7. The Iron Bowl rivalry between Alabama and Auburn kicks off at 6:30 PM at Jordan-Hare Stadium for the first primetime slot since 2014, moving from the traditional 2:30 PM start with Alabama’s playoff push in peril after an Oklahoma loss and Auburn’s quest for its first win since 2019.
6. Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle crowed about U.S. Space Command’s relocation to Redstone Arsenal in his State of the City speech, highlighting 1,400 new jobs over five years, collaborative state-federal efforts, and the city’s innovations in propulsion, lunar habitats, and deep space missions as vital to national space protection.
5. Alabama hemp businesses are starting to raise the alarm over federal restrictions capping THC at 0.4 milligrams in products, set to eliminate 60-90% of the multi-billion-dollar industry in a year, urging targeted enforcement against bad actors instead of broad economic disruption.
4. The UN Security Council passed a U.S.-backed resolution 14-0 endorsing President Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan, featuring a multinational Muslim-led force for stabilization, demilitarization, and aid amid Ambassador Mike Waltz’s “hell on earth” description, brokered with Qatar, Egypt, and others for Palestinian self-determination post-ceasefire.
3. Governor Kay Ivey wants Alabama Public Television’s board to bump the brakes on programming changes to align programming with state values like sanctity of life and religious liberty while weighing a PBS split amid federal funding cuts and liberal bias concerns, proposing voter surveys and detailed plans; but the premise that PBS is some required necessity for the state is absurdly contrived, given the biased content and local alternatives.
2. U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) called for Senate review of President Trump’s $2,000 tariff-funded dividend payments to low- and middle-income Americans, which Trump says he will try to start delivering in mid-2026, aimed at returning revenues from rising tariffs to onshoring jobs, wage growth, and debt reduction amid Alabama’s manufacturing interests.
1. The House prepares a Tuesday vote on the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act to release DOJ records on Jefferey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, with Presudent Donald Trump pledging to sign despite past opposition; Republicans are accurately highlighting Democrats twisting the probe via selective leaks to smear him, insisting no evidence links him to crimes, while they attempt to find a message to run on.
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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.
