The University of Michigan announced Thursday it will end its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, immediately closing both the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion.
School administration said the programs are being ended in response to recent executive orders and federal guidance from the Trump administration that are beginning “to reshape higher education.”
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National political reporter Neil W. McCabe said he believes the journalist from The Atlantic who was mistakenly included in a group chat among top Trump administration officials is an example of “a war against the Trump administration being fought from the inside.”
On Monday, The Atlantic magazine Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg said he was invited to join the chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal and did so when it later convened about a conversation among officials about U.S. plans to launch airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case testing the limits of the nondelegation doctrine, an issue that may sound lawyerly, but which is of the utmost importance in ensuring separation among the federal branches and accountability for the important decisions that affect us all.
Nondelegation is the principle that one branch of government may not give away its power to another. Thus, Congress, vested by the Constitution with the “legislative powers,” cannot give those powers to the executive branch. And yet it appears to do so routinely with broadly-written laws that invite bureaucrats to make the decisions and set the rules that will bind the public.
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A top MS-13 leader was arrested early Thursday morning just outside of Washington, D.C., in the northern Virginia area, law enforcement leaders announced shortly afterward.
The individual, who law enforcement has yet to identify, was described as one of the top three leaders of MS-13 in the entire United States, according to a joint press conference given by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Virginia GOP Governor Glenn Youngkin and FBI Director Kash Patel. They hailed the arrest as a major victory in the Trump administration’s war against organized crime.
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The Trump administration on Tuesday introduced a new round of export controls in an effort to further stifle China’s access to U.S. technology.
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced that it was adding 80 companies — dozens of which are Chinese — to a trade blacklist, citing national security concerns. The move aims to restrict the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ability to acquire and develop ultra fast, or “exascale” supercomputers as well as quantum technologies to be used in military applications.
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The Trump administration reportedly plans to freeze $120 million in federal grants to Planned Parenthood and other similar organizations while the Health and Human Services Department investigates whether the grant money was used for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Planned Parenthood clinics in approximately dozen states expected to receive about $20 million from the federal government in 2025.
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The use of the private messaging app Signal by senior Trump national security officials is only the latest episode in a long, bipartisan history of those in government using private communications platforms to conduct official business, a problem that experts say would be simple to solve.
Experts told Just the News that government officials use private messaging apps for many reasons, including convenience or in an effort to avoid public records laws. They say that the Trump administration incident does not seem to suggest the officials were interested in evading the law, but that it will be a wake-up call for the government about its messaging practices.
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Fresh off its decision to claw back $20 billion in “greenhouse gas reduction” money the Biden Environmental Protection Agency parked at Citibank, the Trump administration is setting its sights on another massive chunk of planned green spending receiving less attention.
The $7 billion Solar for All program – part of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund — is meant to “enable over 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities to benefit from distributed solar energy,” according to the EPA’s website.
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Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) filed a lawsuit against Kari Lake in her capacity as advisor to the acting CEO of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) last week.
The two independent media organizations, contracted by the government, alleged that she wrongly halted their grant funding as part of the Trump administration’s DOGE cuts. Royce Charles Lamberth, a senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, heard oral arguments on Monday.
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JC Bowman, founder and president of Professional Educators of Tennessee, said he believes that the Tennessee Department of Education is “ill-equipped” to handle billions in funds that the federal government would presumably distribute under the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.
Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities,” which directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities.”
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday told the Senate Intelligence Committee that classified information was not revealed in a group chat among top Trump administration officials and a journalist mistakenly included in the conversation about U.S. plans to launch air strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
“There was no classified material that was shared in that signal chat,” Gabbard said in response to questions by committee Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat.
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President Donald Trump revoked the Secret Service protection for former Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, The New York Post reported.
“Per executive memorandum of the President, the protective detail for former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been discontinued,” a Secret Service spokesperson told The Post.
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The Trump administration is set to put an end to a Biden-era program on Tuesday that paroled hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals into the United States during the height of the southern border crisis.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the determination of the CHNV program, a sponsorship process that brought in roughly 530,000 non-citizens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, per a memo released by the agency. The Biden administration launched the CHNV program in 2022 in an attempt to help alleviate the U.S.-Mexico border crisis and continued to parole thousands into the country every month despite internal reports indicating massive fraud.
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Representative Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ-08) asked the Trump administration last Wednesday to rescind its report criticizing the Phoenix Police Department (PPD), which came about as a result of violent protesters complaining about their interactions with officers. He sent a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel requesting a halt to the “desperate witch hunt,” which could end up putting the PPD in a consent decree with the federal government under monitoring. The Trump administration said in January that it is pausing all civil rights investigations into law enforcement agencies.
