The Protect College Sports Act is the newest proposed “fix” to the problems impacting college sports. And there are plenty of problems that need fixing. But instead of addressing them, U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell wrote a 111-page license for politicians to micromanage the industry
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Congress introduced legislation this month allowing seriously ill patients to access select treatments their physicians would prescribe – without FDA approval. That would mark a fundamental departure from the FDA’s total control over every prescription drug in America.
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“The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil. Those prices are dropping like a rock! In other words, customers are being ‘gouged.’ I have instructed the DOJ to immediately start looking into this. Gasoline prices better start going down a lot faster than what I’m seeing!”
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Jeremy Thompson, the veteran and Fayetteville business owner who is seeking the Republican Party nomination to represent Tennessee’s newly redrawn 9th Congressional District, last Thursday called for Congress to implement an online system for some temporary foreign workers to obtain “multi-year visas” that would streamline the application process using the internet.
Thompson called for the system to be implemented after he was asked a question during a candidate forum held on Thursday, which was organized by the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation, Tennessee Chamber of Commerce, and the Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association, and included an featured statement and responses to two questions from each of the six candidates who attended.
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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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Ohio legislative Republicans have not committed to an override of Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a bill requiring voter ID for absentee ballots, but they did offer strong criticism of their fellow GOP members.
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The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development is asking a Chattanooga company to return a $3 million FastTrack grant after the company failed to create the number of jobs it promised.
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Postmaster General David Steiner told senators during a hearing Wednesday that he plans to abide by the Trump administration’s rule regarding not delivering mail-in ballots in states that decline to hand over sensitive data about voters to the federal government.
The proposed rule faces court challenges and Steiner said he would follow any court ruling on the matter, but will follow the rule until an order blocks it. The proposed rule seeks to create lists of citizens in each state to help determine who is eligible to vote and calls on the Postal Service not to distribute mail ballots to those not on state lists.
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Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna’s proposed gas export ban will backfire, people familiar with natural gas policy warn.
“As the Trump administration continues to betray Americans and extend the war with Iran, Congress needs to step in and put the interests of our hard-working constituents first,” Khanna stated in a press release last April. The Gasoline Export Ban Act of 2026 would freeze gas exports if the average price of gas in the U.S. is above $3.12 per gallon for 7 days, and lift the ban if it’s below that mark for 7 days.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is moving to speed up permitting and boost transparency within its comment letter process, the Daily Caller News Foundation first learned.
The EPA is unveiling a new memorandum on Wednesday aiming to promote “common sense, transparency, and clarity” when the agency comments on other agencies’ Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) under Section 309 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
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Wilson County took a step toward implementing a moratorium on data centers.
On Monday, the Wilson County Planning and Zoning Committee advanced a resolution that would implement a six-month ban on new data center construction in the county.
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The Knox County Commission unanimously passed a resolution that bans data center construction for one year.
The resolution will allow the county to develop zoning regulations for data centers to “address current and emerging technologies not yet covered by existing zoning regulations.”
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The Justice Department has concluded that the Department of Agriculture’s preferences for “socially disadvantaged” farmers violate the Constitution’s promise of equal protection.
“Racial discrimination is illegal,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Monday in making the announcement, “and the government cannot show preference to certain groups when awarding special benefits without a compelling reason to justify the classification.”
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The Senate passed a piece of bipartisan legislation Monday that aimed to lower the cost of housing.
The upper chamber passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act in a 85-5 vote, which aimed to tackle the housing affordability crisis by cutting red tape and increasing the housing supply, expanding loans to build housing and curbing Wall Street’s ownership of single-family homes. While the House and Senate initially had their own versions of the bill, both chambers reached a deal Tuesday.
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Somewhere in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a small steel-town school district of about 1,400 kids, a school board member is looking at a budget line that didn’t exist a decade ago. In 2014, the district had approximately seven English Learner or “EL” students. In 2024, that number crossed 200.
Charleroi is a small story with a national plot. Over the past decade, the number of students who require extra support with English or multilingual education has exploded nationwide. From Georgia to Ohio and from Texas to Colorado, we are seeing the same thing: as the share of students needing English language services has gone up, the share of the budget going to core classroom instruction has gone down.
