A squabble between Vanderbilt University graduate students and the school has students caught in the middle as they try to protect their privacy.
United Auto Workers filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board on Oct. 2 to form the union, which includes about 2,200 employees, according to the National Labor Relations Board online record.
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Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told reporters on Friday she is “confident” in the security of the Volunteer State’s elections after she cast her vote early for the November 5 general election at an early voting polling location in Brentwood.
“We know that in Tennessee, we have the most secure elections in the country and our Secretary of State, Tre Hargett, gets a lot of credit for that. I know Tennesseans are confident they can show up, cast their vote, and that vote’s going to be counted,” Blackburn said.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis cautioned Florida voters against passage of Amendment 3 that would make recreational marijuana legal in the Sunshine State.
DeSantis made his remarks at a news conference in Fort Myers on Thursday as he continues a campaign against two well-funded ballot initiatives.
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Governor Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares on Friday vowed to appeal after a federal judge ordered Virginia to restore about 1,500 noncitizens to the commonwealth’s voter rolls.
U.S. District Judge Patricia Trolliver Giles, an appointee of President Joe Biden, announced her decision after the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) sued to force Virginia to restore the noncitizen voters, alleging the commonwealth violated the National Voter Registration Act by removing them so close to an election.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the Biden-Harris administration released 10 illegal immigrants from Iran over a six-month period in just its New Orleans Area of Responsibility, according to data reported by the agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations – Law Enforcement Systems and Analysis unit, and released this week by the Tennessee Attorney General.
The documents reveal ten citizens of Iran were paroled into the United States after being transferred to ICE’s New Orleans Area of Responsibility between August 2022 and January 2023, with the last release of an Iranian national from ICE facilities included within the report recorded on February 24, 2023.
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Pennsylvania-based radio show host John Fredericks said Friday’s federal court decision ordering Virginia to place non-citizens back on its voter rolls proves the Biden-Harris administration’s intentions to have illegal aliens vote in U.S. elections.
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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) was among nine Republican senators who sent a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris pressing her on the administration’s “failed” initiative to connect millions of Americans to broadband internet.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, signed by President Joe Biden in 2021, provided the National Telecommunications and Information Administration with $42.45 billion for the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, which was intended to “provide broadband access to unserved communities, particularly those in rural areas.”
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A federal judge in Virginia on Friday ordered the commonwealth to place non-citizens back on its voter rolls.
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued his 41st executive order Thursday establishing a statewide gang and community violence prevention partnership and enforcement strategy to confront gang violence.
In addition to combating gang violence, the order will target drug and human trafficking and violence committed with firearms. The action also aims to provide support to communities and victims.
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Documents published by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti on Wednesday reveal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released almost 500 illegal immigrants from China, in just its New Orleans Area of Responsibility, between November 2022 and February 2023.
The documents were published on the same day Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, a Republican, filed an “emergency lawsuit” against top immigration officials in the Biden-Harris administration, seeking to prevent additional releases from Louisiana ICE facilities after the federal agency allegedly transported an illegal immigrant from China who is suffering a “rare, aggressive, and drug resistant form of tuberculosis which carries high mortality rates,” through its facilities in the state.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled to hear oral arguments in United States v. Skrmetti, a case challenging a Tennessee law that bans “gender-affirming care” on minors, for Wednesday, December 4.
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Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) demanded the release of former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in a Thursday letter to Biden-Harris administration Bureau of Prisons (BOP) director Colette Peters that was obtained by The Tennessee Star.
Ogles accused the federal agency of “willfully facilitating the political persecution of the Democrat Party’s political opponents,” through its refusal to apply the First Step Act (FSA) good time credits accrued by Bannon, and demanded Peters take immediate actions to secure the former Trump adviser’s early release from prison.
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The latest numbers from the Tennessee Secretary of State’s office show that 820,587 Tennesseans have voted early in the first five days of voting.
The numbers are still less than 2020 numbers, when 910,802 cast their ballots in the first five days a 9.91% decrease. More voters used absentee ballots in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Georgia Supreme Court blocked a Republican effort Tuesday to require poll workers to hand-count the number of ballots cast, upholding a lower court’s decision.
A Georgia judge previously blocked a state election board rule that would have required counties to hand-count ballots on Election Day. The Republican National Committee (RNC) and Georgia GOP appealed to the state’s highest court, requesting a quick reinstatement of the rules during their ongoing legal challenge, Politico reported.
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Georgia Republican Party Chair Josh McKoon on Tuesday called for an election nonprofit to dissolve or distance itself from the fundraising email sent by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on its behalf.
McKoon issued his statement after Women for America First Executive Director Kylie Kremer surfaced the email written by Raffensperger. The email revealed that the secretary used a personal email to solicit funds for the Election Defense Fund, Inc., a purported nonprofit 501 (c) (4), a distinction that allows it to raise money without revealing its funding sources.
