The Metro Council Office on Wednesday said it was still working to determine whether it has records showing its justification for the nearly $1.5 million in grants Nashville awarded two pro-illegal immigrant nonprofits in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget passed earlier this month. The office said it will need until July 1 to make this determination and provide a response.  In a response to the Tennessee Public Records Act (TPRA)-pursuant request sent by The Tennessee Star on June 12, the Metro Council Office on Thursday announced, "It has not yet been determined whether the records responsive to your request exist."

Although Donald Trump’s defenders describe the Russia hoax and other efforts to frame the president as a "grand conspiracy," RealClearInvestigations has learned that the man now leading the probe of that scandal is pursuing multiple conspiracy prosecutions that are smaller and more manageable, according to several sources with direct knowledge of the probe. 

Congress introduced legislation this month allowing seriously ill patients to access select treatments their physicians would prescribe – without FDA approval. That would mark a fundamental departure from the FDA’s total control over every prescription drug in America.

“The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil. Those prices are dropping like a rock! In other words, customers are being ‘gouged.’ I have instructed the DOJ to immediately start looking into this. Gasoline prices better start going down a lot faster than what I’m seeing!”

Three House committee chairs are asking a former Biden White House counsel to comply with their investigation into Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue, after the counsel in her private practice issued a blistering review of ActBlue’s process for screening out foreign contributions.

Ohio legislative Republicans have not committed to an override of Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a bill requiring voter ID for absentee ballots, but they did offer strong criticism of their fellow GOP members.

In the fourth and final decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Mullin v. Doe, a case concerning whether the Administration may terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations. 

The action thriller Citizen Vigilante, written and directed by Uwe Boll, was posted to X platform on Thursday. "We made the decision to have that movie available for the whole world to see on X," Boll said.

Six of the 10 candidates who have qualified for the primary election ballot to represent Tennessee's 9th Congressional District on Thursday appeared for a bipartisan candidate forum held by the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation, Tennessee Chamber of Commerce, and the Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association, revealing dramatically different visions for how the candidates would represent rural constituents if elected. The first candidate to offer their vision to rural voters in the newly redrawn district was State Senator London Lamar (D-Nashville), who suggested she could use her legislative experience in the Tennessee General Assembly to bridge the gap between the district's rural, suburban, and urban areas.

Postmaster General David Steiner told senators during a hearing Wednesday that he plans to abide by the Trump administration's rule regarding not delivering mail-in ballots in states that decline to hand over sensitive data about voters to the federal government. The proposed rule faces court challenges and Steiner said he would follow any court ruling on the matter, but will follow the rule until an order blocks it. The proposed rule seeks to create lists of citizens in each state to help determine who is eligible to vote and calls on the Postal Service not to distribute mail ballots to those not on state lists.