by Chris Butler | Aug 31, 2021
U.S. Department of Education (DOE) officials announced Monday they will investigate Tennessee and four other states that allow parents the right to opt out of a public school’s COVID-19 mask mandates. In a press release, DOE officials said such policies could...
by Rachel Alexander | Aug 31, 2021
Some Arizona school officials are in a feud with Governor Doug Ducey and the Arizona Legislature over implementing mandatory mask policies, but some of those officials have been caught not wearing masks themselves. Arizona Superintendent of Schools Kathy...
by Cooper Moran | Aug 31, 2021
Congressman Mark Green (R-TN-07) on Monday delivered the weekly Republican Address, specifically focusing on the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. In the nearly three-minute video, Green, a former flight surgeon for the Army who was deployed to...
by Chris Butler | Aug 31, 2021
A group of parents said Monday they are seething after Rutherford County Director of Schools Bill C. Spurlock (pictured above) decided this month to unilaterally remove non-symptomatic and non-COVID-19 positive students from schools. The parents said Spurlock...
by Star News Staff | Aug 31, 2021
by Thomas Catenacci Uzbekistan, a Middle Eastern nation that borders Afghanistan, warned the U.S. that refugees fleeing the Taliban wouldn’t be granted asylum, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Uzbekistan government recently urged the U.S. to take action...
by Star News Staff | Aug 31, 2021
by Kendall Tietz The Department of Education announced it would stop enforcing a Trump administration rule designed to protect those accused of sexual assault on college campuses. A district court in Massachusetts upheld most of the Title IX 2020 amendments in...
by Star News Staff | Aug 31, 2021
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by Peter D'Abrosca | Aug 31, 2021
Just days after two professors at the University of North Georgia resigned instead of teaching classes in person, another professor at a public university in Georgia has decided to call it quits over COVID-19 concerns. Irwin Bernstein, an 88-year-old...
by Eric Burk | Aug 31, 2021
GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin unveiled a long list of policy priorities prominently featuring tax breaks alongside spending on law enforcement and schools in his “Day One Game Plan.” His Monday announcement in Falls Church also included...
by Star News Staff | Aug 31, 2021
by Rose Williams Two prominent Democrats have come out against the ballot effort to defund the Minneapolis Police Department, saying police reform, not defunding, is needed. Gov. Tim Walz revealed in an interview at the Minnesota State Fair last week that he...
by Chris Butler | Aug 31, 2021
Members of the Georgia State House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee are scheduled to meet Tuesday to address Atlanta’s rising crime rates, and a representative from a gun control group plans to speak. Committee members are scheduled to meet at 1...
by Cooper Moran | Aug 31, 2021
Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery announced on Monday that he will lead a coalition of 20 states in a lawsuit against the Biden administration. In the suit filed Eastern District of Tennessee, Slatery and the other attorneys general seek to prevent the...
by Star News Staff | Aug 31, 2021
by Corey Walker On August 17, Hakeem Jefferson, a professor of political science at Stanford University, launched a series of tweets that claimed protestors of school mask mandates are doing so because of their “Whiteness.” Hakeem’s tweets claim that the...
by Star News Staff | Aug 31, 2021
by Eric Lendrum The Biden Administration’s hasty extraction of Afghan refugees to the United States has been so rushed and so sloppy that many are arriving into the country with no documentation to confirm who they even are, Breitbart reports. Even CNN’s...
by Star News Staff | Aug 31, 2021
by Madeline Dovi A former minister in Afghanistan’s government is working as a pizza delivery guy in Germany, local media reported. Images show Syed Ahmad Shah Sadat, former minister of communications and information technology in Afghanistan, delivering pizzas...
by Star News Staff | Aug 31, 2021
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by Star News Staff | Aug 31, 2021
by Debra Heine Nine members of a family of Afghan allies, including six children, were killed in a US drone strike targeting ISIS terrorists in a residential neighborhood of Kabul, Sunday, according to multiple reports. The drone strike was reportedly targeting...
by Star News Staff | Aug 31, 2021
by Ailan Evans Despite calls for increased regulation of the tech industry, Congress has yet to pass any major legislation, leaving it up to the states to take action curbing tech companies’ power and influence. Meanwhile, state legislatures have introduced and...
by Star News Staff | Aug 31, 2021
by Harry Wilmerding German publishing company Axel Springer announced Thursday it intends to acquire the digital news outlet Politico which could reportedly cost up to $1 billion. The acquisition of Politico will add to Axel Springer’s portfolio of news outlets...
by The Center Square | Aug 31, 2021
by Jon Styf The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development revealed it awarded $1.25 million to Kaiser Aluminum Investments to move its company headquarters from California to Franklin. TNECD also granted pet-supply online retailer Chewy $2.1...
by Star News Staff | Aug 31, 2021
by Anne Hendershott Demagogues appeal to envy because they believe that promising to destroy the advantages enjoyed by others will win votes and inspire loyalty. Sometimes it does. As the envy-driven horrors of Rwanda and Nazi Germany demonstrate, pledging to...
