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10 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: August 7, 2026.
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.