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Well over 1,000 people lined up along the front of Paducah’s Bob Noble Park Saturday afternoon to rally against actions the Trump administration has taken over the course of the president’s second term. -
Tennessee lawmakers are at odds over a bill that would require schools to track and report students’ immigration status. -
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HUNTINGDON, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say two students have died and at least seven other people have been injured in a school bus crash in west Tennessee. The school bus was carrying students and employees from Kenwood Middle School in Clarksville for a field trip to Jackson, Tennessee. -
A new community center focused on providing recovery resources for people with substance use disorders and their loved ones opened its doors in Murray on Thursday. -
Tennessee state police are exploring using facial recognition software. The state attorney general supports a lawsuit claiming the same technology illegally violates your privacy.
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Andrea Lucas, the Trump-appointed chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has set a new agenda for an agency that long prioritized vulnerable and underserved workers. -
An end to birthright citizenship would mean a new layer of bureaucracy for all babies born in the U.S. and could cause delays for health insurance and other benefits. -
The Army has launched an administrative review after two AH-64 Apache helicopters on a training run hovered near the hillside home of Kid Rock as the outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump saluted their crews. -
A Florida airport was cleared to be renamed after President Donald Trump on Monday, hours before the president revealed plans for a Miami skyscraper planned to house his presidential library. -
No. 1 seeds UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina are in the Final Four for the second straight season, just the second time the same teams have reached the sport's final weekend in consecutive years. -
Thieves made off with three paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions of euros from a museum near the city of Parma in northern Italy.
