I’ve never had any issues with illegal immigrants.”
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Civil rights attorney Ben Crump’s criticism of Tennessee’s new driver’s license law may signal the beginning of a future legal challenge, according to The Tennessee Star’s lead reporter, Tom Pappert.
During an appearance on Tuesday on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Pappert discussed Crump’s recent comments opposing House Bill 1708, which Governor Bill Lee signed into law earlier this year and is scheduled to take effect in January 2027.
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New figures presented by Memphis Police Chief CJ Davis during Tuesday’s Memphis City Council meeting show crime continues to trend downward across the city in 2026.
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An Obama-appointed federal judge has blocked the implementation of Tennessee’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) reform prohibiting recipients from using benefits to purchase certain processed food and carbonated sweetened beverages.
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EJ Haust, a self-described political refugee from Minnesota and official guest host of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, criticized a federal judge’s recent decision to quash immigration-related subpoenas targeting Minnesota officials.
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Seventeen Republican attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging a California environmental law they argue impacts the entire country.
The lawsuit, led by Republican Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, is challenging California’s Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, according to the suit. The law — which Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in 2022 — imposes extensive requirements for companies, manufacturers and distributors that package or ship products to California.
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Eight protesters whom the Justice Department accuses of having ties to Antifa were sentenced Tuesday to decades in federal prison in connection to a shooting last year outside a federal immigration detention center in Texas.
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, who was one of two judges overseeing the trial, said the demonstration wasn’t a protest but “an assault on democracy.” He said the need to deter the type of behavior seen at the protest is high.
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A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has evidence that his agency and federal prosecutors let more than 1 million fentanyl pills flow onto the streets of New Mexico during the Biden era and then tried to silence him from testifying after he blew the whistle, the agent’s lawyer tells Just the News.
“DEA has a campaign that says one pill can kill, and so the DEA allowing this to happen was really significant. It was driven also by the US Attorney’s Office in New Mexico,” Attorney Tristan Leavitt, president of the Empower Oversight, whistleblower center, said in an interview Monday night.
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California drivers sued several major gas stations Monday accusing them of using artificial intelligence to increase gas prices.
BP, Walmart, 7-Eleven, Marathon Petroleum, Circle K, and several other gas stations face a class-action lawsuit from drivers in the Golden State after allegedly using an AI tool to inflate fuel costs. The artificial intelligence uses data from competing gas stations to “coordinate high prices and wring more money from the pockets of consumers,” according to the suit.
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A federal judge on Monday struck down multiple state pilot programs that restricted Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients from using their benefits to buy unhealthy foods.
Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins incorrectly interpreted federal law when approving limits on what SNAP recipients could purchase with their benefits, Politico reported. The ruling impacts such pilot programs in Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the outlet.
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Legal commentator and retired attorney Mark Pulliam said a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court opinion sharply criticizing Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner illustrates the dangers of progressive prosecutors who, he argues, fail to fully enforce the law and undermine the integrity of the criminal justice system.
Speaking during Monday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Pulliam discussed the court’s decision and argued that prosecutors who decline to aggressively enforce criminal laws can undermine the justice system.
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Legal commentator and retired attorney Mark Pulliam said the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in United States v. Hemani represents an important victory for Second Amendment rights while leaving unanswered questions about how Congress should regulate gun ownership by drug users.
Discussing the case during Monday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Pulliam explained that the Court’s ruling struck down a federal law used to prohibit certain drug users from possessing firearms. The decision was authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch.
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Civil rights attorney Ben Crump on Saturday claimed Tennessee’s new law requiring those applying for a driver’s license to demonstrate their lawful residence status in the country and take an English proficiency exam has the potential to undo “30 years of progress” in the Volunteer State.
Crump made the comments on social media while sharing an article about House Bill (HB) 1708, the legislation signed into law by Governor Bill Lee earlier this year. Once effective in January 2027, it will require those applying for a Tennessee driver’s license to submit documentation providing citizenship, and to complete an English proficiency exam.
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Three East Tennessee individuals have pleaded guilty and been sentenced for their roles in a prescription fraud operation involving the Riddle Drugs pharmacy chain, that caused Medicare, drug plans, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to pay more than $7.3 million, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee announced earlier this month.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) press release explained that Grant Riddle, Brian Woods, and Barbara Smith all pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud over each of their roles in the procurement, creation, and submission of reimbursement requests related to a formulary, a list of prescription drugs meant to balance “appropriate therapy while promoting effective resource utilization,” created solely based on their high reimbursement values for Riddle Drugs.
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FBI Director Kash Patel announced Monday the capture of a man in Turkey who allegedly helped orchestrate a $3.7 billion Medicare fraud scheme and said the man has been brought back to the United States to face charges.
The bureau said Ibrahim Khaldoon Hilmi, who fled the U.S. in May 2025, was recently detained by Turkish authorities and the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Group flew to the country and transported Hilmi to the U.S. last week through a foreign transfer of custody operation, according to Fox News.