McKoon issued his statement after the email written by Raffensperger was surfaced by Women for America First executive director Kylie Kremer, revealing the secretary used a personal email to solicit funds for the Election Defense Fund, Inc., a purported nonprofit 501 (c) (4), a distinction that allows it to raise money without revealing its funding sources.
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Representative Mark Green (R-TN-07) on Tuesday warned the United States “simple cannot go on like this as a country” after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released new data revealing federal immigration officials encountered more than 1.3 million encounters with illegal immigrants who would not ordinarily be allowed to enter the country.
Green, who chairs the House’s Homeland Security committee, made the remarks after CBP also announced it recorded more than 1.5 million illegal immigrant apprehensions at the southern border during the 2024 fiscal year.
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The Biden-Harris administration worked with former Nashville Mayor John Cooper and non-profit organizations to move thousands of illegal immigrants from federal facilities in Louisiana to Nashville, according to internal emails and documents published Wednesday by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, whose office successfully sued to stop the practice.
A press release from the attorney general’s office reveals that the plan was enacted by officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with cooperation from Cooper’s office. However, Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN), as well as Governor Bill Lee, opposed it.
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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) released a memo this week clarifying elements of her and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal’s (D-CT) Kids Online Safety Act, which passed the Senate in July, amid what the senator is calling “lies” being circulated about the legislation.
The Kids Online Safety Act seeks to “protect minors from online harms” by requiring social media companies to “take reasonable measures” to “prevent and mitigate” children from being harmed while using their platforms, including through sexual exploitation or online bullying.
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Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told The Tennessee Star on Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris must apologize after she fanned the “flames of political violence” in her remarks, delivered earlier that day from the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., comparing former President Donald Trump to genocidal dictator Adolf Hitler.
Ramaswamy described Harris’ speech as “insane” and “irresponsible” in a statement provided exclusively to The Star.
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A poll of 1,200 likely Tennessee voters shows both Democrats and Republicans would back candidates who support school choice.
Democratic voters were even more likely than Republicans, with 58% saying they would vote for a proponent of school choice compared to 56% of their GOP counterparts, according to a poll by The Beacon Center.
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Tennessee State House Minority Whip Jason Powell (D-Nashville) on Monday wrote that he and his daughter helped a woman being mauled in a Nashville greenway in a plea for Mayor Freddie O’Connell and the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) to increase public safety.
Powell urged O’Connell, MNPD Chief John Drake, and Nashville Parks Director Monique Horton Odom to take action in a letter posted to the social media platform X by Fox 17 Nashville reporter Kylie Walker, noting he witnessed the mauling only days after 34-year-old Alyssa Lokits was found dead in the Mill Creek Greenway on October 14.
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Nathan Wade, the former special counsel appointed to prosecute former President Donald Trump in Georgia, told the U.S. House Judiciary committee he’s had “minimal contact” with the office District Attorney Fani Willis, but police cameras recorded the attorney joining the district attorney during a traffic stop where her daughter was arrested.
In his opening remarks during his October 15 deposition, Wade told the committee he has, “had minimum contact with the Office of the District Attorney of Fulton County,” since he resigned after Judge Scott McAfee issued a “distasteful dicta” that required he or Willis to resign from the case against Trump and those who helped him contest the 2020 election results in Georgia.
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Former President Donald Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia as election day draws closer, according to a Tuesday poll from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC).
Trump is leading at 47% while Harris is at 43%, which is outside of the poll’s margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, according to the AJC. Of likely voters that were polled, 8% said that they are still undecided.
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As the vice president and Chief Financial Officer of a Middle Georgia ambulance service, I’ve seen firsthand how the exorbitant cost of healthcare is a heavy burden on Georgians from all walks of life. This isn’t just a problem for the sick or the elderly, it’s a shared struggle we must all confront together.
A recent study ranked Georgia as the worst state in the nation for healthcare, a stark reminder of the urgent need for change. The study cited high costs, the lack of doctors (particularly specialists), and unaffordable insurance as the prime reasons for this designation. Nearly fifteen percent of Georgians deferred seeing a doctor within the last twelve months due to concerns about costs, and almost one in seven residents lacked health insurance.
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The Tennessee Star on Monday obtained a letter sent by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to Steve Bannon, wherein the federal agency acknowledged it is holding him the former White House chief strategist in violation of the First Step Act (FSA) of 2018.
Bannon’s attorneys filed the letter as part of an effort to secure an earlier release but it was sent to Bannon’s lawyers by the Acting Warden at the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut, where Bannon is serving a four-month sentence after he was convicted in 2022 for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena from the House select committee that investigated January 6.
