Posted: 7:14 AM Legislation that would require incoming students at public higher education institutions to show proof of immunization against meningitis has passed the Senate.

Updated: 12:32 PM The bill proposed by Tennessee Sen. Bill Ketron to allow student identification issued by state higher education institutions to be used for voting purposes has hit a snag.

Updated: 7:02 AM Campaign contributions totaling more than $364,000 have poured into lawmakers over the past two years from liquor wholesalers, package stores and the beer industry

Posted: 6:29 AM Republicans controlling the House are moving to take the roughest edges off across-the-board spending cuts that are just starting to take effect.

Posted: 7:13 AM Legislation that would require incoming students at public higher education institutions to show proof of immunization against meningitis is expected to be on the Senate floor Monday.

Updated: 7:00 AM Before a House vote to give final approval to a contentious firearms bill last week, Speaker Beth Harwell implored her Republican colleagues to ignore demands from what she deemed "fringe" groups

Posted: 6:41 AM There appears to be little in the works to undo the budget cuts, although President Barack Obama is calling lawmakers to cajole them to undo them.

Updated: 7:35 AM Saud, whose country along with other Gulf states is widely believed to be supplying weapons to the Syrian rebels, said Saudi Arabia could not ignore the brutality Assad is inflicting on his people.

Posted: 6:38 AM President Barack Obama learned in his first term that he couldn't change Washington from the inside, saying in the heat of his re-election race: "You can only change it from the outside.

Posted: 6:34 AM President Barack Obama has tapped Walmart's Sylvia Mathews Burwell as his next budget chief, thrusting her into the center of Washington's heated partisan budget battles.

Posted: 7:49 AM The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Mike Bell of Riceville was advanced on a 7-1 vote on Tuesday. It would also end restrictions on carrying blades longer than 4 inches.

Posted: 7:14 AM Chuck Hagel takes charge at the Defense Department with deep budget cuts looming and Republican opponents still doubtful that he's up to the job.

Posted: 7:12 AM President Barack Obama is pulling out all the stops to warn just what could happen if automatic budget cuts kick in. Americans are reacting with a collective yawn.

Posted: 1:30 PM A proposal to allow wine to be sold in Tennessee supermarkets and convenience stores has scored its first legislative victory after years of frustration.

Posted: 8:33 AM President Barack Obama and his officials are doing their best to drum up public concern over the shock wave of spending cuts that could strike the government in just days.

Posted: 8:30 AM President Barack Obama is arguing that looming government-wide spending cuts could idle military resources like naval aircraft carriers

Posted: 8:13 AM A deeply divided Senate is moving toward a vote on President Barack Obama's contentious choice of Chuck Hagel to head the Defense Department,

Posted: 7:38 AM Speaking at a town hall meeting Tuesday, Kerry spoke a few sentences of passable German to the delight of a crowd in a packed Internet cafe before regaling the audience with tales of his boyhood in Berlin in 1954.

Posted: 7:36 AM A man wearing a hat and scarf and brandishing a gun had raped and robbed a 53-year-old woman in her home and then vanished into the night.

Posted: 7:34 AM There could also be reductions in federal payments that subsidize clean energy, school construction and state and local public works projects.

Updated: 7:20 AM The primary contest to replace disgraced former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson was in the hands of Chicago-area voters Tuesday.

Posted: 7:17 AM Deaths of younger teen drivers increased sharply in the first six months of last year, reversing a decade-long trend, according to a report released Tuesday by state highway safety officials.

Posted: 7:15 AM Obama insists on both spending cuts and higher tax revenue through trimming deductions and loopholes used mostly by the wealthy. Republicans see that as a tax increase and are balking.

Posted: 12:29 PM U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged members of the Syrian opposition to turn up for talks in Rome this week, insisting that more help is on the way in their fight against President Bashar Assad.

Posted: 12:26 PM High-tech leaders including the former heads of AOL and Mozilla are organizing a "virtual march for immigration reform" aimed at pressuring lawmakers to enact sweeping changes to the nation's immigration laws.