Alabama

In an interview with CNN broadcast on Friday, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan said that the United States is “battling some fascist tendencies,” Mediaite reported. Anchor Brianna Keilar kicked off the discussion by pointing out that Republican Tommy Tuberville — who recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate — described World […]

The NCAA released the results today from the first round of voting in the coaches poll to determine the top 25 football teams. CBS Sports reported that Clemson, Ohio State, and Alabama came away with the top three slots. While the status of the college football season hangs in limbo as a result of the […]

Alabama lawmaker Will Dismukes came under fire yet again on Monday for his embrace of the Confederacy and prominent Confederate generals who were also members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). State Sen. Clyde Chambliss called for Dismukes to step down from the legislature after the representative attended an event over the weekend that celebrated […]

The Montgomery, Alabama, school board voted on Tuesday night to change the names of three high schools bearing the names of men affiliated with the Confederacy, The Montgomery Advertiser reported. The city has three high schools that currently bear the names of men who were tied to the Confederate side of the Civil War: one […]

President Donald Trump’s campaign abruptly canceled plans for its upcoming rally in Alabama after state officials said they were worried about the gathering accelerating the spread of the novel coronavirus, CNN reported. The campaign was scheduled to have a rally in the state to goose his support and drum up attention for GOP Senate candidate […]

The city of Mobile, Alabama, has relocated a statue of a Confederate admiral to a museum, ABC News reported. For over 120 years, a statue of Adm. Raphael Semmes stood in the middle of a downtown street in Mobile. The bronze statue, oxidized and turned green from a century of exposure to the elements, honored […]

Las Vegas Raiders receiver Henry Ruggs reportedly suffered a minor injury over the weekend when helping a friend move. Brad Crawford of 247Sports reported on Monday the injury occurred when Ruggs had his leg pinned between his friend’s car and a trailer. NFL insider Ian Rapoport reported on Twitter that Ruggs was “ok” after piercing […]

Police have confirmed that the two bodies discovered washed ashore in Gulf Shores, Alabama, on Tuesday morning are the two swimmers who went missing from Orange Beach over Memorial Day weekend, WEAR-TV reported earlier today. The two bodies were proved to be two New Orleans men in their twenties, Ryan Guy, 28, and Darius Robinson, […]

Former Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has claimed he’s totally healthy and ready to play in 2020. However, rumors have started swirling that the Heisman trophy runner up recently failed at least one physical, which could cause NFL teams to stay away from him in the upcoming draft. At the very least, it could […]

Alabama lawmakers are wrestling with a plan to allow yoga in public schools after the practice has been forbidden for nearly three decades, The New York Times reports. One option on the table is allowing the practice as long as kids and teachers don’t use the word “namaste.” Back in 1993, Alabama passed a law […]

Former Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Jalen Hurts might not be getting the kind of hype Joe Burrow is getting at the NFL Combine, but it’s possible he should be. In the last few years, OU has turned into a kind of “Quarterback U” thanks to sending its two starters to the NFL via first-round draft picks. […]

UPDATE: Amberly Flores was found safe in Huntsville. Officials have arrested a man in connection with the case. EARLIER: Police authorities in Pelham, Alabama, are seeking public help in finding a 13-year-old girl named Amberly Flores, who went missing on Tuesday morning. According to ABC News, the teenager was last seen walking to the school […]

The final week of the 2019 NCAA college football regular season was a wild one, and it included a few upsets which caused some poll drops. While there is still a lot of football left to be played, the final Associated Press and Coaches Top 25 Polls for the regular season are very telling. While […]

A sheriff in Alabama was reportedly shot and killed Saturday night when he approached a pickup truck about loud music, according to a Sunday report from The Montgomery Advertiser. Lowndes County, Alabama Sheriff John Williams was shot and killed Saturday night, Derrick Cunningham, a Sheriff in neighboring Montgomery County, confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser. Williams […]

Tua Tagovailoa had to be carted off the field after suffering a serious hip injury against Mississippi, and early indications are looking very bad for the quarterback projected at the top of the 2020 NFL Draft. The Alabama quarterback was hurt after being taken down hard to the turf during his team’s 38-7 win, with […]

The 2019 NCAA college football regular season is winding down, and the LSU Tigers are proving that this may be their year. With an offense that continues to produce in huge sums, the Tigers are still sitting on top of the Associated Press Top 25 Poll after defeating the Alabama Crimson Tide. The Tide’s loss […]

On Saturday, conservative CNN anchor S.E. Cupp ripped into former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, reports Raw Story. During a segment of her show, Unfiltered, Cupp reminded the former attorney general — who is running for the United States Senate seat he once held in Alabama — of how President Donald Trump treated him while he […]

