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Alabama Republicans are urging lawmakers to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. from Congress after a series of controversial statements, including remarks about Israel and her support of economic boycotts against that country. The state GOP passed a resolution last weekend at the party's summer meeting in Auburn calling on its congressional delegation to “proceed with the expulsion process” against the first-term congresswoman. “Representative Omar has engaged in rhetoric that explicitly runs counter to American values and patriotism by falsely accusing U.S. armed forces of committing war crimes while on mission to liberate her home country of Somalia,” the resolution said....

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Google+ Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Wednesday that Doug Jones’s Senate win in Alabama is “good day for America” because it was a blow to Steve Bannon. Bannon, a former White House chief strategist, campaigned for Jones’s GOP challenger, Roy Moore, who lost the race for the vacant Senate seat after weeks of mounting accusations that he sexually molested teenage girls. “That was a good day for America yesterday in the sense that Bannon lost,” Scaramucci told Bloomberg News. “I don’t think it was a great day for the...

At least 10 Republican members of Congress are supporting Israel's decision to block Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from entering the country after Trump specifically requested it. On Thursday, Trump tweeted that it would be a sign of "great weakness" if Israel allowed the two congresswomen, who have been outspoken critics of Trump, to enter the country. Later that day, Israel officially blocked their entrance. "Israel’s denial of entry to Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar is a sign of weakness, and beneath the dignity of the great State of Israel," Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement. Most...

Lee County District Attorney Brandon Hughes tells WRBL-TV that Harvey Updyke is being ordered to appear in court Oct. 30 to explain himself. Updyke served more than 70 days in jail in 2013 and was ordered to pay about $800,000 in restitution after admitting to poisoning trees at Toomer's Corner in Auburn. Fans traditionally rolled the trees with toilet paper after a win.

A prosecutor wants to know why a University of Alabama football fan who pleaded guilty to poisoning landmark oak trees at rival Auburn University in 2010 isn't making court-ordered restitution payments. Harvey Updyke was ordered to appear in court October 30 to explain himself, Lee County District Attorney Brandon Hughes told WRBL-TV. Updyke served more than 70 days in jail in 2013 and was ordered to pay about $800,000 in restitution after admitting to poisoning trees at Toomer's Corner in Auburn. Fans traditionally rolled the trees with toilet paper after a win, but the original oaks died after being doused...

A billboard erected in Alabama has stirred controversy and again placed a spotlight on a controversial abortion law passed by the state's legislature earlier this year. The billboard in question appeared in Tuscaloosa, Alabama earlier this week and was photographed by several people, who then shared it to social media. One such tweet — which quickly went viral — captioned the photo of the billboard as 'ABORTION NATIONAL CHAMPS!!" That tweet has since been deleted. The display includes the address to an anti-abortion website, ttownfacts.com, and declares Tuscaloosa, which the billboard references as "Title Town," as the "abortion capital of...

FULL TITLE: Video captures Alabama homeowner pulling a gun on a would-be burglar after he caught the man trying to break in An Alabama homeowner surprised a would-be burglar with a gun after catching the man trying to break in. Surveillance video from a home in McCalla - about 20 miles from Birmingham - captured a man in a red shirt and jeans open the gate of a home on the 3500 block of Batton Road on Tuesday around 6pm. The man lingers by the gate for a few seconds before crossing the porch, opening the storm door and attempting...

Hundreds of the millions in the United States illegally are in the custody of.... 680 is the number of established by ICE of those originally arrested but now some 300 are freed.... "The same Democrat Party that has left places like Jackson, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago and Houston to suffer under the tyranny of violent criminals wants us to believe they have the solution to mass shootings" That's part of the latest message from 2020 Republican US Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore in Alabama who's also noting that many in the Republican Party seem to be moving in the direction...

An Alabama woman burned a man’s face with a pot of hot grease when he allegedly broke into her home last Thursday and pulled a gun on her, police said. Officers said they responded to a domestic violence call to find Larondrick Macklin, 31, suffering from burns across his face. An investigation determined Macklin was the "primary aggressor in the altercation" and the woman acted in self-defense, police said. He allegedly entered the woman’s residence with a firearm before she threw a pot of hot grease at him, the Decatur Police Department said in a statement. Macklin was taken to...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Building on a 2016 ban on city-funded travel to states with anti-LGBT laws, San Francisco officials Tuesday voted unanimously to extend that ban to states with restrictive abortion laws. “It will expand the existing ordinance to states that have waged war on our constitutionally protected right to an abortion,” San Francisco Supervisor Vallie Brown, who introduced the proposal, said at a board meeting Tuesday. Five states — Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Mississippi — passed laws this year that ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Missouri also enacted a law banning abortions after eight weeks,...