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All 11 members of the Tennessee congressional delegation sent a letter to congressional leadership on Monday requesting that adequate relief funds are appropriated for farmers impacted by Hurricane Helene last month
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Former President Donald Trump vowed not to repeat the “unprecedented” prosecutions of political opponents seen during the Biden-Harris administration during a Saturday interview with Matthew Boyle of Breitbart News.
Responding to claims by Vice President Kamala Harris that Trump intends to weaponize the government against his political adversaries, the former president told Boyle it is actually Democrats who resort to such tactics, and confirmed he “won’t be doing that” should he be returned to the White House in November.
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Emily Evans, head of the Committee to Stop an UnFair Tax, is warning that the multi-billion dollar transit referendum presented to Nashville voters on the November 5 general election ballot is “unfair, unsafe, and unnecessary.”
Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s transit plan, “Choose How You Move: An All-Access Pass to Sidewalks, Signals, Service, and Safety,” would be funded by a half-cent increase in the city’s sales tax to construct miles of new sidewalks, bus stops, transit centers, parking facilities, and upgraded traffic signals throughout Nashville.
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The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on Monday declined to confirm to The Tennessee Star that Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist for the Trump administration, was evaluated for possible reductions in his prison sentence in accordance with the First Step Act of 2018.
Bannon, who is now serving a four-month prison sentence after he was convicted in 2022 for his refusal to comply with a Congressional subpoena by the House January 6 committee, stated on Friday to The National Pulse, “The Harris Bureau of Prisons is illegally holding me past my legal release date–trying to eliminate one of President Trump’s strongest advocates–these criminals reek of desperation,” and called Vice President Kamala Harris the “Mass Incarceration Queen” for the White House’s failure to implement the Trump-era First Step Act (FSA).
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Ben Cunningham, founder of the Nashville Tea Party, is warning that the multi-billion dollar transit referendum being presented to Nashville voters on the November 5 general election would “drive people out of Nashville” if passed.
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The Biden-Harris administration failed to uphold the First Step Act of 2018 when implementing the four-month prison sentence handed to former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who remains scheduled for release from the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut on October 29.
Bannon raised the issue in his Friday statement, when he condemned Vice President Kamala Harris as the “Mass Incarceration Queen” for the failure of her administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to uphold the Trump-era criminal justice reform in his case.
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A panel of three Tennessee chancery court judges on Thursday ruled that doctors in the state cannot face penalties or have their licenses revoked for performing emergency abortions.
The initial lawsuit challenging the state’s abortion ban was brought by several plaintiffs in 2023 who asked the court to clarify the situations as to where patients can receive an abortion legally. Tennessee’s abortion ban took effect in 2022, giving restricted exceptions on emergency abortions regarding saving the mother’s life or if the child was not expected to survive through the entire pregnancy.
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The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Georgia Republican Party on Thursday appealed a judge’s decision that invalidated seven election rules passed by the state’s election board.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox on Wednesday determined that the new rules are “illegal, unconstitutional and void,” because the state board did not have the authority to create such orders.
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The Biden-Harris Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doled out billions of taxpayer dollars in August to a left-wing nonprofit consortium linked to Democratic voter mobilization efforts, including a Stacey Abrams’ get-out-the-vote initiative based in Georgia.
The EPA announced that Power Forward Communities (PFC) received $2 billion under the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) on Aug. 16. The PFC is partnering with an array of Democratic Party-affiliated groups in addition to the two-time Georgia governor candidate Abrams’ Fair Count, including the nation’s largest teachers union—a major contributor to Democratic candidates—and a prominent climate activist group, according to a review of the PFC’s website.
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Four of seven locations the Navy is considering for potential shore-based nuclear power sites are in Virginia, according to information recently released by the department.
Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Naval Support Activity South Potomac in Dahlgren, Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, and Marine Corps Base Quantico are the sites under consideration. Installations in Maryland and North Carolina are also being considered.
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Tennessee pro-life protester Bevelyn Beatty-Williams reported to the Federal Correctional Facility (FCI) in Aliceville, Alabama on Wednesday after she was sentenced to more than three years in prison for her role in a 2020 abortion protest in New York.
Williams was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison after she and other pro-life activists were accused of blocking the entry to a Planned Parenthood location in Manhattan, in violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act of 1994, following a federal jury trial in New York prosecuted under the Biden-Harris Department of Justice.
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Former Trump administration White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told The National Pulse on Friday the Biden-Harris administration prolonged his prison sentence by failing to uphold the First Step Act of 2018, branding Vice President Kamala Harris the “mass incarceration queen” as her administration keeps a former adviser to her political opponent behind bars.
From the Federal Correctional Institute at Danbury in Connecticut, the former Trump adviser told The National Pulse, “The Harris Bureau of Prisons is illegally holding me past my legal release date–trying to eliminate one of President Trump’s strongest advocates–these criminals reek of desperation.”