A man named Hoyt Hutchinson was arrested after police say he stabbed an eight-foot hole into the now-famous “Baby Trump” protest balloon outside the Alabama-LSU game on Saturday. The balloon was created by a critic of Donald Trump and has followed the president around the world to be included in protests. The inflatable, which shows […]

Donald Trump was greeted mostly warmly, but for a smattering of boos, at Saturday’s Alabama-LSU college football game, Mother Jones reports. After getting roundly booed at two previous visits to sporting events, all eyes were on the crowd at Tuscaloosa, where the 45th president was expected to attend and where there was rampant speculation as […]

Donald Trump will be “greeted” by the infamous “Baby Trump” blimp that has flown over anti-Trump protests when he attends Saturday’s Alabama-LSU college football matchup, The Washington Post reports. Today’s game between the two college football powerhouses promises to be one of the key contests of this season, as the #1 LSU Tigers take on […]

The University of Alabama’s Student Government Association is warning student groups that if they protest against Donald Trump during his appearance at this weekend’s game against LSU, they could lose their preferred football seating for the rest of the season. Reports this week indicated that President Trump plans to attend the Tide’s Saturday matchup against […]

Ivanka Trump announced on Sunday night that she’ll be visiting Alabama. Afterward, Twitter users trolled her mercilessly by making jokes about the bizarre saga of her father’s insistence that Hurricane Dorian might hit the state, even though it was reportedly never included in the official forecasts. As HuffPost reports, on Sunday night, Ivanka tweeted that […]

Federal employees are reportedly furious after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) issued a statement Friday that supported President Donald Trump after he repeatedly has claimed that Hurricane Dorian, which decimated islands in the Bahamas earlier this week, was initially forecast to hit Alabama. In a statement issued Friday, the federal agency said that […]

Hurricane Dorian plowed into North Carolina on Thursday night after causing at least four deaths and raking the southeastern coast of the United States with 110 miles-per-hour winds, per The South Florida Sun Sentinel. Meanwhile, Donald Trump continued to fixate on his debunked claim that the state of Alabama was in the path of the […]

After Donald Trump denied using a black market to alter a map of Hurricane Dorian in order to make it look as if the storm would hit Alabama, pictures showed that there was a black marker on Trump’s desk at the time he showed off the outdated map. Trump on Wednesday drew controversy for holding […]

On Tuesday night, Donald Trump doubled down on his claim that Hurricane Dorian could hit Alabama, lashing out at a “lightweight” reporter who cited a “phony hurricane report,” Yahoo News reports. As reported at the time by The Birmingham News, last weekend Trump warned that Hurricane Dorian could strike Alabama. “It may get a little […]

While lawmakers are still engaged in a heated debate on America’s gun-control issue, another tragic incident has been reported in Alabama. A 14-year-old teenager has allegedly confessed to shooting all five members of his family to death. As reported by CNN, the Limestone County Sheriff’s Office took to its official Twitter account on Tuesday, September […]

A pastor in Alabama is turning heads over a double-sided sign in front of his church that calls out black and white supporters of President Donald Trump for two different reasons. “A black vote for Trump is mental illness,” the sign outside the New Era Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama reads, according to CBS 17. […]

Colin Kaepernick should move to another country if he’s not happy with the United States, Alabama Representative Mo Brooks said in an interview that aired this week. Brooks stopped by SiriusXM Patriot channel’s Breitbart News Tonight, and the subject of the controversial former NFL star came up. Kaepernick got back into the news recently after […]

Roy Moore, the controversial former judge who ran for the U.S. Senate in a special election in 2017, but had his bid derailed when he was accused of misconduct by multiple women, is running again. Per CNBC, Moore announced Thursday that he’s entering the Republican primary for Senate in 2020. “Yes, I will run for […]

An Alabama man is accused of feeding methamphetamine, or meth, to a caged “attack squirrel” he allegedly kept as a pet, The News Courier reports. Authorities say that he fed drugs to the rodent to “keep it aggressive.” As of this writing, Mickey Paulk, 35, is a fugitive, as he wasn’t present when authorities served […]

An Alabama mayor is under fire after incendiary comments that he posted on Facebook directed towards the LGBTQ community, among others, CBS News reports. Mark Chambers, the mayor of Carbon Hill, Alabama, made the comments just as Pride Month kicked off. He has since made a statement to the local newspaper, the Daily Mountain Eagle, […]

America often prides itself on being a free country. It purports to value individual liberty and privacy, and yet, recent events have shown that some of its laws are more restrictive for women than the most extreme kingdoms in the Middle East and North Africa. According to Haaretz, Alabama’s recently-passed highly restrictive anti-abortion bill is […]

