All of Tennessee is experiencing a COVID-19 case and hospitalization surge, and the hardest-hit areas continue to be those without public face mask requirements, according to a report from Vanderbilt University researchers released on Tuesday.

The following is one in a series of survey responses provided to the Times Free Press by candidates for public office in advance of the Nov. 3 general election.

Joe Biden was in Georgia on Tuesday, a relatively surprising visit from a Democratic nominee for president in a state that - a few months ago - was seen as a near lock for Republicans to shore up the electoral votes needed to secure the Peach State.

Georgia voters who plan to vote on Election Day should double check their polling places before heading out because some have changed.

State Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, returned a $3,200 contribution made by Tennessee Senate Republican Caucus Chairman Ken Yager's political action committee earlier this month, days after GOP officials launched a direct-mail broadside against Gardenhire's Democratic challenger, Glenn Scruggs, in next week's election.

Tennessee Commerce and Insurance Commissioner Hogden Mainda on Tuesday submitted his letter of resignation to Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday, a little over a year after the former Chattanooga-based EPB vice president took the post.

Standing by a blue pickup truck at a rally near the birthplace of the late civil rights icon John Lewis, Alabama Sen. Doug Jones urged voters to look at his record from his three years in office and not what he called Republican distortions about him.

President Donald Trump spent four years upending seven decades of American trade policy.

President Donald Trump plans to intensify an already breakneck travel schedule in the final full week of the presidential campaign, overlooking a surge of coronavirus cases in the U.S. and a fresh outbreak in his own White House.

One week until Election Day, Joe Biden is going on offense, heading Tuesday to Georgia — which hasn't backed a Democrat for president since 1992 — and pushing into other territory where President Donald Trump was once expected to easily repeat his wins from four years ago.

President Donald Trump said he would shake up American trade policy. That he did. From Beijing to Brussels to Mexico City, he waged war with trading partners on multiple fronts. Here's a look at four tumultuous years of Trump trade policy:

From classic American rockers to British artists to the estates of late legends, here's a look at some of the musicians who have objected to Donald Trump using their songs at campaign events.

Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden has thrown his support for U.S. Senate candidate Marquita Bradshaw.

Amy Coney Barrett was formally sworn in Tuesday as the Supreme Court's ninth justice, her oath administered in private by Chief Justice John Roberts. Her first votes on the court could include two big topics affecting the man who appointed her.

Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court late Monday by a deeply divided Senate, with Republicans overpowering Democrats to install President Donald Trump's nominee days before the election and secure a likely conservative court majority for years to come.

Not all votes are necessarily created equal under the electoral college and partisan makeup of American states.

An unforced error by Republican Sen. Todd Gardenhire regarding "fried chicken," obesity and a lack of healthy food availability in East Chattanooga has brought drama and national attention to the white lawmaker's Nov. 3 Senate District 10 contest against Democratic challenger Glenn Scruggs, a Black assistant police chief in Chattanooga.

U.S. stocks fell sharply Monday as a troubling increase in coronavirus counts put investors in a selling mood.

With eight days before Election Day, more people already have cast ballots in this year's presidential election than voted early or absentee in the 2016 race as the start of in-person early voting in big states led to a surge in turnout in recent days.

The following is one in a series of survey responses provided to the Times Free Press by candidates for public office in advance of the Nov. 3 general election.

Voters in four states from different regions of the country could embrace broad legal marijuana sales on Election Day, and a sweep would highlight how public acceptance of cannabis is cutting across geography, demographics and the nation's deep political divide.

At a rally of Tennessee and Georgia supporters of President Donald Trump on Sunday, business owners and supporters prioritized political fervor and fellowship against business implications and COVID-19 safety.

Five years ago, when she was a sophomore at Carver High School, helping democracy in the community wasn't what motivated Alana Daniels to be a poll worker.