by Star News Staff | Oct 10, 2021
– – – Photo “Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0 and photo “Save America rally” by Dan Scavino.
by Star News Staff | Oct 10, 2021
by Kaylee Greenlee Border officials reported that most encounters with migrants illegally entering the U.S. occurred in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, according to Customs and Border Protection data. Immigration officials encountered 441,855 migrants in the Rio...
by Laura Baigert | Oct 10, 2021
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (BSBCT) is pushing Critical Race Theory on its employees, even though the company serves a state that largely disagrees with these values. This is according to a long-term employee of BCBST, who provided information to The...
by Star News Staff | Oct 10, 2021
by Paul Bradford Are you upset that school officials force your kids to mask outdoors and teach them to hate themselves because of their skin color? You might be a terrorist, according to the Department of Justice. Attorney General Merrick Garland this...
by Kaitlin Housler | Oct 10, 2021
On Thursday, Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and five of his colleagues sent a letter to Senator Robert Mendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator James Risch (R-ID), Ranking Member of the Foreign Relations Committee,...
by Rachel Alexander | Oct 10, 2021
A new grassroots patriotic organization has sprung up in the Phoenix area, America Pack. Led by founder Valerie Grosso-Turley, it seeks to get involved at the local level in a way many conservative groups fail to — boots on the ground, not just sitting around...
by RealClearWire | Oct 10, 2021
by Steve Miller As they reel from revenue losses connected to the pandemic, many colleges and universities are racking up other costs not likely to turn up in their glossy brochures or as line items on staggering tuition bills: untold millions of dollars in...
by Star News Staff | Oct 10, 2021
by Fred Lucas President Joe Biden is using what one court opinion called “the most dramatic weapon in OSHA’s enforcement arsenal” to back up his COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employers with 100 or more workers. But relying on this bureaucratic weapon could be a...
by The Center Square | Oct 10, 2021
by Jon Styf Tennessee’s state pension system made money for the 12th consecutive year, earning a 25.6% return last fiscal year; the fourth-highest rate since the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) was consolidated in 1972. The state continues to...
by Star News Staff | Oct 10, 2021
by Harry Wilmerding President Joe Biden announced a vaccine mandate on Sept. 9, causing experts to debate the potential economic impact of the rule. Biden directed the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to create a rule...
by The Center Square | Oct 10, 2021
by Tyler Arnold Virginia awarded about $7.8 million in state grants for 19 local projects designed to address flooding, sea-level rise and extreme weather, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday. Funding for the Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund grants...
by Casey Owens | Oct 10, 2021
Eight county school boards in Florida are to be disciplined by the State Board of Education for maintaining mask mandates for students despite DeSantis’ Executive Order 21-175 (EO 21-175) that leaves that decision to their parents. In a conference call on...
by Star News Staff | Oct 10, 2021
by Harry Wilmerding Food prices have surged as companies battle increasing costs, labor shortages and supply chain problems, The Wall Street Journal reported. Food companies are struggling to find trucks and staff processing lines as costs for necessary...
by Chris Butler | Oct 10, 2021
A federal jury this week convicted a Nashville man on charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, and this is not this man’s first experience with this. That man, Davian M. Greenlee, is 40-years-old, according to a press release that the U.S....
by Eric Burk | Oct 10, 2021
A new Christopher Newport University Wason Center poll released Friday found GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin slightly behind Terry McAuliffe, 49 percent to 45 percent, which is nearly in line with the Real Clear Politics current polling average...
by Kaitlin Housler | Oct 10, 2021
Mick Jagger, lead singer of the legendary band, The Rolling Stones, ventured through Nashville Friday ahead of his band’s show at Nissan Stadium. Instead of visiting popular tourist destinations such as the Grand Ole Opry or the Ryman Auditorium, Jagger took a...
by Star News Staff | Oct 10, 2021
by Eric Lendrum Last month, Hunter Biden sold five prints of his latest artwork for $75,000 a piece, netting him another $375,000, as he plans to debut an art show next year, the New York Post reports. Biden’s prints were sold out of the Georges Berges Gallery...