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The year after the COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States, a U.S. intelligence official flagged a video circulating online showing a government-funded scientist admitting publicly that his colleagues in China had manipulated spike proteins on coronaviruses.
During this time, leading health official Dr. Anthony Fauci continued to double down on his claim his office had not funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab in China where scientists conducted such experiments.
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As the Trump administration looks for an off-ramp to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the Senate appears to be heading in the opposite direction as it floats continued “intelligence support” to help Kyiv take back Crimea and other Russian-held territories.
The language is buried in Section 1223 of the proposed Senate version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), “Intelligence Support for Ukraine.” The provision is being proposed as the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to escalate, with Moscow threatening strikes on Western Europe in response to drone attacks from Kyiv that have brought the battlefield home.
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Over 6,000 people have signed an online petition urging a rural Tennessee county to impose an 18-month moratorium on data centers.
The petition comes as Lawrence County may be getting a data center in Lawrenceburg. The city’s planning commission will hold a meeting on July 9th to discuss the data center’s site plan.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) spoke exclusively to The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy on Tuesday, promoting a new bill that would provide additional federal election security funding to states that submit voter registration data to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for citizenship verification.
During an interview on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Blackburn discussed the Election Security Partnership Act, legislation she introduced with U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) that would provide bonus election security funding to states that participate in DHS’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday confirmed he would send the Iran deal to Congress as lawmakers increasingly pressed for a copy of the text.
The text of the deal has not been published and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, as of Tuesday morning, confirmed that lawmakers were working to obtain a copy for their own review.
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Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell signed an executive order allowing Metro departments to review the impact of large-scale data centers on the city.
“We don’t want the potential negative impacts of large-scale data centers in our neighborhoods, so in partnership with the Metro Council, we’re taking action to ensure we put proper regulations in place before any more of these things are proposed,” said O’Connell on Monday.
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A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the government cannot tell if it is handing taxpayer dollars to individuals on the “do not pay list,” Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst exclusively shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation Monday.
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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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Four different departments within Metro Nashville confirmed they received the public records request filed Thursday by The Tennessee Star, seeking any records explaining the purpose and justification for the grants proposed for the pro-illegal immigrant nonprofits, Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors (TNJFON) and Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC). The nonprofits would receive nearly $1.5 million combined in the budget submitted last month by Mayor Freddie O’Connell.
The Metro Nashville Department of Finance was first to confirm receipt of the Tennessee Public Records Act (TPRA) request submitted on Thursday by The Star, confirming it was entered into Metro’s system in a Friday morning email.
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Most Americans could not name a single member of their state Public Service or Utility Commission (PSC/PUC).
Radical climate activists are counting on that.
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Metro Nashville on Friday confirmed receipt of the request filed by The Tennessee Star pursuant to the Tennessee Public Records Act (TPRA), seeking records explaining the purpose of the nearly $1.5 million in proposed grants in the 2027 budget released by Mayor Freddie O’Connell for the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) and Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors (TNJFON), which both support illegal aliens living in the Volunteer State.
The budget proposed last month includes a $735,000 grant for TIRRC and $718,000 for TNJFON. While a spokesman for O’Connell told The Star the grant for TIRRC would not support lawyers for illegal aliens, the Metro Clerk Austin Kyle told The Star on Monday that the new grant only represented a change in funding source but otherwise extensions of its previous grant, which was signed in 2022 and is set to expire on June 30.
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The Metropolitan Planning Commission decided to put off a decision on regulating data centers in Davidson County.
The planning commission will consider a proposed ordinance on June 25th that will provide a “comprehensive regulatory framework for data centers.”
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Could the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Director Bill Pulte be making decisions that will destabilize the U.S. housing market and lead to another financial crisis? That’s what many right-of-center organizations are warning.
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The Trump administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning to force Second Amendment cases to the Supreme Court, a top official told the Daily Caller News Foundation Monday.
Under Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, the Second Amendment Section of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division was established on Dec. 4, 2025. While lawsuits against Denver, the District of Columbia and Colorado over gun and magazine bans have generated headlines, Dhillon told the DCNF there was a strategy behind the cases the Civil Rights Division brought.