Just weeks after voting to ban abortion, Alabama has now voted to eliminate all marriage licenses in an effort to appease opponents of same-sex marriages, according to Law and Crime. Alabama has moved to make all marriages useless by deciding that Sections 22-9A-17, 30-1-5, 30-1-12, and 30-1-16 of the Code of Alabama should be amended. […]

Abortion clinic and healthcare provider Planned Parenthood and The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are two U.S. groups that have sued Alabama so far over their rigid abortion law passed last week, reported the BBC. The groups, who refer to the law as “extreme” and a “manmade public health emergency,” are calling for a court […]

Hundreds of protesters turned up at the Alabama Capitol to protest the highly restrictive abortion law passed by the state recently, according to AL.com. People could be seen chanting, carrying placards opposing Alabama’s new law, and cheering for speakers who spoke at the march criticizing the move. The march was organized by different pro-choice organizations […]

After the state of Alabama proudly passed the most restrictive abortion ban in the United States, pro-choice proponents and advocacy groups are making sure that no one forgets the 25 lawmakers who voted in favor of the bill, Glamour reports. The law earned its title as the most restrictive in the nation by outlawing abortion […]

In the face of Alabama passing the most restrictive abortion law since Roe v. Wade was established as the law of the land across the country, many of the state’s student residents have started to indicate that as a result, they won’t be sticking around after graduation, Yahoo News reports. Yahoo News’ Kayla Jardine spoke […]

Known for being a conservative political commentator of Christian faith, Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren took to her Twitter account two days ago to inform her 1.34 million followers that she is not supportive of Alabama’s new abortion law. “I will be attacked by fellow conservatives for saying this but so be it, this Alabama […]

As pro-choice advocates across the country and around the world react to Alabama’s passing of a historically restrictive ban on abortions, including in cases of rape and incest, a previously unreleased poll suggests that Alabama voters may not be in lock step behind their Republican political leaders, Mother Jones reports. Although Alabama remains a firmly […]

After Alabama’s governor signed a bill to ban abortions earlier this week, which would leave no exceptions for rape or incest and make performing an abortion punishable by law, thousands of women all over the world have spoken out to share their own stories and be heard. Actress and talk show host Busy Philipps was […]

The outcry on social media due to the new anti-abortion bill passed in the state of Alabama has been intense, and singer Rihanna has joined the conversation by blasting the lawmakers who were behind the vote. Not only did she repost a photo of 25 of the men who voted for a law that bans […]

Nine states are considering restrictive anti-abortion laws that, if passed, will put those states in the same company as Alabama, Georgia, and others that have passed similar abortion laws recently. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, seven states have recently passed abortion laws that effectively ban all abortions. Ohio and other states, for example, passed […]

This week, Alabama passed what is quite possibly the most restrictive abortion law in the country, effectively banning all abortions, even in the cases of rape and incest. The state joins six other states that recently passed intensely-restrictive abortion laws. Abortion has been one of the key focal points of religious conservatives ever since 1973, […]

An Alabama woman who had been missing for five days has been found alive — amidst the wreckage of her crashed car — after a nearly deadly experience. Robin Joyce Fancher was on her way to the post office when she went missing on April 17. The 49-year-old was last seen leaving her home in […]

Convicted Alabama death row inmate Christopher Price was granted a last-minute stay of execution on Thursday night, although hours later the Supreme Court ruled that the execution could proceed. By that time, however, the legal paperwork allowing his execution had expired, according to The Birmingham News, meaning that his execution would need to be rescheduled. […]

Representative Matt Gaetz, a Republican from Florida, has emerged in recent years as one of the most loyal elected officials to President Donald Trump. On the eve of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony, Gaetz even sent a tweet threatening to expose Cohen’s supposed extramarital affairs. Now, Gaetz is reportedly eying a move to […]

Just weeks after taking over an Alabama newspaper following the widely-followed resignation of the paper’s longtime editor, Elecia R. Dexter has resigned, CNN reports. Dexter took the helm of The Democrat-Reporter in the town of Linden last month when the former publisher and editor, Goodloe Sutton, stepped down after a racially-charged editorial titled “The Klan […]

Roy Moore, who lost to Democrat Doug Jones in a heated 2017 Alabama Senate race, says that he is “seriously considering” running for the Senate again in 2020, according to The Hill. Moore lost to Jones in a special election called after former Alabama senator, Jeff Sessions, had to step down after being appointed the […]

Donald Trump went to Alabama to survey the damage caused by tornadoes last weekend, but he’s getting heat on social media for signing his name on bibles belonging to residents and first responders. “The same hands that fondled a porn star are now signing Bibles,” wrote a Twitter user. “Get me off the planet.” Several […]