The Los Angeles City Council is facing criticism from a Republican Party leader after deciding to move forward with a Nov. 3 ballot initiative to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections.
The council voted Thursday to put the measure on the general election ballot.
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On May 8, I argued in an American Greatness article that President Trump should end the Iran War immediately with a clear ultimatum to Tehran rather than prolonged negotiations. The objectives had already been achieved through decisive military action: Iran’s nuclear program set back by decades, its conventional military and missile capabilities gutted, and its proxy networks crippled. Further fighting risked turning this U.S. win into another endless quagmire. An ultimatum—halt threats to Hormuz and guarantee safe passage for shipping, or face renewed and devastating strikes—would lock in those gains from a position of overwhelming strength.
The agreement scheduled to be signed on Friday in Switzerland does this. The deal is not a retreat from this vision. It is its pragmatic realization.
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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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Veteran Washington correspondent Neil W. McCabe said Friday that continued fighting between Israel and Hezbollah remains the greatest threat to the newly signed U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding.
Appearing on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, McCabe discussed reports that planned U.S.-Iran negotiations in Switzerland had been postponed and argued that the conflict in Lebanon could undermine progress made by Washington and Tehran.
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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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In an article published this week, The New York Times twice claimed President Donald Trump had no basis to claim the federal government under former President Barack Obama spied on him during the 2016 election or abused surveillance powers despite a large body of public evidence showing both things happened.
In the article about Trump’s statements on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the Times insisted that Trump has a “long and complicated relationship” with FISA, alternating between “condemning it” and “embracing it.”
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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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Gov. Mike DeWine on Tuesday revealed his stance on the death penalty, ruffling the feathers of many Ohio Republicans in the process.
“I believe Ohio should abolish the death penalty. The Legislature could take this action, and I think they should take this action,” the governor said during a press conference.
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The Trump administration is reportedly concerned that a cutting-edge European chipmaking tool may have ended up in Beijing’s hands.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told semiconductor company ASML in a recent meeting that he worried one of their chip-printing machines was sold to China, sources familiar with the discussions told Bloomberg. ASML has never been allowed to ship the extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines to China due to export controls enacted during President Donald Trump’s first term.
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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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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is quietly seeking to remake the city’s congressional delegation in his image, and cement his power bloc within the Democratic Party while he still enjoys popularity in the city. The democratic socialist Mamdani has endorsed three ideologically aligned candidates — all considered “far left” by traditional Democrats — seeking to expand his influence in the city where he was elected as mayor last November.
In particular, Mamdani has endorsed three ideologically aligned candidates seeking to unseat current members of the Democratic caucus, two-term Rep. Dan Goldman and Congressional Hispanic Caucus leader Adriano Espaillat.
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Israel and Hezbollah reportedly agreed Friday to renew their ceasefire to end their fighting in southern Lebanon and help the US and Iran reach a broader deal to end their roughly four-month-long war.
CBS News is reporting the ceasefire, based on what it said was information from three diplomats briefed on the matter. The ceasefire follows renewed fighting overnight between Israel and Hezbollah.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said Metro Nashville’s newly approved $1.5 million for two immigration-focused nonprofits raises serious questions about transparency and compliance with state law.
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A report from the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) released June 9 shows that Republicans have been steadily gaining voter registration numbers in battleground Congressional Districts since the 2024 election, with Republicans gaining vote share in 19 of 28 swing districts.
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by Edward Ring With midterm elections just around the corner, both major political parties are themselves coping with divided constituencies. The Democratic Socialists vie for dominance against more moderate Democrats. MAGA Republicans confront disaffected libertarians and neocons. And outside all these polarized factions are millions of voters that don’t find any politician or political agenda credible enough to earn their allegiance. But there is a common thread shared by most disillusioned voters. They believe that America’s ruling class has abandoned its fellow citizens. They’re right. Notwithstanding notable recent defections, America’s elites view ordinary citizens as no longer necessary. Because of globalism, they are replaceable. Because of automation, supercharged by AI, they are superfluous. Because of environmentalism, they are unsustainable. A plurality (at the least) of America’s elites have decided the nation’s middle class is disposable, and this is the real reason they continue to push woke degeneracy and extreme environmentalism, designed to lower birthrates and reduce standards of living. It’s hard to imagine how these elites could get things more wrong. Their transhuman and transnational vision is provoking a clash of civilizations at the same time as they are destroying the human foundation of their own civilization. Nations where…
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Written as a tribute to their fallen comrade for his son, “Daddy’s Son” honors a father’s life through the voices of those who knew, served with, and loved him.
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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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Davis Hunt, founder of the Nashville-based publication The Pamphleteer, said during an interview Thursday with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy that low voter turnout in Metro Nashville elections has allowed progressive political organizations to exert outsized influence over city government, while arguing that increased participation could reshape the city’s political landscape.
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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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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced a bill designed to end the Optional Practical Training visa program, which incentivizes employers to hire foreign students.
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The number of Americans applying for initial unemployment benefits fell last week, with layoffs remaining at the historically low level of recent years.
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Midjourney, the AI company best known for its generative image tools, announced Wednesday a major pivot into healthcare with the launch of Midjourney Medical, a new division developing a radiation-free, full-body imaging system it calls “Ultrasonic CT” or full-body ultrasound.
