House Speaker Cameron Sexton, with Republican House Majority Whip Johnny Garrett at right, celebrates the final day of legislative session on April 22. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
The historic Clayborn Temple, a landmark from the civil rights movement with ties to Rev. Martin Luther King, caught fire Monday, April 28, 2025, in Memphis, Tenn. (Photo: Karen Pulfer Focht for Tennessee Lookout) Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks at the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center on April 24. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout) House Majority Leader William Lamberth gives a thumbs down motion as Memphis Democratic Rep. Justin Pearson look on. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout) Former Tennessee Speaker of the House Glen Casada, center, walks to the Fred D. Thompson Federal Courthouse on April 22 for the start of his trial on corruption charges, accompanied by his wife and attorney Ed Yarbrough. (Photo: John Partipilo) Children wearing mortarboard caps carry a banner up the steps of the Tennessee Capitol prior to debate on a bill to require public schools to check the immigration status kids. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout) Rev. Rick Roberts, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Donelson and Rev. Matt Steinhauer, interim pastor of St. Andrews Lutheran Church in Franklin, on Monday knelt in front of lawmakers debating a bill to deny an education to some immigrant children. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout) U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, spoke to a crowd at Nashville’s Pearl Cohn High School on April 5. (Photo: John Partpilo/Tennessee Lookout) Nashville psychologist Lynne McFarland, 80, is held by a Tennessee state trooper after several troopers carried her from a Senate committee room. McFarland would not leave her seat after the committee chair cleared the room of spectators. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)