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SUCCESS: How Shelby blocked McCain from threatening Alabama jobs & national security
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The United States Senate on Tuesday approved an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) regarding the...
Auburn residents want convicted House Speaker’s name removed from the city and university
AUBURN, Ala. -- Before he was convicted on 12 felony ethics charges, Mike Hubbard used his position as Speaker of the House to support...
Alabama 2nd Amendment advocates urge state to follow Idaho’s lead, move to permitless concealed carry
Before the Orlando tragedy on Sunday night, Idaho passed a law allowing its citizens ages 21 and older to concealed carry firearms without obtaining...
Alabama congressmen respond to attack: Obama ignores radical Islam, pushes gun control
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Early Sunday morning, a 29-year-old man now identified as Omar Mateen killed 50 people and wounded 53 others in a terrorist...
Alabama’s most powerful politician has fallen. Here’s what (and who) is next.
Mike Hubbard was convicted on 12 felony public corruption charges late last week, immediately prompting his removal from office as Alabama’s Speaker of the...
Alabama House speaker Mike Hubbard convicted
OPELIKA, Ala. -- Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard (R-Auburn) was convicted of 12 of 23 charges by a Lee County Jury in Opelika on...
Alabama congressman pushes back against Obama’s attempt to house illegals on Alabama military bases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a scathing letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Alabama Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL1) and Congressman Jeff Miller (R-FL) strongly...
Aderholt slams Michelle Obama’s gross, expensive school lunch program that is rolling back in Alabama
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The deeply unpopular school lunch program championed by Michelle Obama could be on its way out, but one Alabama Congressman had...
Palmer: solution to Puerto Rico crisis is fighting crony capitalism
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Territory of Puerto Rico is currently engulfed in a debt crisis that has some politicians on Capitol Hill calling...
Alabama House ready to push forward with Bentley impeachment hearings
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday announced plans to hold its first meeting on articles of impeachment against Alabama Governor Bentley...
Defiant Hubbard takes stand to defend himself: I made ‘not a cent’ off of my office
OPELIKA, Ala. -- On Tuesday, Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard took the stand in his own defense to fight back against the felony ethics...
Alabama lawmaker slams ACLU for suing to allow ‘gruesome abortions by dismemberment’
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against pro-life legislation that was sponsored by State Senator Phil Williams...
Byrne: Trump will ‘tackle poverty head on’ by putting American workers first
WASHINGTON -- Alabama Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL1) has jumped on the Trump Train with both feet, saying the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's America-first economic...
Study: Alabama legislators are addicted to ‘sin taxes,’ allergic to reforms
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A new study suggests Alabama lawmakers from both parties have decided raising "sin taxes" is the way to fix the state's...
Richard Shelby listed among the most popular Senators in Washington
WASHINGTON, D.C. – According to a study by InsideGov and Morning Consult, Alabama Senator Richard Shelby is one of the country’s most popular Senators....
Why the definition of ‘friend’ could decide whether Alabama’s House Speaker goes to prison
Former Gov. Bob Riley arrives for Day8 of #HubbardTrial, greets Speaker Mike Hubbard at the door. #alpolitics pic.twitter.com/WvoLp26flD— Lauren Walsh (@LaurenWalshTV) June 3, 2016
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Obama angling to house illegal alien minors at Alabama military base
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Once again, the Federal Government is considering housing illegal immigrant minors in two Alabama military institutions. The sites currently under consideration...
100,000 Alabamians just received an alarming warning: ‘Do not drink the water!’
DECATUR, Ala. -- Roughly 100,000 Alabama residents got an alarming warning Thursday when they were told to not drink the tap water in their...
Mason seeks to avoid incriminating herself in criminal investigation into Bentley relationship
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Court documents filed by an attorney for Rebekah Mason, Governor Robert Bentley's former senior political advisor and mistress, for the first...
Alabama shares in SCOTUS victory weakening Obama’s environmental overreach
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a rare 8-0 decision that has been called a victory...
Bentley testifies Hubbard lobbied him on projects that would benefit his business clients
OPELIKA, Ala. -- Alabama Governor Robert Bentley testified in House Speaker Mike Hubbard's corruption trial on Wednesday, telling the jury the speaker met with...
Trump: I am considering Jeff Sessions for VP
NEW YORK, NY - Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump said Tuesday that Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is indeed on his short...
Sessions: It’s time for Paul Ryan to get on the Trump Train
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Paul Ryan, the highest ranking Republican elected official in the country, continues to hold out on endorsing presumptive GOP presidential...
Sessions on being Trump’s VP: ‘I would consider it’
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) says he would consider being Donald J. Trump's running mate, if the billionaire real estate tycoon asked him...