by Hayley Feland | Sep 28, 2021 | Battleground States, Minnesota, The Great Lakes
ST. PAUL, Minnesota – Thousands gathered at the Minnesota capitol building on Sunday afternoon for what some are saying was the biggest Minnesota medical freedom rally yet. The rally featured Del Bigtree, the founder of the Informed Consent Action Network...
by Grant Holcomb | Sep 28, 2021 | Battleground States, Florida, The South
Since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban and the military blunder by the President Joe Biden administration, Afghan refugees coming to the Untied States could be as high as 125,000. South Florida is likely one of the new landing spots for a chunk of the...
by Cooper Moran | Sep 28, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
Tennessee State Senator Katrina Robinson (D-Memphis) was acquitted on Monday on 15 possible fraud and embezzlement charges. Robinson’s charges stemmed from an investigation into the Memphis-based Healthcare Institute (THI), which the state lawmaker...
by Admin | Sep 28, 2021 | National, News
by James D. Agresti On Friday, September 17, the CDC published a study that refutes the common claim that COVID-19 is a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Coauthored by more than 50 MD’s and Ph.D.’s, the study contains data on the vaccine status of adults...
by The Center Square | Sep 28, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
by Jon Styf Tennessee’s attorney general is appealing the recent decisions of two federal judges related to Gov. Bill Lee’s executive order allowing parents to opt out of school mask mandates. Judges in Shelby, Knox and Williamson counties recently granted...
by Cooper Moran | Sep 28, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) on Sunday argued that President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are “waging war” on capitalism through the tax system. In an interview in Fox News Channel’s “The Next Revolution,” Hagerty explained that...
by RealClearWire | Sep 28, 2021 | Commentary, News
by Myra Adams If the 2022 midterm elections had an official soundtrack, it would be the ominous music from the 1975 movie “Jaws.” Although the election is 13 months away, mounting intensity feels like great white sharks are circling our national boat with a...
by RealClearWire | Sep 28, 2021 | Battleground States, Tennessee, The South
by Adam Andrzejewski Rev. Al Sharpton, the firebrand Baptist preacher who made his name as a racial justice activist, taught political science grounded in social justice at Tennessee State University. OpenTheBooks.com obtained a copy of his contract with the...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Sep 28, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
A rally was held in Nashville Sunday as the state prepares to resettle at least 300 refugees from Afghanistan in Middle Tennessee. According to WKRN, dozens of people attended the rally, some of whom are Afghan refugees who previously fled the country due to...
by Admin | Sep 28, 2021 | National, News, Virginia
by Andrew Trunsky Senate Republicans Monday filibustered Democrats’ bill to fund the government and suspend the debt ceiling, days before a potential federal shutdown and possible debt default. Republicans vowed for weeks to oppose a debt ceiling increase and urged...
by Cooper Moran | Sep 28, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
Ford Motor Company announced on Monday that the Memphis Regional Megasite will be the location of a new electric vehicle and battery manufacturing facility. The decision by the automobile manufacturer will invest a total of $5.6 billion in the area, as the...
by Star News Staff | Sep 28, 2021 | Battleground States, Minnesota, The Great Lakes
by Kyle Hooten While many health care facilities are firing their unvaccinated employees amid a nationwide staffing shortage, some Minnesota companies are taking the opposite approach. President Joe Biden announced earlier this month that all employers with...
by The Center Square | Sep 28, 2021 | Battleground States, Ohio, The Midwest
by J. D. Davidson A Dayton area Ohio senator wants voters to have the final say on county sales tax increases, introducing a bill that would require a vote on tax hikes. Senate Bill 93 would require any county commission to get voter approval before raising the...
by The Center Square | Sep 28, 2021 | National, News
by Casey Harper The Federal Bureau of Investigation released crime data Monday showing a sharp spike in homicides in 2020. While some crimes diminished in the unusual, COVID-shutdown year, homicides rose nearly 30% and aggravated assaults rose more than 12% in...
by Chris Butler | Sep 28, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
Members of the Williamson County-based Tennessee Stands said rulings coming down from U.S. District Courts regarding what they call unlawful mandates, particularly those coming from Tennessee, prove “that reasoning has lost and politics wins the day.” Federal...
by Star News Staff | Sep 28, 2021 | National, News
by Ailan Evans Facebook has paused development of a version of its image-sharing platform Instagram specifically geared towards children, the company announced Monday. The tech giant decided to suspend work on the project in order to “work with parents,...
by Grant Holcomb | Sep 28, 2021 | Battleground States, Florida, The South
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced yesterday the intentions to direct Florida Secretary of State, Laurel Lee, to launch an investigation into Facebook for alleged election interference. The allegations and subsequent investigation come after the Wall Street...
by RealClearWire | Sep 28, 2021 | National, News
by Paul Sperry White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan figures prominently in a grand jury investigation run by Special Counsel John Durham into an alleged 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign scheme to use both the FBI and CIA to tar Donald Trump as a...
by Star News Staff | Sep 28, 2021 | National, News
by Antoinette Aho As dozens of Confucius Institutes close on college campuses, some may be replaced with Taiwan Centers for Mandarin Learning (TCML). The initiative, known as the TCML Establishment Program, is a part of the U.S.-Taiwan Education Initiative, a...
by Brian Ball | Sep 28, 2021 | Battleground States, Ohio, The Midwest
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A former lobbyist for the FirstEnergy Corp. electric utility at the center of an ongoing federal public corruption scandal has suddenly resigned his post as Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s director of legislative affairs. Dan McCarthy,...
by Star News Staff | Sep 28, 2021 | National, News
by Ailan Evans Google began its appeal Monday of a $5 billion fine levied by a European regulator over alleged market abuses. The European Commission slapped the tech giant with the fine in 2018 for a number of alleged anticompetitive practices, including...
