Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Tennessee

Inside chilling abandoned mental asylum at centre of baby snatching black market

The Western State asylum in Staunton Virginia, US, is cloaked in scandal after introducing new and dangerous treatments including fever therapy, prefrontal lobotomies and Metrazol injections

Daily Mirror

Former 'SNL' star Victoria Jackson adds her rant to anti-LGBTQ sentiment in Tennessee

More than 30 years ago, Victoria Jackson performed a handstand on "Saturday Night Live" to praise the "freedom to express myself any way I like" in America.

Los Angeles Times

Tucker Carlson accuses Black Tennessee lawmaker expelled over gun protest of speaking ‘like a sharecropper’

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Dems want DOJ probe of Tenn. expulsions

Democrats allege racial discrimination, voter disenfranchisement and First Amendment rights violations

Salon

Justin Pearson celebrates return to Tennessee legislature after expulsion

Reinstatement by unanimous vote of local commission follows similar move for fellow Black Democrat Justin Jones

The Guardian - US

Report: Titans ‘considering several positions’ with first-round pick

The Titans are reportedly "considering several positions" at No. 11 overall in the 2023 NFL draft.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Expelled to reinstated: Pearson to return to Tennessee House

The second of two Black Democrats expelled from the Republican-led Tennessee House will follow his colleague in a return to the Legislature

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Ousted Black lawmaker Justin Pearson to return to Tennessee House: ‘You can’t expel hope’

A panel in Memphis voted to reinstate Justin Pearson to the state House a week after he and another Black lawmaker were removed for supporting a gun-control protest.

Chicago Sun-Times

Second Tennessee lawmaker to return to chamber after explusion

Shelby County Board of Commissioners votes to restore Justin Pearson to seat after he was ousted for US gun protest.

Al Jazeera

Memphis officials vote to reinstate expelled lawmaker Justin Pearson

Justin Pearson made history last week when he and fellow Democrat Justin Jones were expelled from their elected offices for leading a gun control demonstration on the Tennessee House floor.

Tribune News Service

Second expelled Democratic lawmaker reinstated to Tennessee House

County officials voted unanimously to return Memphis-area state Rep Justin Pearson to the state House

The Independent UK

Both Black Tennessee lawmakers have been reinstated after being expelled by GOP

Less than a week after Republicans expelled him from the state House after leading a protest in the legislature calling for gun law reforms, Justin J. Pearson gets his seat back.

WEKU

‘You can’t expel our fight’: ousted Democrat returns to Tennessee house

Memphis officials voted to reinstate Justin Pearson, the second of two lawmakers expelled from legislature by Republicans

The Guardian - US

Donald Trump reportedly sues former lawyer Michael Cohen for $500m – as it happened

Lawsuit claims former fixer breached attorney-client privilege and unjustly enriched himself, among other allegations

The Guardian - US

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

WEKU

Kentucky state senator defends ‘Tennessee 3,' says expulsion is blatantly racist, insult to voters

A Lexington lawmaker said he admires the so-called “Tennessee Three,” two of whom were expelled late last week from that state’s House of Representatives.

USA Today Sports Media Group

2023 NFL mock draft: Titans trade up with Cardinals to land QB in new 3-round projections

In Jarrett Bailey's latest 3-round mock draft, where the Cardinals find a trade partner in the Titans for the No. 3 pick.

Reason

Spat Among Tennessee Lawmakers Illustrates a National Urban-Rural Divide

Decentralizing power is better than trying to jam one vision down the throats of the unwilling.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Tennessee Republicans can’t stop progress

Across the country, the illogical priorities of the right have become more and more glaring. And nowhere is this worse than in Tennessee, where conservatives have banned books and drag shows but have done nothing to protect kids from what is now their most likely cause of death: gun violence.…

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Salon

Koch backs Republicans behind expulsions

GOPers funded by Koch Industries, which is owned by the conservative Koch family and has worked to loosen gun laws

The Independent UK

2nd Black lawmaker could be returned to Tennessee House

Commissioners in Memphis are scheduled to decide whether to return a Black Democrat to the Republican-led Tennessee House

The Guardian - US

Removing Black lawmakers is voter suppression – and the US has done it for centuries

Despite the claims of politicians and the media, the expulsion of Justin Jones and Justin Pearson is far from ‘unprecedented’

Louder

A Grateful Dead drag tribute band are playing a show in protest at Tennessee’s recent drag ban

Grateful Dead drag tribute band Bertha claim to be the freak result of a mix-up between DNA from Jerry Garcia's severed finger and Woodstock's infamous brown acid

The Independent UK

Tennessee governor calls for ‘red flag’ law and stronger background checks after gun control protests

Days after GOP lawmakers expelled two Democratic officials over gun control protests demanding urgent reform, the state’s Republican governor is calling for a more-expansive ‘order of protection’ law

USA Today Sports Media Group

ESPN projects Hendon Hooker as most likely pick for Vikings at No. 23

A predictor model from ESPN has Tennessee QB Hendon Hooker with the highest odds to be selected at 23rd overall by the Minnesota Vikings.

The Independent UK

Reinstated Tennessee lawmaker reveals conversation with Republican who forced him out over gun protest

Justin Jones says a Republican lawmaker told him he was asked by leadership to file the resolution to expel him

1 … 91 92 93 94

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.