by Star News Staff | Sep 18, 2021
by Ailan Evans Facebook announced a grant program Thursday to fund fact-checking groups combating the spread of “climate misinformation.” The program is designed to provide Facebook users with accurate and reliable information on topics related to climate...
by Grant Holcomb | Sep 18, 2021
Florida State Sen. Jeff Brandes (R-District 24) filed a civics education bill this week for the 2022 legislative session. The bill is similar to a bill he previously filed during 2021’s session. The filed bill will seek to expand civics-education which would...
by Kaitlin Housler | Sep 18, 2021
Country music artist Loretta Lynn revealed this week that her Hometown Rising concert on Monday raised more than $930,000 for Tennesseans impacted by the deadly flood in August that killed 20 people, left more than 270 homes destroyed, and damaged more than 500...
by Chris Butler | Sep 18, 2021
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr and 23 other attorneys general said this week that federal agencies shouldn’t force private sector employees to choose between either a COVID-19 shot or a weekly COVID-19 test. Carr and the other attorneys general voiced...
by Hayley Feland | Sep 18, 2021
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), wrote a letter to Dr. Anthony Fauci demanding answers regarding natural immunity from COVID. The letter was also addressed to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Dr....
by Hayley Feland | Sep 18, 2021
Minnesota Democrats responded to a Republican lawmaker’s call for enacting abortion bans similar to the laws passed in Texas. In his legislative update, State Representative Tim Miller (R-Prinsberg) praised the new legislation in Texas that prohibits abortion...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Sep 18, 2021
One Georgia doctor is taking a common sense approach to COVID-19 vaccine booster shots. Dr. Cecil Bennett of Newnan Family Medicine in Newnan, Georgia, says he recommends that all of his patients take the COVID-19 vaccine. He will not, however, recommend...
by The Center Square | Sep 18, 2021
by Scott McClallen The GOP-led Legislature and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer struck a budget deal to avoid a government shutdown before the next fiscal year. Budget officials welcomed the deal. “The last year and a half has been hard on all of our families and...
by Chris Butler | Sep 18, 2021
Tennessee Lieutenant Governor Randy McNally (R-Oak Ridge) on Friday announced who will serve on a state senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Redistricting. McNally announced the names via an emailed press release. State Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin)...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Sep 18, 2021
Just a month after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Memphis, Tennessee announced that it had confiscated thousands of counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination cards, CBP officials in Cincinnati made a similar bust. “Since August 16, Cincinnati officers...
by The Center Square | Sep 18, 2021
by J.D. Davidson Republicans blamed the federal government and Democrats blamed Republicans after the Ohio Redistricting Commission failed to pass a new state legislative boundary map that would last for a decade. Instead, the commission passed a four-year map...
by Casey Owens | Sep 18, 2021
After his administration bashed President Biden for cutting the supply of monoclonal antibody treatments (mAB’s) being sent to Florida, DeSantis sent a mass email to his supporters Thursday night to encourage them to help “fight back” by way...
by Grant Holcomb | Sep 18, 2021
The Florida Cabinet, composed of Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, and Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, are considering land deals that include selling a tract of land in Miami-Dade County while...
by Eric Burk | Sep 18, 2021
A Virginia Beach couple has been sentenced in a $31.8 million counterfeit coupon fraud scheme, according to a Tuesday announcement from the U.S. Eastern District of Virginia Attorney’s Office (USAO-EDVA). “These two defendants have been sentenced...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Sep 18, 2021
Tennessee’s attorney general this week sent a letter to the Biden administration challenging the legality of the 46th president’s recent COVID-19 vaccine mandate. “I would encourage everyone eligible, in consultation with a doctor, to get a...
