7. The College Football Playoff is nearing a deal to expand from 12 to 24 teams as soon as 2027, with sources describing a potential 19 at-large structure worth hundreds of millions more annually, the SEC has now softened its opposition, clearing the path for its adoption.
6. A 16-year-old shooter killed three children ages 5, 8, and 11 and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, after forcing entry by firing at locked doors, before a community member with a concealed carry permit pursued and killed him, with two others critically injured, while separately a 19-year-old transgender neo-Nazi named Alexandros Paporakis who plotted a Hindu temple mass shooting near Chicago but, fear not, he will receive hormone treatments in jail which clearly had NOTHING to do with this.
5. AI-generated political ads are showing up in the 2026 midterms, with researchers tracking roughly $80 million spent on nearly 170 unique spots that range from deepfakes to subtle enhancements, the large majority sponsored by Republicans, this is the new reality.
4. Sara Oleson was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the death of 13-year-old Kal Fox after striking him with her vehicle in Huntsville while he was legally crossing on his bicycle in August 2025, with substances found in her car and his father calling the term “a sigh of relief.”
3. The Alabama Department of Corrections remained silent on whether the significantly over-budget $1.25 billion, 4,000-bed Governor Kay Ivey Correctional Complex in Elmore County met its Thursday construction deadline after earlier expressing “reasonable concern” about another delay.
2. Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) said new voters moving into fast-growing North Alabama from blue states were raised in “government-educated schools that have taught socialism and communism,” warned that a win for 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, would cost Alabama federal support because President Donald Trump “is not going to help” him, Tuberville also pledged to bring DOGE-style cuts to “way too many people in state government,” and signaled an ALDOT shakeup to prioritize building more roads and three-lane interstates, while Jones countered with a call for an independent review of the agency because he can only oppose what Tuberville is proposing.
1. U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) slammed the Left’s alliance with radical Islam, saying “the rights of gays in these communities are totally snuffed out the minute [radical Islam] gains power” and describing the alignment as a “spiritual battle” that has been clouded by “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
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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.
