7. The Senate passed the Protect College Sports Act 77-22, the Cruz-Cantwell bill setting national NIL, transfer, recruiting, and eligibility rules after President Donald Trump said “we have to get that done,” with Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) among those who pushed language protecting state bans on biological men in women’s sports before the House delay until after the midterms.

6. More American adults are cutting off their parents as experts say about one in 10 people is estranged from a parent or child, social media is full of “no contact” talk, and many now treat family ties as optional unless they feel “healthy and respectful,” even as researchers still debate whether the cutoff rate itself is rising.

5. President Donald Trump announced at the White House on Monday a Minnesota company’s plan to build a fifteen billion-dollar steel mill in Iowa, joining Mesabi Metallics executives after the firm opened Minnesota’s first new iron-ore mine in 50 years, with steelmaking targeted for 2030 and a White House official saying the plant could support more than 1,700 jobs as he seeks economic wins.

4. DHS warned a Honduras-based caravan of hundreds that the border has been “SEALED SHUT” and illegals will be “apprehended, prosecuted, and removed,” via Brian Dawkins highlight video despite an NFL takedown request, Dawkins saying he gave no NIL permission, and a spokesperson vowing to use “every Weapon at our disposal, from A to X.”

3. Coverage of Rudolph Valentino Drake, the Democratic nominee for Alabama Senate District 2, says a Florida court entered a 2022 stalking injunction after an ex-girlfriend alleged he followed her, forced his way into her home, and said she “deserved a bullet in her head,” while Alabama Democratic Party leaders and lawmakers stayed silent as he runs on “integrity.”

2. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is trying to kill the Ratepayer Protection Act that  was co-sponsored by Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) after the House passed it 417-3 to keep data-center power costs off household bills, with Schumer calling the bill “a fraud” and Tuberville saying Alabamians should not be “left footing the bill.”

1. President Trump is opening October with rallies in Oklahoma and Mobile, with Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch warning people not to “cross the line” into threats as the event gets closer.

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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.