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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced Thursday that he is running for the U.S. Senate, seeking the position being vacated by Sen. Tommy Tuberville.
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) -- Republican U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who entered politics after a successful career as a head football coach at Auburn and three other major college programs, announced Tuesday that he is running for governor of Alabama next year.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Republican U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who entered politics after retiring as a college football coach, plans to run for governor of Alabama in 2026, according to people familiar with his plans.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed legislation putting new regulations on gummies, drinks and other products containing cannabinoids from hemp, a legal variety of the marijuana plant.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Federal judges ruled Thursday that Alabama intentionally diluted the voting strength of Black residents when it drew congressional lines and said the state must continue using a court-ordered map that led to the election of the state's second Black congressman.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- More than half of families who applied for Alabama's new school voucher program have children attending a private school or are home schooling, as school choice advocates say the flood of applications proves the approach is what parents want.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday approved a ban on Glock switches and other conversion devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns, after a deadly year that included multiple mass shootings.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The Alabama Supreme Court has cleared the way for the execution of a man whose innocence claim is supported by a juror from his trial.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama's congressional map is at stake in a federal trial beginning Monday to decide if the state will keep the new court-created district that led to the election of a second Black representative.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- After a violent year that saw multiple mass shootings in the state, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and many lawmakers in both parties are supporting a ban on so-called Glock switches and other conversion devices that make semi-automatic weapons fire like machine guns.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Shomari Figures, a former top aide to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, on Tuesday won election to Alabama's 2nd Congressional District, which was redrawn after a lengthy legal battle.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama voters will decide who will represent a congressional district that was redrawn after a lengthy legal battle that drew national attention and could provide a rare opportunity for Democrats to flip a seat in the Deep South.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday refused to stay an injunction against a portion of a new Alabama law that limits who can help voters with absentee ballot applications.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday against Alabama and its top election official, accusing the state of illegally purging people from voter rolls too close to the November election.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a portion of a new Alabama law limiting help with absentee ballot applications, saying it violates the Voting Rights Act's assurances that voters who are blind, disabled or cannot read can get help from a person of their choice.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The first general election ballots for the presidential race are going out Wednesday as Alabama officials begin mailing them to absentee voters with the Nov. 5 contest less than two months away.
TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) -- On opposite sides of the courthouse square in Tuskegee, Alabama -- a place steeped in African American history, including the city's namesake university and World War II airmen -- two opposing congressional candidates recently greeted families gathered at a county festival.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A divided federal appeals court has refused to reconsider a decision allowing Alabama to enforce its ban on treating transgender minors with puberty blockers and hormones.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A federal judge has sided with the state of Alabama in narrowing the scope of a lawsuit challenging a new law that criminalizes some ways of helping other people to apply for an absentee ballot.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- The Alabama attorney general's office on Wednesday described a new ban on providing voters with absentee ballot application assistance as "commonsense ballot integrity," while lawyers challenging the restrictions said they have halted important civic work in the community.
The first Black mayor of a small Alabama town who had been locked out of town hall by white officials is returning to the job.