Hamadeh said in the letter, “Despite the Biden DOJ’s baseless claims, our officers did everything right, voluntarily cooperating in good faith, opening their records, and participating in lengthy interviews. They were met with stonewalling, mischaracterized testimony, and a final report riddled with glaring inaccuracies. The Biden DOJ’s claim that Phoenix Police Department officers violated constitutional standards during unrest following one of President Trump’s rallies was absurd. That claim is especially ludicrous because the Ninth Circuit affirmed that the department’s actions were lawful. The Biden DOJ ignored this and many other court-backed facts, choosing instead to cherry-pick narratives that support their political agenda.”
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Eric Loes, a Tennessean and recovering insurance agent, attended last week’s demonstration at the Tesla showroom in Franklin, a suburb of Nashville, as a counter-protester and described the scene as “misguided and misinformed.”
Over the weekend, the leftist group Indivisible Tennessee organized protests at four Tesla showrooms across the Volunteer State.
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Roger Simon, the co-founder of PJ Media and author of the Substack “American Refugees,” said the individuals behind the violent attacks on Tesla vehicles and showrooms across the country are “absolutely insane” who refuse to act in a rational manner.
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Since Inauguration Day, President Trump and congressional Republicans have been hard at work eliminating waste, reining in bureaucracy, and making government accountable to We the People. And so far, we’ve had a lot of success.
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EJ Haust, official guest host of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show and self-described political refugee from Minnesota, pointed out the hypocrisy behind the protests and vandalism targeted at Tesla vehicles across the country as the left demonstrates its outrage over billionaire Elon Musk working with the Trump administration.
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A new lobbying push will look to pitch Biden-era green corporate welfare and carbon tariffs as America First-aligned to the Trump administration and lawmakers, Axios reported Friday.
The Cleaner Economy Coalition (CEC) is a newly-formed 501(c)(4) entity that “sees an opening in the Trump era” to pursue carbon tariffs and save the 45X tax credit, a costly subsidy for green energy manufacturing unleashed by a bill — the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) — that did not receive a single GOP vote on its way to becoming law, according to Axios. The CEC is hiring lobbyists who formerly worked for President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and it will have a seven-figure budget at its disposal to try to convince Republicans to back policies long favored by greens and liberals.
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The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County is among a group of U.S. cities and nonprofit organizations suing the Trump administration for freezing federal funding.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina Charleston Division on Wednesday, cites three executive orders signed by President Donald Trump that freeze federal funding and directs federal agencies to eliminate certain federal grants and contracts.
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The Small Business Administration (SBA) announced on Friday that it will cut 43 percent of its workforce.
This means that SBA will eliminate 2,700 jobs out of 6,500. According to the SBA press release, this move will save taxpayers $435 million annually by Fiscal Year 2026.
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U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) is reportedly among the seven Congressmen who received a maximum personal donation from Elon Musk in response to the Tennessee Republican’s efforts to impeach judges who made controversial rulings which block the agenda of President Donald Trump.
Musk reportedly made the donations to Ogles and six other members of Congress on Wednesday, with the New York Times claiming Ogles received the maximum, $6,600 donation which Musk is allowed to send as a private citizen.
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In a highly anticipated move on Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, calling it a “historic action that is 45 years in the making.” The East Room ceremony was attended by GOP governors from Texas, Indiana, Florida, and Ohio, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, senior advisor Stephen Miller, along with a number of students and other special guests.
“We are going to be returning education very simply BACK TO THE STATES where it belongs,” Trump said. “It’s a commonsense thing to do and it’s going to work.”
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The United States used to be the undisputed leader in nuclear power and still has more operating reactors than any other nation, with 94 currently in service. But in the last 35 years, only one new nuclear power plant has been built in the U.S.—Plant Vogtle in Georgia, which only recently began commercial operations.
Meanwhile, 25 nuclear reactors are under construction in China, seven in India, four each in Turkey, Egypt, and Russia, and two each in South Korea, Bangladesh, Japan, the UK, and Ukraine. The nations of Argentina, Brazil, France, Iran, and Slovakia are all building one plant at present.
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President Donald Trump Monday posted an blunt and enthusiastic statement of his support for building more coal-fired power plants.
“After years of being held captive by Environmental Extremists, Lunatics, Radicals, and Thugs, allowing other Countries, in particular China, to gain tremendous Economic advantage over us by opening up hundreds of all Coal Fire Power Plants, I am authorizing my Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL,” the president said in a post on Truth Social.
