by Cooper Moran | Jul 30, 2021 | Arizona, Battleground States, News, The West
In a joint statement released by Arizona Senate President Karen Fann and Arizona State Senate Audit Liaison Ken Bennett on Friday, the two confirmed the former Arizona Secretary of State will continue to serve as the Senate’s liaison to the ongoing audit....
by Chris Butler | Jul 30, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, News, The South
Georgia officials have filed a motion to dismiss the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) lawsuit against the state’s new voter integrity law, Senate Bill 202. Gov. Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr this week released a statement and called the lawsuit...
by Bradley Vasoli | Jul 30, 2021 | News
In House floor remarks on Thursday, Representative John Rose (R-TN-06) called out President Joe Biden for insisting in a CNN Town Hall with host Don Lemon a week ago that “crime is down” even as murder rates rise. The current rise in violent crime has been...
by Star News Staff | Jul 30, 2021 | Commentary, News
by Paul Bradford Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has so many problems to solve right now. A crime wave leaves hundreds of Americans dead and has turned our cities into war zones. A border crisis allows hundreds of thousands of illegals to enter our country. A...
by Star News Staff | Jul 30, 2021 | National, News
by Kaylee Greenlee The Biden administration will keep a Trump-era public health order used to expel most migrants from the U.S. in place, citing COVID-19 variants, Reuters reported Thursday. President Joe Biden reportedly planned to lift public health order...
by Corinne Murdock | Jul 30, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
Pfizer has launched trials in Knoxville and Nashville to test a third booster shot for the COVID-19 vaccine, marketed as an “updated version.” Alliance for Multispecialty Research (AMR) Knoxville’s Volunteer Research Group is conducting the...
by Star News Staff | Jul 30, 2021 | National, News
by Thomas Catenacci The U.S. economy surged 6.5% in the second quarter of 2021 as states continued to end coronavirus-related restrictions that triggered an economic recession last year. The U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of net services and goods...
by Star News Staff | Jul 30, 2021 | Commentary, News
by Kerry McDonald School districts across the country are beginning to impose mask mandates for all students and staff this fall. Officials in Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, DC declared last week that everyone in school buildings will be required to...
by Cooper Moran | Jul 30, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) introduced a bill on Wednesday aimed to limit “government collusion” with Big Tech to censor Americans’ free speech. “The purpose of the First Amendment is to prevent government from suppressing speech with...
by Star News Staff | Jul 30, 2021 | National, News
by The Center Square | Jul 30, 2021 | National, News
by Casey Harper President Joe Biden is expected to announce Thursday that all federal employees and contractors must receive the COVID vaccination or undergo regular COVID testing, just two days after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
by Star News Staff | Jul 30, 2021 | National, News
by Andrew Kerr The National Institutes of Health has doled out nearly $46 million in taxpayer funds to 100 Chinese institutions in the form of subgrants since the 2012 fiscal year to conduct research into infectious diseases, drug addiction, mental health and...
by The Center Square | Jul 30, 2021 | National, News
by Casey Harper The immigration crisis has been a thorn in the side of President Joe Biden, and the administration’s latest plan to tackle the issue is facing pushback. Critics are taking aim at Biden’s latest proposal after months of federal data show illegal...
by Star News Staff | Jul 30, 2021 | National, News
by Eric Lendrum Volunteers who served at a detention facility for underaged illegal aliens blew the whistle on Wednesday about an alleged plot to cover up the true number of cases of coronavirus among the detainees after an outbreak, as reported by the New York...
by Star News Staff | Jul 30, 2021 | National, News
by Ailan Evans A majority of Americans believe major tech companies are too powerful, and support the government regulating and breaking them up, according to a new poll. The poll, conducted from June 7 to 12 and released Wednesday by Change Research on behalf...
by Bethany Bowman | Jul 30, 2021 | Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music, National
NASHVILLE, Tennessee – Gracie Carol is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. As an athlete, Carol only remembers hearing her parents play country music as a child. She recalled, “Every time we played games or practiced, my parents would be in the car just...
by Casey Owens | Jul 30, 2021 | Battleground States, Florida, The South
Amid the rise in COVID-19 cases in Florida, government officials in Leon and Orange counties have decided to make the COVID-19 vaccination a condition for employment for their workers. On Wednesday, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings signed an executive order...
by Eric Burk | Jul 30, 2021 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
A court has dismissed Senator Louise Lucas’ (D-Portsmouth) defamation lawsuit against Tim Anderson, GOP candidate for the 83rd House of Delegates district. Lucas had sought $20 million in damages alleging that Anderson had falsely said that Lucas caused...
by Corinne Murdock | Jul 30, 2021 | Arizona, Battleground States, The West
The former Secretary of State serving as the liaison for the Arizona State Senate Audit, Ken Bennett, will remain in his capacity as liaison after all. This is the second time that Senate President Karen Fann (R-Prescott) has apparently walked Bennett back from...
by Bradley Vasoli | Jul 30, 2021 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
Virginia Supreme Court Justice William C. Mims, a Republican who earlier served as a state lawmaker and state attorney general, has announced his plans to retire from the court next spring. Mims, who would have been eligible for reappointment in anticipation of...
by Hayley Feland | Jul 30, 2021 | Battleground States, Minnesota, The Great Lakes
Minnesota has begun its “Vax to School” campaign to try to get students and families fully vaccinated against COVID before the start of the school year. To kick off the campaign, the Minnesota Department of Health partnered with teachers across Minnesota to...