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The FBI on Monday identified the sixth suspect in an alleged terror plot on the Ultimate Fighting Championship 250 event at the White House earlier this month.
At least five people were initially arrested in the plot, but agents are working to identify as many as 19 others who appear to be involved in the planning on encrypted chats communicating with the alleged plotters, officials said.
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Following the sentencing of former South African Air Force Brigadier General Portia Anyamba for acting as an unregistered agent of South Africa while working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), The Tennessee Star’s lead reporter Tom Pappert said the case leaves critical questions unanswered.
Speaking during an appearance Monday on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Pappert pointed to lingering uncertainty surrounding Anyamba’s immigration history, citizenship status, security-clearance eligibility, and how a foreign intelligence asset was able to work inside one of the nation’s most sensitive U.S. Department of Energy facilities before federal investigators intervened.
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) on Saturday announced that five men were arrested in Sumner County as a result of a human trafficking investigation that included the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office, and the Hendersonville Police Department (HPD).
One of the accused, Kasim Barnes, was formerly an officer with HPD. He was arrested in June 13, and Fox 17 reported last week that the department said in a statement that Barnes’ employment was terminated on June 15. He is charged with six counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of solicitation of a minor to commit aggravated statutory rape, according to the outlet.
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Monroe County Sheriff Tommy Jones on Thursday announced that Criminal Court Judge Andrew Freilberg issued an eight-year prison sentence to Calvin Suttles, who pleaded guilty earlier this week to providing the fentanyl that caused Larmar Rose to die of a fatal overdose in 2023.
According to the press release posted to social media by Jones, law enforcement obtained surveillance camera footage allegedly showing Suttles and the victim meet and exchange money for the illicit substance at a gas station in Madisonville. Just two hours after their transaction, the victim experienced a fatal overdose, according to the sheriff.
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A former Brigadier General in the South African Air Force has been sentenced to six months in federal prison and two years of supervised release after pleading guilty to acting as an agent of the Republic of South Africa and making false statements in an application to obtain a security clearance, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee announced Thursday.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the sentence was imposed after 59-year-old Portia Anyamba admitted to regularly communicating with an intelligence officer of the South African State Security Agency (SSA) in 2023 and 2024, when she was working as a program management operational specialist in the National Security Program Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Thursday evening declassified hundreds of pages related to the coverup of the theory that the COVID-19 virus leaked from an American funded lab in Wuhan, China, and the involvement of the nation’s most powerful public health official, Anthony Fauci, in that coverup.
Gabbard said in a statement that Fauci and his allies in the scientific community and intelligence community ripped a page right out of “the deep state playbook.”
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Tennessee announced on Thursday that it received settlement money from a rent-pricing manipulation lawsuit.
The Volunteer State got $7 million from the settlement with LivCor, a Chicago-based real estate investing company, over allegations that the company used rent-pricing software, including RealPage products, and competitors’ confidential data to raise apartment rents.
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The Justice Department is indicating it will intervene in a lawsuit filed in New York by Catholic nuns after the state forced them to house biological men with women.
The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne allege that the New York law requiring the housing of biological men with women violates the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection clause, and the DOJ agrees.
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Socialist City Councilwoman Janeese Lewis George won Washington D.C.’s Democratic mayoral primary putting her on track to be the deep blue city’s next leader.
Lewis George won 52.9% of the first choice vote, beating out her closest challenger former City Councilman Kenyan McDuffie who garnered 36.4%, the Associated Press reported Thursday with 75% of the vote counted. The AP called the race nearly two full days after polls closed Tuesday night.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, argued that the alleged White House UFC Freedom 250 terror plot raises significant concerns about both illegal immigration and the growth of violent extremist networks operating online.
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A man accused of nearly killing his girlfriend by slashing her throat during a brutal 2024 attack in Campbell County has been captured following an extensive multi-state manhunt, according to the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS).
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Shelby County General Sessions Clerk Tami Sawyer was suspended from her position on Wednesday, just days after the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee unsealed a federal grand jury indictment in a “significant” public corruption case that could land the Memphis Democrat behind bars for up to 20 years if she is convicted.
A court order first reported by NewsChannel 3 revealed that Sawyer was suspended from her office for 60 days by the General Sessions Court for Shelby County, effective on Wednesday, in accordance with Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA) 18-1-302.
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U.S. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) was considered as a target by those accused of planning a drone-and-sniper attack at the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC): Freedom 250 event held on the White House lawn on Sunday, according to criminal complaints filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) against two of the alleged plotters.
All four of the criminal complaints against the five named defendants appear to contain similar allegations, including the DOJ complaint filed in the Northern District of Nebraska against the plot’s alleged ringleader, Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, who illegally remained inside the United States after his visa expired in 2001, and was later granted Deferred Action Against Childhood Arrivals (DACA) by the Obama administration in 2014.
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The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that a drug user could not lose his Second Amendment rights, in a case that put the ACLU and the National Rifle Association on the same side.
