As the Supreme Court appears on track to overturn the constitutional right to abortion, progressive prosecutors around the U.S. are declaring they won't enforce some of the most restrictive and punitive anti-abortion laws that GOP-led states have waited years to implement.

A U.S. House committee approved a bill Wednesday that would outlaw the distribution of fake or misleading materials resembling census forms or other materials that could prevent people from participating in the nation's head count.

The European Union's executive arm recommended putting Ukraine on a path to membership Friday, a symbolic boost for a country fending off a Russian onslaught that is killing civilians, flattening cities and threatening its very survival.

Former President Donald Trump on Friday lambasted former Vice President Mike Pence for not having the courage to go along with a plan to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Five years after the Civil War's end, the Tennessee Constitution was amended to prohibit slavery — but one exception remained.

Tennessee's top lawmakers Friday said they hope legislation adopted in the General Assembly this year will effectively limit pharmacy benefit managers from unfairly penalizing independent pharmacists from dispensing drugs across the Volunteer State.

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro pleaded not guilty Friday to contempt of Congress charges after refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Two weeks after a shooting incident left three people dead and 14 injured on McCallie Avenue, Tennessee lawmakers were in Chattanooga this week as part of a multicity tour celebrating the passage of a new law they say makes the state a national leader in enforcing stiffer penalties for violent crimes.

Making his first public appearance since the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection began its hearings laying bare his desperate attempts to subvert democracy and remain in power, former President Donald Trump on Friday lashed out at the committee as he continued to tease his plans for a third presidential run.

President Joe Biden said Thursday the American people are "really, really down" after a tumultuous two years with the coronavirus pandemic, volatility in the economy and now surging gasoline prices that are slamming family budgets.

The federal government is taking preliminary steps toward revising racial and ethnic classifications that have not been changed in a quarter century following calls for more accurate categories for how people identify themselves in federal data gathering.

Four European leaders expressed their support for Ukraine on Thursday while meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, vowing to back Kyiv's candidacy to eventually join the European Union and offering more weapons to fend off Russia's invasion.

Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, will honor victims of violent crime and their families in Chattanooga on Friday during a ceremonial signing of their recently passed Truth in Sentencing bill.

The Supreme Court said Wednesday it was wrong to wade into a dispute involving a Trump-era immigration rule that the Biden administration has abandoned, so the justices dismissed the case.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced the appointment of former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms as a top adviser, filling a key White House role at a politically important time in the runup to November elections that could determine the fate of the his agenda.

French President Emmanuel Macron suggested Wednesday that he would soon go to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy but said he would not publicly discuss details about such a trip.

Tennessee State Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson, on Wednesday touted improvements in the state's standardized test scores, which indicated that student proficiency in English and math regained ground after dipping at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pundit, activist and Donald Trump critic Bill Kristol is laying odds that the former president will run again in 2024.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday declined to order a meeting of the Tennessee Judicial Conference to be opened to the public, ruling after an attorney for the state testified the group would only engage in continuing legal education and make no policy decisions.

Members of the Chattanooga City Council are asking Mayor Tim Kelly's office to improve oversight of the library by having it report directly to city government, which would require a change in state law.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection systemically made the case in its second hearing Monday that several of Trump's advisers warned him against making false claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election that he lost. But the president would not listen.

NASHVILLE — A monthslong legal battle has ended between the state of Tennessee and a Georgia-based nonprofit group whose emergency shelter in Chattanooga for unaccompanied migrant minors was suspended by the state following allegations of sexual misconduct involving three staffers and several teens last July.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a year since its inception, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is going public as lawmakers hope to show the American public how democracy came to the brink of disaster.