Senator: College Board Gave Chinese Influence Op Advanced Placement in U.S. High Schools

Blackburn demands answers from education giant over Confucius Institute ties

Yuichiro Kakutani
October 27, 2020 5:00 AM

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) is demanding that the College Board explain its decades-long partnership with a Chinese front group that has allowed Beijing to influence thousands of American students.

Female GOP Senators Blast Leftist Smears, Double Standards on Barrett

Jack Beyrer
September 30, 2020 3:00 PM

Female Republican senators blasted Democrats for their smear campaign against Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court and their double standards for women in politics in a Wednesday press conference.

Marsha Blackburn: If Dems Had Their Way, You’d Never Leave Your House

Josh Christenson
August 26, 2020 10:20 PM

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) said Wednesday that Democrats want voters to "become dependent on the government for everything."

Blackburn, Rubio Blast NBA for Covering Up Chinese Training Center Abuse

'History will not judge kindly those who remained silent or were complicit in the Chinese Communist Party's human rights abuses'

Collin Anderson
August 7, 2020 1:55 PM

Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) and Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) accused the NBA of being complicit in "Chinese state-sanctioned abuse of children" after the league misled lawmakers on its training academy in Xinjiang, China.

NBA Will Shutter Chinese Training Center

League operated center in same city as Muslim concentration camps

Collin Anderson
July 22, 2020 1:15 PM

The NBA announced Tuesday that it has terminated its relationship with a league-run training academy in Xinjiang, China—the region in which the communist nation is reportedly holding roughly one million Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps.

Sen. Blackburn Takes Aim At ‘Birth Tourism’

Bill would block foreign tycoons from obtaining U.S. citizenship through childbirth

Yuichiro Kakutani
July 6, 2020 9:45 AM

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) introduced a new bill to outlaw birth tourism, a practice popular among wealthy foreigners who obtain American citizenship for their children by giving birth on U.S. soil while on vacation.

Taylor Swift Attacks Heroic ‘March For Our Lives’ Organizer

Scooter Braun was the silent 'force' behind the 2018 gun control reform rally

Alex Griswold
November 15, 2019 4:05 PM

Country music singer Taylor Swift took to Twitter Thursday to attack music producer Scooter Braun, the visionary genius behind both Justin Bieber and the March For Our Lives protest.

Blackburn Bringing Knoxville Dad Whose Son Was Killed by Illegal Alien to SOTU

Brent Scher
January 31, 2019 1:13 PM

Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) announced on Thursday that a Knoxville firefighter whose son was killed by an illegal immigrant will be her guest at President Donald Trump's State of the Union address next Tuesday.

Dem Rep: Trump Family Makes Al Capone, Frank Nitti Look Like ‘Good Guys’

Jeffrey Cimmino
December 10, 2018 4:03 PM

Taylor Swift Loses Tennessee Senate Race

Brent Scher
November 6, 2018 9:22 PM

A high profile endorsement from pop singer Taylor Swift failed to give a boost to Democrat Phil Bredesen, who was declared the loser in Tennessee's Senate election.