Nashville Police In Final Report Downplay Covenant Shooter’s Transgender Identity, Hatred Of Christianity

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The final police report on Nashville’s deadly Covenant School shooting, released more than two years after the attack, claims the motive of the attack was “notoriety” and makes little mention of the shooter’s radical positions on gender, race, or religious animus.

While pages from the writings of the 28-year-old woman who murdered three children and three adults at The Covenant School in March 2023 demonstrate that she was fixated on gender ideology and “white privilege,” police say that she was primarily motivated by a desire for notoriety. Investigators said that neither her documented hatred of Christianity or affluent white people played a role in her targeting of The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school in a wealthy area of Nashville.

“Regarding why she selected The Covenant, many have speculated [the shooter] selected this location for racial, religious, or economic motives,” the report said. “It is certainly true she raged over these topics at times in her writings. But none of those motives impacted her decision to attack The Covenant.”

Instead, the police said that Covenant was targeted because the attacker, who was killed by police, believed that she would receive greater notoriety by murdering young children. Three of the victims of the March 27, 2023, attack — Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney — were all just 9 years old. The other victims of the attack were adults Michael Hill, Katherine Koonce, and Cynthia Peak.

Throughout the report, police made little mention of the attacker’s transgender identity, only mentioning that she identified as a male and that she had made references to wanting to transition. (Read more from “Nashville Police In Final Report Downplay Covenant Shooter’s Transgender Identity, Hatred Of Christianity” HERE)

FBI Whistleblower Pushed Out Under Biden Wins Battle To Publish Documents That Ended His Career

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By Daily Caller. A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who was forced out for refusing to sign off on a warrant into a right-wing “domestic extremist group” has won a fight to unseal documents related to that case.

Zach Schoffstall, a former supervisory agent in the FBI’s Salt Lake City division, was forced out of the FBI during the Biden administration for not going after the Patriot Front organization, the Daily Caller previously reported.

Empower Oversight, a group that represents whistleblowers, filed a motion to request the government unseal the warrant. After 90 days, the government finally acquiesced and released the document, Schoffstall said. The only information redacted was the name of the supervisory agent.

Thirty-one members of the group Patriot Front were arrested after protesting an LGBT event in Idaho and charged with conspiracy to riot in 2022.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) in Idaho and the FBI pressured Schoffstall to sign off on the warrant, but he refused. The government attempted to find agents who would comply, including one without knowledge of the investigation, he previously told the Caller. (Read more from “FBI Whistleblower Pushed Out Under Biden Wins Battle To Publish Documents That Ended His Career” HERE)

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FBI Whistleblower Charged with Disclosing Confidential Records After Accusing Agency of Political Bias

By Whistleblower Network News. Describing himself as one of the “most significant whistleblowers in FBI history,” 15-year veteran FBI Special Agent Johnathan Buma was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport on March 17, 2025, as he was attempting to board an outbound international flight. Roughly a day later, a criminal charge was filed in the California Central District Court claiming that Buma disclosed classified information about FBI investigations and confidential informants.

According to a court-filed affidavit, Buma had allegedly sent emails and messages that contained excerpts of a prospective book about his career at the FBI. Some of the sensitive information that Buma reportedly disclosed related to “the FBI’s efforts and investigations into a foreign country’s weapon of mass destruction (‘WMD’) program.” Buma had also purportedly given “authorization” to the recipients to share the restricted details.

During the first Trump Administration, Buma blew the whistle on alleged political bias by the FBI. In a 2024 interview with Business Insider, Buma revealed that in 2019, he provided different sets of unverified information to his supervisor at the FBI field office in Los Angeles for potential action. The first possible case involved Hunter Biden and potential criminal activity regarding the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. According to Buma, his supervisor was “interested and adamant about…transferring [the case] to the appropriate case agent right away.” In the same meeting, Buma offered potentially lucrative information about former Trump legal associate Rudy Giuliani, but his supervisor allegedly “shut [him] down immediately.” The information alleged that Giuliani had been compromised by Russian counterintelligence and organized crime operations.