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The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that the alleged ringleader of a foiled plot to carry out a mass-casualty attack on the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House is a Mexican national in the country illegally.
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State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis) on Tuesday told Marc Elias, the prominent Democratic election attorney and founder of Democracy Docket, that Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District remains highly competitive for Democrats, even after state lawmakers with “evil intention” allegedly divided the district along racial lines.
Pearson made the comments during his Tuesday appearance on “Defending Democracy with Marc Elias,” a podcast produced by the lawyer’s Democracy Docket platform, after first insisting that Tennessee’s recent redistricting, completed in response to the Louisiana v. Callais decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, proved Tennessee is no longer a “constitutional democratic republic.”
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Judson Phillips, Tea Party Nation founder and former prosecutor, said the defense strategy reportedly being pursued by accused killer Luigi Mangione is a mental-health-based legal defense that rarely succeeds and is typically used when other legal options are limited.
As reported by Just The News, Mangione’s attorneys indicated in a New York court hearing Wednesday that they plan to argue he was suffering from an “extreme emotional disturbance” at the time of the 2024 fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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The Federal Trade Commission followed through on its nearly year-old pledge to crack down on allegedly false and misleading statements about so-called gender affirming care, suing the World Professional Association for Transgender Health in a Texas federal court known for friendliness to Republican attorneys general.
Texas, Iowa, Alaska and Nebraska joined the FTC in Wednesday’s lawsuit, alleging state-specific harms caused by WPATH, which was notably not cited by Democrats or their witnesses in a recent Senate hearing on pediatric gender medicine.
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While California Gov. Gavin Newsom makes himself the face of the opposition to alleged corruption, he has directed over $340 million to political projects, including his wife’s nonprofit, under the controversial system of “behested payments” since he first ran for statewide office in 2011.
Newsom, who is considering his own run for president in 2028, has staked his public campaign against President Donald Trump on allegations of widespread corruption and pay-for-play schemes in the Republican administration, a claim Trump and his allies deny.
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A week-long targeted enforcement operation conducted in East Tennessee last month resulted in the arrests of 117 illegal aliens, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Tuesday.
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An Ashland City man is facing an aggravated assault charge after police say he chased a group of teenagers who allegedly removed an anti-ICE sign from his yard and then strangled a 17-year-old driver during a confrontation at a local auto parts store.
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A South Carolina homeowners’ association (HOA) stunned residents by announcing firearms would no longer be permitted in “shared property” areas, a Myrtle Beach TV station reported.
The management of Forest Pines Condominiums announced that the complex’s pool, clubhouse, sidewalks and parking areas would be among the places where firearms, whether openly or concealed, would no longer be permitted, according to WMBF News. The ban caused a backlash from residents, who questioned the legality of the decision.
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The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) unveiled the design concept for a new federal courthouse in downtown Chattanooga, marking the first renderings of a project to reflect the Trump administration’s emphasis on traditional civic architecture.
The approximately 191,000-square-foot courthouse, planned for Vine Street, will consolidate several federal judicial functions into a single secure facility, including the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, and the Circuit Library.
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A nonprofit released a report Tuesday showing that the University of Texas system may continue to discriminate based on race in defiance of a recent Supreme Court ruling.
Do No Harm released admissions analysis report of seven medical schools in the university system to raise concerns about its practices regarding racial preferences. A previous report by the organization had found that the schools’ acceptance rates barely changed across racial groups after the Court’s landmark 2023 ruling on affirmative action — and that testing data continued to show racial discrepancies.
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The House Oversight Committee announced Friday that it would investigate a nonprofit linked to an anti-Trump activist for possible violations of tax laws.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., announced that his committee would be investigating former Ambassador Norm Eisen’s nonprofit, State Democracy Defenders Fund (SDDF), for possibly using donor funds for private financial interests.
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The FBI stopped a terror plot involving as many as two dozen perpetrators to attack Sunday’s UFC 250 fight at the White House with explosive-laden drones and snipers, officials told Just the News on Tuesday.
At least five people have been arrested, and agents are working to identify as many as 18 others who appeared to be involved in the planning on encrypted chats communicating with the alleged plotters, officials said.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Monday that the state is suing TikTok, saying the social media platform broke state laws by ignoring them.
The first, Florida House Bill 3, or the Online Protections for Minors Act, limits social media access for minors.
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When a predator or an abuser takes a child, the clock starts ticking. License Plate Reader cameras scan public roadways and cross-reference law enforcement databases in real time. If a vehicle matches an AMBER Alert, a stolen car report, or an active warrant, officers are notified instantly.
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A federal court formally struck down a Biden administration regulation targeting private sales of firearms Friday after the Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped its appeal.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed during an April 30 press conference that at least 34 rule changes would be published by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), including repeal of the “stabilizing brace” and “Definition of ‘Engaged in the Business’ as a Dealer in Firearms” rules imposed by the Biden administration, as well as altering a third regulation that the Biden administration used to target so-called “bump stocks.” United States District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas, a Trump appointee, issued the final judgment Friday.
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