WASHINGTON (AP) - The top U.S. military officer says Afghan government forces face an uncertain future and the potential for “bad possible outcomes” on the battlefield against Taliban insurgents as the withdrawal of American and coalition troops accelerates. Gen. Mark…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities say two people were killed and nearly two dozen others were hospitalized after a boat capsized just off the San Diego coast. Local lifeguards, the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies responded around 10:30 a.m.…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic champion and reality TV personality now running for California governor, said she opposes transgender girls competing in girls’ sports at school. Jenner told a TMZ reporter on Saturday that it’s “a…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has delivered four astronauts back to Earth, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot. The Dragon capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico near the Florida Panhandle early…
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Former reality TV star Josh Duggar has been charged with receiving and possessing child pornography. Federal prosecutors on Friday announced the indictment against Duggar, who was arrested in northwest Arkansas by U.S. Marshals a day earlier.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee voters will have the choice next year to enshrine its “right to work” law in the state’s Constitution. The Republican-controlled General Assembly on Thursday successfully finished advancing the proposed constitutional amendment. Their goal is to…
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (AP) — An educational app has responded to the request of a 7-year-old Tennessee student by adding hairstyle options for Black girls to its avatars. The Tennessean reports that Morgan Bugg, of Brentwood, was using the Freckle app…
MAPLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — The veteran stage and screen actress Olympia Dukakis has died. She was at 89. Her agent says Dukakis died Saturday morning in her home in New York City. A cause of death was not immediately released.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government is extending the requirement that travelers wear face masks on planes, trains and buses. The rule was set to expire May 11, but the Transportation Security Administration said Friday that it will extend the…
(CBS Newspath) -- A Girl Scout troop in Virginia found a special way to deliver their popular cookies during the pandemic. Here's how technology helped them transport their treats.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill that requires businesses or government facilities open to the public to post a sign if they let transgender people use multi-person bathrooms, locker rooms or changing rooms associated with their…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee officials are moving forward with a plan to map out just where hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans without access to high-speed Internet live. The plan follows the lead of other states that no longer…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee’s upcoming state budget is one signature by the governor away from becoming law, including a one-week sales tax holiday on restaurants, bars and groceries, an infusion of cash into capital maintenance and improvements, and a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will restrict travel from India starting on May 4, the White House says, citing a devastating rise in COVID-19 cases in the country and the emergency of potentially dangerous variants of the coronavirus. White House…
DALLAS (AP) — Disneyland has reopened in Southern California. Cruise lines are welcoming the news that they could be sailing again in the U.S. by midsummer. And the number of Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 has topped 100 million. The…
JERUSALEM (AP) — More than 100 people were injured, dozens critically, in a stampede at a Jewish religious gathering in northern Israel attended by tens of thousands of people. Israel’s main rescue service said early Friday that it was treating…
SENATOBIA, Miss. (AP) — A child confesses to intentionally setting a dog on fire in north Mississippi, but authorities say the suspect can’t be charged. Buddy was found last week in Tate County with severe burns to his face and…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators are pledging again to try to ban menthol cigarettes. This time the Food and Drug Administration is under pressure from African American groups to remove the mint flavor, which is popular among Black smokers.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee police department has fired an officer after video surfaced of him high-fiving a man who used a racial slur. According to The Tennessean, the November firing of Seth Schilling from the Franklin Police Department…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bars and restaurants in Tennessee could keep up the coronavirus-era offering of to-go beers and other alcoholic drinks for two years under a bill now awaiting action from Republican Gov. Bill Lee. The Republican supermajority Legislature…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has announced federal hate crime charges in the death of a Georgia man who was killed while out for a run last year. The criminal case charging the three men in connection with the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers are trimming in half Gov. Bill Lee’s spending wish list items on restaurant and grocery store sales tax holidays, broadband expansion and local government grants, and planning instead to funnel $250 million into the…
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins has died at age 90. He orbited the moon alone while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic first steps on the moon in 1969. Collins' family said in a statement that the astronaut…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is investing $11.5 billion over six years in a project that includes expanded cancer-focused research and construction of an outpatient clinic and a new patient family housing facility. The Memphis, Tennessee-based…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will use his first joint address to Congress to pitch a $1.8 trillion investment in children, families and education that would transform the role government plays in American life. Biden delivers the Wednesday night…
