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The Freedom from Religion Foundation -- self-described as the nation's largest association of atheists and agnostics -- is targeting Rep. Bradley Byrne.

The State of Alabama’s tourism department, in conjunction with the marketing company Luckie, recently won an award for the marketing campaign promoting the U.S. Civil Rights Trail. The official award received is called the “Best Destination Campaign” for a region. It was the only American entry on the group’s shortlist. “For the first time an […]

U.S. Army Spc. Henry Mayfield, Jr. has been killed serving our country. Mayfield, 23, died in a terrorist attack by al-Shabab islamic extremists...

"Many of the things that come out of her mouth are frankly un-American." -- AL-02 GOP candidate Jessica Taylor on U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)

The Alabama Farmers Federation announced that its political arm, FarmPAC, has endorsed Jeff Coleman, a Wiregrass businessman...

KEYSYS, an Alabama custom software development company, announced that they are expanding their footprint into the booming Huntsville market.

According to the latest information available from the NSF, the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) ranks in the top-12 in federally funded research activities for five different academic programs.

A Birmingham student has been awarded a prestigious QuestBridge scholarship that will grant her over $300,000 to pursue a college degree, per an article in the Birmingham Times. The student, Charity Davis, is a member of the Class of 2020 at Holy Family Cristo Rey Catholic School in Birmingham. Seventy percent of QuestBridge finalists are […]

Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) of Alabama announced Monday in a press release that during the 2020-2021 school year the company will create a pool of $250,000 to be given to Alabama schools through grants. The money will be given away in amounts up to $10,000, and the recipients will be schools across the […]

During this week’s broadcast of Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” State Sen. Clyde Chambliss (R-Prattville) revealed he would head an effort to repeal Alabama’s sales tax on groceries. Alabama, along with Mississippi and South Dakota, are the only states to levy sales tax on groceries, which is 4%. However, when combined with other local sales […]

Bradley Byrne: "It hurts me to hear Ilhan Omar cheapening 9/11. Entitled athletes dishonoring our flag. The Squad attacking America."

Hyundai’s Alabama auto manufacturing plant produced 336,000 vehicles in 2019, the company announced Thursday, a total output that rose about 4% over...

One consistent theme of former Auburn University head football coach Tommy Tuberville’s bid for U.S. Senate in Alabama has been not to dwell on the minutiae of the day-to-day political struggle playing out in Washington, D.C. and on cable news. Instead, he has put some of his focus on broader issues, including faith, family and […]

During an appearance Friday on Huntsville radio’s WVNN on Friday, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) said thus far he was pleased as to how the contest for the Republican Party nod for U.S. Senate in Alabama was advancing toward the March 3 primary. Brooks told WVNN’s “The Jeff Poor Show” he perceived the back-and-forth barbs […]

Bodycam footage revealed the moment police officers in Alabama rescued a female who had been kidnapped, smashed in the face with a tire iron and held at knifepoint in a cage in her captor’s van. Sean E. Sanders, 51, was arrested moments after the victim was set free from the 1997 Ford Aerostar Cargo van […]

In a statement, former Senator Jeff Sessions reacted to recent comments regarding the impeachment of President Trump made by Senator Doug Jones.

Veterans home to be built in Enterprise

The Alabama State Board of Veterans Affairs (SBVA) announced Friday via press release plans to build Alabama’s fifth veterans home facility in Enterprise. According to the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs’ website, veterans’ home facilities are “needed for aging or chronically disabled veterans.” The homes are a partnership between both the state and federal governments, […]

The American military, at the direction of President Trump, conducted a targeted strike that successfully killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran's...

Judge Andrew Brasher is set for another confirmation process in the U.S. Senate, less than a year after being confirmed to serve on the U.S. District...

Watch: Amazing video of historic Starliner launch

Alabama-based United Launch Alliance (ULA) released a video this week with spectacular footage of Starliner’s launch atop its Atlas V rocket. Designed in Huntsville, Boeing’s Starliner became the first American orbital space capsule to land on U.S. soil when it touched down at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on December […]

Following the December 29 shooting at West Freeway Church of Christ in Texas, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Thursday released guidance...

A federal judge will make the decision as to whether Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill is allowed to block other Twitter users from seeing his account’s tweets. The decision will be the culmination of a lawsuit brought in 2018 by the ACLU that claims Merrill’s blocking of certain Twitter users violates those users’ free […]

Each of Alabama's six Republicans in the U.S. House signed onto an Amicus Brief that calls on the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.

NASA announced that teams at New Orleans' Michoud Assembly Facility on Wednesday moved the first SLS rocket core stage, complete with all four RS-25...