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The actor, who has been married four times, including to Meg Ryan, now lives with his wife, 40 years his junior, in Tennessee where he focuses on his music, far away from Los Angeles and the addictions that almost killed him

Many of the leading acts in contemporary indie rock pull from the South or hail from there, like soloists Angel Olsen and Waxahatchee, or groups like Plains, Wednesday and two-thirds of the Grammy-nominated band boygenius

Rep. Gloria Johnson has launched an exploratory committee as she considers running for the seat held by U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn

To fully take back their positions, they must now advance in a special election Thursday. Both easily cleared their June primary elections, and now face general election opponents in Democrat-led districts

Democratic lawmakers have blasted the move to prioritize legal protections to the gun industry in the wake of the March 27 shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville that killed six people

This year’s convention came just days after mass shootings at a school in Nashville, Tennessee and at a bank last week in Louisville, Kentucky, the latter of which marked the 15th mass killing of the year in the U.S.

Two young Black Tennessee state legislators have gone from neophyte politicians to national prominence. They’re being heralded as living echoes of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s

For the second year in a row, the National Rifle Association is holding its convention within days of mass shootings that shook the nation

Republicans banished Pearson and Rep. Justin Jones last week over their role in a gun control protest on the House floor after a deadly school shooting

The unanimous vote by the Nashville Metropolitan Council restores Representative Justin Jones to office just four days after Republicans stripped him of his seat

Representative Justin Jones, a Black Democratic lawmaker, was expelled by Republican colleagues for participating in a gun control protest on the Tennessee House floor last week

Justin Jones and Justin Pearson follow their ouster by the Republican-led Legislature for a protest on the House floor urging passage of gun-control measures in the wake of a deadly school shooting in Nashville. The Nashville metro council is likely to reappoint Jones during a specially called meeting Monday

County commissions in each of the expelled lawmakers’ districts will now choose temporary replacements until a special election is held

The vote comes a week after Democrat representatives chanted back and forth from the chamber floor with gun-control supporters

Police say they have not yet established a motive, but the FBI is continuing to review Hale’s writings. Police also disclosed that Hale ‘considered the actions of other mass murderers’

Authorities haven’t shared any evidence linking Audrey Hale’s gender identity to the motive for the attack, which killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School last week

Since the legislation was signed by President Joe Biden last summer, the number of mass shootings in the United States has only grown

Hundreds protested at the Tennessee Capitol on Thursday, haranguing the Republican-led Legislature to take action following this week’s school shooting in which three children and three adults were killed

Pope Francis sent a telegram Wednesday to Nashville Catholic Bishop J. Mark Spalding in which he conveyed his condolences and decried the violence

Around the United States, private schools generally do not face as many requirements as public schools for developing security plans

A federal judge quietly cleared the way to drop the minimum age for Tennesseans to carry handguns publicly without a permit to 18

The assailant, Audrey Hale, was under a doctor’s care for an undisclosed emotional disorder and was not known to police before the attack, according to the police

The dramatic, six-minute video shows them confronting and opening fire on the assailant, who killed three children and three adults at the Tennessee grade school

The victims included three nine-year-old children, the school’s top administrator, a substitute teacher and a custodian

Mass shooters have killed hundreds of people throughout U.S. history in realms like stores, theaters and workplaces, but it is in schools and colleges where the carnage reverberates perhaps most keenly