Van Epps touts endorsements from controversial, corrupt figures
Election day is Dec. 2.
By Jesse Valentine - November 26, 2025
Election day is Dec. 2.
By Jesse Valentine - November 26, 2025
Ogles’ twisted financial history could make him vulnerable in 2026.
By Jesse Valentine - September 18, 2025
President Joe Biden pledged Monday that the federal government would help people throughout the Southeast recover from the devastation of Hurricane Helene and its aftermath, and said he expects to ask Congress for emergency funding in the weeks ahead.
By Jennifer Shutt, States Newsroom - September 30, 2024
‘A victory for common sense itself,’ says Kentucky Attorney General Coleman
By McKenna Horsley, Kentucky Lantern - July 18, 2024
In Arizona, the state’s highest court upheld a Civil War-era abortion ban. Florida and South Carolina moved to restrict abortion to six weeks — before many people know they are pregnant.
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Idaho Capital Sun - June 24, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday morning it will take up a challenge to Tennessee’s 2023 ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
By J. Holly McCall, Tennessee Lookout - June 24, 2024
Covenant parents emotional in wake of vote
By Sam Stockard, Tennessee Lookout - April 10, 2024
A bill to eliminate flu and whooping cough vaccine requirements for adoptive and foster families caring for babies and medically fragile kids is heading to the governor’s desk.
By Anita Wadhwani, Tennessee Lookout - March 26, 2024
A bill that could lead to LGBTQ youth being placed in families with moral or religious objections to their sexual orientation or gender identity was approved by the Tennessee Senate on Tuesday.
By Anita Wadhwani, Tennessee Lookout - March 22, 2024
Republicans in the Tennessee Legislature ignored calls for gun safety laws from the parents of survivors of the mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville.
By Emily Singer - August 30, 2023
A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned an injunction that had been placed on the Alabama law by a federal district judge.
By Will Fritz - August 22, 2023
The ruling will force families of trans youth to take their children out of state for health care.
By Will Fritz - August 01, 2023
'Does religious freedom just apply to a narrow group of Christians, or do we all have religious freedom?' asks an attorney representing plaintiffs in Kentucky.
By Rebekah Sager - July 18, 2023
Federal courts had recently blocked every anti-trans state law they'd ruled on — until the Sixth Circuit ruled in a case in Tennessee.
By Will Fritz - July 13, 2023
The latest events impacting LGBTQ communities and their rights.
By Will Fritz - June 23, 2023
A federal judge determined that Tennessee's ban on drag shows cannot be enforced in at least one county, but the state attorney general still plans to enforce it elsewhere.
By Will Fritz - June 06, 2023
State Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson were accused of ‘disorderly behavior’ for chanting in support of gun safety legislation after a Nashville school shooting left six dead.
By Associated Press - April 06, 2023
‘I am truly without words. And our children deserve better,’ first lady Jill Biden said.
By Associated Press - March 27, 2023
Starting June 1, the state will rely on state funds for HIV prevention efforts.
By Associated Press - January 24, 2023
The Biden administration continues investing in production of electric vehicle parts within the United States, and this time it includes a plant of newly unionized workers in Ohio.
By Oliver Willis - December 13, 2022
Voters in four states have approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fifth state rejected a flawed version of the question. The measures approved Tuesday could curtail the use of prison labor in Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont. In Louisiana, […]
By Associated Press - November 12, 2022
An overview of six of the 12 states with strict abortion bans after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision shows the drastic effects anti-abortion policies can have.
By Lisa Needham - September 07, 2022
13 states so far have enacted “trigger” laws that outlaw most or any abortions, while North Dakota and several other states continue to try enacting similar policies.
By Associated Press - August 28, 2022
‘We have been preparing for the day Roe falls and we are ready,’ said Yamelsie Rodriguez, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri.
By Associated Press - May 22, 2022
Tennessee state Sen. Frank Niceley used the false claim that ‘Hitler decided to live on the streets for a while’ as an illustration of someone who turned his life around after homelessness.
By Emily Singer - April 14, 2022
Republican governors have seized on anti-trans legislation as one of their current wedge issues.
By Casey Quinlan - February 08, 2022
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Fox that Democrats ‘don’t want grandmamas helping educate young mamas on how to rear babies.’
By Oliver Willis - December 15, 2021
After ending pandemic-related unemployment benefits, some Republican officials now want assistance for workers who were fired for refusing to get vaccinated.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - October 25, 2021
Ongoing debates about school mask mandates miss a crucial component: student input.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - September 15, 2021
At least one trans student in Tennessee was harassed after state passed bathroom bill.
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