Tom Pappert

State Representative Todd Warner (R-Chapel Hill) on Wednesday falsely claimed that State Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) has turned to “negative attacks” in the Republican primary campaign for Tennessee's 9th Congressional District, as he appeared to conflate a recent political advertisement from a pro-school choice political action committee (PAC) with Taylor's campaign.

Metro Nashville provided The Tennessee Star with 51 documents in response to its June 11 request filed using the Tennessee Public Records Act (TPRA), but none offer justification for the decision by Mayor Freddie O'Connell to include nearly $1.5 million for two pro-illegal alien nonprofits in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget passed by the Metro Council last month.

While Metro Nashville stopped short of answering the public records request filed by The Tennessee Star by providing justification for appropriating nearly $1.5 million in grants for two pro-illegal immigrant nonprofits, the 51 documents provided by Metro include an email chain where Metro Clerk Austin Kyle told the Metro Department of Finance, “We do not have any of the records related to these grants on file.”

A legal filing submitted revealed Candace Owens has added Daniel A. Horwitz to the team of attorneys representing her in the defamation lawsuit filed in April by Brian Harpole, the former head of security for Charlie Kirk, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett on Wednesday revealed that the Volunteer State set new records for new business filings and annual reports during the first three months of 2026, calling the data “good leading indicators of growth and jobs,” even as inflation is impacted nationally by the conflict with Iran.

A federal district judge on Wednesday handed down a 20-year sentence to Sanjeev Kumar, who operated a women's health clinic in Memphis, Tennessee, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

An email obtained by The Tennessee Star following its public records request to Metro Nashville, seeking answers about the nearly $1.5 million appropriated to two pro-illegal immigrant nonprofits, reveals that the $718,000 grant for Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors (TNJFON) was included in Metro's budget following a meeting between a city official and Emily Cupples, a Democratic political consultant who now manages the reelection campaign of Mayor Freddie O'Connell.

In a potentially misleading description of his record, Metro Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell claimed his administration achieved the “lowest property tax rate” in the city's history, despite championing a rate set about 26 percent higher than the certified revenue-neutral rate calculated under Tennessee law following the 2025 property reappraisal.

During remarks delivered in Franklin, Tennessee, on Tuesday, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin reportedly said communities should consider the merits of data center proposals on an individual basis, rather than push for blanket bans as seen in New York.

Intelligence community files released by the White House claim that China paid American journalists, social media influencers, and leveraged relationships with American businesses in order to sabotage President Donald Trump during his first term in the White House, with a CIA document claiming the foreign government went as far as to pay journalists to print negative articles.