Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is spearheading an effort to ensure the Nashville city government in his state is cooperating with federal immigration enforcement. Nashville is the state capital as well as the most populous city of Tennessee with a population of more than 700,000 people. The city is also the capital of country music in a deep red state, but like most other urban areas around the country has a Democrat as mayor, Freddie O’Connell.  During a press conference on Monday, Ogles said he would be launching an investigation into the conduct of the mayor of Nashville regarding his cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Tennessee Volunteers have always stood on the front lines to defend this nation from invasion.Now it’s time for every official to stand with ICE, support President Trump, and help repel the illegal alien invasion that’s tearing our cities apart.Mayor Freddie O’Connell and his… pic.twitter.com/HmiM8w6n2v— Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) May 26, 2025 “I choose my community, my state, and my family over this type of nonsense, which is why, due to the remarks of Freddie O’Connell and the potential for aiding and abetting illegal immigration, the Homeland Security and the Judiciary committees will be conducting an investigation into the mayor of Nashville, his conduct and whether or not federal dollars have been used in criminal enterprise,” Ogles explained.  In early May, ICE and the Tennessee Highway Patrol arrested 196 illegal aliens, many of whom have criminal histories extending far beyond just entering the country illegally. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), 95 of the individuals had pending criminal charges or had already been criminally convicted, and 31 had previously been removed from the country. According to the federal agency, one of the illegal aliens arrested, Jassim Jafaf Al-Raash, had been previously convicted of rape, had previously been arrested for failing to register as a sex offender, and had a final order of removal dated Sept. 1, 2021. O’Connell had publicly derided the ICE raid at a press conference saying, “What’s clear today is that people who do not share our values of safety and community have the authority to cause deep community harm.” The mayor said the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department had not been involved in the raid.  “This type of federal enforcement action is not focused on making us safer and leaves people in our community fearing any interaction with law enforcement when there is a crime occurring,” the mayor also wrote, adding: “We will be seeking the names of those detained.”  Other individuals arrested in the raid include Franklin Oswaldo Velasquez, said to be an MS-13 affiliate, and who has an active “Red Notice” on him in El Salvador for aggravated murder, and Inmar Antonio Penado-Membreno, who was previously convicted of aggravated assault, according to DHS. O’Connell has also promoted the Belonging Fund, which he has characterized as a fundraising effort to help “families known to be impacted as a result of activities related to immigration.” “He’s choosing criminals over Tennesseans,” Ogles said of O’Connell.  The Tennessee congressman is soliciting documents related to an action called Executive Order 30 by Nashville’s mayor, which requires all Nashville employees and first responders to “report all communication with federal immigration authorities directly to the mayor.” Ogles will also be seeking documents related to ICE in internal communications by local officials and nongovernmental organizations that partner with the local government in Nashville and surrounding Davidson County, of which Nashville is the county seat. O’Connell contends that he is not hindering immigration laws’ enforcement. “We are not looking to obstruct any federal or state law. Don’t have any reason to be concerned,” the mayor insisted.  In a statement to The Daily Signal, Ogles explained that it was the mayor’s public remarks that prompted his investigation. “Democrat Mayor of Nashville Freddie O’Connell made concerning remarks regarding the deportation of illegal aliens, indicating local government might be playing a role in helping them evade law enforcement. If true, Mayor O’Connell is directly defying federal orders to remove dangerous illegal aliens from our communities and obstructing justice,” the congressman explained. “Violent gang members have been found throughout middle Tennessee, and enough is enough. There should be no tolerance among the people for bad actors, such as Mayor O’Connell. I am proud to stand with President [Donald] Trump, ICE, and state and local law enforcement to deport any individual residing in the United States illegally,” Ogles continued. “We must get to the bottom of Mayor O’Connell’s actions, which is why I am pleased to be working with [Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio] and the House Judiciary Committee to open a congressional investigation,” the Tennessee lawmaker said. The post Tennessee Congressman Vows to Investigate Nashville Mayor on ICE Cooperation appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Coming back from their extended Memorial Day weekend, the head crone of ABC’s cackling coven, Whoopi Goldberg spewed lies about President Trump never honoring Gold Star families before his Memorial Day speeches. Meanwhile, the show previously attacked Gold Star families for appearing with him. “It was about time we heard him give the Gold Star families their due. It was about time he did that, because he spoke and said we are proud of our Gold Star families,” Goldberg falsely proclaimed, again spewing lies as truth under the banner of ABC News.     Even when she was corrected by co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin that Trump had honored Gold Star families in his first term, Goldberg shifted the goalpost to another inaccurate position: FARAH GRIFFIN: No, he’s hosted them at the White House in his first term. GOLDBERG: Right, but the last time we collectively heard him talking about Gold Star families were not - it was not positive. ANA NAVARRO: Who could hear all that in the midst of all of that stuff? GOLDBERG: I mean, well, I heard that because it was something that I needed to have him say. Fox News media critic Joe Concha called out ABC News on X for Goldberg's lie and had the receipts in the form of a 2017 presidential proclamation from Trump, which read: "president Donald J. Trump Proclaims September 24, 2027, as Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day."   