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Tennessee Politics · TennesseeTennessee would join the ranks of states where public school employees have to out transgender students to their parents under a bill advancing in the Republican-supermajority Legislature.See the Story
Tennessee schools would have to out transgender students to parents under bill heading to governor
69% Center coverage: 13 sources
Crime · TennesseeWhether the journals of a Nashville school shooter can be released to the public will go before a Tennessee judge on Tuesday after nearly a year of legal wrangling over who can participate in the case.See the Story
Tennessee judge set to decide whether a Nashville school shooters' journals are public records
81% Center coverage: 46 sources
Military · United StatesJohn Kirby, White House national security communications adviser, said the Biden administration is “not looking” for a wider war with Iran after Tehran launched a retaliatory attack against Israel and sparked fears of a wider regional conflict in the Middle East. Asked Sunday on NBC News’s “Meet The Press,” if the Middle East tensions have escalated into a wider war, Kirby said, “The president doesn’t believe that it needs to move in that direction whatsoever.”See the Story
Kirby: ‘We’re not looking for a wider war with Iran’
50% Center coverage: 6 sources
Abortion · TennesseeRepublican lawmakers in Tennessee on Wednesday advanced legislation making it illegal for adults to help minors get an abortion without parental consent, sparking objections from Democrats who counter that doing so could result in young victims needing approval from their parents who may have raped them in order to terminate the pregnancies.
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Tennessee Senate OKs a bill that would make it illegal for adults to help minors seeking abortions
54% Center coverage: 15 sources
Tennessee Politics · NashvilleRepublican lawmakers in Tennessee advanced a proposal Tuesday to allow some teachers to carry handguns on public school grounds, a move that would mark one of the state’s biggest expansions of gun access since a deadly shooting at a private elementary school last year.See the Story
Tennessee Senate advances bill to arm teachers a year after deadly Nashville school shooting
47% Center coverage: 34 sources
Tennessee Politics · TennesseeTennessee’s GOP-controlled Senate advanced legislation on Tuesday allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions as critics raised concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment in such cases.See the Story
Tennessee Senate advances bill to allow death penalty for child rape
42% Left coverage: 19 sources
