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Congress is preparing to address an issue that has loomed for five years: the fate of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

More than a dozen people gathered in Krutch Park Monday to show their support for immigration reforms that don't involve mass deportation and detention.

Senator Bob Corker says he's holding up $75 million in U.S. assistance to Afghanistan until he gets answers from the Obama administration about alleged cash payments from the CIA to Afghan President Hamid Karzai .

The Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Monday he is holding up millions of dollars in U.S. aid to Afghanistan until President Barack Obama's administration explains the rationale behind more than a decade of cash payments to Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Iran's presidential elections offered a rare opportunity for the world's media spotlight to shift from focusing on Iranian officials, donning white lab coats flanked by metallic centrifuges, to the Iranian people.

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force which gives the president wide military powers to pursue al-Qaida and the Taliban.

SmartSpace LLC is a small business I started 20 years ago in Nashville. We own and operate 700,000 square feet of office space -- once-vacant buildings that we repurposed into sustainable buildings where economic activity and jobs thrive.

Betting on Congress to do anything is about as risky a bet as you can make, but Bruce Berkowitz is willing to make it.

Hamilton County Sheriff's Office deputies were called to the 8500 block of Ooltewah-Georgetown Road early Thursday afternoon to check on the well-being of a male resident who had threatened to harm himself.

The latest rendering of the Uranium Processing Facility, the multibillion-dollar production facility to be constructed at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge.

Following a White House announcement that President Barack Obama will authorize his administration to provide arms and training to Syrian rebels, Sen. Bob Corker, a longtime backer of aiding Syrian opposition groups, offered comment and urged the president to exercise caution.

The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs on Friday welcomed US senator's condemnation of China's use of threats and force in the Asia-Pacific.

With less than seven months until President Barack Obama's health care reforms take full effect, Tennessee Republicans in Congress contend steep premium increases, job losses and denial of access to needed care lie in wait for constituents.

Northwest Georgia Bank has been authorized by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards to use the Certified Financial Plannera and CFPA certification marks in accordance with CFP Board certification and renewal requirements.

The companies' bad investments in risky loans in the runup to the credit crisis led to a $188 billion taxpayer bailout and enshrined them as symbols of housing market excess.

The NSA does not need a court order to search the database it maintains of the call data surrendered by the nation's telecommunications firms, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein told reporters on Thursday.

The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee met with officials from the NSA, Justice Department, and the FBI in a closed door briefing Thursday to learn more about the telephone and Internet surveillance programs within the NSA that were revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden over the past week.

The Urban League of Greater Chattanooga will hold a free business workshop on Tuesday, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Tennessee Small Business Development Center, 100 Cherokee Blvd., Chattanooga, Tn.

In a letter to President Barack Obama on Monday, Senator Bob Corker, R-Tn., the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, called for the nomination of permanent Inspectors General at the State Department and USAID to provide accountability and prevent wasteful spending at both agencies.

Ingram has been involved in the campaigns of just about every successful GOP statewide candidate in the past four decades, including U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander , U.S. Sen. Bob Corker , former Gov. Don Sundquist and former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson.