Alabama U.S. Senator Katie Britt was announced as a speaker at next week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Britt topped the official list alongside a cavalcade of incumbent U.S. Senators including Ted Cruz (R-TX), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Tim Scott (R-FL), as well as potential Trump vice presidential nominees U.S. Senators JD Vance (R-OH), Marco […]

It is no secret that many in Democratic and media circles have admitted that President Biden’s debate performance was an epic disaster. They know President Biden looked old, weak, and diminished, which has been evident to most of us for months now. Truthfully, the Democratic elites and their media allies have known all along that […]

Investment in Birmingham’s growing biotechnology sector is crucial in making the United States a world leader in healthcare innovation, several of Alabama’s top elected officials wrote in a joint editorial for Fortune Magazine. It’s also a matter of national security, they say. U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Montgomery), U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (R-Birmingham), Governor Kay Ivey, […]

7. A $65 million sky bridge project in Huntsville is ready to start ($47.3 million in federal dollars) with much of it going to flood mitigation, but the sky bridge is the selling point and main talking point. Now the city is attempting to highlight the aims to revitalize the downtown area with significant infrastructural […]

 Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and 256 Today CEO Mecca Musick take you through Alabama’s biggest political stories. Mecca Musick is the CEO of 256 Today. Sign up for the 256 Today newsletter here. Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on […]

7.The MLB held a historic game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants, but the game didn’t matter. This event, dubbed “MLB at Rickwood Field: A Tribute to the Negro Leagues,” marked the first regular-season AL/NL game played at the oldest professional ballpark in the United States […]



7. Some in the medical community are actually suggesting a behavioral change over the “quick fix” of drugs and surgery, they seem to be recommending their push for gender-affirming care, The U.S Preventive Services Task Force now suggests that primary care clinicians should provide intensive behavioral interventions for children with high BMI. These interventions include […]

U.S. Sen. Katie Britt is showing support for U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s idea of adding warning labels for parents on social media. “The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency — and social media has emerged as an important contributor,” Murthy said in a guest essay published by The New York Times. […]



Former President Donald Trump was on Capitol Hill on Thursday at the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and visited Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and many others. https://x.com/NRSC/status/1801315415005553014 “President Trump brought an extraordinary amount of energy, excitement and enthusiasm this morning.” said House Speaker Mike Johnson, […]

U.S. Senator Katie Britt addressed the Senate floor on Wednesday with Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) in support of the IVF Protection Act. The bill, which aims to ensure nationwide access to in vitro fertilization, was blocked by Senate Democrats. https://x.com/JulieNBCNews/status/1801045211319005503 “The entire Republican conference has signed a statement led by @SenKatieBritt […]

The totality of Alabama’s congressional delegation, including both U.S. Senators and the bipartisan delegation of U.S. House members, signed a letter expressing their strong support for the I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project. The delegation urged the U.S. Department of Transportation to approve the state’s application for federal assistance through the Mega grant program, which supports […]

7. The offer from Alabama A&M for the Birmingham-Southern College campus  was not enough and, according to Alabama A&M University’s vice president of government relations Shannon Reeves, the school will submit a second cash offer this month to purchase the hilltop campus of the now-closed college. The goal of the second offer is to eliminate […]

Thursday, June 6 is the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing – one of the largest and most decisive battles of World War II. U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn), U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Montgomery), and Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-Selma) will join a bipartisan Congressional delegation traveling to Normandy, France to mark the occasion. Sen. Tuberville’s […]

7. In what should be a much larger story, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is warning of an attack in the United States after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, he couched this as being a threat to Jewish and Muslim communities. But FBI Director Christopher Wray has said the threat is inspired by Hamas’s […]

On Monday, U.S. Senator Katie Britt delivered a speech on the Senate floor ahead of Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s partisan vote on Democrats’ “Right to Contraception Act” scheduled for Wednesday. Over the weekend in announcing the vote, Schumer (D-NY) wrote “Democrats will be putting reproductive freedoms front and center.” Britt coined Democrats’ overarching rhetoric on […]

7. The now-defunct Birmingham-Southern College’s baseball team’s run in the Division III College World Series is over after an 11-10 loss, despite building a significant lead, the Panthers couldn’t secure the win and ultimately fell to a walk-off homer in the ninth inning. The loss to Wisconsin-Whitewater is the end of the school’s more than […]

Senator Katie Britt has quickly established herself as one of the most effective, well-respected members of the United States Senate. In all my years observing state and national politics, I have never seen someone gain esteem on both sides of the aisle as quickly and as genuinely as Britt during her first 16 months in […]

In an interview with FOX News, U.S. Senator Katie Britt emphasized former President Donald Trump’s unwavering support for in vitro fertilization (IVF) earlier this week as she announced new legislation on the topic, alongside colleague Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “First, watching the political prosecution of Donald Trump is a travesty. But speaking of him, he […]

7. The city of Madison reports a third baby has been surrendered through the Safe Haven Baby Box at a local Fire Station since the box was set up this year. As with all babies surrendered, the baby was transferred to Madison Hospital for further evaluation, with the Department of Human Resources notified and an […]

7. The Kansas City Star, once a highly respected newspaper, hosted a call for the Kansas City Chiefs to “fire” kicker Harrison Butker over his Catholic-based commencement address at the Catholic Benedictine College and to replace him with a female kicker for “poetic justice.” The headline embarrassingly read, “The KC Chiefs should fire Harrison Butker […]

7. Three Bob Fergusons are running for governor in the state of Washington. Attorney General Bob Ferguson addressed the state’s governor’s race following the filing of two additional Democratic candidates named Bob Ferguson, denouncing it as an “illegal scheme” aimed at confusing voters and undermining the election process. AG Ferguson, the Democrat frontrunner, says this […]

U.S. Senators Katie Britt, Tommy Tuberville, Bill Hagerty, and Tim Kaine sent a letter to Alicia Bárcena, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, urging action over the Mexican government’s ongoing harassment of Vulcan Materials Company. The letter marks two years since the Mexican government’s invasion and shutdown of Vulcan’s Punta Venado deep-water port in Quintana […]