US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will relocate the US Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama, noting the southern state’s strong support for him while criticizing Colorado’s voting practices. The move, first reported by Reuters, benefits a state that overwhelmingly supported Trump’s three Republican presidential bids, at the expense of one that…
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. at a south Alabama prison, authorities said, one of four scheduled this week in the United States. Hunt…
St. Louis has been battered by two tornadoes in the past two months. A fire shut down a new nursing home last month in Enterprise, Ala., forcing residents to evacuate. Cleveland grappled with a power outage while inundated with visitors for the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball Final Four. In each case, local health officials played a…
He urged the audience of college students not to think they were too young to accomplish great things, before waxing on about tariffs. “Don’t try to be someone else,” he implored them, after attacking due process for unauthorized immigrants. And he told them not to think of themselves as victims, before diverting into how the…
An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a disappointment in the ongoing quest for animal-to-human transplants. Towana Looney is recovering well from the April 4 removal surgery at NYU…
Surgeons removed a genetically engineered pig’s kidney from an Alabama woman after she experienced acute organ rejection, NYU Langone Health officials said on Friday. Towana Looney, 53, lived with the kidney for 130 days, which is longer than anyone else has tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal. She has resumed dialysis, hospital officials…
Local news outlets have reported that a married Alabama woman who worked as a lunch lady has confessed to engaging in sexual encounters with a teenage student at her home on two occasions. Court documents reviewed by WAAY TV identify the woman as Amy Nicole Wigginton, a 41-year-old employee of Lauderdale County Schools, who admitted…
Joe Grinsteiner is a gregarious online personality who touts the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin. In a recent Facebook video, he produced a tube of veterinary-grade ivermectin paste — the kind made for deworming horses. He gave the tube a squeeze. Then he licked a slug of the stuff, and gulped. “Yum,” Mr. Grinsteiner said in the…
The Trump administration is trying to deport pro-Palestinian students and academics who are legally in the United States, a new front in its clash with elite schools over what it says is their failure to combat antisemitism. The White House asserts that these moves — many of which involve immigrants with visas and green cards…
Representational (AI generated) On Wednesday, US immigration authorities detained another student, this time a doctoral student at the University of Alabama, as reported by The Guardian. The student was arrested “off-campus” by federal immigration officials. This development follows reports that the Trump administration is increasingly targeting college students for arrest and deportation, including those on…