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Nestlé announced Monday that it has fully eliminated artificial colors from all of its U.S. food and beverage products.
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As Nashville prepares to host its biggest Independence Day celebration yet, the city’s annual Let Freedom Sing! Music City July 4th event is set to be broadcast to a nationwide audience through Disney’s live television special, “Disney Celebrates America: Nashville’s Star-Spangled Bash,” as part of the America 250 commemoration.
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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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Mayor Freddie O’Connell lauded the Metropolitan Council’s approval of the Fiscal Year 2027 operating budget Tuesday night, highlighting a half-cent reduction in the local grocery tax and the largest-ever local investment in affordable housing.
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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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As the development of data centers in the U.S. faces intense criticism from local communities and legal action, project supporters are claiming “foreign influence” could be fueling the fire.
House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie, Pennsylvania Republican Rep. John Joyce and Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Latta sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel demanding an investigation into “foreign influence campaigns” that are allegedly working to slow U.S. AI development. Meanwhile, investors and tech companies have been echoing that message.
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America’s largest cities are increasing their spending at almost unprecedented rates.
A RealClearInvestigations analysis of cities with at least 500,000 residents found they cumulatively raised their per-person spending by 18% over the last 10 budget cycles, accounting for inflation. The only equivalents on record are the spending surges ignited by the Great Society programs of the 1960s and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal during the 1930s.
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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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President Donald Trump signed the “Memorandum of Understanding” with Iran, which is aimed at ending the conflict in the Middle East, while visiting French President Emmanuel Macron at Versailles on Wednesday evening.
A Trump administration official read the terms outlined in the memorandum to reporters earlier in the day, which addressed Iran’s nuclear program, ongoing fighting in Lebanon, sanctions relief, and plans for the release of frozen funds.
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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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The Metro Nashville Council approved a modified version of the budget submitted in May by Mayor Freddie O’Connell, including the nearly $1.5 million he requested to appropriate as grants for the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) and Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors (TNJFON).
In a 35-2 decision on Tuesday, the Metro Council approved a $3.8 billion budget after adopting a substitute budget filed by Council Member Kyonzte Toombs that replaced the version submitted last month by O’Connell.
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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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Amid federal scrutiny and concerns about commercial driver’s licenses being in the hands of unqualified drivers, Ohio is cracking down on CDLs for those drivers not born in the United States. The CDLs of 1,200 foreign-born drivers will be downgraded to a Class D by the state for failing to adequately meet standards proving they are in the United States legally.
Ohio Department of Public Safety spokesman Bret Crow confirmed the downgrade to The Center Square last week. “Those receiving this notice who believe their documents do meet the updated federal standards may request a hearing with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to dispute the downgrade and/or submit additional documentation to BMV to prove their eligibility,” he said.
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The partisan divide on abortion has grown starkly wider over the past few decades, a new poll shows.
Only half as many Republicans identified as pro-choice in 2026 as did in 2006, with this percentage falling from 34% in 2006 to 17% in 2026, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday. Meanwhile, the percentage of Democrats who identified as pro-choice rose from 62% to 81% over the same 20-year period.
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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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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new over-the-counter naloxone nasal spray on Tuesday in an effort to combat the nation’s opioid overdose crisis.
Rextovy is a naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray that can be used for the emergency treatment of opioid overdoses, according to the FDA. The approval “aligns with President Donald Trump’s Great American Recovery Initiative, a federal effort to address the U.S.’ addiction and substance use disorder crisis and coordinate the government’s approach to prevention, treatment and long-term recovery,” an FDA spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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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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Wilson County may be the next county in Tennessee to establish zoning regulations for data centers.
On Monday, at its county commission meeting, Commissioner Lauren Breeze said that she was working on introducing an amendment to regulate data centers in Wilson County.
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University of Tennessee alumnus Randy Bresnik has been selected by NASA to command the Artemis III mission, a major milestone in the agency’s effort to return astronauts to the Moon and prepare for future missions to Mars.
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Major League Baseball has told three San Francisco Giants pitchers that they violated the league’s uniform policy by writing a biblical verse heading on their caps on Pride Night and issued a warning to each of them over the matter.
Pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker all wrote “Gen 9:12-16” on their caps during Friday night’s game, a verse that describes God’s establishment of the rainbow and covenant with humanity.
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Democrats are furious that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) created a strategy for targeted Americans to more easily access the Judgment Fund, established by Congress in 1956 to settle cases of abuses of power and politically weaponized investigations.
Never mind that the DOJ’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” announced last month has been struck down by a left-wing judge and the Trump administration is complying. Never mind that it was hardly the “slush fund” of its critics’ worst imaginings but an attempt to redress real wrongs.
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The 2022 proposal by the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) and Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors (TNJFON) confirms the pro-illegal alien nonprofits sought more than $3.5 million to provide immigration legal services in Davidson County.
Attached as an exhibit to the June 2022 resolution appropriating Biden-era American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to “expand critical immigrant legal services” in Nashville, the document confirms the nonprofits proposed using the funding to help immigrants obtain “protections from deportations.”
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