Tennessee Star

After pulling the plug on tungsten mining for over a decade, a massive discovery in Nevada could put America back in the game. Developer 3 Proton Lithium (3PL) estimates its Railroad Valley Minerals project holds 1.78 million metric tons of tungsten, potentially the largest known deposit of the metal in the country, and more than five times the size of the next-largest U.S. res...

The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage stands at 6.69%, which is down from a rate as high as 6.83% in late July, according to Mortgage News Daily.  The decline in mortgage rates corresponds to drops in oil prices and Treasury yields, which closely track mortgage rates, ABC News reported.

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges and admitted in federal court on Friday that he shot and killed a health care executive in Manhattan in 2024.  “I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan. I understood that my actions would place him in fear of death of bodily injury. I knew what I was doing was illegal," Mangione told the judge, the New York Times reported.

Major corporations are raking in billions from tariff refunds that are improving their balance sheets following a major Supreme Court decision, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Billions of dollars in federal tariff refunds flowed back into the balance sheets of companies such as Apple Inc., Nike, FedEx and General Motors Co., according to The Wall Street Journal. Som...

Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Tennessee Star, believes he has uncovered the historical reason Tennessee holds its primary elections on Thursdays, a tradition he said has puzzled him since he moved to the state more than three decades ago.