Confederate monuments ‘generally not a voting issue’
Democrat Walt Maddox's latest TV ad is meant to showcase his relatively conservative views on gun control and abortion. But when it comes to Confederate monuments, Maddox draws a line.
Category Archives: University of Alabama
Packers draft JK Scott
JK Scott is the punter for last season's national champion University of Alabama football team who, during a recent team visit to the White House, initiated a prayer for President Trump. He described it this way: Teams don't usually draft punters.
How Evolution Can Make Sense of the Stock Market
On December 17, 2014, then-President Barack Obama announced that the United States would restore its international relations with Cuba. In addition to many expected diplomatic consequences, the decision had an odd effect: boosting the popularity of a small, closed-end fund that trades as CUBA.
‘An uphill fight’: What’s next for Senator-elect Doug Jones?
Democrat Doug Jones celebrates his Election Night victory on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, at the Sheraton Hotel in Birmingham. (Joe Songer When Doug Jones is sworn in as Alabama's newest senator, he will arrive to Washington, D.C. as a "darling" of national Democrats.
Gorea s a Inconvenient Sequela lands on Oscar shortlist despite disputed climate science
Al Gore 's sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth" has ended up on the shortlist for Oscar consideration despite questions about its credibility raised by challenges to some of its climate-change claims. "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" was among the 15 films included by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on its list of those still in the hunt for 2017 Best Documentary, which will be pared down to five finalists when the nominees are announced Jan. 23. "We are humbled to be on the Oscars shortlist for Best Documentary Feature.
How Stephen Bannon looms large in Alabama’s GOP Senate race
Former White House strategist Stephen Bannon, shown in Indianapolis in December, is backing former judge Roy Moore in Alabama's Republican Senate runoff race against current Sen. Luther Strange. The winner will face Democrat Doug Jones during the Dec. 12 general election.
Thurgood Marshall asked an ex-Klan member to help him make Supreme Court history
Fifty years ago, Thurgood Marshall, the grandson of an enslaved man who had become one of the country's most famous litigators, was about to be sworn in as the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court. And Marshall wanted to take the constitutional oath of office from Hugo Black, a white associate justice who had once been a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
What’s ‘alt-left’? Experts say it’s ‘made-up term’
President Donald Trump equated white supremacist marchers in Charlottesville to counterprotesters by calling them "alt-left," prompting an immediate backlash and questions about the term itself. "What about the alt-left that came charging at, as you say, the alt-right, do they have any semblance of guilt ... What about the fact they came charging with clubs in hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do," Trump said at a news conference Tuesday referring to a rally in Charlottesville that turned violent over the weekend.
Bus carrying seniors crashes on German highway, killing 18
A website that hosted an "Abduction 101" forum linked to a 28-year-old suspect in the kidnapping of a Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois bills itself as the most popular sexual fetish internet networking... A website that hosted an "Abduction 101" forum linked to a 28-year-old suspect in the kidnapping of a Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois bills itself as the most popular sexual fetish internet networking site. Illinois lawmakers are back to work after a dramatic vote in the House Sunday to increase income taxes by 32 percent.
Taxi jumps curb near airport in ‘accident’; 10 cabbies hurt
A police official said the crash is believed to be a case of "operator error" i... . Emergency personnel work at the scene where a taxi driver struck a group of pedestrians, injuring several, Monday, July 3, 2017, in Boston.
Hoover accountant pleads guilty to stealing $180k from employers, including UA’s Million Dollar Band
A Hoover man pleaded guilty Friday to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from two of his former employers, including a non-profit group that supported the University of Alabama's Million Dollar Band. Randall Sho Woods, 33, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge L. Scott Coogler to two counts of wire fraud and one count of bank fraud, according to an announcement by Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge David W. Archey.
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Ask any black person which political party has been black people's political ally. With near unanimity, blacks would answer the Democratic Party.
Guilfoyle to offer college degree
Mirror photo by Russ O'Reilly Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School President Joe Adams presents the "College in High School" program to parents, faculty and students on Friday. Following the model of high school-university partnerships in other regions of the country, Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School and Mount Aloysius College will offer high school students an opportunity to earn a college degree at the same time as earning their high school diploma.
Jeff Sessions confirmed as attorney general
Sessions was elected U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1996 after serving two years as the state's attorney general. Sessions was among the first in Congress to support candidate Donald Trump and served as a top adviser in Trump's successful presidential campaign.