A former Tennessee College of Applied Technology employee has been charged with stealing more than $60,000 from the school.

Stocks rallied to more records on Wall Street Friday as a stunningly disappointing report on the nation's job market signaled to investors that interest rates will likely stay low.

As Republicans march ahead with their campaign to tighten voting laws in political battlegrounds, some in their party are worried the restrictions will backfire by making it harder for GOP voters to cast ballots.

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari said he has "zero sympathy" for critics on Wall Street, who slam the central bank's aggressive support of the U.S. economy while millions of Americans remain out of work.

China's trade with the United States and the rest of the world surged by double digits in April as consumer demand recovered, but growth appeared to be slowing.

Two people have been charged with murder and home invasion in the slaying of a 97-year-old man who was found shot to death in his Georgia home.

A company that specializes in equipment to make tortillas is investing $30 million to set up shop in Tennessee and create 210 jobs.

Cece Linder was living in a 770-square-foot apartment outside Washington, D.C., last spring when the area went into lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Drugmaker Pfizer has begun the process to earn full U.S. regulatory approval for its COVID-19 vaccine for people aged 16 and older.

Two Tennessee police officers will not face criminal charges from the state for fatally shooting a man who pointed a gun at them during a confrontation in the front yard of a home, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Legislators have voted to to permanently switch Alabama to daylight saving time if the U.S. Congress authorizes it.

The recovery of America's job market hit a pause last month as many businesses - from restaurants and hotels to factories and construction companies - struggled to find enough workers to catch up with a rapidly strengthening economic rebound.

France joined the United States on Thursday in supporting an easing of patent protections on COVID-19 vaccines that could help poorer countries get more doses and speed the end of the pandemic.

President Joe Biden has declared a disaster and made aid available to governments and electric cooperatives in eight Georgia counties after storms on March 25 and March 26.

The Office of the New York Attorney General said in a new report that a campaign funded by the broadband industry submitted millions of fake comments supporting the 2017 repeal of net neutrality.

The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to 498,000, the lowest point since the viral pandemic struck 14 months ago and a sign of the job market's growing strength as businesses reopen and consumers step up spending.

A middle Georgia motel manager says a man shot dead in an argument Wednesday took it on himself to collect back rent from other tenants in order to earn a room.

A federal judge blocked a nationwide eviction moratorium that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established last year as COVID-19 lockdowns put millions of renters out of work.

Pope Francis on Thursday denounced "aggressive" nationalism that rejects migrants, and said Catholics should follow the Gospel-mandated call for an inclusive, welcoming church that doesn't distinguish between "natives and foreigners, residents and guests."

A sixth-grade girl brought a gun to her Idaho middle school, shot and wounded two students and a custodian and then was disarmed by a teacher Thursday, authorities said.

When Teri Murray tried to buy her first home in 1968, searching this leafy college town for the perfect place, she thought she was an ideal candidate: married, steadily employed, ample savings.

Tennessee lawmakers on Wednesday adjourned their annual legislative session. Here's a look at the top bills that the GOP-controlled General Assembly passed over the past five months.

The Biden administration on Thursday proposed revoking a rule imposed under former President Donald Trump that weakened the government's power to enforce a century-old law that protects most U.S. bird species.