by Star News Staff | Jun 26, 2024
by Christopher Roach While sometimes it is unavoidable, lawyers do everything they can not to become witnesses in their own cases. Such a contingency may require new counsel, adding to client expense. It also leads to some real ethical minefields. While as a...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jun 26, 2024
Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) led a bipartisan group of 14 other senators in sending a letter to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requesting that the agency work to increase patient access to Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Single...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jun 26, 2024
Tennessee State Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) announced Monday that his office has set up a hotline for crime victims and current or former staff members of the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office to gather complaints against District Attorney Steve Mulroy....
by Just the News | Jun 26, 2024
by John Solomon Despite years of warnings that China operates an illicit biological weapons program, the U.S. military remains unable to determine whether it sends American tax dollars to Beijing for research that could make pathogens more dangerous or deadly,...
by Star News Staff | Jun 26, 2024
by Wallace White The United States Postal Service (USPS) gave law enforcement thousands of names, addresses and other details from the letters and packages of Americans without court approval, The Washington Post reported Monday. The USPS said it generally only...
by Star News Staff | Jun 26, 2024
by Daniel Oliver How do the Democrats complain? Let us count the ways. In January 2017, seven House Democrats (Jim McGovern, Jamie Raskin, Pramila Jayapal, Raul Grijalva, Sheila Jackson Lee, Barbara Lee, and Maxine Waters) formally objected to the certification...
by Just the News | Jun 26, 2024
by Madeleine Hubbard Illegal immigration is one of the most important problems for Americans, and a new “Illegal Alien Crime” map as well as a poll about language surrounding the issue highlights the significance of the border crisis in the minds of...
by Star News Staff | Jun 25, 2024
by Robert Schmad The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the approval of what would have been the nation’s first publicly-funded religious school was unconstitutional, according to court records. Oklahoma’s Virtual Charter School Board voted to approve an...
by The Center Square | Jun 25, 2024
by Arjun Singh Montana has one of the longest shares of the U.S. border with Canada of any state. However, it’s the other border – nearly 1,000 miles away – that is becoming a flashpoint in the state’s ongoing U.S. Senate race. Montana’s U.S. Senate seat...
by Just the News | Jun 25, 2024
by Joseph Weber A New York judge on Tuesday partially lifted a gag order on Donald Trump following his conviction last month in his so-called hush money trial. The revised order now allows Trump, the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee, to speak publicly...
by Just the News | Jun 25, 2024
by Nicholas Ballasy Nine Louisiana families sued the state’s education department and their local school boards over a new state law requiring display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. Gov. Jeff Landry, R-La., signed the bill into law...
by Tom Pappert | Jun 25, 2024
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) announced on Monday a new vice president to lead the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, where The Tennessee Star reported earlier this month that Covenant School shooter was a 22-year mental health patient, having begun...
by The Center Square | Jun 25, 2024
by J.D. Davidson A coalition of health insurers and employer groups is using a targeted ad campaign to call attention to private-public hospital expansions it says leads to higher premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. The campaign comes as the Ohio State Wexner...
by Just the News | Jun 25, 2024
by Natalia Mittelstadt A temporary worker at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC) was arrested for theft, forcing the county to reprogram its security equipment, which will cost around $20,000. On Friday, Walter Ringfield, 27, who was on...
by Tom Pappert | Jun 25, 2024
The Tennessee Star confirmed on June 5 it obtained the journal recovered by the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) from the vehicle of Audrey Elizabeth Hale after her devastating attack on the Covenant School claimed the lives of three 9-year-old children and...
by The Center Square | Jun 25, 2024
by Morgan Sweeney Virginia’s permit-tracking website has expanded from including permits from three state government departments to six. Virginia residents and businesses can now follow online in real time the permits they’ve submitted to the Virginia...
by Star News Staff | Jun 25, 2024
by Mary Margaret Olohan The Justice Department’s Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for civil rights, will be hit with three ethics complaints and a criminal referral Monday, The Daily Signal has learned. Article III Project is filing both the ethics...
