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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — President Donald Trump offered some encouraging words and advice for graduating students at the University of Alabama on Thursday in a speech interspersed with impressions of transgender weightlifters, accusations that judges were interfering with his agenda and attacks on his predecessor, Joe Biden. The Republican’s jolting speech was standard fare for Trump and well received by the crowd in deep-red Alabama, which backed him in all three of his presidential runs. “You’re the first graduating class of the golden age of America,” the president told the graduates.

In an interview with KOLD-TV, Kristen Couch said a man attacked her husband at a bus stop as he bent down to pick something up, defenseless. "Seeing your husband get almost decapitated and being the only one to help like it's, hard," she told the outlet. A GoFundMe account set up by the family has raised just over $42,000. The money will allow the family to travel to and stay in Arizona as they plan to bring Jacob and Kristen home. According to the post, additional money will be used for funeral expenses. The campaign, which was started by the

The American Capitalist Party is planning to field candidates for two city council positions this year. The party is focusing on Colorado and Alabama, both of which are hosting local races later in the year; however, it has not disclosed which cities. According to information in the party’s April newsletter, the national organization is working with both candidates, who were not named. The party stated that it is assisting them in establishing election finance committees and developing campaign strategies. It intends to release additional election announcements in the future. While the specific cities are not yet known, state election calendars...

Washington -- In New Mexico, police and prosecutors backed an effort to outlaw devices that convert pistols into machine guns. In Alabama, the governor made it a priority. Lawmakers in both states - one led by Democrats, the other by Republicans - responded this year with new laws making so-called Glock switches illegal. At least half of US states now have similar laws prohibiting the possession of such devices, a list that has grown over the past decade as law enforcement officers have found more of the tiny yet powerful devices attached to guns. States are mimicking federal law, which...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge in Alaska on Tuesday ruled the Biden administration lacked the authority to cancel seven oil and gas leases that had been issued for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason said terms of a 2017 tax law that set the stage for the first-ever lease sale in the refuge’s coastal plain in early 2021 suggested that leases could only be canceled by a court order. She sent the matter back to the Department of Interior for further action. President Donald Trump upon his return to office in January signed...

The F.B.I. director Kash Patel told bureau officials on Friday that he wanted to send 1,000 agents from the Washington area to field offices across the country, with another 500 support staff reassigned to the bureau’s sprawling campus in Alabama, people familiar with the matter said. ...In a statement, the F.B.I. said: “Director Patel has made clear his promise to the American public that F.B.I. agents will be in communities focused on combating violent crime. He has directed F.B.I. leadership to implement a plan to put this promise into action.” ...“I’d shut down the F.B.I. Hoover Building on Day 1...

Approximately 1,000 agents from the Bureau's Washington, D.C. headquarters will be moved to field offices nationwide, and 500 will go to Huntsville, Alabama. Today is only his first day in office, and he's already at it. This was something Kash promised, by the way.

A grand jury said the Hanceville Police Department, which had eight officers as of August, “has recently operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency.”The mayor of a city in Alabama has placed its entire police department on administrative leave, a day after officials announced that a grand jury had recommended the small department be abolished, saying it had “operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency” and is “an ongoing threat to public safety.” Jim Sawyer, the mayor of Hanceville, a city of about 3,200 roughly 45 miles north of Birmingham,...

CV NEWS FEED // Alabama Governor Kay Ivey Feb. 13 signed into law a bill that gives definitions of “man” and “woman” according to biology, providing the state’s policy on the question, “What is a woman?” The bill, which goes into effect Oct. 1, is referred to as “What is a Woman Act,” according to local news outlet WSFA 12, an NBC affiliate. “If the Good Lord made you a boy, you’re a boy. And if He made you a girl, you’re a girl,” Ivey stated Feb 13, according to WSFA 12. “In Alabama, we believe there are two genders:...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R), heretofore known only for her stridently pro-gun stance, has caved to a gun control push that intends to ban Glock switches in Alabama, even though possession of the devices is already banned federally. The Associated Press quoted Ivey spokeswoman Gina Maiola saying, “Governor Ivey supports getting dangerous Glock switches out of the hands of gangs and criminals. Along with this measure, she will unveil several other public safety proposals that will support law enforcement and crack down on crime. She expects the package to have bipartisan support.” Mike Blo0mberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety cheered Ivey’s...

