Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed a bill on Thursday that requires local law enforcement agencies to report illegal migrants to federal authorities, the Associated Press reported.While other Democratic-run cities and states around the country are choosing to continue implementing so-called "sanctuary" policies that prohibit local and state police from coordinating with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Tennessee has adopted a new measure that would mandate communication with...
Although polls show most Americans don’t support laws to restrict drag performances, lawmakers have considered or enacted legislation this session that would prohibit businesses from allowing minors to attend drag shows.
Attorneys defending Tennessee’s sweeping abortion ban have alleged that doctors challenging the law do not want any oversight when deciding to terminate a pregnancy and instead are improperly withholding care to women facing serious medical emergencies
A federal appeals court has struck down a West Virginia law protecting the fairness of school athletics. In 2021, West Virginia passed the "Save Women's Sports Act," becoming one of the first states in the United States to protect the fairness of sports. The law requires that every student athlete must participate on the team or in the event congruent with their "biological sex as indicated on the athlete’s original birth certificate issued at the time of birth." The law doesn't ban...
The Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission and National Transportation Safety Board had been at odds over the reports.
The Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission and National Transportation Safety Board had been at odds over the reports.
Across the country Monday, thousands of United States citizens were detained against their will by criminal protesters. In Seattle and Chicago, travelers were blocked from entering the airport. In New York City, the Brooklyn Bridge was shut down. In Philadelphia, all of Center City came to a standstill. In San Francisco, commuters on the Golden […]
“Civil War” arrived in theaters over the weekend. The much-hyped film portrays a fragmented America, with a bizarre alliance of California and Texas and a group of “Western Forces” battling what’s left of the federal government, led by Ron Swanson from “Parks and Recreation.” If there ever were a Western state that would resist the federal leviathan, it’s Wyoming. The Cowboy State tends to give Republicans the largest margin of victory of any state in our cracked union.The problem is, Wyoming...
Donald Trump keeps getting bad news ahead of his hush money trial in New York. The latest is that he can’t go on a “fishing expedition” in connection with the new Stormy Daniels documentary. The film, “Stormy,” is streaming on NBCUniversal’s Peacock service. (NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast Corp., owns MSNBC. NBC’s news division had no role in creating the documentary.) Trump subpoenaed NBCU, seeking a broad array of materials related to the film, which centers on the witness in the...
The Brainerd Police Department reported a suspect had been identified and the case was being forwarded to the Crow Wing County Attorney’s Office for consideration of a threat of violence criminal charge
The ‘Safety of Rwanda Bill’ would see the government create a new law to override a judicial ruling that Rwanda was not a ‘safe country’ to deport asylum seekers to. The court found that there were substantial grounds for believing that asylum seekers sent to Rwanda would face a real risk of ill-treatment. It shows Rishi Sunak’s complete disdain for the judicial oversight which should play an integral role in any democracy. Plainly it also shows his lack of humanity or empathy for those who are...
'The ambient presence of journalism and true information in our feeds, the signals of reliability that were there, that's gone,' Taylor Owen, founding director of McGill University's Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, says