Posted: 8:45 AM President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the United States is investigating whether chemical weapons have been deployed in Syria.

Posted: 8:43 AM One of Cuba's best-known dissidents has visited the White House after trying for nearly a decade to obtain government permission to travel outside the communist island.

Posted: 5:36 AM The sponsor of legislation competing with Gov. Bill Haslam's proposal to create a school voucher program has withdrawn her bill.

Updated: 5:37 AM A proposal that seeks to bar public universities and colleges from implementing nondiscrimination policies for student groups is advancing in the Senate.

Posted: 12:24 PM The U.S. ambassador to Syria said Wednesday the Obama administration has no evidence to support President Bashar Assad's claims that U.S.-backed rebels used chemical weapons in northern Syria

Posted: 12:22 PM The Senate appears set to approve a huge, bipartisan spending bill to keep the government running through September and ruling out the chance of a government shutdown later this month.

Updated: 7:50 AM Tennessee lawmakers are preparing to take up a measure that seeks to restrict police agencies in the state from using unmanned drone aircraft, and the sponsor is someone with experience piloting drones.

Posted: 7:16 AM President Barack Obama plunged into the turbulent Middle East on a mission aimed primarily at assuring America's top ally in the region and its friends back home that it will not be forsaken

Posted: 6:16 AM Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of political satirist Stephen Colbert, always dreamed of a career in politics — and now she has a chance to realize that dream.

Posted: 1:44 PM Corker, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also called international humanitarian assistance for refugees 'a high priority.'

Posted: 1:18 PM Sen. Bill Ketron has delayed a final committee vote on supermarket wine so he can rewrite the bill to keep cigarettes from being sold in liquor stores.

Posted: 6:43 AM Firearms play an outsized role in the hearts of Coloradans. It's a frontier state that adopted gunslingers Buffalo Bill and Doc Holliday as native sons, where treasured guns are routinely passed from generation to generation.

Updated: 5:25 PM House Speaker Beth Harwell says she doesn't plan to press fellow Republican Rep. Matthew Hill to call for another vote on bill to hold local referendums on grocery store wine sales.

Posted: 1:37 PM Lankford said the decision came after Alexander visited his home and met with his family. He cited Alexander's perfect rating from the National Rifle Association and his goal of reducing federal spending.

Updated: 1:34 PM The commissioner of Tennessee's Department of Labor and Workforce Development is resigning due to family reasons.

Posted: 7:00 AM This case focuses on voter registration in Arizona, which has tangled frequently with the federal government over immigration issues involving the Mexican border.

Updated: 6:51 AM State legislators across the country are introducing laws making it harder for animal welfare advocates to investigate cruelty and food safety cases.

Posted: 5:23 AM A special joint offering from Tennessee craft brewers Yazoo and Calfkiller features an unusual sales pitch to beer aficionados. It reads: "Now With Even More Taxes!"

Posted: 12:32 PM Gov. Bill Haslam has signed a bill that would allow people with handgun carry permits to store firearms in their vehicles no matter where they are parked.

Posted: 5:41 AM The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Bill Ketron of Murfreesboro was approved 26-3 by the Senate on Thursday. The companion bill passed the house 69-22 last month.

Posted: 5:38 AM Critics have pushed for capping enrollment following the low performance of Tennessee Virtual Academy, the state's only privately operated virtual school.

Posted: 1:52 PM Hensley says he proposed the measure after a student at a Tennessee college was required to counsel someone who didn't agree with the counselor's "moral belief."

Posted: 1:00 PM Legislation that would allow student identification from the state's higher education institutions to be used for voting has passed the Senate.

Posted: 12:06 PM Rep. Curtis Johnson is presiding over the Tennesee House while Speaker Beth Harwell is away to attend to her mother's funeral.

Posted: 12:04 PM Thousands of federal employees who work at Fort Knox in central Kentucky and Fort Campbell on the Tennessee state line could face up to 22 unpaid days off work between April and September