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President Bush nominates Trade Representative Rob Portman as the White House budget director. Portman is a Washington insider and longtime friend of the president. Bush also selected Susan Schwab, the deputy trade representative, to move up to the top trade job, replacing Portman.

Investigators looking into the space shuttle Columbia accident say NASA workers made safety a top priority, but may have become so comfortable with successful missions that they didn't keep track of small issues that can turn deadly. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

Updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is one of Congress's top priorities in 2008. FISA, as the law is known, generally tells the president that he must have a court order to spy on Americans in the United States.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Middle Tennessee coach Kermit Davis has suspended Marcus Tarrance indefinitely from basketball activities following his arrest…

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Both in Tennessee and across the nation, teachers are leaving the profession after only a few years on the job, making the…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Highway Patrol has identified the body of a man found on Interstate 40 in Roane County on Christmas…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville police say one person is dead and two others injured after officers attempted to stop a vehicle they believed was stolen…

CHARLOTTE, Tenn. (AP) — A lawsuit filed over a death at New Life Lodge rehabilitation center has been settled.The Tennessean reports terms of the…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gov. Bill Haslam has named Appeals Judge Holly M. Kirby to join the state Supreme Court after Justice Janice Holder retires next…

COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee prosecutor has decided not to pursue terrorism charges against a Tennessee man who wrote on Facebook last year that he…