Spirit Airlines is expanding its services at Nashville International Airport (BNA) this year by offering five new routes to destinations in three states beginning in March, the airline company announced.
The company is adding two destinations – George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas (IAH), and Boston Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts (BOS) – to its Nashville route map beginning on March 5.
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The head of the Committee to Stop an UnFair Tax that opposed Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s Choose How You Move transit referendum told The Tennessee Star on Monday that her group will appeal the Monday decision by Davidson County Chancery Court Judge Anne Martin to dismiss the group’s lawsuit.
Emily Evans, who led the committee and is a plaintiff in the lawsuit, told The Star that Martin’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit under grounds that it was not a proper election contest was “not really unexpected,” and “sort of the pattern that we’ve seen in recent years.”
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Mark Pulliam, a retired attorney and Misrule of Law blogger, shared his thoughts on how President-elect Donald Trump, once he assumes office, should handle the state of California and city of Los Angeles’ request for federal assistance following the ongoing wildfires which have since resulted in the death of 24 individuals.
The wildfires in California, which began burning on Tuesday, have since destroyed nearly 41,000 acres, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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A new study revealed that over the last decade, home prices across the country have nearly doubled, rising by 95 percent. At the same time, average hourly earnings have grown at less than half that rate, with a 44 percent increase.
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Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) quietly closed its case into the first known terrorist attack by a “border-crossing Muslim migrant” on a Jewish American victim last year without providing answers to questions still concerning the Jewish community impacted by the attack.
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Tennessee U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) introduced a bill on Monday that would authorize President-elect Donald Trump to enter negotiations with Denmark for the U.S. to acquire Greenland once he is inaugurated as the 47th president.
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A Malibu surgeon who, hours before, had just finished performing brain surgery ignored evacuation orders and worked to save his home from the raging wildfires that have since burned more than 40,300 acres throughout Los Angeles County, California and is now sharing his story.
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Chair of the Arizona Republican Party (AZGOP) Gina Swoboda released a statement on Friday reacting to President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in the New York City hush money trial, describing the entire case as a “desperate attempt” by the Democratic left to “silence” Trump.
In May 2024, Trump was found guilty by a New York jury of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
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State Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) on Thursday listed nine reasons he argues the Tennessee General Assembly should remove Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy in a press conference that lasted over an hour.
Taylor began by noting the process for the General Assembly to remove a District Attorney has been used twice in the last two decades, both times resulting in the resignation of the public official, before confirming he will provide his nine reasons for removal to lawmakers in the upcoming legislative session.
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Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the media ignored the first known terrorist attack by a “border-crossing Muslim migrant” on an American victim last year in an effort to not influence the November 5 general election.
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Pollster John McLaughlin said he believes President-elect Donald Trump’s “peace through strength” message will be as prominent as President James Monroe’s 1823 annual message to Congress which contained the famous Monroe Doctrine and will come to be known by Americans as the Trump Doctrine.
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Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced a package of four bills on Thursday aimed at combating human trafficking.
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Tom Zawistowski, president of the We the People Convention, is continuing his call on President-elect Donald Trump to issue a pardon to political prisoners who were convicted on charges related to the January 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol.
Trump has vowed to pardon individuals accused or convicted of charges relating to January 6, telling Time magazine in December 2024 that pardons will begin “in the first hour” of him being inaugurated later this month on January 20.
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Governor Bill Lee on Wednesday confirmed that, if requested, he will activate the Tennessee National Guard to assist President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration with the mass deportation of illegal immigrants.
During a press conference about his Tennessee Education Freedom plan to offer 20,000 partial scholarships to Tennessee families to promote school choice, Lee was asked whether would activate the National Guard to assist with mass deportations by a reporter who noted Lee was among signatories on a letter from Republican governors who pledged to assist the president-elect with his immigration agenda.
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Five men were arrested following the execution of a search warrant on Wednesday at a property in Antioch, Tennessee by state federal law enforcement agencies including the Metro Nashville Police Department, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), and the FBI.