MSABC isn’t just overwhelmingly biased… But profoundly dishonest. https://t.co/yFnhQI4r3w pic.twitter.com/rCFLW2Wp1K — Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) May 27, 2025   This was another instance of Goldberg, who’s known for getting high, just making something up out of nothing at all.  In fact, just last September, The View lashed out and attacked at Gold Star families of those killed at Abbey Gate for daring to appear with Trump at Arlington National Cemetery. Co-host Sara Haines equated it to swimming in the 9/11 fountain at Ground Zero: HAINES: And that's why the Arlington thing bothered me because what Donald Trump's people keep saying is, ‘Those families invited us. They told us.” But that’d be like a 9/11 family member telling me I could swim in the memorial fountain. FARAH GRIFFIN: Right. HAINES: Just because they lost someone doesn't mean there isn't sanctity. And rules and it's not just about one headstone in the back of a video, it’s about every life that is there for us. Of course, The View omitted the fact that former President Biden had refused to meet with those families and never said the names of the service members killed. He even looked at his watch multiple times because he didn’t care about them. Back on The View, co-host Joy Behar couldn’t wrap her brain around why West Point would invite the commander-in-chief to speak at their commencement ceremony: BEHAR: So, why would they invite him to speak at West Point and wearing the hat was a political move also. It shows you that – FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, he’s Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces– BEHAR: Its politics, the hat is politics, it's not about anything but that. So he’s supposed to be not political at West Point or Arlington Cemetery, and there he is being political, and rambling. Behar also falsely claimed Biden had never disrespected veterans. Her proof? “[E]very time he was on television said, ‘God bless our troops.’ Always said that,” she argued. For the truth, just re-read above about his treatment of the Abbey Gate Gold Star families. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View May 27, 2025 11:04:36 AM EST (...) WHOOPI GOLDBERG: It was about time we heard him give the Gold Star families their due. It was about time he did that, because he spoke and said we are proud of our Gold Star families. This is the first time– at least maybe -- unless you've heard him do it. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: No, he’s hosted them at the White House in his first term. GOLDBERG: Right, but the last time we collectively heard him talking about Gold Star families were not - it was not positive. ANA NAVARRO: Who could hear all that in the midst of all of that stuff? GOLDBERG: I mean, well, I heard that because it was something that I needed to have him say. (...) 11:05:58 AM EST FARAH GRIFFIN: There’s a lot of work that goes into what are supposed to be scripted remarks, but he's kind of become notorious - especially in the second term and on the campaign trial - for what he calls “the weave,” where he manages to hit a lot of topics at different times. Listen, I'll say this, he doesn't strike the right tone at these. He likes to post things on Truth Social like the suckers, the losers, the scum, whatever. He does this on kind of reverential days, and he’s doing it to troll us. And if there's one thing Donald Trump really gets, it's the media and politicians who oppose him, because they’re then going to grasp that and be, like, ‘how dare he do that on a solemn day?’ You know what I would say? Veterans in America are forgotten about except on Election Day, Memorial Day, and Veterans Day. Like, politicians talk about them when they want their vote, they cater to them, and tell them the things they're gonna do, but don't deliver day-to-day. The V.A. has been broken for 20 years, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump. It's still broken, it doesn't work. A lot of my friends are veterans and served, I worked at DOD, and they will say they feel like political pawns for politicians to use to their benefit. And I just wish people would actually listen to veterans about what they need, what they care about, not just sort of use them for, like, election season props. (...) 11:07:17 AM EST JOY BEHAR: So, why would they invite him to speak at West Point and wearing the hat was a political move also. It shows you that –  FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, he’s Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces– BEHAR: Its politics, the hat is politics, it's not about anything but that. So he’s supposed to be not political at West Point or Arlington Cemetery, and there he is being political, and rambling. Jake Tapper needs to do another book, because he was rambling, he's running around, I see him– I’ve seen pictures of him walking into walls. ANA NAVARRO: You're not even joking. I have a clip that I saw, I was out of the country and for five blissful days I didn't hear his voice. I had no cell service and I had no TV, but then I come in and I watch a clip like this, when– to your point, of you were just talking, can we see the clip? BEHAR: Yeah. [CUT TO CLIP] PRESIDENT TRUMP (ON VIDEO): As a linguist, translator, and cryptolo– logic technician. [CUT TO LIVE] NAVARRO: Right. I mean, if Joe Biden said that, right? We'd be talking about his cognitive skills and cognitive decline for days. BEHAR: Why does the media avoid it with him? Tell me. [Crosstalk] FARAH GRIFFITH: We’ve talked about it on this show countless times– NAVARRO: I think people are a little numb to it and I think people expect this from him, so they don't see it as a decline because I guess he's never been incredibly eloquent to begin with.  (...)