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At his recent address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, President Donald Trump noted that upon taking office he had “imposed an immediate freeze… on all foreign aid” via a January 20 executive order.
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A January 6 political prisoner who was liberated by President Donald Trump when he took office in January, has declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate.
Jake Lang, a native New Yorker, was one of the more than 1,500 people charged with offenses related to the January 6 riot who received pardons from President Donald Trump in January. Lang spent four years in the DC Gulag and other federal prisons without a trial, and like many others, was subjected to beatings, solitary confinement, and other forms of torture.
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The Trump administration removed a Biden-era surgeon general’s advisory on the public health effects of gun violence and a similar webpage from the Health and Human Services (HHS) website.
Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a public health advisory on “firearm violence,” declaring it to be a “public health crisis” in 2024, though a link to the report was recently scrubbed from the HHS site. The advisory was part of the Biden administration’s broader efforts to usher in additional gun control measures at the federal level.
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Newly submitted court documents reveal just how many members of a ruthless Venezuelan gang are being held in government custody across the U.S.
There are roughly 54 Tren de Aragua (TdA) members currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, according to written testimony provided by Robert Cerna, an acting field office director with ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division. Around 172 other TdA gangbangers are on the agency’s non-detained docket and approximately 32 members are in criminal custody with ICE detainers lodged against them.
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Since Hamas’s barbaric attack on Israel on October 7th, many of our nation’s top universities have abandoned their Jewish students. Instead of providing a place to learn, they have become hotbeds of antisemitism, anti-American hatred, and open support for terrorism.
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Half a decade after the start of a global pandemic, the Trump Administration has begun a renewed push to get to the bottom of the origins of COVID-19, with more and more evidence — including by non-U.S. intelligence agencies — indicating that it came from the Wuhan lab.
Exactly five years ago today, an influential scientific Proximal Origin paper was published pushing back on the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Emails show Dr. Anthony Fauci, the now-former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, “prompted” the writing of that influential article.
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The White House late Sunday responded to speculation about whether the Trump administration had defied court orders in having deported to El Salvador roughly 200 illegal migrants, including alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
“The administration did not ‘refuse to comply’ with a court order,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, said in a statement. “The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist TdA aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory.”
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The GOP-led Congress is now turning to the budget reconciliation bill that is expected to include tax reform and spending cuts after the passage of the Continuing Resolution, which keeps the government funded through the end of the current fiscal year on September 30.
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Attorney General Kris Mayes, who has pushed back aggressively against the Trump administration since January including filing nine lawsuits, joined a lawsuit with 20 other Democratic attorneys general on Thursday suing to stop the layoffs of half of the U.S. Department of Education employees. The lawsuit comes on the heels of a broader lawsuit she joined last week with her Democratic colleagues suing over the layoffs of probationary federal employees at nearly two dozen agencies, and a lawsuit filed last month over Trump cutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
A press release from the Department of Education announcing the cuts said it was “part of the Department of Education’s final mission,” implying the agency is going to be shut down, which Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has called for.
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A Thursday report revealed the Metro Nashville-authorized governing board overseeing the Continuum of Care (CoC) network that addresses homelessness in the city changed the name of a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee as part of a “creative” effort to keep nearly $12 million in federal funding amid the Trump administration’s effort to stifle funding to programs pushing the controversial ideology.
The CoC is the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-mandated network of nonprofits, government entities, and other organizations in Nashville and Davidson County, while the Homelessness Planning Council (HPC) is the Metro-backed board governing the CoC. Board members are elected by members of the network.
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Wednesday that the agency will take 31 “historic actions” to roll back the Biden administration’s climate agenda in line with President Donald Trump’s executive order to “Unleash American Energy.”
“By overhauling massive rules on the endangerment finding, the social cost of carbon and similar issues, we are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age,” Zeldin stated in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
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The Department of Education announced a sweeping reduction in force (RIF) that will cut nearly 50% of its workforce, marking a significant step in what officials describe as the agency’s “final mission” under the Trump administration. The move, impacting approximately 1,950 employees, will see affected staff placed on administrative leave starting as early as Friday, March 21.
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The arrest of terrorist-sympathizing former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil is part of a larger effort to root out antisemitism from American universities, The Daily Signal has learned.
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Federal immigration authorities arrested several hundred criminal migrants in a massive Houston operation that spanned only several days.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 646 illegal migrants, 543 of which were foreign nationals charged or convicted of a criminal offense and living unlawfully in the United States, according to a press release from the agency. The extensive operation — which was conducted in the Houston, Texas, area from Feb. 23 to March 2 — was the latest in the Trump administration’s mission to arrest and deport criminal illegal migrants from the country.
