7. Alabama athletics said it is “closely monitoring the weather forecast” ahead of Saturday’s No. 6 Alabama versus No. 2 Georgia game at Bryant-Denny Stadium and that “at this time, there are no plans to alter the contest,” as the National Weather Service said Tropical Depression Nine could intensify into a hurricane and bring gusty winds and steady rain to central Alabama Friday into Saturday.

6. Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who has claimed her 2018 and 2022 losses were stolen, will campaign Sunday in Huntsville with Doug Jones, the cowardly caretaker former junior senator in an ill-fitting suit, who looks like he just woke up and stole his shoes from a homeless person, who will never be governor, attorney general, or U.S. Senator again, loves crushing ice cream sandwiches, and is definitely maybe a furry, at a rally against Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn).

5. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall warned that Boulder’s climate lawsuit, which he called a “billion-dollar carbon tax,” could hit Alabama consumers if the Supreme Court lets a county use state law against energy companies, saying, “If they’re able to succeed with this case, there’s no telling not only how much we’ll have to pay to be able to put gas in our tanks,” and that “they’re ultimately going to come after the cattlemen in Alabama.”

4. University of Alabama professors published a library study calling for more Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility training in hiring, writing that the field has been criticized for “white supremacy” and standards “that have emerged from a colonialist and imperialist world order,” and arguing that majority staff who reported no racism should not be allowed to “white-wash” other accounts.

3. Israel marked three years since the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage, with a mother at the Nova festival site, where 378 were killed, saying, “What happened here was not human,” while a Palestinian in Gaza said, “They have turned Gaza into a place that is almost impossible to live in.”

2. Data center developers are optioning land around rural Alabama communities that lack zoning, which resident Katherine Eddins called “targeting these rural areas because we don’t have zoning,” as Alabama’s industry investment has grown past $63 billion; counties cannot impose moratoriums without action by the Legislature.

1. Even CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale said a Democrat clip caption of President Donald Trump’s “Let ’em take out Los Angeles” and “Let ’em take out San Diego” line “isn’t a direct quote” and “I very much don’t think it’s a correct paraphrase,” FactCheck.org said a more plausible reading is that Trump meant the war would keep Iran from threatening U.S. cities and that higher gas prices are “a small price to pay,” while Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom still called the remarks “dangerous, if not treasonous” and ordered threat monitoring.

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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.