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. The Republican governor is expected to back the proposal in her State of the State address Tuesday as part of a broader package of bills focused on public safety that she has named her top priority for the session. Democrats have long supported banning the conversion devices, but their bills have failed to win final approval in the...

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A perfect scenario of Gulf moisture combined with below-freezing temperatures allowed Northwest Florida and the Gulf Coast region to experience a once-in-a-lifetime, historic snow event on Tuesday. Snow began falling at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, and remained steady for several hours. Snow looks to finally come to an end by 10 p.m. Tuesday. Snowfall rates were approximately 1-2" per hour through the majority of the day, leading to record snowfall totals across the region. Here are the reports we have so far for snow accumulation totals (unofficial): Pensacola, FL: 7.6 inches Mobile, AL: 8 inches Milton, FL: 8.8 inches Gulf...

A man who officials said has been deported from the U.S. five times was arrested last week for attempted kidnapping in Alabama. The Elmore County Sheriff identified the suspect as Yordy Centeno-Melchor, 31. The sheriff said Centeno-Melchor tried to kidnap a teenage girl at a store in Holtville on New Year’s Eve. He was taken into custody Friday afternoon and charged with second-degree attempted kidnapping. According to the sheriff, Centeno-Melchor has been deported from the U.S. five times. His current address is in Wetumpka, Alabama. Centeno-Melchor had his first court appearance on Monday where a judge set a cash bail...

A group of Republican-led states filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging a ban announced by outgoing Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden earlier this month on new offshore oil and gas development along most U.S. coastlines. The lawsuit seeks a reversal of Biden’s ban with declaratory and injunctive relief, according to a court filing that argued Biden did not have the authority to impose such a ban and that the power to do so rests with the U.S. Congress.

The Laken Riley Act has more than enough votes to pass the Senate and overcome a filibuster, a procedural vote showed on Tuesday. Dozens of Democrats joined all voting Republicans in expressing support for the bill, easily clearing the 60-vote threshold to prevent far-left senators from filibustering the bill. The legislation, named after a nursing student murdered last February by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant in Georgia, mandates that federal immigration authorities detain illegal immigrants suspected of theft or related crimes. It also allows states to sue the Department of Homeland Security for damages resulting from illegal immigration. The Senate is...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) compared President-elect Trump’s talk of acquiring Greenland to the Louisiana Purchase. Fetterman joined Fox News, alongside Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), on Tuesday to discuss the concern surrounding Trump’s call to acquire the Danish territory as he prepares to take office again. “There’s a lot of talk about Greenland, for example, and … there’s a lot of freak-outs and of course, I would never support taking it by force,” Fetterman said. He continued, noting it would be a “responsible conversation” to discuss acquisition, including “just buying it out.” “If anyone thinks that’s bonkers, it’s like, well, remember...

A night of revelry was coming to a close for Alexis Scott-Windham and her friends in the early hours of New Year's Day after they came from Mobile, Alabama, to ring in the new year on Bourbon Street. The group had reached their final stop of the evening, a pizza restaurant, to quickly use the restroom after finding out the restaurant was done selling food for the night. Then, standing outside the pizza parlor on the sidewalk, Scott-Windham heard the whizzing sound of a speeding car and several loud booms. She looked to her left and saw the white pickup...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — A former Huntsville pill mill doctor was one of nearly 1,500 people who had their sentence commuted by President Joe Biden last week. In October 2016, Shelinder Aggarwal pleaded guilty to illegally prescribing controlled substances and conducting health care fraud involving $9.5 million in unnecessary and unused urine tests. Following his guilty plea, Aggarwal was sentenced to 15 years in prison in February 2017. He was ordered to report to prison in April 2017. Biden granted Aggarwal clemency on Thursday, Dec. 12, as part of what the Associated Press reported was “the largest single-day act of...

Is Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., having his Joni Ernst moment? It sure seems like it. On Wednesday, the Hoosier State’s senior senator told CNN mouthpiece Manu Raju he’s still undecided as to whether he will support Pete Hegseth’s nomination to become the next secretary of defense. The comments came after the two veterans met to discuss Hegseth’s potential promotion earlier that day. “I haven’t decided yet, as I’ve shared with him and happy to share with others…We had a good meeting. It was an extensive conversation, and he answered the questions I asked,” Young reportedly said. “We had a very...