7. Aldotcom’s Joseph Goodman pretends whether Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) used the threat of transgender athletes to “poison” the Protect College Sports Act at the 11th hour, arguing the move helped kill the bill.
6. Federal prosecutors charged 11 people in what they called one of the largest marriage fraud schemes in U.S. history, a decade-long New York-based network that arranged more than 1,000 sham marriages in which Chinese nationals paid up to $100,000 each to marry U.S. citizens for green cards.
5. A Jefferson County judge ruled that Birmingham homeowners’ lawsuit seeking to stop Nebius Inc.’s AI data center will proceed to a non-jury trial in March 2027, while country star and Trump official John Rich called Alabama Power’s refusal to meet with him over a Shelby County eminent domain dispute a “slap in the face.”
4. Southern Company, parent of Alabama Power, plans to build a testing facility at the National Carbon Capture Center in Shelby County to extract rare earth elements and critical minerals from coal ash, a potential $8.4 billion resource currently sitting in U.S. coal ash ponds.
3. U.S. Space Command expects about 900 of its 1,800 headquarters personnel to be working on Redstone Arsenal by the end of 2028, with the full move targeted for 2032 and groundbreaking on the new headquarters planned for next year.
2. Democrats are eyeing eight Republican-held Senate seats that could flip in November, including competitive races in North Carolina, Maine, Ohio, Georgia, Alaska, Texas, and Iowa, while a new Fox News poll shows the Maine Senate contest remains locked with Democrat Troy Jackson leading Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) 48-46%.
1. Alabama State Rep. Rhett Marques (R-Enterprise) won the GOP nomination to challenge Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile) in what is being called “the most watched” race of 2026 as Republicans seek to reclaim Alabama’s redrawn 2nd District, while Democrat Clyde Jones blasted former U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl (R-Mobile) as “cowardly” for refusing to debate.
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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.
