by Neil W. McCabe | Jan 31, 2022 | Battleground States, News, port
The investigative journalist whose new book “Red Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win” exposes Chinese Communist Party influence in the United States told The Star News Network President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and his family collected $31...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Jan 31, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South
Robby Starbuck, who formally declared his run for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District in June 2021, just two years after moving to Tennessee from California, told The Tennessee Star on Saturday “I don’t feel it’s necessary” to explain why he claimed in a...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 31, 2022 | Battleground States, The Upper-Midwest, Wisconsin
Officials with the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit from residents of Green Bay who claim the city and the WEC violated laws when accepting a grant from the Center for Tech and Civic Life. The suit will appeal a decision...
by Bradley Vasoli | Jan 31, 2022 | Battleground States, Pennsylvania
Although Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court on Friday invalidated the law that has allowed no-excuse mail-in voting since 2020, the state’s appeal of the ruling means the decision is not yet in effect. State officials, represented by Democratic Attorney General...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 31, 2022 | Arizona, Battleground States, The West
Congressman Madison Cawthorn (R-NC-11) on Friday endorsed Blake Masters, who is running in the Republican primary to represent Arizona in the U.S. Senate. Cawthorn, while highlighting the viewpoints of Masters, slammed other election officials, saying the...
by Eric Burk | Jan 31, 2022 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
Seven legislators have introduced 11 animal welfare bills in the Virginia General Assembly after investigations by PETA and the USDA found troubling conditions at a Cumberland beagle breeder-for-research. A newly-published report of an October 2021 site visit...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Jan 31, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South
Less than 24 hours after The Tennessee Star asked TN-5 Congressional candidate Robby Starbuck to address questions about his voting record raised by documents obtained from Williamson County election officials, Starbuck posted a video taken from a scene out of...
by Admin | Jan 31, 2022 | Commentary, News
by Robin Burk Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that a shortage of fertilizer is causing farms in the developing world to fail, threatening food shortages and hunger. Ironically, the lead photo is of mounds of phosphate fertilizer in a Russian...
by Admin | Jan 31, 2022 | National, News
by Admin | Jan 31, 2022 | National, News
by Logan Dubil Dorian Rhea Debussy, a member of the NCAA Division III LGBTQ OneTeam program, recently resigned over the organization’s updated policy on transgender athletes. “I’m deeply troubled by what appears to be a devolving level of active,...
by Star News Staff | Jan 31, 2022 | Battleground States, Minnesota, The Upper-Midwest
by Evan Stambaugh A U.S. district judge serving the District of Minnesota is said to be on President Joe Biden’s “shortlist” to replace the retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. But Minnesotans might remember her for her leniency in the sentencing of a...
by Admin | Jan 31, 2022 | National, News
by Sebastian Hughes China replaced the ending to the 1999 cult classic film “Fight Club” with a message saying the authorities won, BBC News reported. The true ending of the film depicts the narrator, portrayed by Edward Norton, killing his imaginary alter ego,...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 31, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South
Multiple Democratic lawmakers in the Tennessee Legislature sent a letter on Friday to Governor Bill Lee, asking him to veto proposed changes to state and federal district lines. The General Assembly has approved three maps that will alter the representation...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 31, 2022 | Battleground States, Florida, The South
Florida Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nuñez on Friday held a roundtable discussion to highlight the dangers of human trafficking in the state. The discussion, which included multiple government officials and experts on the issue, detailed that 40 percent of...
by The Center Square | Jan 31, 2022 | National, News
by Ted O’Neil Amazon has agreed to shut down its third-party seller program nationwide and pay a fine of $2.25 million after Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson investigated the company for price fixing. Ferguson simultaneously filed a lawsuit and...
by Chris Butler | Jan 31, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South
Members of the Tennessee State Senate this week unanimously passed legislation that ends the practice of surprise or unexpected medical billing in Tennessee, also called balanced billing. Surprise Medical Billing happens when a patient receives out-of-network...
by Admin | Jan 31, 2022 | National, News
by Debra Heine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday took a thinly veiled shot at Joe Biden, saying “I am the President of Ukraine. I am based here. I think I know the details deeper than any other president,” after Biden had warned him in a phone...
by Admin | Jan 31, 2022 | National, News
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by Admin | Jan 31, 2022 | National, News
by Admin | Jan 31, 2022 | National, News
by Kendall Tietz A Chicago Public Schools (CPS) training program tells teachers that sex is a “socially constructed” phenomenon and instructs them to hide students’ gender pronouns from their parents, Fox News reported. CPS told teachers that “gender and sex”...
by The Center Square | Jan 31, 2022 | National, News
by Bethany Blankley Twenty-five states, led by Arizona and West Virginia, are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Bianchi v. Frosh, which challenges Maryland’s restrictive Firearms Safety Act of 2013. They’re asking the court to ultimately strike down...