Vowing to reclaim U.S. leadership in space, President Donald Trump announced Monday he is directing the Pentagon to create a new "Space Force" as an independent service branch aimed at ensuring American supremacy in space.

State Rep. Gerald McCormick, R-Chattanooga, says he won't seek re-election to the House District 26 seat he's held for nearly 14 years and he will officially withdraw from the contest Monday

A Justice Department watchdog report has turned into Washington's latest Rorschach test, with President Donald Trump and his critics each cherry picking what they want to see from its findings to either discredit or defend investigators conducting the probe into the White House.

A Justice Department watchdog report has turned into Washington's latest Rorschach test: President Donald Trump and his critics are cherry-picking what they want from its findings to either discredit or defend investigators conducting a probe into his campaign and White House.

A Senate committee passed the Department of the Interior's Environmental and Related Agencies Act on Thursday which deals with deferred maintenance at national parks.

Federal judge jails ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort ahead of trial, citing recently filed obstruction charges.

China says it will retaliate for Trump tariffs by immediately imposing penalties of the same scale on American goods.

The leading Republican candidate in Georgia's high-profile governor's race, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle.

In a stinging rebuke, the Justice Department watchdog declared Thursday that former FBI Director James Comey was "insubordinate" in his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation in the explosive final months of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Donald Trump Jr. took issue Thursday with Sen. Bob Corker's remarks that the GOP is becoming "cult-like" in its support of President Donald Trump.

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn, said states like Tennessee could get a boost in their fight against the opioid crisis in a bill.

AP source: Justice watchdog finds FBI Director Comey broke from protocol but wasn't politically biased in Clinton probe.

Attorneys are debating whether a Tennessee woman, Cyntoia Brown, serving a life sentence for killing a man when she was 16 can gain parole.

The Supreme Court has struck down a Minnesota law that restricted what voters can wear to polls.

Kim Kardashian West and Alice Marie Johnson, the woman President Donald Trump freed from life in federal prison, say they won't stop advocating for other people serving long sentences for non-violent drug offenses.

Two Norwegian lawmakers have nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize after the Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Tennessee Election Coordinator Mark Goins says he's determined that state Rep. Gerald McCormick, R-Chattanooga, whose legal residency in Hamilton County has been questioned, "meets a sufficient number of factors" to remain on the ballot as a candidate in the House District 26 contest.

The House will vote next week on two Republican-written immigration bills, a top GOP aide said late Tuesday, as leaders sought to move past an election-year civil war they worry will wound the party's prospects in November.

Declaring he has "won the argument" on hemp, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the Senate is on track for a vote to legalize the crop that comes from the same plant that produces marijuana.

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., today took to the Senate floor to denounce Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Republican colleagues for not allowing a vote on his proposal to require congressional approval of proposed tariffs by the president.

Republicans in Congress expressed uncharacteristic skepticism on Tuesday about President Donald Trump's claim that his summit with Kim Jong Un opened "a new history."

The city has flipped the breaker on a $4 million lighting proposal for the historic Walnut Street Bridge.

SINGAPORE (AP) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday rocked a region and suggested the upending of decades of U.S. defense posture on the Korean Peninsula when he announced that he was stopping annual U.S.-South Korean military drills and wants to remove the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in the South as a deterrent against North Korean attack.