by Peter D'Abrosca | Dec 6, 2021
Better.com confirmed to The Tennessee Star Monday that it did indeed fire 900 employees on a recent Zoom call. “If you’re on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid off,” CEO Vishal Garg said on the call. “Your...
by Star News Staff | Dec 6, 2021
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by Neil W. McCabe | Dec 6, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Members of the Ohio Republican Party’s Central Committee, who have been punished for demanding more transparency and accountability, shared with The Ohio Star their thoughts on Friday’s meeting, which ended suddenly with items still...
by Neil W. McCabe | Dec 6, 2021
The former Republican Georgia senator who lost the January runoff election to Sen. T. Jonathan Ossoff is expected to announce his challenge to Gov. Brian P. Kemp Monday in the May 25 primary, after months of prodding from President Donald J. Trump, setting up a...
by Cooper Moran | Dec 6, 2021
Former Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor and GOP gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch on Friday announced that her campaign located hundreds of potential new, Republican poll workers. Kleefisch’s campaign, which identified 600 potential recruits, has...
by Star News Staff | Dec 6, 2021
by Roger Kimball Last week, I dusted off my Chinese-flu soapbox and said a word or two about (cue the scary music) the Omicron variant. It sounds like the title of a Robert Ludlum novel, doesn’t it? A friend told me about a parlor game that the journalist...
by Morgan Nicole Veysey | Dec 6, 2021
The Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS) announced that specific low-income families would receive $950 in aid from COVID relief funding. It said that families who are enrolled in the state’s Family First Program and qualified for the money in...
by Cooper Moran | Dec 6, 2021
Border Patrol agents in the Yuma Sector on Wednesday apprehended drugs and $10,000 in cash from a suspect who attempted to escape law enforcement. Giang Van Thi Slaughter, who is a Lawfully Admitted Permanent Resident (LAPR), refused to pull over when agents...
by Morgan Nicole Veysey | Dec 6, 2021
A federal jury in Greenville, Tennessee, found Peter Bolos of Tampa, Florida guilty of nearly two dozen charges, including mail fraud, conspiracy to commit health care fraud, and the introduction of a misbranded drug into interstate commerce. Bolos is set to...
by The Center Square | Dec 6, 2021
by Christian Wade The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in a Maine lawsuit that challenges a state law prohibiting the use of tuition funds for religious education. A lawsuit filed by the Institute for Justice and First Liberty Institute on...
by The Center Square | Dec 6, 2021
by Casey Harper Critics are questioning a taxpayer-funded program that trains students in critical race theory. The backlash comes after The Center Square uncovered federal grant documents from the Department of Education that showed the federal government has...
by Star News Staff | Dec 6, 2021
by Andrew Trunsky The nonpartisan Cook Political Report on Friday shifted eight high-stakes gubernatorial races toward Republicans as Democrats continue to face political headwinds. Ratings in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada, three pivotal battleground...
by Star News Staff | Dec 6, 2021
by Laurel Duggan Lia Thomas, a swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, shattered records after transitioning from male to female and joining the women’s team. Thomas, who is biologically male, competed for three years on the men’s team before moving to the...
by Star News Staff | Dec 6, 2021
by Laurel Duggan The Taliban banned forced marriages in a Friday decree, saying that women are free persons and not property. “Both (women and men) should be equal,” the decree said, according to ABC News. “No one can force women to marry by coercion or...
by Star News Staff | Dec 6, 2021
by Thomas Catenacci Canadian energy firm Pembina Pipeline Corp. pulled the plug on a years-long project that would have led to greater natural gas exports from to Canada to the U.S. The multi-billion-dollar Jordan Cove project included plans to construct a...
by Morgan Nicole Veysey | Dec 6, 2021
The Nashville Metro Health Department (NMHD) released a statement Friday regarding an increase in drug-related overdoses. The statement, posted on the Health Department’s Twitter account, said there had been an increase in drug-related overdoses, and that...
by Star News Staff | Dec 6, 2021
by Ailan Evans The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was aware that at least 10 members of its staff committed alleged sex crimes against children, though only one employee was ever prosecuted, according to released documents first reported by BuzzFeed News....
by Star News Staff | Dec 6, 2021
by Horace Cooper As Benjamin Crump continues to carve out his niche in the legal arena, it is time America recognizes what’s going on. The George Floyd attorney is not a crusader for justice, he’s an opportunistic race profiteer. More sophisticated than the...
by Star News Staff | Dec 6, 2021
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