The Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation gave Belmont University’s Thomas F. Frist Jr. College of Medicine $1 million to create an endowed scholarship. Here's why this matters for Nashville.

Former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam was in office at the time, and Gardenhire said the governor asked him to kill the bill because of a naming that was in the works for someone who hadn't been out ...

A bill proposed in the Texas legislature could charge transgender Texans with a state felony if they commit what proponents call “gender identity fraud.” Republican state Rep. Tom Oliverson ...

A bill banning diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at public colleges and universities has passed out of the House and Senate. The bill would also prohibit schools from requiring DEI ...

A growing number of Democratic politicians, strategists and consultants are signaling anger against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer after he supported the Republican spending bill.

In a move that could reshape federal fiscal policy for the next decade, Republicans just passed a sweeping House budget bill that sets the stage for dramatic spending cuts—including a ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) announced on the Senate floor Thursday that he plans to vote to advance a House-passed six-month government funding bill, despite the strong ...

ROACH WILL BE FORMALLY SENTENCED NEXT MONTH. A CONTROVERSIAL BILL IN FRANKFORT COULD ALLOW MORE YOUNG ADULTS TO ARM THEMSELVES IN PUBLIC. THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE NARROWLY ADVANCED SENATE ...

Concerns regarding the government’s growing interference with media freedom and online expression have been sparked by the Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, which seeks to place news ...

Bill Simmons, five years after Spotify bought his media startup The Ringer for about $250 million in cash, is staying on with the streaming giant. Simmons has renewed his contract with Spotify and ...

Former President Bill Clinton should have resigned from office after his affair with his former White House intern Monica Lewinsky came to light, the woman at the center of the controversy said in ...

The Senate will take a key procedural vote on Friday afternoon to potentially tee up final passage of a crucial stopgap government spending bill to avoid a shutdown as time runs out. After tense ...