A bipartisan U.S. House vote this week condemning President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to withdraw American military forces from northeastern Syria triggered a rare split among Tennessee and Georgia Republican representatives.

President Donald Trump tweeted it as evidence of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's weakness. Pelosi raised it as a banner of strength.

The U.S. and Turkey agreed Thursday to a cease-fire in the Turks' deadly attacks on Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, requiring the Kurds to vacate the area in an arrangement that largely solidifies Turkey's position and aims in the weeklong conflict.

Sixteen hundred ballots were counted in the first three days of voting using new machines in six Georgia counties, and operations have been "seamless," Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a news release.

Owners of the Coyote Jack's nightclub can no longer serve beer in Chattanooga after a lengthy hearing by the beer and wrecker board Thursday morning.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has appointed 38 people to a panel that will work with the U.S. Census Bureau on the 2020 Census.

Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the chairman of one of the U.S. House committees leading an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, died Thursday of complications from longstanding health problems. He was 68.

A former top State Department aide testified in the impeachment inquiry that the Trump administration's politicization of foreign policy contributed to his resignation, while the Senate GOP leader briefed colleagues on a possible Christmas impeachment trial.

Washing his hands of Syria, President Donald Trump declared Wednesday the U.S. has no stake in defending the Kurdish fighters who died by the thousands as America's partners against IS extremists.

Chattanoogans are among a growing group of Tennesseans voicing opposition to a plan for the state to fund its Medicaid program, TennCare, through a lump sum from the federal government called a "block grant."

A Florida man wanted in a campaign finance case involving associates of Rudy Giuliani is in federal custody after flying Wednesday to Kennedy Airport in New York City to turn himself in, federal authorities said.

Health care memo to Democrats: There's more than one way to get to coverage for all.

President Donald Trump voiced confidence Wednesday that the U.S. could not lose a tariff war with the European Union as the U.S. prepares to impose trade sanctions on up to $7.5 billion worth of EU goods.

Former Tennessee governors Bill Haslam and Winfield Dunn are split on which U.S. Senate candidate they're backing in the state's 2020 Republican primary, according to two GOP hopefuls' campaign financial disclosures.

After a year of debating raising taxes to fund Hamilton County Schools, the county commission on Wednesday morning shot down a resolution to put it to a public vote.

Elizabeth Warren repeatedly came under attack during Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate as rivals accused the Massachusetts senator of ducking questions about the cost of Medicare for All and her signature "wealth tax" plan in an attempt to derail her rising campaign.

The impeachment inquiry is revealing vivid new details about the high-level unease over President Donald Trump's actions toward Ukraine, and those of his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, as the swift-moving probe by House Democrats showed no signs Tuesday of easing.

The new mayor of Nashville is rescinding an executive order by his predecessor discouraging Tennessee's capital city from cooperating with immigration officials.

Hunter Biden, acknowledging that his family name created business opportunities, rejected assertions by President Donald Trump that he did anything wrong by engaging in foreign work in Ukraine and China.

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Corker says President Donald Trump's move to give a "green light" to Turkey's invasion of northern Syria is a "betrayal of huge proportions" that "jerked the rug" out from under America's Kurdish allies.

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More than a dozen Hamilton County schools that are supposed to have school resource officers this year don't.

The key question: Do firings and harassment based on a worker's sexual orientation or gender identity qualify as sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act?