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Federal judges reject Republicans’ redrawn congressional map in Alabama

Court-appointed special master and cartographer will draw new map before 2024 election – although state is expected to appeal

The Guardian - US

Federal court names special master to redraw Alabama congressional map - Roll Call

A panel of judges threw out the state's latest map for congressional districts, finding it didn’t fix a likely violation of civil rights law.

Roll Call

Judges reject Alabama’s congressional lines, will draw new districts to increase Black voting power

A three-judge panel has blocked Alabama’s new congressional map after lawmakers failed to create a second district where Black voters at least came close to comprising a majority, as suggested by the court

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Federal court strikes down Alabama congressional map for diluting Black votes – again

After ignoring the Supreme Court, the GOP’s new redistricting plan ‘plainly fails’ Black voters, judges rule

The Independent UK

Alabama's congressional map is struck down again for diluting Black voters' power

Alabama is once again appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a lower court order that struck down the state's congressional map for likely violating the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voters' power.

WEKU

Tuberville blasted over military "hold"

Secretaries of Army, Navy and Air Force take on Alabama anti-choice senator over military showdown

Salon

2024 NFL draft: 2-round mock draft update at the start of the season

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Detroit might get creative with the former Alabama running back.

Sports Illustrated

‘Astonishingly cruel’: Alabama seeks to test execution method on death row ‘guinea pig’

Nine months after Kenneth Smith’s botched lethal injection, state attorney general has asked for approval to kill him with nitrogen

The Guardian - US

10 U.S. destinations with three or more top-ranked resort courses

10 destinations have three or more highly ranked courses on Golfweek's Best Top 200 Resort Courses list.

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Alabama's new plan for execution

"Nitrogen hypoxia" is the latest brilliant idea in the ugly history of supposedly painless execution methods

Salon

Alabama Says Helping With Out-of-State Abortions Is 'Criminal Conspiracy'

Alabamans have no right "to conspire with others in Alabama to try to have abortions performed out of state," argues Attorney General Steve Marshall.

Reason

How Alabama is defying the supreme court to discriminate against Black voters

In June, the US supreme court upheld a decision ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional map – but state Republicans ignored the mandate

The Guardian - US

Heart, soul and victory: the curious history of college football fight songs

Fight songs are an important part of the pageantry that makes college football such a unique spectacle. The most famous of them all have become embedded in the national psyche

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Alabama Set To Try New, Untested Execution Method

The state has filed a motion to set an execution date for Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived a previous execution attempt.

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Google Isn't Intentionally Biased Against Republicans, Says Court

Plus: The real message behind DeSantis' abortion anecdote, midwives sue over Alabama regulations, and more…

The Guardian - UK

‘Martin Luther King told me I wouldn’t see 50’: the long, momentous life of Clarence B Jones

Jones was 29 when he went to work for the civil rights leader. As King’s friend, adviser and speechwriter, he was at the heart of the attempt to reform the US. Six decades on, he remembers their battles and their triumphs

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Alabama requests a date to execute an inmate via nitrogen hypoxia for the first time

Smith was supposed to be executed in November 2022 by lethal injection, but corrections officers failed to insert an IV properly. The U.S. Supreme Court has authorized nitrogen hypoxia in his case.

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Millie Thompson Williams, first woman elected to help lead Texas’ Alabama-Coushatta, dies

Thompson Williams is remembered as a spiritual leader and educator who “liked seeing what the possibilities were.”

The Guardian - US

Ex-Alabama deputy sheriff sentenced to prison for sexual assault on woman in his custody

Joshua Davidson given sentence of 12 and a half years for attack while on duty as a Dallas county deputy sheriff

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ESPN College GameDay picks conference champions and College Football Playoff participants

Is this how you see it playing out? #GoBucks

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10 college football players Jaguars fans should watch in 2023

These 10 college football players could be Jaguars targets in the 2024 NFL draft.

The Guardian - US

He became the first Black mayor of a rural Alabama town. Then a white minority locked him out

For years the mayor in Newbern was appointed, not elected. When Patrick Braxton won the election, the outgoing mayor and his cronies refused to accept it

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Every college football national champion since 2000

Only a handful of college teams have been able to hoist the national championship honor since 2000.

The Independent UK

Alabama wants to be the 1st state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe only nitrogen

Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen

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