After this, Buma claimed his work became more scrutinized, sometimes calling his workplace treatment “intolerable.” In January 2022, he filed a whistleblower complaint and testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, alleging “numerous acts of intelligence repression.” Buma then explained that “no actions were ever taken to correct ongoing reprisals and suppression of intelligence” and that he experienced even harsher repression once he filed to become a whistleblower. Additionally, he was reassigned from working with confidential human sources (CHS) to a surveillance squad, which he called “the Alaska of L.A.” due to its isolation and uncontroversial nature compared to Buma’s previous position. (Read more from “FBI Whistleblower Charged with Disclosing Confidential Records After Accusing Agency of Political Bias” HERE)

‘Blood Spattered’: FAA Air Traffic Controller Charged With Assault for Alleged Fight Inside DC Airport’s Control Tower

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A Federal Aviation Administration employee at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., was arrested for an alleged physical altercation inside the air traffic control tower, according to reports.

Damon Marsalis Gaines, 38, has reportedly been placed on administrative leave. Gaines faces assault and battery charges in connection with the alleged incident inside the air traffic control tower at the D.C. airport.

Politico reported that officers with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority responded to an incident on March 27.

Citing a source, the Daily Mail reported that a couple of on-duty air tower controllers got into a “blazing argument before one threw a punch at the other.”

“By the time the brawling colleagues were separated, there was blood spattered over a control console, according to our insider,” the outlet reported. (Read more from “‘Blood Spattered’: FAA Air Traffic Controller Charged With Assault for Alleged Fight Inside DC Airport’s Control Tower” HERE)

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Major U.S. County Reverses Policy That Discriminated Against Churches

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Los Angeles County has reversed a beach use policy it adopted that discriminated, unlawfully, against churches.

The American Center for Law and Justice announced the “crucial victory” in its battle to protect religious liberties.

“The ACLJ continues to fight for religious liberty across the nation, from small towns to major cities. This victory reminds us that when we stand firm and take decisive legal action, we can successfully defend the constitutional rights of believers everywhere,” the legal team said in an announcement about the dispute.

“This case illustrates a disturbing pattern we’re seeing with increasing frequency. Government officials at all levels – federal, state, and local – continue to test the boundaries of their authority by implementing policies that marginalize people of faith and religious organizations.

“Whether it’s limiting beach permits in California, denying funding to faith-based schools in the Midwest, or censoring religious speech in public forums across the country, the assaults on religious liberty have become more frequent and brazen.” (Read more from “Major U.S. County Reverses Policy That Discriminated Against Churches” HERE)

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In A Supreme Election, Wisconsin Voters Will Decide Voter ID Question

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While Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election is in the national spotlight, there’s an important election integrity issue on Tuesday’s ballot as well. In fact, election law watchdogs will tell you that the Supreme Court race and a referendum on enshrining the Badger State’s voter ID law into the Wisconsin constitution go hand-in-hand.

“They really are bound together in this election,” Annette Olson, chief executive officer of the Madison-based MacIver Institute, told The Federalist Monday in a phone interview.

The conservative think tank has been advocating for the election integrity ballot question for years. It’s taken a while to get here.

Proposed amendments to the state’s constitution must be approved in two consecutive sessions of the legislature. The Republican-controlled assembly and Senate have passed the measure twice. Now the question is in the hands of the voters. Ballot questions do not require the approval of the governor, which would have been the death knell for the voter ID provision. Democrat Gov. Tony Evers, a dutiful servant of the far left, surely would have vetoed it. (Read more from “In A Supreme Election, Wisconsin Voters Will Decide Voter ID Question” HERE)

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JD Vance Calls on Americans to Have ‘Courage to Live the Truth’

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There is only one way to reclaim Western civilization, Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday night: exhibiting the courage to speak the truth.

“We’re not going to rebuild prosperity and opportunity,” Vance said. “We’re not going to rebuild the kind of society where we teach children the important virtues and skills to thrive, as opposed to trying to tear our kids down, which is what I think our education system does all too often. We’re not going to rebuild a foreign policy that’s rooted in our shared interest, rather than in liberal values that were invented 20 or 30 years ago, but have become the innovating concept of the foreign policy of too many Western leaders and too many Western nations. We’re not going to solve any of these problems unless we have the courage to speak the truth, unless we have the courage to live the truth.”

President Donald Trump has this courage, Vance said.

“One of the things that makes me most proud of our administration, not that we’ve won every battle, or win every battle. Some of these battles are going to take 20, 30, 40, years for us to see, I think, through to ultimate victory,” Vance said. “But the president, I’m very proud to say, is not a person who is afraid of criticism from those in power.”