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Florida is suing the Biden administration, alleging that it has not done its duty by verifying immigration records so the Sunshine State can get illegal migrants off the voter rolls.
In the lawsuit obtained by Fox News Digital, Florida alleges that the Department of Homeland Security isn’t following the law by not verifying immigration records.
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After weeks of chaos surrounding the Georgia State Election Board, a judge blocked its order requiring all ballots be counted by hand.
Judge Robert McBurney of the Superior Court of Fulton County issued the stay on Tuesday, just weeks after the Election Board first approved the measure. He said the additional step of counting ballots by hand as well as electronically would lead to “administrative chaos.”
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Pamela Moses, the independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Tennessee, accused State Representative Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville) and Tennessee Democrats of cultural appropriation after she was not invited to speak at the Wednesday debate held by The Tennessee Holler and MLK50: Justice Through Journalism.
Though the debate organizers invited both Johnson and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to the debate, Johnson was the only candidate to appear, which Moses told The Tennessee Star prompted her to attend the debate in a bid to participate, largely due to her past involvement with MLK50, a local media organization that began in Memphis.
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After the Head of Operations for the United Kingdom’s Labour Party recruited nearly 100 of the left wing party’s activists to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris in the United States, social media posts reveal high profile members of the party have already campaigned for Democrats in battleground states.
These include both a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party, who recently door-knocked for the Democrat in New Hampshire, and a regional communication director for Labour North, who campaigned for Harris and Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) with another Labour Party staffer in Nevada.
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The Head of Operations for the United Kingdom’s left wing Labour Party confirmed in multiple posts to social media that she recruited nearly 100 foreign nationals to travel to the United States and campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris in the final months prior to Election Day.
Sofia Patel, the Head of Operations for the Labour Party, wrote in a post to the professional networking platform LinkedIn on Wednesday she successfully arranged for “nearly 100” past and present Labour Party activists to travel to North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, in a post where she revealed more opportunities were available.
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Tennessee State Representative Gino Bulso (R-Brentwood) said Sunday’s ruling in a case challenging the Williamson County Board of Education’s refusal to comply with a state law mandating that all public schools review the content accessible to students in school libraries is a “precedent setting decision” for cases challenging laws made by the Tennessee General Assembly moving forward.
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Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday night urged Georgia residents to turn their ballots in early, after the state counted a record-breaking 300,000 votes cast during the first day of early voting and a state court blocked a hand-counting ballot rule.
Georgia Secretary of State Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling confirmed the number in a social media post, saying the number was “123% higher than the old record for the 1st day of voting.” Tuesday was the first day of in-person early voting in the Southern state, and the first day voters could return absentee ballots.
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis late Tuesday asked the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate three election subversion charges against former President Donald Trump, and three against his allies.
Judge Scott McAfee dismissed six charges against Trump and his allies over their alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in March. McAfee determined at the time that there was not enough evidence of an underlying crime that that the group was soliciting from a public officer.
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Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) special agents offered new information about Colt Gray, the 14-year-old accused of killing four at Apalachee High School on September 4, during a Wednesday hearing in the case against the teen’s father, Colin Gray, who is faces second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, and cruelty to children charges for allegedly giving his son the rifle authorities say was used at the school.
Investigators stated that Colt Gray left a note for his family at his father’s home, owned at least four notebooks with drawings and writings that related to school shootings or the September 4 attack, and created a “shrine” with more than a dozen photographs and news clippings from previous attacks on schools.
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Jamal Trulove, who was wrongly convicted of murder under the oversight of Vice President Kamala Harris when she was the San Francisco District Attorney, slammed Charlamagne tha God for his failure to press the Democratic presidential nominee on her criminal justice record during their Tuesday town hall.
Trulove wrote in a post to the social media platform X that Harris lied during her town hall with Charlamagne tha God, and held his own case as evidence of the Democrat’s dishonesty.
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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is urging Tennesseans to cast their votes in the November 5 general election by taking advantage of early in-person voting.
Blackburn, who faces Tennessee State Representative Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville) on the general election ballot, said she is hoping for a “big margin” in her race and for Tennesseans to vote for former President Donald Trump and local candidates.
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The Nashville-based Beacon Center of Tennessee published results of its poll on Tuesday revealing how registered Tennessee voters would vote in the 2024 presidential and senate general election races.
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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) joined 43 other Republicans in the U.S. Senate and House in sending a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris demanding that their administration’s program that resettles unaccompanied alien children into the U.S. be reformed to ensure the safety of children within the program.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) program transfers unaccompanied alien children who crossed the border into the U.S. without a parent or guardian into the hands of unvetted sponsors within the U.S., which the Republicans often warned “continue to exploit and abuse” such children.
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