by Star News Staff | Dec 15, 2021
by Laurel Duggan China’s government is paying social media influencers in the U.S. to promote the Beijing Olympics and distract from diplomatic boycotts over its human rights violations, according to disclosures filed with the Department of Justice. The Chinese...
by Star News Staff | Dec 15, 2021
by Thomas Catenacci Jewhar Ilham last saw her father seven years ago. “I don’t even know if he’s alive,” said Ilham, a Chinese-born Uyghur Muslim. “My cousin, she was a nurse, she was sentenced to 10 years for having a photo and an article of my father in her...
by RealClearWire | Dec 15, 2021
by Vince Bielski U.S. drug agents are expanding operations in China – six years after America’s largest trading partner and global rival emerged as the main source of chemicals used to make highly lethal fentanyl. It’s now claiming 65,000 American lives a year....
by Julie Carr | Dec 15, 2021
Live from Music Row Tuesday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed official guest host Grant Henry in the studio for...
by Morgan Nicole Veysey | Dec 15, 2021
Following the deadly weekend tornado that swept through the South on Saturday, a Murfreesboro-based lawn company is collecting donations for families affected in and around Mayfield, Kentucky. Advanced Lawn Solutions will be accepting donations Wednesday,...
by Star News Staff | Dec 15, 2021
by Victor Davis Hanson With fits and starts, we are slowly returning to reality after four years of mass hysteria. Our media-deified, progressive icons are finally being exposed as the deceivers they always were. Jussieopath From the moment details emerged...
by Star News Staff | Dec 15, 2021
by Harry Wilmerding Supermarket chain Kroger announced Tuesday it will eliminate paid emergency leave for unvaccinated employees who contract COVID-19 in addition to requiring some of them to pay a monthly $50 health insurance surcharge starting in 2022,...
by Star News Staff | Dec 15, 2021
by Phill Kline Politics is getting in the way of government transparency, preventing the sort of accountability on which our governing institutions depend for maintaining public trust and legitimacy. In Wisconsin and elsewhere around the country, public...
by Star News Staff | Dec 15, 2021
by Debra Heine Several large U.S. hospital systems have dropped their COVID-19 vaccine requirements for employees in the wake of a U.S. district court’s temporary halt of the Biden regime’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. After months of protests, the...
by Morgan Nicole Veysey | Dec 15, 2021
Residents of Decatur County received a warning this week from the Decatur County Sheriff’s Office to boil their water before consuming it. The notice said due to a recent drop in water pressure until further notice, residents would be advised to run their...
by Bethany Bowman | Dec 15, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tennessee – Lucas Hoge has released a new Christmas album, 12.25 that is not to be missed. He along with some help from friends, Jamie O’Neal and the Swon Brothers played a (mostly) Christmas show featuring new and traditional music at the...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Dec 15, 2021
The new head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), sworn into his new role Monday, is an open borders extremist and left-wing activist for causes like Black Lives Matter (BLM). Former Tucson Police Chief Christopher Magnus is the new CBP, which former...
by The Center Square | Dec 15, 2021
by Benjamin Yount Wisconsin’s governor can continue to exclude certain news organizations from specific news conferences. The United States Supreme Court on Friday declined to take a case entered by John J. MacIver Institute that challenged the governor’s...
by Grant Holcomb | Dec 15, 2021
Florida State Representative and congressional candidate Anthony Sabatini (R-District 32 ) has been removed from a the Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee in the Florida House. He received two unexcused absences from the committee, committee members are...
by Laura Baigert | Dec 15, 2021
ATLANTA, Georgia – The newly formed State Freedom Caucus Network launched at the Georgia State Capitol, as the first state to join with seven named members of the Georgia General Assembly making the public announcement via a press conference Tuesday. Led by...
by The Center Square | Dec 15, 2021
by J.D. Davidson Ohio’s unemployment recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic improved last week but remains one of the worst in the country, according to a new report. The state ranked 26th out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia last week, comparing data...
by Chris Butler | Dec 15, 2021
A Washington, D.C.-based group said in a new report that Georgia is one of only six states that do a good job disclosing how they spend COVID-19 relief money. Members of this organization, Good Jobs First, in a report they released Monday, ranked how states...
by Cooper Moran | Dec 15, 2021
The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday released a new scorecard that ranks each state by security and integrity level of their election process. In the initial rankings, Georgia ranked number one in the country, closely followed by Alabama and Tennessee. The...
by Eric Burk | Dec 15, 2021
The Virginia Supreme Court will approve final redistricting maps for Virginia later this month, after the Virginia Redistricting Commission failed to complete any maps. Draft proposals from the Court’s special masters released maps last week with no...
by Chris Butler | Dec 15, 2021
Members of the Shelby County GOP and the Shelby County Democratic Party have opted not to put up candidates to run for their local school board. Shelby County Administrator of Elections Linda Phillips relayed the news to The Tennessee Star on Tuesday. “Neither...