Tennessee Politics News

Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) says he has support from his committee to subpoena Tareq and Michaele Salahi to testify about how they crashed Obama administration’s first state dinner without an invitation. Thompson is chairing a hearing on...

The White House on Wednesday shouldered some of the blame for an embarrassing breach of security that permitted an uninvited couple to gatecrash President Barack Obama's debut state dinner last week. In the latest twist to a saga, the White...

Under pressure from Republicans and an impatient public to fix the sputtering economic recovery, President Barack Obama is refocusing on this politically potent issue by talking job creation with business and labor leaders at the White House. The White House...

The White House tried to put the whole Salahi incident to rest Wednesday night. And on Thursday morning, Bennie Thompson will stir it all up again. Thompson, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, will hold a hearing to...

The only thing that would make it more interesting would be if Elvis , UFOs or Monica Lewinsky were somehow involved...On average, about 6,000 Salahi-themed stories have appeared daily since the couple sashayed past White House security last week, according...

And a planned renovation of the Salinas courthouse's east and west wing has been scuttled, largely because of the north wing experience. On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors approved without discussion additional funding for the north wing project, with the...

But in an interview almost as evasive as their performance at the Secret Service security gate, Tareq and Michaele Salahi left many questions unanswered about their audacious stunt. Barack Obama and vice-president Joe Biden, the Salahis refused to tell Matt...

Rep. Baron Hill detailed his disaster assistance reform bill Monday complete with a new wrinkle that could bring relief to Southern Indiana residents still reeling from the Aug. 4 flood damage. If passed and signed by President Barack Obama, the...