“And I think there’s anything that sort of ties the first Trump administration to the second Trump administration and the president’s entire political career, is that this is a guy with incredible courage,” the vice president continued. “He just doesn’t care what other people say about him. He doesn’t care what the media writes about him. He’s going to do what he thinks is right.” (Read more from “JD Vance Calls on Americans to Have ‘Courage to Live the Truth’” HERE)

Labor Department Secures Eye-Popping Sum to Return to American Taxpayers

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U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer announced on Monday that her department will return over $1 billion in unused COVID-era funding back to the taxpayer amid the Trump administration’s push for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to slash waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.

In a press release, the Labor Department said $1.4 billion of unspent COVID funding will be “returned to taxpayers through the U.S. Department of Treasury’s General Fund” and added that “action” is “being taken to recover the remaining $2.9 billion.”

“The roughly $4.3 billion was intended for states to use for temporary unemployment insurance during the pandemic,” the press release states. “Instead, several states continued spending millions of dollars despite no longer meeting necessary requirements, which was uncovered in a 2023 audit conducted by the department’s Office of Inspector General.”

The department explained in the press release that the funding originated from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act in March 2020 and that the program was meant to provide expanded unemployment insurance for Americans who were not able to work during the pandemic.

The program was closed in 2021, the department said, but the 2023 audit “found four states were allowed to access the funding ‘despite not meeting program requirements,’ totaling over $100 million in spending.” (Read more from “Labor Department Secures Eye-Popping Sum to Return to American Taxpayers” HERE)

Report: Democrat Staffer Arrested for Carrying Gun on Capitol Grounds as Senator Began All Night Speech

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If Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) hopes his all-night theatrics on Monday will be remembered, thanks to one of his staff members, they will be.

Booker’s staff member, Kevin A. Batts, was arrested Monday evening for carrying a pistol on Capitol grounds moments before Booker began an all-night speech on the Senate floor protesting President Donald Trump’s America First agenda, NOTUS reported.

A NOTUS reporter witnessed the staffer, Kevin A. Batts, being arrested Monday at 6:29 p.m. Eastern as Booker prepared to begin his speech around 7:00. “He was handcuffed and placed in the backseat of a [U.S. Capitol Police (USCP)] vehicle outside the Senate-side of the Capitol,” according to that report.

USCP confirmed the arrest Tuesday while Booker spoke on the Senate floor.

“Yesterday afternoon a Member of Congress led an IDed staff member around security screening at the Hart Senate Office Building,” USCP said in a statement. “Later that evening, outside the Senate Galleries, the IDed staff member — who is a retired law enforcement officer — told our officers he was armed.” (Read more from “Report: Democrat Staffer Arrested for Carrying Gun on Capitol Grounds as Senator Began All Night Speech” HERE)

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Report: Paralyzed Army Vet Killed Himself After Wife Had Affair with Pastor

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A paralyzed Army veteran allegedly killed himself after learning that his wife had been having an affair with a controversial pastor in South Carolina.

Chris Skinner, 41, allegedly drowned in a neighborhood pool near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in September of 2021, and though police ruled out a suicide at the time, a new probe has been launched. His sister, Tamra McDermott, told the Daily Mail that new evidence may have surfaced indicating it was not an accident, adding that he likely took his own life after discovering his wife, Suzie, was in an affair with a pastor.

“It would be fair to say that the coroner has reopened the case because there’s been evidence [that’s] come forward that it could potentially not be an accident,” McDermott said.

The coroner wrote at the time that Skinner may have slipped into the pool after coming too close, but the police report said that he stopped at a curve before suddenly moving forward into the water, making it a suicide. New witness testimony also appears to contradict evidence given by Skinner’s wife at the time.

“When looking at the police reports and coroner reports, it is clear there was some inconsistency. Also, it was acknowledged that some of what was said at [the] scene may be inaccurate,” said McDermott. (Read more from “Report: Paralyzed Army Vet Killed Himself After Wife Had Affair with Pastor” HERE)

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Trump Pardons Navy Veteran Convicted in Capitol Riot

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President Donald Trump has pardoned a Virginia man whose sentence already was commuted for his convictions stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Thomas Caldwell, a retired Navy intelligence officer, was tried alongside Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes but acquitted of seditious conspiracy — the most serious charge brought in the Jan. 6 attack.

Caldwell’s pardon is dated March 20. Defense attorney David Fischer said he informed Caldwell of the pardon on Monday after learning about it from news reports.

“And he’s elated,” Fischer added.

A jury convicted Caldwell of obstructing Congress and of obstructing justice for tampering with documents after the riot. One of those convictions was dismissed in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year. (Read more from “Trump Pardons Navy Veteran Convicted in Capitol Riot” HERE)