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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis metro region added about 18,000 new jobs in 2021 and cut its unemployment rate from 7% to 4.1%, the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce reported Wednesday. The region’s economy grew 6.2% last year, a faster pace than the national average, the Chamber’s Center for Economic Competitiveness reported. Total jobs were […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House failed Thursday to override President Joe Biden’s first veto — of a Republican-led bill that would have banned the consideration of environmental, social or governance issues in retirement and other investment decisions. Republicans failed to mount the necessary two-thirds votes needed in the House to override the president’s veto […]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of union supporters filled the halls of the Michigan Capitol on Tuesday as Senate Democrats voted along party lines in support of repealing the decade-old “right-to-work” law in a state long considered a pillar of organized labor. Democrats have listed the repeal as one of their top legislative goals this […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A 16-year-old girl once charged in the high-profile murder of the CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber is now accused of another violent crime. Ricanisha Wright is now 20 years old and is behind bars for attempted first-degree murder. Police say in September 2018, she and two young men were riding around […]

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Sunday predicted Democrats will get a “rude awakening” on Election Day, anticipating Republicans cruising to a majority in the upper chamber on issues like inflation and crime. “I think the Democrats are going to get a rude awakening on Nov. 8 that high inflation, high […]

BALTIMORE — House Democrats are gathering in Baltimore for their annual issues conference this week to chart a path back to the majority in 2024. It’s an operation they say can be achieved by capitalizing on the legislative achievements they secured in the first two years of President Biden’s term, when they had the upper […]

Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman is expected to get a boost from President Biden and former President Obama just two weeks from the midterms.  A senior Pennsylvania Democrat told The Hill Biden and Obama will stump for Fetterman and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Josh Shapiro on Nov. 5. Axios was the first to report on […]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An international prosecutor declared Monday that “nobody is above the law,” as the trial opened for Kosovo’s former president and three other defendants on charges including murder and torture in a case that their supporters claim is unjustly targeting revered freedom fighters. Hashim Thaci resigned from office in 2020 to […]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was sworn in for second term as the state’s 49th governor on Sunday, pushing a message of unity and working together during remarks on the state Capitol steps as Democrats took full control of the state government for the first time in 40 years. Whitmer, who was […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Juvenile crime seems to be a crime wave hitting the Memphis community, but who could imagine a 10-year-old being among those caught up in crime? When Memphis police held their special operation with Bartlett last week, they arrested 14 people. Seven of those were juveniles, including a 10-year-old. Jimmy Chambers has worked […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Each Tuesday, as part of our Community Changers series, we highlight organizations making Memphis better. This week, we caught up with a group giving new hope to kids looking for a second chance. Therrin Wilson was fourteen years old when he was getting initiated into a gang. During that process, he was […]