Using prayer as protest, Tennessee clergy disrupt debate to deny education to immigrant children • Tennessee Lookout
The debate over a bill that denies certain immigrant children disrupt education rights on Monday as two Lutheran pastors kneeled in front of a House committee room and recited the Lord’s Prayer. The others in the audience quickly joined from their seats. bill(HB793/SB836) Sen. Bo Watson of Hixon and William Lambers of Portland, both Republicans, […]
Markets worldwide take another dive as Trump threatens higher tariffs on China • Tennessee Lookout
WASHINGTON – Global markets have plummeted on Monday for the third consecutive trading day since President Donald Trump announced his “liberation day” tariffs, with the administration giving a mixed signal on his encounters with other countries at the negotiation table. US stocks have responded positively to short-lived false reports amplified on social media that Trump […]
Trump DOJ asks U.S. Supreme Court to block order to return wrongly deported Maryland man • Tennessee Lookout
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, asking judicial authorities to break down a lower court order that would bring back a Maryland man who was accidentally deported to El Salvador’s infamous mega prison. US Attorney General D. John Saur Discussed It is despite the mistake […]
Tennessee revives intensive probation program after statewide demand • Tennessee Lookout
Three years after cutting down its intensive probation program, the Department of Corrections is reviving community amendments as part of its final effort to keep offenders out of prison. The state is bidding from the Tennessee probation program to resume supervision services to thousands of people on the brink of being sentenced to prison. Requests […]
‘Economically reckless’ Small businesses slam bill to bar immigrant kids from school • Tennessee Lookout
More than 20 Chattanooga business owners have denounced the bill for demanding background checks for immigration for students in Tennessee public schools as “economically reckless.” The Tennessee Small Business Alliance represents restaurants, real estate companies, retailers and other local employers operating within the district represented by Senator Botson. Watson, a Republican, shares a common law […]
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett and other Tennessee congresspeople avoid town halls • Tennessee Lookout
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, a US member of Tennessee’s Second Congressional District, clearly doesn’t like or does. He did that 1 2019, in his first year at the Legislature in Grainger County. Rutledge, the county seat, has a population of 1,331 people, with Grainger County all at 24,681. Burchett appears in parts of his district, […]
Democratic AGs sue National Institutes of Health over disrupted medical research grants • Tennessee Lookout
The Democratic Attorney General and 16 states sued the National Institutes of Health on Friday, claiming that the agency intentionally delayed and confused the Medical Research Grant Award and fired the grants already issued. in Page 82 complaints The Attorney General said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and NIH Director Jayanta […]
U.S. Senate GOP wins approval of sprawling budget blueprint, shipping it to the House • Tennessee Lookout
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Republicans approved a budget resolution early Saturday that would help maintain the 2017 tax cuts, but the method of adding nearly $6 trillion to the deficit under external analysis is also paved. 51-48 votes We send compromises home. There, speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) hopes to adopt a tax and spending blueprint […]
In Nashville, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren fires up crowd with Trump, Musk criticism • Tennessee Lookout
In Nashville on Saturday, US Sen. Elizabeth Warren criticised the economic policies of President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk, saying he was handing over the country to billionaires at the expense of American personal finances. “Seven million Americans have been undergoing Social Security Checks. That’s not charity,” Warren said. “Elon Musk’s plan is […]
Trump administration funding freeze of $27B clean-energy program strands local projects • Tennessee Lookout
WASHINGTON – The multi-billion dollar Environmental Protection Agency program, designed to drive investments in improving energy efficiency across the country, is tied to a legal battle that threatens to promote planned projects across the US, focusing on affordable housing, adoption of electric vehicles, and more. The EPA said last month it has ended grants related […]