NEW YORK (AP) — When most of the U.S. went into lockdown over a year ago, some speculated that confining couples to their homes would lead to a lot of baby-making. But the statistics suggest the opposite happened. Births have…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has declared that COVID-19 is no longer a statewide public health crisis, saying he's removing the option for most local governments to mandate masks in public and urging a few big counties…
DoorDash is launching lower-priced delivery options for U.S. restaurants, responding to criticism that the commissions it charges are too high for the beleaguered industry. The San Francisco-based delivery company says it will offer a new basic plan which will charge…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense. The case will be…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee will keep its nine U.S. House seats after its population grew nearly 9% from 2010 to 2020. According to initial numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Monday, Tennessee had 6.9 million residents in…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says the U.S. will begin sharing its entire stock of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines with the world once it clears federal safety reviews. As many as 60 million doses are expected to be available for…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is rounding out his first 100 days in office, and focusing on reining in the coronavirus seems to have paid off. Biden can check off nearly all his campaign promises centered on the pandemic.…
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Talk about being shell-shocked. It’s what happened to a 71-year-old woman riding with her daughter on Interstate 95 in Florida. The older woman got a gashed forehead when a turtle smashed through the windshield of…
NEW YORK (AP) — Japanese automaker Honda plans to phase out all gasoline-powered vehicles in North America by 2040. The announcement Friday makes Honda the latest major automaker with a goal of becoming carbon neutral. It came as leaders of…
MIAMI (AP) — A family accused of selling a toxic industrial bleach as a coronavirus cure through their church has been indicted on federal charges. A federal grand jury returned an indictment Thursday charging Mark Grenon and his three sons…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court has reinstated a 48-hour waiting period for women seeking abortions in Tennessee as the state appeals a judge’s ruling in the case. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling…
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) - Consumer Reports says it was able to trick a Tesla into driving in Autopilot mode with no one at the wheel. The magazine says it did its test after a Tesla crashed in Texas, killing…
NEW YORK (AP) — With a green light from federal health officials, many states resumed use of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine on Saturday. Among the venues where it's being deployed is the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where free…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a Tennessee police officer fatally shot a man who charged at the officer with knives during a traffic stop. Metro Nashville Police Department spokesman Don Aaron said Officer Christopher Royer has been placed on…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Feb. 26 is on its way to being “Johnny Cash Day” in Arkansas. The Arkansas House has voted 92-0 to send a measure honoring Cash on his birthday to Gov. Asa Hutchinson. His office says…
CYBERSPACE (AP) - Facebook says it has broken up a hacker network used by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ intelligence service. The social networking site says the Palestinian leader has been using hackers to keep tabs on journalists, human rights activists…
(CNN Newsource) -- Disney is committing $100 million to help make children's stays at hospitals less stressful.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Scripps National Spelling Bee is undergoing a major overhaul to ensure it can identify a single champion. Organizers have added vocabulary questions and a lightning-round tiebreaker to this year’s pandemic-altered competition. Vocabulary has previously been part…
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Shock G has died. The rapper-producer blended clever wordplay with ’70s funk beats as part of Digital Underground. His longtime friend Nzazi Malonga says Shock G was found unresponsive yesterday at a hotel room in Tampa,…
(AP) - In this smartphone age, people know they can text for help if needed. But will such help be available for those who are contemplating suicide? It's a question being hashed out by federal regulators. They are considering whether…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Tennessee senator Thelma Harper, who became the first African-American woman elected to the state Senate, has died. She was 80. The longtime Nashville…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has formally recognized that the systematic killings and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century were “genocide” — using a term for the atrocities that…
NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell has faced her trial judge in person for the first time as lawyers squabble over exactly when she should be tried on sex trafficking charges alleging that she procured teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein…
U.S. health officials have lifted an 11-day pause on Johnson & Johnson vaccinations following a recommendation by an expert panel. Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday the benefits of the single-dose COVID-19 shot outweigh a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of Tennessee Medicaid recipients has filed a lawsuit seeking to halt a plan that would make contentious changes to the state’s program designed to provide medical coverage to the poor. According to the federal…
