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While Kay Ivey is not the first Alabama governor to refuse to debate an election challenger, most of her predecessors over the last two decades have been willing to face off with their opponents. Since 1998, three of the state's four governors took on their challengers in debates.
Trump, in a Hill.TV interview released on Wednesday, said that he's "so sad over Jeff Sessions," whom he has repeatedly denounced for recusing himself from the Russia investigation. "He was the first senator that endorsed me.
President Trump tore into Jeff Sessions in an interview published Wednesday, going so far as to say "I don't have an attorney general" -- although he appeared to later soften the statement. In an interview with The Hill , Trump said the beleagured Sessions was absent and performing poorly in his role as the nation's top lawyer.
Early Friday, President Trump used Twitter to tout the recent growth of the U.S. economy. "We have accomplished an economic turnaround of HISTORIC proportions!" he tweeted.
U.S. Sen. Doug Jones today said he and Sen. Lamar Alexander are working to craft a "solution" to proposed tariffs on imported automobiles which they say could negatively impact U.S. jobs. "We hope to introduce that proposal as early as next week, after consulting with our automotive manufacturers and working with our colleagues to grow bipartisan support for this legislation," Jones said, in remarks on the Senate floor in Washington.
The first Mobile-made Airbus A321 is shown taking off on from Downtown Mobile Airport on its first flight in March 2016. A fresh round of Airport Improvement Program funding from the FAA means millions of dollars in grants for Alabama facilities, including $7 million for the Downtown Mobile Airport.
US Rep. Martha Roby of Alabama thanked President Trump for endorsing her after she won a Republican runoff for her house seat. Roby angered Republicans in 2016 when she said Trump's comments about women made him an unacceptable candidate.
U.S. Rep. Martha Roby won Alabama's Republican runoff on Tuesday, fighting through lingering fallout from her years-old criticism of then-candidate Donald Trump in a midterm contest that hinged on loyalty to the GOP president. The four-term incumbent will now represent the GOP on the November ballot having defeated Bobby Bright, a former Democrat who tried to cast himself as the more authentic Trump ally in the low-turnout Republican contest.
Roby, now in her fourth term in Congress, had faced major backlash from conservative voters after saying in 2016 she wouldn't vote for Trump when the then-Republican presidential nominee was heard bragging about groping and kissing women without consent in a leaked "Access Hollywood" tape. Her disavowal of Trump has since continued to dog her, forcing her into a runoff on Tuesday against former Rep. Bobby Bright, the Democrat-turned-Republican whom Roby unseated in 2010, after she failed to win a majority of the June primary vote in Alabama's heavily agrarian 2nd District.
Nowhere is the Republican Party's dominance in Alabama more obvious than on the ballot in Tuesday's primary runoff. The only ballot voters in Morgan, Limestone and Lawrence counties will see is a Republican one.
In this June 8, 2018 file photo, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall speaks during the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Marshall and former Attorney General Troy King face off in Tuesday's Republican runoff in the race for attorney general.
Only a handful of statewide races are on the ballot in Alabama's runoff election on Tuesday, and all that action is on the Republican side. Most attention nationally will go to the U.S. House race in southeastern Alabama between Rep. Marta Roby and former congressman Bobby Bright.
In this May 30, 2018, file photo, U.S. Rep. Martha Roby, of Alabama, campaigns at a fish fry in Andalusia, Ala. Roby drew a backlash for criticizing Donald Trump two years ago.
"Breaking News" has become a television cliche and heartbreaking news has become the norm in an America that celebrated its birthday last week. As this nation observed the July 4 holiday on Wednesday, there was disunity in the United States and fear in "the home of the brave."
Standing before a portrait of George Washington, President Donald Trump announces about $60 billion worth of annual tariffs on Chinese imports, at the White House in Washington, March 22, 2018. If President Trump loves Alabama, which he says he does, and if Alabamians by and large love him back, why then is he kicking us in the shins? This isn't about immigration.
Doug Jones won the Alabama Senate election Tuesday, defeating Republican candidate Roy Moore to become the first Democratic candidate to win a Senate race since the 1990s. Kirsten Fiscus / The Anniston Star Doug Jones won the Alabama Senate election Tuesday, defeating Republican candidate Roy Moore to become the first Democratic candidate to win a Senate race since the 1990s.
Marshall officials say Todd May announced his retirement to employees at the Huntsville facility on Monday. It takes effect July 27. A statement from Rep. Mo Brooks of Huntsville says May is being replaced on an acting basis by Marshall's deputy director, Joan A. "Jody" Singer.
Alabama is appealing a federal judge's order to make the state's lethal injection procedures public and to unseal other court records about an aborted execution in the state. Chief District Judge Karon O. Bowdre on Thursday stayed her order to make the protocol and sealed hearing transcripts public as the Department of Corrections appeals.
U.S. Representative Martha Roby talks with cosmetology students as she tours the Lurleen B. Wallace Community College MacArthur Campus in Opp, Ala. on Wednesday May 30, 2018, while campaigning for re-election in south Alabama.
The Alabama Department of Corrections said 57-year-old Jeffrey Lynn Borden was found hanging by a bed sheet in his cell during a security check at 2:30 a.m. He was pronounced dead at 3 a.m., a prison spokesman said. Borden was convicted of killing his estranged wife, Cheryl Borden, and her father, Roland Harris, in Jefferson County in 1993.