The search warrant and arrests were first announced on social media by MNPD on Monday, when the department confirmed the five arrests were part of “an ongoing human trafficking investigation,” and the residence “is a suspected brothel.”
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Tennessee U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) sent a letter to President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday urging him to eliminate the Presidential Medal of Freedom once assuming office.
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti applauded a federal court’s order vacating the Biden administration’s Title IX rule nationwide.
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Tennessee U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) introduced a bill on Thursday that would require the U.S. Department of State to develop and implement a policy that “ensures” U.S. tax money does not end up in the hands of the Taliban.
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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) celebrated after a bill she co-sponsored that would ensure that the Women’s Suffrage National Monument is located on the National Mall was signed into law.
President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan Women’s Suffrage National Monument Location Act into law on January 4, officially authorizing a commemorative work to commemorate the women’s suffrage movement and the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.
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Jacob Huebert, president of the Liberty Justice Center, detailed this week’s upcoming oral arguments in the case TikTok, Inc. v. Garland before the U.S. Supreme Court, explaining how the plaintiffs in the case are seeking to prevent the current law requiring TikTok to divest from its parent company by January 19 from taking effect.
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Davidson County Chancery Court Chancellor Anne Martin reportedly said on Wednesday that she intends to release a ruling in the lawsuit brought against Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell, the Metro Nashville government, and the Davidson County Election Commission by February 1 over the successful Choose How You Move transit referendum, noting the plan is set to take effect on February 1 after voters approved it in November.
The lawsuit was filed in November by Emily Evans and her Committee to Stop an UnFair Tax, a group created to oppose the transit referendum, who claim the transit plan illegally uses the 2017 IMPROVE Act to raise Nashville’s sales tax to fund items not covered by the 2017 legislation, including sidewalks and traffic signals.
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Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, said he believes that the U.S. Supreme Court will grant President-elect Donald Trump’s emergency motion seeking to halt a criminal sentencing scheduled for Friday morning in the New York hush money case.
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New legislation introduced Tuesday in Tennessee would require the Tennessee Coordinator of Elections, Tennessee Department of Safety (TDOS), and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) to create new portals that will allow election officials to determine if voter applicants are U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote.
House Bill 69 by Majority Leader William Lamberth (R-Portland) requires the Coordinator of Elections and TDOS to “create a secure, electronic portal through which each county administrator of elections may access information to verify, prior to processing an applicant’s application to register to vote, whether the applicant is a non-United States citizen based on records on file.”
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U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-02), who launched and remains co-chair of the Congressional Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Caucus, said on Wednesday that the unidentified drones spotted in December flying over New Jersey, Virginia and other states along the eastern seaboard, are likely a “test” from China, dismissing claims the drones are part of an American program to find radioactive materials.
Burchett made the remarks during his appearance on the Wednesday episode of the “What’s The Biggs Idea” podcast hosted by Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ-05), telling his colleague the drones likely originated in China, and that the United States likely “failed” whatever test the foreign government posed.
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Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) confirmed to The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy on Tuesday that confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for attorney general and director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are set to begin in the Senate Judiciary Committee next week.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is chaired by Iowa U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
The Senate Judiciary Committee is chaired by Iowa U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has been assigned to oversee President-elect Donald Trump’s appeal to the nation’s highest court submitted on Wednesday that seeks to halt a criminal sentencing scheduled for Friday morning in the New York hush money case.
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Tennessee U.S. Representative Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-04) was appointed chairman of the U.S. House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces on Tuesday.
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U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) on Monday said that the Pentagon under President-elect Donald Trump, if Pete Hegseth is confirmed to serve as the country’s Secretary of Defense, will drop the focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) seen under the Biden administration, and become focused exclusively on “lethality and competence.”