Harvard University has many problems these days, but one of the biggest still appears to be academic dishonesty. Francesca Gino — a professor of business administration who has long studied the psychology of organizations, dishonesty, and how people justify unethical behavior — was called out in 2021 for alleged data falsification, then later for apparent plagiarism. Her years-long fight to keep her job appears to have come to an end. The Harvard Corporation, the university's governing board, decided earlier this month to both revoke the prominent professor's tenure and give her the boot. The revocation of Gino's tenure — which was first reported by the public radio station GBH, then confirmed to the Harvard Crimson by a university spokesperson — appears to be the first time that the university has stripped an instructor of tenure since at least the 1940s. In 2021, business professors Uri Simonsohn, Leif Nelson, and Joseph Simmons — all affiliated with other universities — and anonymous researchers began exposing Gino's apparent academic dishonesty on the blog Data Colada, highlighting "evidence of fraud in papers spanning over a decade," as well as in papers as recent as 2020. The Data Colada sleuths shared their findings with Harvard Business School in October 2021. The university launched an 18-month probe shortly thereafter. According to the investigation completed by the Harvard Business School in 2023, Gino, a professor at the university for over a decade, "committed research misconduct intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly." In 2023, several of Gino's papers were retracted and slapped with notices indicating that HBS' investigation found "discrepancies" between her records and the published data, reported Science. 'Some passages duplicate text from news reports or blogs.' Gino reportedly tried passing the discrepancies off as errors made by her research assistants. She also suggested that someone might have been trying to sabotage her. The university investigators did not buy what Gino was selling. The HBS noted that Gino's "repeated and strenuous argument for a scenario of data falsification by bad actors across four different studies, an argument we find to be highly implausible, leads us to doubt the credibility of her written and oral statements to this committee more generally." RELATED: Kristi Noem’s bombshell letter hits Harvard where it hurts Photo by Zhu Ziyu/VCG via Getty Images The university investigators concluded that the dishonesty professor had "engaged in multiple instances of research misconduct, across all four studies at issue." After Gino was placed on unpaid administrative leave and barred from campus in June 2023, Simonsohn, Nelson, and Simmons indicated that they found additional papers Gino had authored that allegedly contained fraudulent data. Besides churning out apparent fakeries, it turns out Gino was also apparently appropriating other people's writing and ideas and passing them off as her own. After Gino sued Harvard and Data Colada for defamation, claiming she had "never falsified or fabricated data," University of Montreal psychologist Erinn Acland took a closer look at the Harvard professor's writing, comparing Gino's work on Google Scholar against other works. Acland told Science that she immediately found plagiarism, noting that the first sentence of a 2016 chapter Gino had written about dishonesty was lifted "word for word" from a 2010 paper. Science confirmed Acland's findings and found at least 15 additional passages of plagiarized text in two of Gino's books. "Some passages duplicate text from news reports or blogs. Others contain phrasing identical to passages from academic literature," reported Science. "The extent of duplication varies between passages, but all contain multiple identical phrases, as well as clear paraphrases and significant structural similarity." While a federal judge dismissed Gino's defamation claims against Harvard and Data Colada, U.S. District Court Judge Myong Joun reportedly enabled her breach of contract claim to move forward. RELATED: Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns in disgrace, paints herself as a victim of 'racial animus' Former Harvard University president Claudine Gay. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Gino is hardly the first big name at Harvard University outed for academic dishonesty. Claudine Gay resigned her post in disgrace as Harvard's 30th president on Jan. 2, 2024, after nearly 50 complaints had been filed against her implicating seven of her 17 published works, including her 1997 doctoral thesis. That same month, Sherri Ann Charleston, the university's chief diversity and inclusion officer, was slapped with a complaint identifying 40 examples of alleged plagiarism in two of her academic works, including her 2009 dissertation. Harvard Medical School assistant professor Dipak Panigrahy was accused of plagiarism in April 2024 by a federal judge, reported the New York Post. U.S. District Court Judge Roy Dalton Jr. granted a motion to toss a report submitted by Panigrahy as evidence in a class action case against Lockheed Martin, stating, "The plagiarism is so ubiquitous throughout the report that it is frankly overwhelming to try to make heads or tails of just what is Dr. Panigrahy’s own work." Blaze News previously reported that four research scientists with faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School — Laurie Glimcher, William Hahn, Irene Ghobrial, and Kenneth Anderson — were accused last year of manipulating data in their published research. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Indiana Fever all-star Caitlin Clark — one of the most celebrated women’s basketball players in the history of the sport — has been carrying the WNBA on her back since her rookie season in 2024. Yesterday, however, during the Fever’s match against the New York Liberty, Clark sustained a quad injury that will sideline her for at least two weeks, marking the first time in her collegiate and professional career that she will miss games. The impact Clark’s absence will have on the WNBA will be fascinating to watch, says Jason Whitlock, who unpacked his predictions on the latest episode of “Fearless.” In the wake of Clark’s injury, “a lot of eyeballs are going to disappear from the WNBA, and I think a lot of the WNBA players are going to be happy they got whatever's left of the spotlight all to themselves,” he says. “This is a return to normalcy and sanity for the WNBA. They're going to celebrate that they get to go perform in front of an audience that they're comfortable with.” It’s Clark’s fans, not Clark herself, who are at the receiving end of the WNBA’s hatred, he argues. “The WNBA hates ... anybody else with a Christian worldview or a traditional worldview or an American patriotic worldview. ... They would even tolerate her being the most exciting player in the WNBA, maybe even the most valuable player in the WNBA, if she brought a different fan base with her,” says Jason. “There is no Cait hate; there’s Cait fan hate.” It’s Clark fans, he says, who raised a ruckus when Minnesota Lynx’s Napheesa Collier gave a pregame speech honoring George Floyd, for example. Before Clark entered the league, the WNBA “existed in a bubble where everybody that came to their games and everybody that paid attention to their games thought exactly like them, and so there would be virtually no pushback. Napheesa Collier could go out and say the most insane things, and no one would care. No one would bat an eye because they all virtually agreed,” Jason explains. But that ended when Clark showed up with her massive fan base. “Napheesa Collier, A'ja Wilson, DiJonai Carrington, all the rest — they want me to disappear, they want you to disappear, and they know the way to get us to disappear is by disappearing Caitlin Clark,” says Jason. For the next two weeks, “they can go back to complaining about their pay, complaining about the patriarchy, complaining about white people. They can go back to doing what they do without any pushback from us.” To hear more of Jason’s analysis, watch the episode above. Want more from Jason Whitlock?To enjoy more fearless conversations at the crossroads of culture, faith, sports, and comedy with Jason Whitlock, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

President Donald Trump's administration reportedly has plans to bolster national security by requiring social media vetting for foreign student visa applicants.On Inauguration Day, Trump signed an executive order vowing to take "forceful and unprecedented steps to combat anti-Semitism," which included revoking foreign student visas and deporting Hamas sympathizers.Trump warned that foreign students who participate in "pro-jihadist protests" at the nation's college campuses are "on notice.""Come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you," the president pledged.RELATED: Trump escalates war against Harvard by shutting down visas for international students Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty ImagesThe administration revoked roughly 4,000 student visas over the first 100 days of Trump's second term.Last week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem notified Harvard University that the agency had pulled the plug on the school's Student Exchange Visitor Program. The move is part of an ongoing feud between the Ivy League university and the Trump administration.The administration's pause on student visas expanded on Tuesday, according to Politico.A report from the outlet, citing a Tuesday cable signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, claimed that the Trump administration ordered U.S. embassies and consulates to halt scheduling new student visa interviews.The cable read, according to Politico, "Effective immediately, in preparation for an expansion of required social media screening and vetting, consular sections should not add any additional student or exchange visitor (F, M, and J) visa appointment capacity until further guidance is issued septel, which we anticipate in the coming days."The outlet noted that "septel" is shorthand for "separate telegram," indicating that the department will issue another communication with further details. The administration has previously imposed some social media vetting. However, the cable reviewed by Politico indicates that the administration has plans to expand the program.Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow with the Heritage Foundation's Border Security and Immigration Center, explained how the visa vetting process has evolved over the decades to adapt to "a riskier world.""When I did my first student visa interviews in India in 2000, we used a two-page paper form which contained very little personal information. We checked the names against a database, but it was not anything like as comprehensive as today's system," Hankinson told Blaze News. He stated that while additional forms were added after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, social media did not yet exist. "People who post incendiary, criminal, violent, anti-American, anti-Semitic, or anti-capitalist content online might not make the best visitors or students, let alone future Americans," Hankinson told Blaze News. "Evaluating someone's social media profile could be done quickly using AI these days and seems a prudent step." "When I see some of the posts by foreign nationals who are now here on student visas, or trying to become Americans, I wish a few of them had never received visas," he continued. "No country can be forced to admit people who hate that country and its values and people, including the USA. Visas are a privilege, not a right."RELATED: NYPD detains 80 'pro-Hamas thugs' accused of Columbia library takeover as Rubio targets visas Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesRubio hinted in March that the administration aimed to crack down on potential safety and security threats."If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, and you tell us that the reason why you're coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds, but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus, we're not going to give you a visa," he stated. "We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist that tears up our university campuses."The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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