Updated: 11:58 AM Tennessee got its moment in the spotlight during Monday's opening ceremonies as Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) spoke briefly minutes before President Barack Obama takes the oath of office.
Posted: 6:06 AM His second term already under way, President Barack Obama aims to set an optimistic tone when he takes the oath again to lead a divided nation seeking solutions to economic woes at home and conflict overseas.
Posted: 12:14 PM The soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team have gone to war five times since 9/11, and 84 have been killed — including 13 during their current deployment to Afghanistan.
Posted: 12:05 PM The special operations team within Northcom will be turned into a new headquarters, led by a general instead of a colonel. It was established in a Dec. 31 memo signed by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
Posted: 11:58 AM Vice President Joe Biden said the nation could not wait any longer to respond to gun violence, telling mayors on Thursday that the White House would "take this fight to the halls of Congress."
Posted: 11:17 AM The Collierville Republican was arrested in October 2011 in Nashville after failing a roadside sobriety test. A loaded .38-caliber gun was found stuffed between the driver's seat and center console.
Posted: 7:31 AM In the middle of a bitter fight over a Republican president's nominee for defense secretary, a former White House occupant pleaded with senators to give the president his choice for the Pentagon job.
Posted: 6:41 AM The Obama administration has declared it cannot accept new terrorist sanctuaries in Mali or anywhere else and has promised to support French and African efforts to restore security.
Posted: 6:39 AM Despite a relentless workload ahead, President Barack Obama is lighter on his feet in one sense as he opens his second term.
Posted: 6:37 AM President Barack Obama is likely to name Denis McDonough, one of his closest national security advisers, as his next chief of staff, according to people familiar with the White House thinking.
Posted: 6:36 AM Obama is hiking pressure on congressional Republicans on the debt ceiling and immigration, two big issues in which public sentiment and political risks seem to favor him.
Posted: 6:35 AM Although they are unlikely to endorse the president's call for banning assault weapons, they might go along with other proposals, such as requiring universal background checks on gun purchases.
Posted: 6:34 AM The hundreds of thousands of people spilling into the nation's capital Monday are encouraged to travel by rail, bus or bicycle.
Posted: 6:32 AM President Barack Obama is featuring eight Americans as "citizen co-chairs" of his inauguration, a new role created to highlight his first-term accomplishments
Posted: 6:31 AM "Are the president's kids more important than yours?" a male narrator asks in the video. "Then why is he skeptical of putting armed security in schools, when his kids are protected by armed guards in their school?"
Posted: 6:29 AM An immigration activist who's one of the leaders of the Dream Act movement is joining the staff of U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema as a district outreach director.
Posted: 6:27 AM Polls give hawkish and religious parties led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a comfortable edge over their center-left rivals ahead of next week's parliamentary elections.
Updated: 7:22 AM State Rep. Joe Carr is proposing a state law to make it a crime in Tennessee for federal agents to enforce any effort to ban firearms or ammunition.
Updated: 12:30 PM President Barack Obama on Wednesday launched the most sweeping effort to curb U.S. gun violence in nearly two decades, announcing a $500 million package that sets up a fight with Congress
Posted: 6:49 AM The political tempest stirred up by Superstorm Sandy appears to have moved on after wreaking havoc among congressional Republicans divided over how much aid to allocate to the victims.
Updated: 6:47 AM City and federal officials are implementing measures intended to prevent calamities, such as a terrorist attack, and to address more mundane concerns, such as slow-moving security lines and cold weather.
Updated: 6:45 AM The IMF has been left largely on the sidelines as Democratic and Republican fights over the budget raise the specter of a U.S. default or another recession.
Updated: 6:43 AM U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the leader of the world's largest military, met Pope Benedict XVI, the world's best known advocate for peace, at the Vatican on Wednesday.
Posted: 6:41 AM President Barack Obama's private swearing-in will be a brief, sparsely attended ceremony in the Blue Room of the White House.
Posted: 6:38 AM The move came amid pushback from liberal organizations that called the game tasteless and its timing politically motivated. It was released Sunday.
