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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Republican Matt Van Epps has won a nationally watched special election in Tennessee for a seat in the U.S. House, maintaining his party's grip on the district with help from President Donald Trump.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- President Donald Trump and Republicans will try to bounce back from recent losses around the country when Tennessee voters choose the next representative for the reliably conservative 7th U.S. House Congressional District on Tuesday.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Matt Van Epps, a former commissioner in Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's administration, won a crowded Republican primary Tuesday in the special election to replace a GOP congressman who left office this summer.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Matt Van Epps, a former commissioner in Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's administration, won a crowded Republican primary Tuesday in the special election to replace a GOP congressman who left office this summer.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Democratic and Republican ballots aren't short on candidates in Tuesday's Tennessee primary special election to replace a GOP congressman who stepped aside this summer, including one who landed President Donald Trump's endorsement last week.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer has resulted in crowded primaries for both major parties, a new test for one of three districts that GOP lawmakers drew as safely red in 2022 by dividing left-leaning Nashville.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- President Donald Trump deployed more than 2,000 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., in a crime-centered mission, and now he wants a replica of that in Memphis, but the early blueprints show key differences.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn announced Wednesday that she is entering the open Tennessee governor's race in 2026, setting up a primary clash with U.S. Rep. John Rose.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A December special election in Tennessee will take place to fill an opening left by Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Green's retirement, putting the focus on a district that has reliably favored the GOP in recent elections but includes a chunk of Democratic-voting Nashville.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The House Homeland Security Committee's chairman, Republican Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee, announced Monday that he will retire from Congress once the House votes again on the sprawling tax and budget policy bill backed by President Donald Trump.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Tennessee House speaker and his onetime chief of staff in a scheme to win taxpayer-funded mail business from state lawmakers even after scandals drove the two out of political power.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has vetoed his first bill since taking office in 2019, nixing a measure that would make it easier for a state board to deny parole.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee's Republican-led Legislature adjourned its monthslong lawmaking session on Tuesday by passing a final flurry of bills, including ones aimed at diversity, equity and inclusion in governments.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee's public schools could soon be required to teach that the keys to a successful life include following a proper sequence of events: high school, job or higher education, marriage and then children.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee's public schools could soon be required to teach that the keys to a successful life include following a proper sequence of events: high school, job or higher education, marriage and then children.
LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) -- Republican U.S. Rep. John Rose on Thursday announced his candidacy for Tennessee governor in 2026, putting him on a likely collision course with U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who also appears set on running.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- President Donald Trump has pardoned a former Republican Tennessee lawmaker who was two weeks into a 21-month prison sentence for an illegal campaign finance scheme that he pleaded guilty to in 2022, before he tried unsuccessfully to take back his plea.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A former Republican Tennessee lawmaker says President Donald Trump has pardoned him two weeks into his 21-month prison sentence for an illegal campaign finance scheme that he pleaded guilty to in 2022, before he tried unsuccessfully to take back his plea.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee on Friday announced he is pardoning 43 people who have served out their sentences, stressing that his actions are "very different" than President Joe Biden's recent wave of commutations.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has repaid about $1,900 for a trip to a conference after ethics officials found that he shouldn't have relied on an outside group to cover the travel.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles has won reelection in Tennessee while facing an FBI investigation into his campaign finances.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles is hoping to fend off a Democratic opponent in Tennessee in a race complicated by an FBI investigation into the first-term Republican's campaign finances.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee election officials are objecting to a judge's ruling that restored the voting rights of four people who can't have guns under their specific felony offenses, citing a new state law that makes resolving gun and other "citizenship rights" of convicted felons a prerequisite to casting ballots.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee election officials are disputing a judge's ruling that restored the voting rights of four people who can't have guns under their specific felony offenses, showing the impact of the new state policy that gun rights are a prerequisite to casting ballots again.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A panel of judges has struck down a 2023 change approved by Tennessee Republican lawmakers that would cut the size of Democratic-leaning Nashville's Metro Council in half.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A federal judge has ruled that a Tennessee woman has a constitutional right to post a yard sign with profane language condemning both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A federal appeals panel is keeping a 21-month prison sentence in place for a former Tennessee state senator who tried to withdraw his guilty plea on campaign finance law violations.