Dubbed the Equality Act, the bill is a top priority of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who said it will bring the nation "closer to equal liberty and justice for all."
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee made a stop in the Mid-South Friday amid calls for House Speaker Glen Casada to step down, claims of a federal investigation over school vouchers and a plea for clemency for a death row inmate from Memphis.
Tennessee's top state Senate leader says he won't ask for embattled House Speaker Glen Casada to resign his leadership position amid mounting scandals surrounding Casada's office
Shelby County Assessor Melvin Burgess said his office is short-staffed, and he believes the county is leaving more than $7 million in property tax revenue on the table by not funding the office properly.
A Bolivar City Council member has been charged with theft and official misconduct after a state audit says his air conditioning business overcharged the county on multiple occasions.
Wednesday, Shelby County Commissioners took a first vote on a resolution encouraging the censure of Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Jim Lammey by the state of Tennessee’s Board of Judicial Conduct.
The chief of staff to Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada resigned Monday night amid reports he sent text messages to solicit interns and lobbyists for sex.
Tre Hargett says there is a need for standards in the state when registering people to vote. Now they have a benchmark in place to protect the integrity of the voting process.
Victims of domestic violence, human trafficking and other sex-related rimes can now conceal their identities from public records in the state of Tennessee.
Tennessee's legislature has ended its session for the year, but House Democrats are up in arms after a commotion happened inside the state capital involving a Memphis lawmaker.
Congressman Steve Cohen from Memphis was part of the House Judiciary Committee that was supposed to be in day two of testimony for Attorney General William Barr.
A business owner who ran unsuccessfully last year for a U.S. House seat in northwest Arkansas has announced plans to seek the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is not a fan of gambling, but his spokesperson says he will let this bill allowing online sport betting to become law without his signature.
It was a dramatic morning on the Tennessee House floor as lawmakers voted on Governor Bill Lee’s education savings account proposal. The bill narrowly passed by two votes.
It was the report the nation had been waiting for – Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Thursday, most of that report was released by Attorney General William Barr.
Those efforts "were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests," Mueller wrote.
The Tennessee House has advanced a proposal that would create a new state charter school commission to manage charter school appeals if operators are denied by a local school board
The idea to ship immigrants to Democratic strongholds was considered twice in recent months, but the White House and Department of Homeland Security said the plan had been rejected. But Trump said Friday he was still considering the idea.
The first financial disclosure forms for 2019 in the Memphis mayoral race have now been filed. The forms detail campaign activity from January until March of this year.
Arkansas lawmakers have sent Gov. Asa Hutchinson legislation cutting off funding to “sanctuary cities” that don’t cooperate with federal immigration authorities over his objections that the measure could open the door to racial profiling.
The President of the Memphis Police Association took to social media to defend its endorsement of former mayor Willie Herenton, who's running again in this fall's municipal election.
Former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton wants his old job back. Saturday, the man who led the Bluff City for 17 years formally kicked off his campaign to become Memphis mayor in the municipal election this fall.
The coordinators of a new People's Convention ahead of the municipal election have released a survey to gauge community positions on a variety of issues.
Arkansas lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it illegal to remove or alter any military or historical monument on public property, including Confederate monuments, unless a state commission agrees to the changes
US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was in Tennessee on Monday, as Governor Bill Lee continues to push a controversial voucher plan that could put public money in the hands of private schools.
A watered-down Tennessee bill spelling out that the state's public indecency law applies to bathrooms and changing rooms for single-sex, multi-person use is heading toward floor votes
This week, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos proposed a $17.6 million dollar cut to Special Olympics. Members of Congress were not too pleased with the proposal.
Congressman Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, says there is a loophole in drunken-driving laws that allows repeat offenders to be charged and tried as first-time offenders because of inconsistent reporting.
A Mid-South mayor is facing her own legal troubles after a city-owned truck crashed into her nephew’s deck. What happened next is now at the center of a police investigation.
The Democratic-controlled chamber fell 38 votes short of the 286 needed for Democrats and their handful of Republican allies to prevail, because a two-thirds majority was needed.
Mueller's findings absolve Trump on the question of colluding with Russia but don't entirely remove the legal threats the president and his associates are facing.
Attorney General William Barr has given Congress the eagerly anticipated summary of the “principal conclusions” of special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year Russia investigation.
Weeks of teasing an announcement are behind him, but O'Rourke now must prove whether the energy he brought to the Texas campaign will resonate on a much larger stage.
Arkansas lawmakers have sent the governor legislation banning most abortions 18 weeks into a woman's pregnancy, a prohibition that could be the strictest in the country
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is setting a high bar for impeachment of President Donald Trump, saying he is “just not worth it” even as some on her left flank clamor to start proceedings.
