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Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security is investigating allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother. “I’m confirming that [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] is, yeah, look, I said months ago that it’s something that has been reported and needs to be looked at,” Homan said on Fox News’ “The Sunday Briefing.”
In the course of these hebdomadal bulletins, I have often had occasion to mention Charles Mackay’s 1841 masterpiece Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. The title should be inscribed as a talisman somewhere in the homes of the credulous. Mackay’s account of various “moral epidemics”—the South Sea Bubble, Tulipomania, Witch Hunting, etc.—is amusing until one steps back and realizes that we modern sophisticates are just as susceptible to the sorts of “folly and delusion” Mack
Tennessee's pension system is one of the best-funded in the nation, and that is no accident. Every session, my colleagues and I on the Finance, Ways, and Means Committee make hard choices, keep our commitments, and make sure the numbers pencil out because the people depending on Tennessee's retirement system spent decades earning those benefits and deserve to know they'll be there. Our discipline has paid off. In fiscal year 2025, the K-12 teachers’ pension plans were funded at approximately
Tennessee's pension system is one of the best-funded in the nation, and that is no accident. Every session, my colleagues and I on the Finance, Ways, and Means Committee make hard choices, keep our commitments, and make sure the numbers pencil out because the people depending on Tennessee's retirement system spent decades earning those benefits and deserve to know they'll be there. Our discipline has paid off. In fiscal year 2025, the K-12 teachers’ pension plans were funded at approximately
Former Senate Republican Leader and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell announced Monday that he has officially returned to the upper chamber from his months-long absence, which came after he suffered a fall in June. McConnell, 84, has been out of the Senate since June 14 after he was hospitalized from the fall. He was discharged to his home from a rehabilitation center to continue his recovery and to undergo further therapy last month.
The Memphis City Council will consider three ordinances on Tuesday that would affect data centers, particularly those used for artificial intelligence (AI) products. These include a moratorium that would block all construction of new AI data centers, an ordinance that would require AI companies to use 100 percent renewable energy after 10 years, and an ordinance that would allow data centers but set standards for their construction. The moratorium proposal, whose sponsors include Tennessee De
The Memphis daycare where a 6-year-old girl died last month, prompting the indictment of three employees, is actually part of a six-location daycare network that received community support grants and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans during the COVID-19 pandemic. The woman behind the daycare locations, Raven Marshall-Lewis, is also listed as an owner and healthcare provider for a community and behavioral health clinic in Cordova. The Memphis Police Department (MPD) originally confirmed
New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday announced a joint lawsuit with other mayors against the Trump administration over a planned rule that would block green cards and visas to people using welfare programs. “The new public charge rule seeks to push immigrant families away from the programs that have kept people fed and healthy for decades. New Yorkers will be afraid to see a doctor or ask for help they are legally entitled to,” Mamdani said, according to Politico.
Congress is expected to vote this week on the Protect College Sports Act of 2026, which seeks to regulate the ever-changing world of college sports. With the college football season in full swing, fans are reminded that college football players earn large sums of money, ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions.
President Donald Trump appeared to come out in support of a heavily scrutinized artificial intelligence-powered mass surveillance tool in a recent interaction with the press. “I like them [Flock Safety cameras],” Trump told reporters Sunday while aboard Air Force One en route to Joint Base Andrews.
Households that heat with oil are projected to spend nearly $2,300 this winter as crude prices remain above $100 a barrel amid the war with Iran. Those households are forecast to pay 31.3% more than last winter, CNN reported Monday, citing an analysis by the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA). This estimate covers the season from mid-November to mid-March.
More than a year after an appeals court found Oregon was likely to lose a First Amendment challenge by a Christian widow it banned from adopting her foster kids, owing to the mother's beliefs on marriage and gender identity, the Beaver State has thrown in the towel completely. It accepted a stipulated order and judgment that reinstates Jessica Bates' adoption application and bans the state from rejecting it based on her religious beliefs that sex belongs in traditional marriage and "a person
A source close to Democratic New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill criticized the state’s Democratic attorney general’s decision to join a lawsuit seeking to block Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, telling the Daily Caller News Foundation the governor’s team was not given advance notice of the move. “We didn’t have a heads up” that Democratic New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport would join the multistate lawsuit, the person told the DCNF. The source q
The National Police Association (NPA) is supporting a change.org petition calling on Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy to withdraw his lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s Memphis Safe Task Force Accountability Act. The petition, titled “Stop Memphis DA From Protecting Criminals,” argues Memphis residents should be able to see what happens to serious criminal cases generated by the Memphis Safe Task Force when prosecutors reduce charges, enter plea agreements, dismiss cases, or decline
The Boring Company is continuing tunneling operations for its Music City Loop transportation project in Nashville, with the company reporting that its second tunnel boring machine is now working through the city’s limestone.
