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Donald Trump

Cracker Barrel brings back old logo after public outcry, plea from Trump

By Marianna Bacallao

August 26, 2025

Cracker Barrel is changing its logo back to the iconic man and barrel after the company’s new, more minimalist design sparked outcry from fans — and the White House.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Cracker Barrel, Donald Trump, Lebanon, MAGA

Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from federal custody pending criminal trial

By Ximena Bustillo|Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

August 23, 2025

Senator Chris Van Hollen, right, sits with Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the Salvadorian citizen deported by the Trump administration — in El Salvador on Thursday

The case of Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man originally from El Salvador, raised basic questions of due process in Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants after he was arrested and sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, violating a U.S. immigration judge’s 2019 order prohibiting his deportation to his home country.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: deportations, Donald Trump, El Salvador, Immigration, Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Meet the congressional candidates for Tennessee’s special election

By Marianna Bacallao

August 14, 2025

With the filing deadline come and gone, the candidates are set for the Oct. 7 special primary election.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Aftyn Behn, Bo Mitchell, clarksville, Donald Trump, election, Freddie O'Connell, Gino Bulso, Immigration, jan. 6, Jody Barrett, Lee Reeves, Mark Green, Nashville, tnleg, tnpol, Vincent Dixie

Nashville will see a rise in ICE agents under Trump’s budget plan

By Marianna Bacallao

July 18, 2025

During a Friday visit to Nashville, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that ICE will be sending more officers to the city.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: deportations, Donald Trump, El Salvador, Freddie O'Connell, human smuggling, ICE, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, raid, Tennessee Highway Patrol

‘Good Trouble’ rally in deep-red Sumner County protests Trump, honors late John Lewis

By Rose Gilbert

July 17, 2025

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This week’s “Good Trouble” rallies are inspired by John Lewis’s legacy of non-violent collective action during the Civil Rights Movement.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: civil rights, civil rights movement, Donald Trump, John Lewis, NAACP

Abrego Garcia’s path to release is uncertain. Here’s the latest from a Nashville courthouse.

By Marianna Bacallao

July 16, 2025

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador in March, will remain in jail for at least another week over fears that releasing him could trigger a second deportation.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: deportations, Donald Trump, El Salvador, gangs, human smuggling, ICE, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Trump nominates 4 to Tennessee Valley Authority board after firing Biden picks

By Jonathan Mattise, AP

July 2, 2025

The Tennessee Valley Authority’s board has lacked a quorum because President Trump fired some of former President Joe Biden’s picks. New nominees for the federal utility are Tennesseans Lee Beaman, Mitch Graves and Jeff Hagood; and Randall Jones of Alabama.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Donald Trump, Jeff Hagood, Lee Beaman, Mitch Graves, Tennessee Valley Authority

Abrego Garcia to return to ICE custody, could be deported before trial

By Marianna Bacallao

June 25, 2025

Kilmar Abrego Garcia will soon be back in ICE custody, more than three months since his wrongful deportation to El Salvador.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: deportations, Donald Trump, El Salvador, gangs, ICE, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Nashville federal judge rules Abrego Garcia can be released pre-trial, but he may not go free

By Marianna Bacallao

June 22, 2025

Upon his release, Abrego Garcia will be transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, where officials say he will be held until his trial or his deportation.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: deportations, Donald Trump, El Salvador, gangs, ICE, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Americans are shaky on Trump’s tariffs, deportations without hearings, Vanderbilt poll finds

By Marianna Bacallao

June 18, 2025

No Kings Nashville immigrants

More Americans worry about how deportations are being carried out than they worry about their current finances, according to a Vanderbilt poll released Wednesday.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Donald Trump, economy, Immigration, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, MAGA, Politics, republicans, tariffs, tnleg, tnpol, Vanderbilt Poll, Vanderbilt University

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