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Groups gather in Birmingham to protest war against Venezuela Members of the participating groups led protestors in multiple chants against the current administration on Sunday before starting their march around Five Points South.
05.01.2026 01:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New York companies invest $200 million into Alabama solar projects Together, the projects will deliver enough energy to power thousands of Alabama homes while creating quality jobs.
04.12.2025 20:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Alabama couple pays for food they accidentally ordered from Canadian restaurant: ‘Hope for humanity,’ owners say “I was unable to pick up the food because I live in the USA,” the unsigned letter reads.
26.11.2025 16:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Britt joins push for long-term funding for maternal mortality research “[F]ar too many women in this country are dying from pregnancy-related causes," Britt said.
20.11.2025 19:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Former Alabama college instructor sues after she says she was fired for post on ‘wicked’ Charlie Kirk “I do not mourn oppressors,” the former educator at Auburn University and the University of Alabama wrote.
16.10.2025 16:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Reclaiming Democracy, Rejecting Authoritarianism’: Alabama cities announce anti-Trump protests This event follows Trump sending the National Guard into several major cities over the past few months and the president’s ongoing mass deportation efforts.
08.10.2025 20:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump administration now screening immigration applications for ‘anti-Americanism’ “Immigration benefits—including to live and work in the United States—remain a privilege, not a right," said an USCIS spokesman.
21.08.2025 16:29 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Alabama immigration advocate detained by ICE in traffic stop, family says: ‘Just heartbreaking and discouraging’ "Her detainment is not only legally questionable — it is morally wrong," a petition demanding her release reads.
07.08.2025 16:26 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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NASA plans nuclear reactor on the moon: ‘It is about winning the second space race’ This will be Sean Duffy's first major action since President Donald Trump named him interim NASA administrator in June.
06.08.2025 19:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Judge finds probable cause that Como en Casa manager employed, harbored illegals A federal judge ruled Monday that there was probable cause against Como en Casa manager Luis Miguel Campos Reyes.
05.08.2025 15:03 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Tuberville wants to ban students from these countries from studying in US: ‘Funding our own demise’ He claimed they are "getting into this country and learning how to destroy the United States of America and our allies."
31.07.2025 17:43 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
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Alabama company selling steak in auto part parking lots raises concerns: Is it ‘mystery meat’? “Kenston Farms is “F” rated by the Better Business Bureau for unanswered complaints," Florida’s WFTV 9 reported.
28.07.2025 16:36 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Viral TikTok snack recalled due to possible Salmonella contamination The FDA recall was raised to a Class 1 alert because ingesting the spread could cause serious illness or even death.
24.07.2025 20:26 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Rapidly growing coffee chain opens new Alabama location The new location will be open 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
24.07.2025 19:15 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Alabama Public Television execs blame NPR, PBS ‘bias’ for funding cuts: ‘They’re in their echo chamber’ "They kind of listen to each other and say, ‘no, we’re not,'" said Executive Director Wayne Reid.
23.07.2025 21:16 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Trump’s approval ratings crashing in states that loved him, including Alabama Over 30,000 poll responses compiled by Civiqs shows Trump’s approval rating declining in states he won in November 2024.
21.07.2025 16:36 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ could devastate Alabama’s rural hospitals, advocates fear Experts and advocates warn that it could have dire consequences for Alabama’s tenuous rural healthcare situation.
10.07.2025 15:38 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Senate unanimously passes Lulu’s Law to establish shark attack alert system The Senate version of the bill will now go to the House for a vote.
09.07.2025 19:09 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Alabama teen struck by lightning through phone charger: ‘It was a shocking experience’ Lisa Henderson said she was also struck by lightning as a child.
02.07.2025 21:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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ICE tracking app creator compares ICEBlock to fighting ‘Hitler’s rise to power’ Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has called it an "obstruction of justice" in a post to X this week.
02.07.2025 15:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Country music star trashes Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’: ‘That s--- ain’t country music.’ He said this in response to his album “My Own Worst Enemy,” (No.5) coming behind Beyonce’s (No.4) on the Apple Music country music charts.
01.07.2025 18:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Riley Gaines throws support behind Alabama Senate candidate running for Tuberville’s seat “We need bold conservatives in the Senate who will fight for truth, protect women and girls, and defend the country we love,” Gaines wrote.
27.06.2025 18:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Alabama police looking to ‘solve the mystery’ of thief dressed in Scooby-Doo suit “Maybe lay out some Scooby snacks and stay really still he will then come to you!” one woman commented.
25.06.2025 18:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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McDonald’s boycott: Alabama man among Black former franchisees who say fast food giant ‘ruined our dreams’ McDonald’s also faced backlash earlier this year after rolling back some of its DEI practices.
25.06.2025 16:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tuberville backs bill ‘holding radical protestors accountable’ after LA’s anti-ICE riots “The First Amendment gives us the right to freedom of assembly, but it doesn’t give the right to block our streets.”
24.06.2025 14:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Donald Trump-supporting country music star John Rich to receive major military award Rich, who has also been an outspoken Trump supporter in recent years, visited Birmingham in 2018 to unveil his Redneck Riviera whiskey brand and share the story of how it got its name.
22.06.2025 18:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Democrat senator who served at Alabama military base named for ‘Confederate traitor’ grills Pete Hegseth "I served at Fort Rucker, Alabama, a base that was named for a traitor who took arms against the United States of America."
18.06.2025 17:34 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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Alabama military base carrying out Trump’s order to change its name The installation is currently updating signage and materials to support the transition, according to a recent release.
17.06.2025 20:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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13 ‘No Kings’ protests planned in Alabama as Trump hosts military parade "Real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.”
12.06.2025 21:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Former DOGE leader compares Newsom’s actions in LA to Alabama governor’s stand in schoolhouse door "It’s the same Democrat governor playbook.”
11.06.2025 15:19 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2