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The FBI has launched an investigation into “dishonest leakers” inside the bureau who have recently pushed “false information” to the media – leaks that FBI officials say has undermined the mission of the nation’s premiere law enforcement institution, Just the News has learned.
The internal investigation by the bureau comes weeks after Kash Patel, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump who held a number of national security positions during the first Trump Administration, took the reins as FBI director.
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The Trump Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally dismissed a lawsuit against the state of Idaho that had been brought by the Biden Administration in opposition to the state’s pro-life law.As ABC News reports, the lawsuit had claimed that Idaho’s law – which enacts a near-total ban on abortion – was in violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). The federal law requires all hospitals funded by Medicare to provide “stabilizing care” to any patient whose health is threatened. Although the Idaho law allows exemptions for cases of rape, incest, or whenever “necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman,” the Biden-era lawsuit argued that EMTALA overrides the state law since it requires abortions for any cases of serious health risk, not just the risk of death.
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The Blue Ridge region is no stranger to hardship, but Hurricane Helene left a mark unlike any before. The storm’s wrath carved through Tennessee’s mountains and valleys, leaving behind a scar of destruction. In times like these, we’re thankful to have strong conservative Republican leaders in our state to rise to the occasion and work hand in hand with government – local, state and federal – along with companies and nonprofits, to help restore the Volunteer State.
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The Trump administration is enacting new regulations to ensure illegal migrants don’t snag government-backed loans meant for American small business owners, the agency announced on Thursday.
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Former Clinton pollster Doug Schoen told Fox News host John Roberts Thursday that he was unsure why he remains a Democrat after his party’s flawed resistance to the Trump administration following the president’s address to Congress.
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Senate Democrats and some Republicans liked the status quo at the National Institutes of Health before the second Trump administration and Department of Government Efficiency started closely scrutinizing its grant decisions, headcount and wildly generous reimbursement for “indirect costs” to institutions at the expense of money for their researchers
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After being tapped by President Donald Trump last year after his election to lead the Voice of America (VOA) Kari Lake was sworn in on Monday. She was named a special adviser for VOA’s parent, the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) until she transitions to director of VOA after Trump’s nominee L. Brett Bozell III is confirmed by the Senate to lead USAGM. Known for her famous takedowns of the mainstream media over its bias, the former news anchorwoman and political candidate will face a significant amount of work dismantling the bias and bloat within the VOA.
Lake posted on X, “I got sworn in today. Looking forward to serving America, streamlining the United States Agency of Global Media and everything it oversees.”
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President Donald Trump’s decision to remove General Charles Q. Brown Jr. from his position as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) has ignited a debate between the left, right, and pundits regarding the president’s power over military leadership and the broader implications of such a decision. President Trump’s decision shines a spotlight on the constitutional, legal, and historical dimensions that empower the president to make these changes while also considering the potential ramifications of this move on Pentagon governance, military cohesion, and our national security.
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The Internal Revenue Service reportedly plans to cut its roughly 90,000-employee workforce by as much as half, as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce.
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by Robert Romono The Atlanta Federal Reserve on March 3 has again issued its GDP Now projection, finding the U.S. economy could be contracting at an inflation-adjusted, annualized 2.8 percent rate for the first quarter of 2025. That is down further from its Feb. 28 projection of negative 1.5 percent. But this was a long time coming, with red lights flashing since 2022 as inflation overheated the U.S. economy amid a slowdown of global production following Covid and trillions of dollars of monetary and fiscal stimulus. One such reliable recession measure, the spread between 10-year treasuries and 2-year treasuries, has shown inversions — the 10-year interest rate goes lower than the 2-year rate and then stays there for a period of time as investors begin hedging against risk by locking higher long term rates — in each of the last six recessions. In 1978, the 10-year, 2-year spread inverted, foretelling the 1980 recession, in 1980 predicting the 1981-1982 recession, in 1989 before the 1990-1991 recession, in 2000 before the 2001 recession, in 2006 before the 2008-2009 recession and even in 2019 before the 2020 Covid recession. It’s like clockwork. Sometimes there’s a head-fake, for example, a brief inversion in 1998 did…
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Is the era of rounding up government or academic “experts” to declare their support or opposition to ongoing controversies over?
Public declarations by Anthony Fauci and his associates to follow their “expertise” or “science” did not work out well and persuaded few.
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