Feb 25, 2025 · A drive across Redstone Arsenal’s more than 38,000 acres just outside Huntsville, Alabama, shows it’s not your typical U.S. Army post. It’s a star-studded tour of some of the country’s most important organizations, from defense to space.

Alabama can’t prosecute groups who help women travel to get an abortion, federal judge says. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson sided with an abortion fund and medical providers who sued Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall after he suggested they could face prosecution under anti-conspiracy laws.

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Feb 28, 2025 · Hanceville residents filled the city council chambers, lined the walls and spilled into the hallway Thursday night at the council’s first meeting since a grand jury called for the city to abolish its police department.

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Feb 21, 2025 · Anxiety has reigned at some schools, churches and hospitals after moves by the Trump administration rolled back protections that had previously shielded them from visits from U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.. The moves have sparked conversations, including some worry and public pushback, in the South.. Nora Ahmed is legal director for the ACLU of Louisiana.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Thursday approved a bipartisan bill that would make teachers and state employees eligible for paid parental leave. The Republican dominated House of Representatives voted 94-2 to pass legislation that would offer up to eight weeks of maternity leave and ...

Mar 21, 2025 · JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry has had an eventful career, from the pool, to parliament. The country’s former dictator, Robert Mugabe, called her “a golden girl,” while the man who deposed him in a coup — Emmerson “the Crocodile” Mnangagwa – appointed her his minister of sports.. Now the 41-year-old is taking on a whole new role, after ...

Crews in Washington, D.C. have begun painting over the city’s “Black Lives Matter” street mural, a notable symbol of the 2020 protests against the killing of George Floyd, after a Republican bill targeting the mural threatened city funding. The phrase “Black Lives Matter” had been painted ...

Mar 21, 2025 · Alabama, like all states, has a program to compensate victims of violence. But very few survivors take advantage of such programs. Sheree Kennon is hosting an event Friday evening trying to change that. In 2021, Kennon lost her son to gun violence. Now, she is an advocate for survivors and their ...