Historic Union Pacific locomotive is pulling a small train of cars from Wyoming across the Mississippi to Philadelphia for America's birthday party.

A Lincoln painting once owned by Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan will be displayed at a new presidential library.

Read about the 19th century portrait of Abraham Lincoln that guided President Theodore Roosevelt and will soon go on public display.

On Aug. 12, the Trump administration announced a review of the Smithsonian, starting with eight of its most-visited and high-profile museums.

Two New Orleans neighborhoods tell competing stories of recovering from Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago, many wondered whether the city's unique culture - particularly food and music - would survive.

The council called it a "narrowly focused rule" to curb ongoing disruptions during its meetings. But some First Amendment groups are concerned.

Trump's administration previously touted guidance Clinton's administration issued in 1997 on federal employees' right to religious expression at work.

Canadians are exploring new ways to make a classic cocktail after pulling American booze from their shelves to protest Donald Trump's tariff policies.

Across the country, Trump’s immigration raids have roiled farms and farming communities – with cases of worker shortages and fears of unpicked crops.

Trump's pick to oversee higher ed was a vice president for a company that paid $13 million to settle accusations it defrauded the student aid system.

U.S. District Judge William Young, who previously blocked the administration's termination of NIH grants, presided over the two-week nonjury trial.

George Houston was pressed to sell his land in 1968. Like many Black Americans, it cost him a chance to build generational wealth for his children.

Center Point, Texas, RV park owner David Chambers said he was stunned not to have had a better warning as floodwaters rose.

Maps show how heavy rainfall and rocky terrain helped create the devastating Texas floods that have killed more than 120 people.

Jonathan McComb was the sole family member to survive a Texas flooding in 2015. Now, he's in Kerrville searching for victims in from the latest flooding.

The 10 men broke out of a New Orleans jail in an escape straight out of Hollywood. Now, with two escapees are still on the run 30 days into the search.

The 1,800 "No Kings" protests across the country are meant to express frustration over President Trump's actions that organizers say are authoritarian.

The court deadlocked in a case that would have created the first religious charter school, but two other significant religion cases remain.

Trump's spending bill, now headed to the Senate, would exempt religious colleges from a big tax increase on endowments.

As the search for five remaining escapees continues, Orleans Parish DA Jason Williams says there were delays in evidence gathering at the jail.

Elizabeth Oshiro was a member of the Nooksack Indian Tribe. A part of the family. Welcome to live on their tribal land. Until she wasn’t.

Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.

Tennessee welcomed Opinion and Engagement Director David Plazas in 2014. As he leaves for a new opportunity, he reflects on hospitality and gratitude.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed open to allowing the Catholic Church in Oklahoma to run the nation's first religious charter school.

He said his name was L.W. Wright, and he may be the greatest sports imposter ever. Here is his story.

Since 2019, native species of flowering plants have returned to hillsides after invasive weeds have been eradicated. Vistas now visible. Color is back.

Figure skating’s world championships are underway this week in Boston, a city that carries visceral memories of the sport’s improbable twin disasters.

Tennessee has paid nearly $600,000 for lethal injection drugs in recent years, but the details are shrouded in secrecy.

A newly-created immigration enforcement office will be largely kept secret after being exempt from state public records laws.

Lawmakers have passed bills protecting victims of illegal photography, banning cellphones in classrooms, and creating a new school voucher program.

There's been a wave of school chaplain bills in red states, which has fueled fierce backlash about religious overreach in public education.

The bill is a direct effort to challenge a long-standing U.S. Supreme Court precedent guaranteeing a right to public education to all children.

Tennessee loses 10 acres of farmland every hour as farmers face unpredictable weather, markets and pressure to sell their land.

George Cleveland never knew his grandfather, who died in 1908. But with Donald Trump's return, Grover Cleveland is a big deal again.

Wildfires don't care about the size of your bank account. From people in tents to luxury homeowners, every part of Los Angeles society is affected.

Carter was one of the most explicitly religious presidents, but his rise in politics came during a transformative era in American Christianity.

At the end of every year, The Tennessean asks its photojournalists to make their selections for our Pictures of the Year roundup.

Less time to prepare, learn the job: what a shutdown could mean for next Trump administration