Hagerty stressed the importance of Hegseth’s confirmation during a Monday appearance on Fox News’ “Mornings with Maria,” telling host Maria Bartiromo that new leadership at the Pentagon would make the nation’s military more effective and address its recruitment and retention crisis.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the Metro Nashville Police Department and Davidson County Sheriff’s Office, as well as any other law enforcement agencies who fail to report data to the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference (TNDAGC) about illegal aliens arrested in the state, may face legal challenges for defying state law.
In May, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed HB2774/SB2158 into law, which, among other requirements, requires the TNDAGC to collect and analyze data from law enforcement agencies on the number of persons not lawfully present in the U.S. charged or convicted of a criminal offense in Tennessee during the previous year.
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The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) on Tuesday told The Tennessee Star that it submitted data to the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference (TNDAGC), who in turn confirmed to The Star that it received data covering the month of October 2024 from DCSO after The Star first contacted the agency seeking information about which Tennessee law enforcement agencies had submitted data in compliance with a Tennessee state law.
“We provided a spreadsheet of data, as required by statute, to the TNDAGC of those booked into Davidson County jails,” said Jonathan Adams, the director of communications for DCSO.
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McDonald’s is the latest business to end a number of its “woke” DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) policies after being investigated and approached by Robby Starbuck, the political commentator and filmmaker from Tennessee announced Monday.
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President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that his son, Donald Trump Jr., and other “various representatives” will be traveling to Greenland this week amid his ongoing interest in the U.S. purchase of the country.
“I am hearing that the people of Greenland are “MAGA.” My son, Don Jr, and various representatives, will be traveling there to visit some of the most magnificent areas and sights. Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post
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Tennessee U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) was sworn into the 119th Congress on Friday, marking the beginning of his second term in Congress.
Ogles, who represents Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, said it is an “honor” to continue representing the Volunteer State in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, described the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) handling of the New Year’s Day terrorist attack that killed 14 and injured dozens more in New Orleans as “nothing short of appalling.”
After authorities said ISIS-inspired terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar drove a vehicle through a crowd of revelers early on New Year’s Day before engaging in gunfire with law enforcement, the FBI has circulated conflicting information about the attack and suspect on multiple occasions, Pappert explained.
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President Joe Biden last week honored Metro Nashville Police (MNPD) Chief John Drake and the Nashville police officers who responded to the Covenant School shooting by awarding them the Medal of Valor, while the department reported that Attorney General Merrick Garland met with the Nashville police in the White House.
In posts to the social media platform X, the MNPD wrote, “Our Covenant School heroes, accompanied by Chief Drake, are at the White House & have just received our nation’s Medal of Valor from President Biden in the Oval Office. Attorney General Merrick Garland met with the team in the Roosevelt Room.”
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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell confirmed on Sunday that she is seeking support from the White House to improve the city’s security ahead of the Super Bowl in February, and its famous Mardi Gras celebrations in March.
In a Sunday press conference, Cantrell stated, “I have specifically requested through the White House that the City of New Orleans be assisted with getting a tactical expert in our city this week to map our city for target hardening measures.”
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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued a statement after Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sent a letter to outgoing FBI Director Chris Wray demanding answers about the federal law enforcement agency’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies in the wake of New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans, accusing the senator of engaging in “hate and bigotry.”
The attorney general, a Democrat whose official biography states he is the son of Haitian immigrants with “a vast background in public service,” accused Blackburn and Republicans who support President-elect Donald Trump of launching, “unfounded attacks on immigration and diversity, equity and inclusion – even undermining the FBI as the agency’s dedicated public servants investigate the attack on their fellow Americans ringing in the New Year.”
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Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) was officially sworn into her second term in the U.S. Senate last week as she took the oath of office administered by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Blackburn, who was first elected to the Senate in 2018, said it is an “honor” to represent the Volunteer State in Congress.
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President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday he is appointing Fox News on-air contributor Tammy Bruce to serve in his incoming administration as spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State.
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A law firm announced on Sunday it will file a lawsuit against the City of New Orleans and New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) on Wednesday over alleged “gross negligence” that purportedly allowed terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar to drive a vehicle through a crowd of revelers early on New Year’s Day, killing 14 and injuring dozens.
The New Orleans-based Maples and Connick law firm stated in a press release that it will file its lawsuit against the city and police department on Wednesday morning, arguing, “their failure to implement basic safety precautions for citizens and visitors,” amounted to “negligence” that ultimately “paved the way for the tragic events that unfolded in the early morning hours of January 1, 2025.”
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A spokesman for The Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference (TNDAGC) told The Tennessee Star the conference is currently preparing its first report to the governor and state legislators to establish the cost incurred to Tennessee taxpayers as a result of illegal immigrants who are processed through the criminal justice system, to fulfill its obligations under a law signed last year to bill the federal government for the results of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy.
Despite the legal requirement for law enforcement to provide data about illegal immigrants who are arrested in Tennessee, the agency told The Star that neither the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD), nor the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office, have provided data to the conference.
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The Nashville-based Beacon Center of Tennessee published results of a poll it conducted on Monday revealing how registered Tennessee voters feel about a number of legislative issues at both the state and federal levels.
The right-of-center think tank polled 1,200 registered voters in Tennessee from December 16, 2024, to December 27, 2024.
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Tennessee U.S. Representative Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-04) was sworn into the 119th Congress on Friday, marking the beginning of his eighth term in Congress.
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The insurance company Allstate is facing calls for a boycott from conservatives on the social media platform X following its Sugar Bowl advertisement that seemed to blame the “addiction to divisiveness and negativity” shared by United States citizens for the New Year’s Day terrorist attack that claimed 14 lives in New Orleans.
Allstate’s commercial featured its CEO, Tom Wilson, and was broadcast during the Sugar Bowl game, which was held in New Orleans and delayed one day by the terrorist attack authorities say was committed by Shamsud Din Jabbar.
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Althea Duncan, the FBI Special Agent leading the agency’s investigation into the January 1 terrorist attack in New Orleans, wore a jacket emblazoned with the logo of the agency’s Critical Incident Response Group – Behavioral Analysis Unit (CRIG-BAU) during the same press conference when she denied the attack, which killed 14, was tied to terrorism.
“This is not a terrorist event, what is right now, is they’re improvised explosive devices that was found, and we are working on confirming if it is a viable device or not,” Duncan controversially said in a clip of the Wednesday press conference that accrued more than 10 million views on the social media platform X.
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Tennessee took in the 16th most H-1B workers during the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.
This FY year went from October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024.
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President-elect Donald Trump announced he is appointing Morgan Ortagus to serve in his incoming administration as deputy special presidential envoy for Middle East Peace on Friday.
Ortagus would serve under Steven Witkoff, who Trump announced in November was his choice for special envoy to the Middle East.
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Tennessee ranked fifth in the nation for growth based on the number of one-way entries to the state in 2024, according to data compiled by the moving company U-Haul.
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Tennessee U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) ensured that House Republicans, like Americans, want to see President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda move forward despite the drama surrounding Friday’s speakership vote.
On Friday morning prior to the U.S. House voting to elect Mike Johnson (R-LA-04) as its speaker, Burchett joined The Michael Patrick Leahy Show where he made the remarks.
On Friday morning prior to the U.S. House voting to elect Mike Johnson (R-LA-04) as its speaker, Burchett joined The Michael Patrick Leahy Show where he made the remarks.
Tennessee State Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) celebrated on Thursday after Shelby County General Session Court Bill Anderson announced his resignation, confirming he will leave the judicial bench on March 1.
Anderson was previously the subject of complaints by Taylor to the Tennessee Board of Judicial Conduct (BJC), initially for declaring his “detest” for the Volunteer State’s bond and bail system, and more recently for releasing a man from jail despite the defendant being accused of firing a gun at a Memphis FedEx facility, citing the defendant’s ability to pay bail, despite Tennessee legislation that specifically prohibits judges from considering the financial circumstances of a suspect.
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