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Pandemic-delayed World Games open in Birmingham a year late

A global athletic competition is starting in Birmingham, Alabama, after a yearlong delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic

The Independent UK

UGA, Bama offer 4-star Grayson athlete Kylan Fox

Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Ohio State have all recently extended a scholarship to four-star Grayson athlete Kylan Fox.

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Fred Gray, the 'chief counsel for the protest movement,' to get Medal of Freedom for his civil rights work

Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and the victims of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which the U.S. Public Health Service refused for decades to provide readily available treatment to Black men who had the disease.

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Alabama is using the case that ended Roe to argue it can ban gender-affirming care

The case marks one of the first known instances in which a conservative state has tried to apply the abortion ruling to other realms, just as LGBTQ advocates and others were afraid would happen.

WEKU

Next up: voting rights, as US supreme court set to tear up more protections

The ideologically driven conservative majority is likely to further weaken key civil rights legislation after a term of radical rulings

The Guardian - US

Alabama cites SCOTUS ruling on abortion in renewed bid to block gender-affirming care for trans youth

Alabama has asked a federal appeals court to lift an injunction blocking the enforcement of a law that criminalizes gender-affirming care for transgender youth — and it’s doing so by invoking the recent Supreme Court opinion that overturned the constitutional right to abortion.

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Supreme Court's next term could be just as contentious

With a 6-3 conservative majority, the next term — which is set to start in October — could be just as contentious as this year's.

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Sweet home Alabama: errant Gateshead pigeon takes diversion to US

Bob set off for north-east England from Channel Islands three weeks ago, and has been found about 4,000 miles away

The Guardian - UK

Racing pigeon takes wrong turn and ends up 4,000 miles away from UK home

Bob set off from Guernsey in the Channel Islands three weeks ago and was supposed to race back to his home in the north east of England but ended up in the US

Daily Mirror

Alabama bond sale for mega prisons falls $200 million short

Alabama officials said they are moving forward with plans to build two supersize prisons despite a bond sale falling more than $200 million short of expectations

The Independent UK

Alabama cites abortion ruling in transgender medication case

Alabama is using the U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion to argue that the state should also be able to ban gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender youth

The Independent UK

Alabama Draws on Supreme Court's New Abortion Decision To Justify Trans Youth Treatment Ban

Alabama's attorney general argues such medical transitioning is not rooted in America’s history and therefore not constitutionally protected.

Reason

Travis Barker's daughter Alabama holds dad's hand in hospital as she asks for prayers

Travis Barker's daughter Alabama Barker asked her fans to 'send your prayers' after her Blink-182 drummer dad was rushed to hospital with a mystery health issue

Daily Mirror

Overdose deaths behind bars rise as drug crisis swells

Annissa Holland should be excited her son is coming home from prison after four long years of incarceration. Instead, she’s researching rehab centers to send him to as soon as he walks out the gate.

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Travis Barker's daughter asks fans for prayers as rocker dad is rushed to hospital

Travis Barker's daughter Alabama - who he shares with ex-wife Shanna Moakler - took to her Instagram Stories to ask fans to 'send prayers'

The Independent UK

Justices nix 2nd mostly Black district in Louisiana for 2022

The Supreme Court has put on hold a lower court ruling that Louisiana must draw new congressional districts before the 2022 elections to increase Black voting power

Benzinga

US Government Offers $75M Support For Lipid Systems Expansion Used In mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines

The U.S. government will provide up to $75 million to expand U.K.-listed Croda International Plc's (OTC:COIHF) U.S. manufacturing capacity of ingredients for lipid systems used in novel therapeutic drugs, such as mRNA vaccines. Croda will also invest up to $58 million. The investment will be used to establish a new lipid facility in Lamar,…

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Voters in five states will decide in November on removing constitutional language permitting enslavement or servitude as criminal punishments or debt payments

In 2022, voters in five states — Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont — will decide on ballot measures to repeal language from their state constitutions that allows slavery or involuntary servitude for the punishment of a crime, or, in Vermont, for the payment of debts, damages, or fines.

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TikTok star announces son's tragic murder and begs followers to help catch his killer

Ophelia Nichols, who is behind TikTok account @shoelover99, told her 6.9million followers that Randon Lee was shot on Friday - police are investigating what lead to the shooting in Mobile, Alabama

The Guardian - US

January 6 hearings: if Republicans did nothing wrong, why were pardons sought?

Email from Alabama’s Mo Brooks potentially reveals what conduct by lawmakers he feared might be criminal

USA Today Sports Media Group

2022 Celtics second-round pick JD Davison 2021-22 highlights with the Alabama Crimson Tide

Get to know the No. 53 pick's game a bit better.

Los Angeles Times

Where is abortion legal? In red states, women navigate a chaotic abortion landscape

ATLANTA — The impact was immediate: the moment the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, Robin Marty, the operations director of the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, told nurses, desk staff and a doctor on Friday they could no longer provide abortions.

The Independent UK

How U.S. states have banned, limited or protected abortion

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had provided a constitutional right to abortion

USA Today Sports Media Group

Celtics take Alabama point guard JD Davison with the No. 53 pick of the 2022 NBA

Davison will take time to develop, but the payoff could be big.

Los Angeles Times

GOP House members sought blanket pardon from Trump after Jan. 6 riot, committee says

WASHINGTON — Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Mo Brooks of Alabama were among a handful of Republican members of Congress who sought pardons for their actions in connection with President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to testimony from former White House officials…

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