WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 18, 2018--The Recording Academy™ and its members across the country are celebrating today's passage of the Music Modernization Act by the Senate. This movement of the historic bill is a victory for all music creators, setting a clear path to the president's desk.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee on Tuesday pointed to a Nashville faith-based halfway home as a possible model for reducing Tennessee's recidivism rate.
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 18, 2018--Seven states ranked among the top ten hungriest and poorest in the country, according to recently released U.S. government data. The states are New Mexico, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Guns in schools to protect students from grizzly bears? Betsy DeVos endured yet another rocky Senate confirmation hearing to become education secretary — this time on a theater stage.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence will be one of the top guests at a conference for conservative leaders in Tennessee.
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 17, 2018--As the country celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, recently released government data indicate that Hispanics bear the brunt of hunger and poverty despite the recent gains in the national economy.
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 17, 2018--The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, an independent nonprofit dedicated to preventing asbestos exposure through education, advocacy, and community work, today announced that the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General rel…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of foster children may be getting powerful psychiatric drugs prescribed to them without basic safeguards, says a federal watchdog agency that found a failure to care for youngsters whose lives have already been disrupted.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn says sexual misconduct accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh from high school are a "delay tactic," saying his female accuser should testify under oath and a committee vote shouldn't be delayed.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two years out of the White House, former President Barack Obama is facing another political test.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The prognosis for President Donald Trump and his party was grim.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday that Democratic former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen is "trying to pull a fast one" on voters by promising to be moderate if he's elected to the Senate in a critical race.
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — A former Republican candidate for the Florida Legislature will avoid prosecution for falsely claiming she had a college degree if she serves 90 days of probation and completes 25 hours of community service.
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 14, 2018--Stilt-walkers dressed as giant trees will deliver a letter this afternoon (Friday, Sept. 14) to the driver of an electric car, to be driven coast-to-coast from the climate summit in San Francisco to the United Nations in New York and handed over …
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 14, 2018--Stilt-walkers dressed as giant trees will deliver a letter this afternoon (Friday, Sept. 14) to the driver of an electric car, to be driven coast-to-coast from the climate summit in San Francisco to the United Nations in New York and handed over …
CHICAGO (AP) — Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's campaign has hit the Illinois airwaves with a new claim that Democratic challenger J.B. Pritzker wants to tax drivers for the mileage they log by using a tracking device.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo easily beat back a primary challenge from activist and actress Cynthia Nixon on Thursday, thwarting her attempt to become the latest insurgent liberal to knock off an establishment Democrat.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on New York's Democratic primary (all times local):
NEW YORK (AP) — Cynthia Nixon concedes Dem primary to NY Gov. Cuomo, says 'blue wave' coming for GOP and 'Democrats who act like them'
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona state lawmaker who was seen on video bragging about driving more than 120 mph (193 kph) earlier this year pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge for speeding Thursday.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — In a story Sept. 12 about an Afghan refugee winning a primary election, The Associated Press reported erroneously the year Safiya Wazir fled Afghanistan. Wazir fled Afghanistan decades ago. She arrived in the United States in 2007.
The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri says voters are tired of the "constant noise" and "hyperventilating" from Washington over President Donald Trump and his tweets.
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 13, 2018--The Democracy Fund Voter Study Group, a research collaboration of leading analysts and scholars from across the political spectrum, today released four new reports analyzing survey data from 2017 and 2018 about attitudes of Americans toward a multit…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island, who made a case for a second term by highlighting the state's improving economic fortunes, has survived a grassroots challenge from the left to win her party's nomination for re-election.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Latest on primary election day in Rhode Island (all times local):
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's Democratic governor cruised to victory Wednesday following a bitter primary, while her 2014 Republican opponent won the right to a rematch.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's incumbent congressmen easily won the state's Democratic primaries Wednesday.
LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Phil Bredesen said Wednesday that he's "embarrassed by the circus" in the confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee — and he's pointing at both Democrats and Republicans.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former President George W. Bush is quietly helping boost Republican candidates in places where President Donald Trump has struggled. In so doing, the former two-term president is raising his profile, ever so slightly, in the national politics he eschewed for years.
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 12, 2018--The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) today applauded the introduction of the American Innovation Act of 2018 (H.R. 6756), which includes a provision that would protect investments in start-ups from inadvertently triggering the net operati…
Two major Democratic political groups on Wednesday announced a combined $21 million digital ad buy targeting Senate races in November, a sign the party is trying to learn from 2016, when Donald Trump's Republican presidential campaign was far more aggressive online.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a story Aug. 26 about affirmative action and Asian-Americans, The Associated Press erroneously reported Karthick Ramakrishnan's place of employment. He is a public policy professor at the University of California, Riverside, not the University of California, Irvine.
SEATTLE (AP) — In a story Sept. 11 about a proposed fee on carbon pollution, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Shell pledged money to the initiative. Shell pledged money to oppose the initiative.
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 12, 2018--Biocom, the association representing the California life science industry, today announced the endorsement of Nathan Fletcher for the San Diego County Board of Supervisors District 4 seat.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Polls may show her far behind New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Thursday's Democratic primary, but Cynthia Nixon says she knows something that Cuomo and the pollsters don't.
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 12, 2018--Women are the fastest-growing subpopulation of the military and veteran communities, representing more than 15 percent of active-duty military and 10 percent of veterans. Yet according to a landmark report released today by DAV (Disabled American Ve…
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The Latest on the New Hampshire primary election (all times local):
Fueling speculation about his White House ambitions, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker will headline a Democratic fundraiser in South Carolina, which hosts the South's first presidential primary.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire is set to elect either its first black member of Congress or first openly gay representative.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire is set to elect either its first openly gay member of Congress or its first black representative.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Stewart Levenson has conceded a tight U.S. House primary in New Hampshire to Republican rival Steven Negron.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Eddie Edwards wins GOP nomination in New Hampshire; he would be state's first black congressman if elected in November.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama's recent denunciation of President Donald Trump's treatment of the press overlooks the aggressive steps the Justice Department took to keep information from the public when he was president. Obama also made a problematic claim that Republican "sabotage" has cos…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is referencing hurricanes to describe the "challenging election" that Senate Republicans are facing.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis resigned from Congress on Monday to focus on his bid to become Florida's next governor.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Democratic nominee for governor Karl Dean is running a TV ad that touts his support for expanding Medicaid, drawing a contrast with Republican nominee and expansion opponent Bill Lee.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 10, 2018--U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s recently proposed Accountable Capitalism Act, which would hold large U.S. corporations accountable not only to their shareholders but to all corporate stakeholders, is not the optimal path for corporate America, contends e…
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 10, 2018--The Government of the Netherlands and the Global Center on Adaptation today unveiled plans for the formation of a forthcoming Global Commission on Adaptation, featuring the Netherlands as a key convener, which will be overseen by the 8th…
GERMANTOWN, Tenn. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn could make history by becoming the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate in Tennessee.
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Rob Arlett, former Trump state campaign chair, wins Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Delaware.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on criminal charges brought in connection with the Sony Pictures hack (all times local):
