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Economic development officials across Tennessee shared virtual high-fives Thursday as unemployment rates in all 95 counties dropped below 5 percent for the first time. Many of them were in Gatlinburg for the 64th annual Governor's Conference on Economic and Community Development.
Sen. Deb Fischer said Thursday she does not share concerns about the character and conduct of President Donald Trump that were expressed earlier this week by Republican Sens. Bob Corker and Jeff Flake.
His tweets have the power to shape international relations, send stock prices up - or down - and galvanize the American public. We're watching how Donald Trump is using this platform of unfettered communication now that he's commander in chief.
Donald Trump is holding onto much of his GOP support, a day after a pair of the party's prominent senators denounced their president and invited colleagues to join them. Most GOP lawmakers rallied around Trump and his agenda on Wednesday, with one all but saying "good riddance" to Jeff Flake of Arizona and Bob Corker of Tennessee.
Taking on a crowd o... . FILE-In this Oct. 28, 2006 file photo, Republican Bob Corker is greeted by his family following his Senate debate with Democratic challenger Harold Ford Jr. in Nashville, Tenn.
In this Oct. 25, 2017 file photo, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., talks to reporters as he returns to his office from a vote, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Taking on a crowd of jeering union workers, standing up to a charismatic Democratic opponent on his home turf or lecturing upper management of one of the world's largest corporations, Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker has rarely backed down from a fight.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said she worries the Republican Party "is imploding," according to a video posted on Twitter by ABC News. Her comments follow Republican Sen. Jeff Flake's announcement that he would not seek reelection in 2018 because he felt a "traditional conservative has a narrower and narrower path to nomination in the Republican Party."
The president tweeted about Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, saying both men are not running for re-election because "they had zero chance of being elected". Mr Trump claimed a Tuesday meeting with Republican senators was, with the exception of Mr Flake and Mr Corker, "a love fest with standing ovations and great ideas for USA!" The reason Flake and Corker dropped out of the Senate race is very simple, they had zero chance of being elected.
The ferocity of the attacks by senators Jeff Flake of Arizona and Bob Corker of Tennessee shows how much Trump has already changed the GOP. Donald Trump campaigned against the Republican Party establishment to win the White House.
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., delivers a speech Tuesday on the floor of the Senate in which he spoke out against President Donald Trump and announced that he would retire at the end of his term. "We were not made great as a country by indulging in or even exalting our worst impulses, turning against ourselves, glorifying in the things that divide us and calling fake things true and true things fake," he said, to applause from members of both parties.
President Donald Trump encouraged GOP senators to push ahead with their tax-cut plans Tuesday, hours after feuding publicly with fellow Republican Bob Corker. "I would say the attitude was very positive.
The father of 32-year-old Monica Hoffa, who was gunned down in one of three unsolved murders in Tampa in just the past two weeks, is asking his community ... -- A Russian radio station where a top liberal journalist was stabbed in the throat Monday has released what it says is security camera footage showing the assailant ... CHICAGO - Global commodities trader Cargill Inc on Tuesday said it was buying a natural animal feed maker, another in a string of deals to capitalize on rising dema... SEWARD, Neb. - Coming off a perfect 3-0 week, the Concordia University volleyball team saw one of its own collect a conference weekly award on Tuesday .
Sen. Thom Tillis posted tweeted a picture of himself grabbing some popcorn with the caption: "Ready for lunch with POTUS and @SenateGOP." Sen. Thom Tillis said he was "ready" for the highly anticipated lunch meeting with Trump and Republican senators after a morning of fierce Twitter drama between Sen. Bob Corker and the White House.
Paul Weitz, a NASA astronaut who commanded the first flight of the space shuttle Challenger and flew on Skylab in the early 1970s has died at 85. Paul Weitz, a NASA astronaut who commanded the first flight of the space shuttle Challenger and flew on Skylab in the early 1970s has died at 85. Washington residents and politicians are up in arms about an only-in-DC phenomenon: a string of former embassies and diplomatic buildings whose governments have essentially abandoned them. Washington residents and politicians are up in arms about an only-in-DC phenomenon: a string of former embassies and diplomatic buildings whose governments have essentially abandoned them.
The tweets and counter-tweets are flying between Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee and President Donald Trump. After Corker went on NBC's "Today" Tuesday and said Trump's White House should let Congress decide how to pay for his tax cuts, Trump fired back.
Donald Trump ripped into Senator Bob Corker on Twitter Tuesday morning, attacking the lawmaker for opposing his tax proposal. Corker quickly fired back.
In this Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., listens to remarks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington.
President Donald Trump is planning lunch with GOP senators after sparring with several of them, as congressional Republicans turn to overhauling the tax code. It will be Trump's first appearance as president at Senate Republicans' regular Tuesday policy lunch at the Capitol.
U.S. sanctions against Iran would automatically kick in if Tehran violates new constraints, according to a draft Republican bill sought by U.S. President Donald Trump as he tries to unravel the landmark 2015 international accord to prevent Iran from assembling an arsenal of atomic weapons. The draft bill, crafted by GOP Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee and Tom Cotton of Arkansas with input from the Trump administration, wouldn't necessarily violate the Iran nuclear deal if passed into law.