Time is running out on the federal voting rights bill and in a last-ditch effort to save it, activists across the country traveled to Washington, D.C. to call on President Joe Biden to do something he’s been reluctant to do since taking office.
Protestors gathered outside the Mississippi governor’s mansion in Jackson Monday afternoon, demanding Governor Tate Reeves call a special session for the proposed Mississippi medical cannabis program.
Tennessee lawmakers will gather Monday for a special session focused on the Ford manufacturing plant set to be built at the Memphis Regional Megasite. Lawmakers will consider an incentives package totaling almost $900 million.
Action News 5 is hearing from the first candidate to officially announce he’s running for the job: potential Republican nominee and Memphis City Councilman Worth Morgan.
Gov. Tate Reeves and Accelerate Mississippi Executive Director, Ryan Miller, will discuss the state’s efforts to better organize and develop workforce development strategy.
Slatery says he would only appeal two out of the three lawsuits filed by families and advocates who are opposed to the Republican governor’s latest executive order.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Dec. 1 in a case that threatens to overturn the decades-old abortion protections established under Roe v. Wade.
Hardiman discussed he recent column about the environmental activism that is pushing the Memphis City Council to pass two ordinances that would make it more difficult for an oil pipeline to come through the Bluff City.
Congressman Jeff Duncan, who represents South Carolina’s Third Congressional District, is calling for President Joe Biden’s impeachment over his handling of Afghanistan.
Biden said he’s instructed the Education Department to pursue legal action if necessary “against governors who are trying to block and intimidate local school officials and educators.”
The joint resolution that would establish a charter commission to research a potential consolidation of Memphis City Council and Shelby County Commission has been tabled until the next city council meeting.
The Shelby County Commission Black Caucus is responding to Gov. Bill Lee’s executive order allowing parents to opt out of mandatory masks at school, sending support to Shelby County parents and anyone who challenges the order.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said Friday she plans to appeal the decision of a Pulaski County judge that temporarily blocked the state from enforcing its ban on mask mandates.
As dozens of Tennessee lawmakers call for a special session more reactions for and against the push to do away with mask mandates in schools are coming to the forefront.
Biden addressed a video taken in which protestors yelled at and heckled those wearing masks outside a Williamson County Board of Education meeting about mask mandates
In a letter to the governor, Sexton says he wants the “legislature to convene and address misdirected and mandated responses to COVID-19 by local entities and officials.”
The Biden administration is celebrating a major victory after a bipartisan group of U.S. senators passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package Tuesday.
It was a debate between personal freedom and the ability to protect children Thursday as a House committee voted against two bills on the mask in schools issue.
After the City of Germantown announced to city employees they have until Labor Day to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, questions arose as to whether or not this decision is legal.
