7. A federal appeals court reversed former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s $8.2 million defamation verdict against the Senate Majority PAC, ruling that Moore failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the PAC acted with actual malice when it ran a 2017 ad referencing sexual misconduct allegations against him.

6. Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, helped an Alabama teenager battling advanced osteosarcoma secure access to an experimental gene therapy called DeltaRex-G after the family’s viral plea for treatment.

5. Pathetically, John Sharp of aldotcom is pretending he can’t understand how a grand jury returned indictments against the Southern Poverty Law Center for secretly funding the Ku Klux Klan with at least $3 million because 45 years ago the organization played a role in bankrupting the Klan, ignoring their financial motivations.

4. Huntsville is considering an asinine plan to spend $350,000 to explore light rail passenger service connecting the city to Nashville, Birmingham, and Atlanta as part of a broader regional transportation study to create a wildly expensive boondoggle that will go nowhere.

3. President Donald Trump canceled a planned trip to Pakistan for U.S. negotiators to hold Iran peace talks, saying the Iranian regime is suffering from tremendous infighting within its leadership.

2. Alabama lawmakers condemned the attempted attack on President Donald Trump and others in his administration, praising swift Secret Service action, rejecting political violence, and in some cases linking it to prior incidents and anti-Trump rhetoric, with Democrats also denouncing violence.

1. An attempted mass shooting/assassination attempt on Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was carried out by 31-year-old Californian Cole Tomas Allen, who called himself the “friendly federal assassin” according to his own manifesto, charged a security checkpoint and shot a Secret Service agent who is expected to recover, but despite railing against Trump administration policies in an anti-Trump and anti-Christian rant; former President Barack Obama and the New York Times just can’t figure out his motives.

Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.