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High-ranking Biden administration officials conspired to violate a 2022 court order against their interpretation of Title IX as covering “gender identity” within the definition of “sex,” and may have also tried to conceal those efforts through coercion and intimidation, according to a Department of Education report made public Wednesday after lengthy outside review.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Thursday released documents showing that former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci had deep, decades-long ties with the U.S. intelligence community that predate the COVID-19 pandemic by nearly 20 years.
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Tennessee families are being squeezed from every direction. Grocery bills are up. Fuel costs more. And when something breaks, whether it’s a car, an appliance, or a piece of farm equipment, getting it fixed has become its own financial ordeal. Some of that is inflation. But some of it is federal policy, and that part is fixable.
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One week ago Thursday, Congress was sailing toward relatively easy passage of a bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which authorizes intelligence agencies to spy on non-U.S. electronic communications without a warrant.
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Bill Gates has long been one of the most admired people in the world, especially since he stepped down from his role running Microsoft to devote himself and much of his fortune to philanthropy. That reputation has been tarnished recently, however, by revelations of the billionaire’s close relation with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and exposés on his own fraught relationships with women.
On the eve of Gates’ private testimony with Congress scheduled for tomorrow, a trove of federal whistleblower documents provided to RealClearInvestigations is renewing questions about how Gates money has bought what critics complain is an untoward influence on government health policy. For almost a quarter of a century, his main vehicle of power, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), allowing Gates to shape the direction of the country’s health strategy in ways that have benefitted his own priorities and pet causes while polishing his image as a benevolent global do-gooder.
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Whistleblowers and declassified documents have revealed a pattern of the CIA and FBI soft-pedaling findings that could rattle China, raising questions about whether President Donald Trump has the best information about America’s chief geopolitical rival at a high-stakes moment for U.S.-China relations.
A soft-on-China bias during the Biden administration shaped analyses of COVID-19 and election interference at CIA, FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Intelligence Council (NIC), the evidence suggests. Many officials in the sprawling $115.5 billion intelligence apparatus ascribe to a neoliberal worldview that prefers free trade and unfettered scientific cooperation with China, whistleblowers say.
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Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is calling for transparency and accountability on COVID-19 vaccine injuries and says he’s asking the Trump administration to implement an International Classification of Diseases code for COVID-19 vaccine injuries.
“Trump’s [Department of Health and Human Services] has to acknowledge that these injection injuries are real. They’ve got to create an ICD code so the doctors can get reimbursed,” Johnson said Monday in an exclusive John Solomon Reports podcast interview. He also said he has met with patients who were at a critical “low point” after fighting the medical establishment for years to be seen and treated.
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The Coffee County Commission unanimously passed a resolution on Tuesday imposing a one-year moratorium on data centers.
According to the resolution, the one-year ban will allow the county’s planning commission to propose zoning regulations regarding data centers.
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Under Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s budget proposal, the Tennessee Justice Center (TJC) would receive a $60,000 grant through the Metro Nashville Health Department.
On Tuesday, TJC was revealed by The Tennessee Lookout to have urged the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) to drop a new directive regarding the implementation of House Bill 1710, which passed earlier this year, and will require local government agencies to confirm the lawful presence or citizenship status of those applying for public benefits and report potential violations of benefits-verification requirements. The law takes effect on July 1.
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The Nashville budget proposal by Mayor Freddie O’Connell, which is set for a vote on June 17, includes $100,000 for the nonprofit Alignment Nashville. This is the same 501 (c) (3) nonprofit that contracts with Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) to provide “conference services,” including the district’s annual “SPLASH retreat” for principals that reportedly took place in Louisville, Kentucky earlier this month.
O’Connell’s budget proposes a $100,000 grant for Alignment Nashville for Fiscal Year (FY) 2027, which the city’s FY 27 Expenditure Overview shows is the same dollar contribution the city granted the nonprofit in 2024 and 2026. In 2025, the contribution by Metro was reduced to $50,000.
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Dr. Omar Hamada warned that failed Tennessee legislation to ban mRNA products and research would have harmed medical innovation and threatened the state’s position as a national healthcare leader.
During an interview with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy, Hamada criticized legislative efforts such as the proposed Tennessee mRNA Pharmaceutical Sovereignty and Safety Act, sponsored during the latest legislative session by State Senator Janice Bowling (R-Tullahoma), who also filed the mRNA Bioweapons Prohibition Act.
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