Within weeks of Donald Trump's victory in 2016, incoming White House counsel Don McGahn, the conservative Federalist Society's Leonard Leo and a handful of other attorneys set about drawing up lists of potential nominees for more than 100 federal judicial vacancies.

A guy proclaims himself a billionaire worth over $10 billion, yet he told his tax preparers and the IRS he didn't make enough money to pay more than $750 in income tax.

Testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers that Russia again is trying to influence the U.S. elections, chiefly through attempts to "denigrate" Democratic candidate Joe Biden.

At the heart of every story about coronavirus loss and tragedy is the question of what happens next.

We have to wonder when the conservative right will stop believing a president who cannot keep his stories straight for even a week at a time.

While President Trump returned to holding indoor rallies in Nevada on Sunday and Phoenix on Monday despite continuing COVID-19 concerns there, the Tennessee Department of Health reported 2,450 new COVID-19 cases Monday, bringing the state's case total to 174,274 cases.

Hate isn't a two-way street. Nor is it bipartisan or nonsectarian or colorless or genderless.

Wildfires are racing toward your home.

While the West's climate — especially in California — has always made it prone to fires, the link between human-caused climate change and bigger fires is inextricable, according to Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

On Thursday, as many Americans struggled to reconcile what they heard with their own ears on the news - President Donald Trump talking with journalist Bob Woodward about the "deadly stuff" of the airborne coronavirus and his determination to downplay it to the public — this page sought input from Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Rep. Chuck Fleischmann.

"This is deadly stuff," Donald Trump told journalist Bob Woodward in an on-the-record, taped interview on Feb. 7.

Election Day is seven weeks and six days from today.

Have a happy Labor Day.

Much has been said and written in recent weeks about making a voting plan for the Nov. 3 general election - and about whether the U.S. Postal Service is ready to process and deliver election mail in time for an expected onslaught of mail-in and absentee ballots.

We'd like to believe the headlines that would lead us to think the COVID-19 crisis is easing. But it's too soon to believe that.

Donald Trump claimed he was visiting Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday to call for unity.

Let's try wrapping our heads around what we're told was an unsolicited private hospital company's offer to buy Erlanger for $475 million dollars.

We certainly can't say that American's racial unrest is going quietly into the night - or going quietly anywhere.

It's soring time again in Tennessee.

Of all the lies Trump administration officials pumped out during the Republican National Convention this week, the ones they should be held accountable for most pertain to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On a night of multiple crises, Vice President Mike Pence in his Republican National Convention address spun an alternative tale of this nation's reality and offered a raft of empty platitudes and out-right lies to Americans.

This was supposed to be the week when Donald Trump had an opportunity to give himself a reboot.

More than 534,000 mail ballots were rejected in this year's primaries across 23 states, according to a Sunday report by The Washington Post.