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Rogers: Getting China out of our business once and for all

China is the most devious and all-encompassing threat facing the United States today. With communist China’s influence throughout the world being so pervasive, the defense of our great nation is not to be compromised or shortchanged in any way.

President Joe Biden's plans to remake America's electoral system are meeting major headwinds as he travels to Georgia to lecture the nation.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced a bill to press for an international investigation into the origins of COVID-19 at Wuhan-based laboratories that partook in hazardous coronavirus research.

Monday, Attorney General Steve Marshall officially qualified his candidacy for reelection at the Alabama Republican Party headquarters in Birmingham.

Some of the biggest acts in music history have strolled down the halls of the Von Braun Center in downtown Huntsville. That venue has served as the location for most of Huntsville’s major events since the doors were opened in 1975.

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ALGOP chairman John Wahl announced his support of the House GOP Caucus' inclusion of constitutional carry in its policy agenda for the 2022 regular legislative session.

Club

Tuesday, Club for Growth Action, the super PAC of Washington, D.C.-based Club for Growth, announced a $2.3 million TV and mail ad blitz beginning Wednesday and continuing over the next 10 weeks.

The U.S. Senate campaign of Republican Katie Britt has been endorsed by nonprofit trade association the Automobile Dealers Association of Alabama.

Governor Kay Ivey will lay out her vision in her annual State of the State address at 6:00 p.m. in the Old House Chamber of the State Capitol.

One vision of utopia includes the conversion of weapons of war into farming implements. The Bible anticipates a time when swords will be beaten into plowshares, and spears will become pruning hooks. But sometimes in our modern world, it happens that bitter enemies with blood on their respective hands wake up and realize that compromise […]

McCutcheon

Monday, during an appearance on Alabama Public Television's "Capitol Journal," House Speaker Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia) addressed that possibility.

University of Georgia head coach Kirby Smart finally got it done against his former boss Nick Saban. Alabama fought hard but ultimately fell to the Georgia Bulldogs 33-18 in the game that mattered most. The National Championship game this year featured the undisputed two best teams in the nation. While Georgia looked like the top […]

Carl: What to expect from Congress in 2022

The House returns to Washington this week to begin the second session of the 117th Congress. Last year was a jam-packed legislative year as the Democratic majority rammed through quite a bit of terrible legislation in the House. Thankfully, the Senate blocked or slowed down the majority of the junk passed by the House. A […]

Monday, in the prelude to the National Championship game match-up between the University of Alabama and the University of Georgia, Gov. Kay Ivey announced her end of a wager with her Georgia counterpart Gov. Brian Kemp (R) over the contest. Ivey offered Dreamland BBQ, an Alabama institution that began on the outskirts of Tuscaloosa near […]

Plans submitted by the Eastern Shore and Mobile Metropolitan Planning Organizations for a new Mobile River Bridge and Bayway received a "major boost" on Monday.

According to a press statement from the campaign released on Monday, Greenville businessman Tim James will officially kick off his campaign with an announcement on Wednesday.

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) once again took to MSNBC to talk about alleged voter suppression and ending the filibuster to get laws she wants to be passed through Congress.

The Bonnie Plants Foundation, a garden and greenspace educational-oriented nonprofit, is gifting Auburn University with a $1.2 million donation for the establishment of a two-acre Children’s Garden and Pollinator Garden for the university's 16-acre Transformation Garden project.

Beth Chapman: Gambling, guns and other issues

This session is likely to be a sensitive one for most legislators. For at least 23 of them, it is their last session and for the rest, it is an election year. One must wonder what the legislators spending their last session will place their priorities on. The ones up for election must be careful […]

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While some college football fans are upset about Alabama and Georgia playing in the national championship game again, fans in the Southeast know the importance of Monday’s matchup. For starters, this is the second time that these two programs have played for it all in the last four years. The last time was in 2018. […]

Join the Yellowhammer News team on Wednesday, February 2, for a “Yellowhammer Connection” event in Montgomery. The gathering will offer a reception followed by a live interview with Alabama Senate President Pro Tem Greg Reed (R-Jasper) and Speaker of the House Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia).

The Alabama Legislature appears poised to take up debate on constitutional carry legislation during its upcoming regular legislative session which beginning Tuesday.

Six things to watch for this legislative session

Alabama's 2022 legislative session begins Tuesday at the Alabama State House in Montgomery.

Monday morning, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks' (R-Huntsville) U.S. Senate campaign announced former Alabama Republican Party chairwoman Terry Lathan has joined the campaign as a co-chairman.