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA)’s campaign press secretary suggested Russia was behind Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) after she landed an effective blow on Harris’ record as a prosecutor during the Democrat debates on Wednesday night. Her press secretary, Ian Sams, tweeted shortly after the attack an NBC News article from February 2019 claiming the “Russian propaganda machine” was promoting Gabbard: “Reporters writing their stories with eyes on the modern-day assignment desk of Twitter, read this: ‘The Russian propaganda machine that tried to influence the 2016 election is now promoting the presidential aspirations of a controversial Hawaii Democrat,'” he tweeted. He later...

Eleven brothers from an Alabama farming family have a whopping 158 years of combined military service between them with four of them even fighting alongside each other in the Vietnam War. Seven of the 11 Davis brothers recently got together in mid-July at a hotel and casino in Mississippi for a reunion thick with brotherly love and military pride. Lebronze, 70; Augusta, 67; Octavious, 80; Frederick, 68; Julius, 73; Eddie, 89; Nathaniel, 75, all attended the reunion. Three of their brothers - Ben Jr., 72; Calvin, 71; and Alphonza - were unable to attend and one of their siblings, Washington,...

The state of Alabama is suing the federal government over how it counts people in the census, claiming it will lose a seat in Congress because it has a low illegal-alien population. The lawsuit, filed May 21, 2018, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, is garnering attention now after two federal judges permanently enjoined the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census earlier this month. The dual rulings came after the Supreme Court ruled June 27 in Department of Commerce v. New York that the citizenship question couldn’t be included in the...

The Crimson Tide play Duke (at a neutral site) and host New Mexico State, Southern Mississippi and Western Carolina for their four non-conference games this season. That has led to criticism that they are playing too soft a schedule. During an appearance Friday on “Golic and Wingo,” Saban shared his side. The Crimson Tide coach says he has long advocated for Power 5 teams to only play each other. He also says the reason Alabama struggles to schedule strong non-conference opponents is because teams don’t want to play the Crimson Tide. Furthermore, he says Alabama ends up playing neutral site...

Two city officials say an Alabama animal shelter's outdated equipment allowed two pit bulls to fatally maul 29 cats. WTVY-TV reports the dead cats were found Thursday by workers at the Dothan Animal Shelter. Shelter Director Bill Banks says the dogs forced their way out of a pen. They then pushed hard on a galvanized bar attached to a chain link fence, knocking it out of a clamp which allowed them access to the cats.

The surprise set-up was perfect, and it paid off. Kinnie Morris walked in the lobby at Jim Pearson Elementary School Thursday morning bewildered and clueless on what the commotion was all about. Then, Ellen Price revealed the real surprise. School custodian Kinnie Morris learns he's getting a new car thanks to the generosity of his community. (Source: WSFA 12 News) '"We all got you together to get you a new car," Price, a first grade teacher at the school, revealed. Morris was even more stunned. A new, used car is on the way to replace the old clunker Morris drives...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - It's a case making national headlines and being touted as a first of it's kind. Ryan Magers filed a wrongful death suit against Alabama Women's Center, a Huntsville clinic that performed an abortion for his ex-girlfriend. She was 6 weeks along at the time of the abortion. In court Wednesday, Madison County District Judge Chris Comer decided to wait to make a decision on the dismissal of the case. He asked attorneys for both the plaintiff and defendant to submit proposed orders no later than two weeks from Wednesday. He said he would take arguments presented in...

The lawyers for a man suing a local abortion clinic are now asking the judge to deny the clinic’s request to drop the lawsuit. Ryan Magers filed a lawsuit in February against the Alabama Women's Center in Huntsville for performing an abortion on his former girlfriend. Two years ago, Magers and his then girlfriend were expecting. He said wanted to have the baby, but his ex-girlfriend chose to have an abortion. This led to Magers filing a lawsuit suing the abortion clinic, its employees, and the pharmaceutical company that supplied the medication. Magers’ lawyers are arguing that because the fetus,...

In an age when Roe v. Wade is under attack and sweeping, severe anti-abortion laws and bills are being passed in Alabama, Georgia, and Missouri, it’s interesting to look back on the pro-choice subplot of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which caused little stir in 1982. Sitting at Yahoo Entertainment with David Crosby to promote his latest film project, the documentary David Crosby: Remember My Name, Cameron Crowe — whose book about his experience as an undercover reporter at a Southern California high school inspired the classic teen comedy — acknowledges that those scenes would be received very differently today....

BIRMINGHAM — Alabama’s busiest airport is partnering with a company that can identify passengers through eye scans and fingerprints. Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport recently added kiosks offering the technology for a fee, Al.com reported. The CLEAR service is available for a $15 per month membership, paid annually, with various discounts for family members.