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Alabama House ready to push forward with Bentley impeachment hearings

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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

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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’

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 When...

Obama angling to house illegal alien minors at Alabama military base

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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!’

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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

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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

Jordan LaPorta -
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

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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

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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

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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’

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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...

Winners and losers from the first week of the Hubbard corruption trial

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WINNERS The Prosecution Lead prosecutor Matt Hart's investigative methods throughout the grand jury proceedings and lead up to the trial wandered into ethical and legal gray...

Furious Pelosi slams Byrne’s religious liberty amendment as ‘vile, bigoted, disgraceful’

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WASHINGTON – The tension between LGBT activists and religious freedom supporters reached a boiling point again this week, with an Alabama congressman right in...

Alabama House Speaker’s former top aide delivers explosive, emotional testimony

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OPELIKA, Ala. -- Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard's former top staffer delivered emotional -- and potentially damning -- testimony Wednesday in the speaker's ethics...

Alabama launches legal challenge against Obama’s transgender school bathroom order

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama has joined an 11-state legal challenge to the Obama administration’s order that schools must allow students access to restrooms and...

Alabama congressman wants to boot lazy TSA agents, privatize airport security

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL3) took Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator Peter Neffenge to task during a committee hearing Wednesday over...

Alabama congressman exposes Democrat’s plan to use anti-terror bill to gut 2nd Amendment

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WASHINGTON -- Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-AL4) is taking a strong stance against an amendment to the House 2017 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations bill...

Report: Sessions is on Trump’s VP ‘short list,’ getting serious consideration

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WASHINGTON -- The Donald Trump veepstakes is heating up and Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is right in the middle of it, according to the...

Prosecution: Hubbard used office to make $2.3M. Defense: None of this is illegal

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OPELIKA, Ala. -- Tuesday was day one of the long-anticipated trial of Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard, who was indicted in October of 2014...

Shelby unloads after VA official says Disney doesn’t measure wait times, so why should we?

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) torched Department of Veterans Affairs Director Robert McDonald on Facebook for saying the VA does not need to...
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