Just 11 days after the 9/11 anniversary, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian receives formal police escorts down 1st Avenue while American working families and independent truckers watch diesel climb past $7 a gallon. An on-the-ground look at the disconnect between global diplomacy and domestic fuel costs, plus official live-stream links to watch the UN General Assembly address.

While national reporting focuses on Jim Justice's coal empire across West Virginia and Kentucky, an environmental crisis sits tucked away in East Tennessee. At the center is the Baldwin Coal Prep Plant in Devonia, where abandoned infrastructure, contaminated settling ponds, and million-gallon slurry releases threaten the ecologically sensitive New River basin and the protected waters of the Big South Fork.

Across the U.S., 90,000 metric tons of stranded nuclear fuel sit parallel to a physical and political stalemate. Ratepayers have quietly amassed approximately $51 billion in a dedicated federal trust to solve the problem, yet it remains stalled. Now, as the U.S. DOE advances new lifecycle campus initiatives, this dormant capital is the focal point of a high-stakes competition among handful of finalist states, all clashing over who will host it. Read inside how this 'ghost fun

Discover how Tennessee's new hemp regulations and restrictions are creating an unintended shift, driving the market away from natural plant alternatives and toward unregulated gray-market products and synthetic mystery blends.

As federal permitting reforms accelerate industrial reindustrialization by fast-tracking the reuse of government-owned brownfields, private developers inherit hidden subsurface liabilities, leaving state environmental regulators and local communities to manage legacy contamination and water protection challenges.

Imagine testing negative for every drug and alcohol, yet still spending the night in handcuffs. It’s happening to thousands of Tennesseans. Here is the data the THP doesn't want you to see.