NASHVILLE — Beginning July 1, most Tennesseans ages 21 and older will no longer be legally required to undergo state criminal background checks, firearms training or demonstrate firearm competency in order to carry a handgun either openly or concealed while in public.

The Arizona Legislature was debating one of several Republican proposals to overhaul voting when GOP Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita said she'd had enough.

Tim Kelly will lead Chattanooga for the next four years, after a campaign in which he promised a more equitable future for city residents.

Chattanooga's three undecided municipal elections will be decided Tuesday, with runoffs for mayor and two open city council seats. Polls will be open to registered city voters from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday. Here's what you need to know to vote:

Former opponent Wade Hinton endorsed Chattanooga mayoral runoff candidate Tim Kelly on Wednesday, solidifying Kelly's standing with defeated candidates from the general election.

Both of Chattanooga's mayoral candidates have long voting and donation histories, centering largely around moderate Republicans. Both say they want to remove themselves from partisan politics.

On an unseasonably muggy February afternoon, a tour bus emblazoned with "We got power" snaked through Warner Robins. Wrapped in the pan-African colors of red, black and green, it was an exuberant ode to Black political clout.

G. Gordon Liddy, a mastermind of the Watergate burglary and a radio talk show host after emerging from prison, died Tuesday at age 90.

New polling shows Tim Kelly's lead growing in the Chattanooga mayoral race with less than three weeks to go until the April 13 runoff.

President Joe Biden on Friday called a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of Georgia's elections laws "outrageous" and "an atrocity," and urged Congress to move quickly to bolster voting rights across the nation in response.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp drew protests Thursday as he signed into law a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of state elections that includes new restrictions on voting by mail and greater legislative control over how elections are run.

Dennis Clark and Isiah Hester, two Chattanooga residents passionate about equity and opportunity, are competing to represent District 5 on the City Council in April's election.

Chattanooga mayoral candidates Tim Kelly and Kim White faced off in a debate Thursday, agreeing on many key issues but sparring about business, politics and community development as their April 13 runoff election approaches.

Chattanooga mayoral candidate Tim Kelly reaffirmed his support for Police Chief David Roddy on Wednesday in response to a public statement by another politician that Kelly plans to replace Roddy if elected.

Jenny Hill and Thomas Lee, both business owners with big ideas, are vying to represent District 2 on the Chattanooga City Council.

Donald Trump last year publicly worried that the explosion in voting by mail during the pandemic would increase turnout so much that "you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."

With nearly six weeks to go before a runoff election for Chattanooga mayor, the battle between rivals Tim Kelly and Kim White will be to win over the supporters of the other 13 candidates who didn't make it past this week's election.

Chattanooga City Council races on Tuesday showed community support for incumbent council members who were re-elected, with runoffs set for April to fill two open seats, in District 2 and District 5.

Tuesday's crowded Chattanooga mayoral field will narrow down considerably in an April runoff between the top two voter-getters from Tuesday's city election, business and nonprofit leaders Tim Kelly and Kim White.

The polls are open in Chattanooga, and voter turnout seems to be right on par with what was anticipated, local election officials say.

A woman from Trion, Georgia, is being investigated for allegedly submitting a ballot for her deceased husband in the Nov. 3 presidential election.

Voting in Georgia two years from now will look different for several reasons. For one, the state and the rest of the country hopefully will be on the other side of a global pandemic and not in the middle of one.

Republicans in Georgia's state legislature have introduced a flood of bills aimed at rolling back voting access after record turnout led to Democratic wins in the presidential contest and two U.S. Senate runoffs.