by The Center Square | Jun 16, 2024
by Cameron Arcand Seventy-five million dollars from the federal opioid settlement is expected to head toward the state’s Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry in the latest budget proposal, but Attorney General Kris Mayes and some lawmakers are...
by The Center Square | Jun 16, 2024
by J.D. Davidson An Ohio lawmaker is looking for support to return land in western Ohio to formerly enslaved people denied to them during the Civil War. In a letter to Republican Gov. Mike DeWine and other state agencies and elected officials, Rep. Dontavius...
by Star News Staff | Jun 16, 2024
by Jason Hopkins Federal immigration authorities announced a slate of recent arrests that took five illegal immigrants wanted for murder out of American communities. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested three Mexican nationals and two...
by Just the News | Jun 16, 2024
by Nicholas Ballasy The U.S. Supreme Court sided with Starbucks on Thursday in the company’s challenge to a judicial order that would have required them to rehire seven Memphis employees that were fired while they participated in union efforts. The...
by Just the News | Jun 16, 2024
by Ben Whedon After several decades of conservative control of the Supreme Court and a string of rulings against their legislative and social priorities, Democrats and left-leaning media appear to be mounting an all-out assault against the judicial branch,...
by Star News Staff | Jun 16, 2024
by Robert Schmad Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) has paid out millions in contracts to insiders, newly released tax documents show. The nation’s largest BLM organization approved lucrative contracts to firms owned by members of the...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jun 16, 2024
The ninth Safe Haven Baby Box in the state of Tennessee opened in Springfield on Thursday. Located at Springfield Fire Station #2 on Bradley Drive, the Safe Haven Baby Box is a resource for mothers in crisis to “safely, securely, and anonymously surrender if they are...
by The Center Square | Jun 16, 2024
by Casey Harper Vice President Kamala Harris has a fight on her hands if she wants to inherit the Democratic presidential mantle after President Joe Biden’s time is over, according to a new poll. The Politico/Morning Consult poll shows that voters have serious...
by The Center Square | Jun 16, 2024
by Jon Styf The Gibson County sheriff has been indicted on 22 charges for improperly profiting off inmate labor. Sheriff Paul Thomas was indicted on charges of theft, forgery, computer crimes and official misconduct. Tennessee law prevents a sheriff or jailer...
by Star News Staff | Jun 16, 2024
by Kurt Mahlburg This weekend will mark my first Father’s Day as a dad—an occasion I will relish. Our 10-month-old daughter, Elsa, has a personality that is larger than life, and the bond I have with her, even at such a young age, is precious beyond words. One...
by Star News Staff | Jun 16, 2024
by Nate Hochman When T.S. Eliot said that there are no lost causes because there are no won causes, he probably was not thinking of American conservatism,” begins the opening paragraph of Sam Francis’ seminal 1991 essay, “Beautiful Losers.” “American...
by RealClearWire | Jun 16, 2024
by John R. Lott Jr. The 2023 Nashville Covenant School murders understandably received massive news coverage when they occurred. The fight over obtaining the murderer’s diary also received news attention. But when “nearly four dozen pages” of the murderer’s...
by The Center Square | Jun 16, 2024
by Bethany Blankley The U.S. Department of Homeland Security must improve the screening and vetting process of noncitizens claiming asylum who are being released into the country, the department’s inspector general says in a new report. The Office of the...
by Star News Staff | Jun 16, 2024
by Eric Lendrum Following the long-awaited reopening of the federal channel in the Port of Baltimore after the infamous shipping accident in March, the Biden Administration’s Department of Transportation (DOT) estimates that it will cost between $1.7 billion...
by RealClearWire | Jun 16, 2024
by Jason Isaac Apparently, you can litigate anything these days, and it’s gotten far more insidious than suing McDonald’s over hot coffee being, you know, hot. A new climate activist group called Our Children’s Trust is suing state and federal government...