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15 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 30, 2026.
In her first statement since the Sept. 30 attempt, the 50-year-old says she did not expect to survive and is 'trying to heal, one day at a time.' Tennessee has paused executions through year's end.
David Duncan, who reviewed three botched Arizona executions, tells NPR that unlabeled drugs in a jar and cash payments to staff were warning signs, and that Tennessee's protocol copies Arizona's.
Gov. Bill Lee ordered an independent review and canceled every remaining execution this year. Pike remains on a ventilator, her lawyers say.
WatchPike, 50, survived two doses of pentobarbital and was rushed to a hospital. Gov. Bill Lee called for a third-party review and said no more executions will go ahead this year.
Pike, now 50, was 18 when she helped torture and kill a classmate in 1995. Gov. Bill Lee refused clemency and her lawyers are turning to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Rep. John Rose spent $13 million of his own money and lost. In the redrawn 5th District, a former state agriculture commissioner backed by two ex-governors beat the incumbent Trump endorsed.
Federal officials never named immigration enforcement as a goal when the Memphis Safe Task Force launched. Ten months in, immigration arrests are up sixfold and most of those taken in had no criminal convictions.
A DEA agent serving a drug warrant at a hotel fatally shot a man on Wednesday, the second deadly shooting by the federal crime unit in less than a week and the fourth death tied to it since September.
University of Tennessee physicists detected Earth's gravitational pull on particles of light in a benchtop interferometer, probing the elusive seam between general relativity and quantum mechanics.
WatchThe redrawn lines scatter Rep. Steve Cohen's 9th District across three Republican strongholds, making Tennessee the first state to enact new boundaries under the Supreme Court's post-Callais Voting Rights Act standard.
The new congressional map splits the majority-Black city into three districts, targeting Representative Steve Cohen as redistricting wars continue nationwide after Supreme Court ruling.
The General Assembly is expected to quickly approve the redistricting plan, which divides Memphis and eliminates the state's only Democratic-leaning district.
Republican supermajority approves series of immigration measures crafted in coordination with Trump administration.
Weighed down by President Trump's approval numbers, Republican incumbents struggle to raise money while Democrats target unexpected seats like Tennessee district south of Nashville.
German automaker becomes latest to scale back EV plans in favor of gasoline models as industry reassesses electric transition.