Severe storms are tearing through the central and southeast U.S., spawning damaging tornadoes, producing massive hail, and killing two people in Tennessee and another in North Carolina. Wednesday afternoon, a tornado emergency was issued for an area south of Nashville. That is the National W…
President Joe Biden says he will not supply offensive weapons Israel could use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah, his toughest public comments yet about the potential military operation.
It was the second time in a matter of months that Republicans have tried to oust their own speaker, an unheard-of level of party turmoil with a move rarely seen in U.S. history.
Police used pepper spray to clear a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and arrested dozens of demonstrators Wednesday just as city officials were scheduled to appear before hostile lawmakers in Congress.
President Joe Biden said Wednesday he would not supply offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah over concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there.
The nation’s largest public utility is moving ahead with a plan for a new natural gas plant in Tennessee despite warnings that its environmental review of the project doesn’t comply with federal law. The Environmental Protection Agency asked the Tennessee Valley Authority in a March 25 lette…
The past few days and weeks have taken wild weather swings to a new level. Buckle up, experts say: 2024 is shaping up to be another record year.
The past few days and weeks have taken wild weather swings to a new level. Buckle up, experts say: 2024 is shaping up to be another record year.
A bipartisan group of North Carolina lawmakers has approved a bill codifying a definition of antisemitism into law. A nearly unanimous House voted Wednesday in favor of the SHALOM Act, which adopts the definition provided by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Republican House Speaker Tim Moore sponsored the bill. He says that it could guide educators and help law enforcement agencies and local prosecutors to determine whether someone should be charged under hate crime laws already on the books. Some critics say the bill could stifle political dissent against Israel amid the war in Gaza. Four Democrats voted against the legislation.
The American refugee program long served as a haven for people fleeing violence around the world. Today, it’s rebounding after years of cutbacks under the Trump administration.
Voting rights advocates have created a new initiative to increase Black voter turnout ahead of this fall's general election. The Young Black Lawyers' Organizing Coalition has recruited lawyers and law students from historically Black colleges and universities. They recently launched a four-state tour to engage with Black voters in Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas. Their goal is to restore faith in democracy by better understanding their experiences with voter registration and ballot-box access. The coalition's law students will lead small focus groups in places like barber shops, churches, and union halls. It's an unusual role for lawyers, but the coalition is counting on their civic expertise.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. contracted a parasitic worm that got into his brain and ate a portion of it before dying, part of a series of health issues the independent presidential candidate suffered in recent years.
A federal appeals court has ruled a Catholic school in North Carolina had the right to fire a gay teacher who announced a decade ago that he was going to marry his longtime partner. A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Wednesday a lower court's 2021 ruling against Charlotte Catholic High School and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte. The trial judge had found that the school had violated Lonnie Billard's employment protections against sex discrimination. But the panel determined Billard fell under a “ministerial exception” concerning employees who perform tasks central to an institution's religious mission.
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Veteran country singer Gene Watson returns to the Jettie Baker Center in Clintwood, Virginia, on Friday, May 10.
An Abingdon, Virginia sailor who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor will be buried this month in Honolulu, Hawaii.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – The Boy Scouts of America have announced it will be changing its name to Scouting America.
Hail and damaging winds threaten much of the East Coast. Tornadoes won't be ruled out in the Mid-Atlantic and Deep South. Our Lee Weather Team has your safety at top of mind with these videos.
William Henry Fears IV has been sentenced to the longest term of any of the men who have been charged for their involvement in the episode.
“This is an outrageous tale of fraud and deception, and it must be punished appropriately,” U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski said to the man who once ran Lifeline Ambulance Services.
UVa's president and police chief say four men dressed in black, carrying backpacks and wearing helmets joined the encampment Friday night and prompted security concerns.
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The widow of a North Carolina man shot and killed by Sullivan County deputies last spring has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Greeneville, Tennessee.
A city man is in custody after a shooting sent one woman to a local hospital.
A Scott County, Virginia, firefighter died over the weekend while battling a wildfire.
BRISTOL, Va. – The city is currently seeking sealed bids from contractors to construct the next phase of widening of Lee Highway near Interstate 81’s Exit 5.
The Virginia Department of Transportation’s Bristol district is slated to receive over $800 million, or about 3% of the state’s total proposed transportation funding, during the next six years.
Gov. Youngkin's chief procurement officer is leaving state government, but not before a push to reach the governor's promised goal of saving $200 million on state purchases by June 30.
BRISTOL, Va. — The Bristol Virginia Fire Department has been awarded a Community Risk Reduction Smoke Alarm grant through the Virginia Department of Fire Programs.