The state will have to draw two new Black-majority districts in Georgia’s 56-member state Senate and five new Black-majority districts in its 180-member state House
The $500 million in grants came from last year’s CHIPS and Science Act to stimulate investments in new technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and biotech
A lower court ordered the district redrawn after finding that Republicans who control the state legislature improperly moved Democratic-leaning Black voters into another district to make the seat safer for Republican Rep. Nancy Mace in 2022
The plan sets the stage for potentially flipping one U.S. House of Representatives seat from Republican to Democratic control and for a second Black Congressional representative in Alabama
The Florida representative, part of the most hard-line wing of the Republican Party, has shown a keen desire for the spotlight in his six years in Washington
In blocking the newly drawn congressional map, the three-judge panel wrote that they are ‘deeply troubled’ that Alabama lawmakers flouted their instruction to create a second majority-Black district or something close to it
The journalist and cook from Alabama, based in San Sebastian, succeeded with a book on Basque gastronomy and has become an advocate of the Spanish culinary culture in the United States
New rulings on the bans may be imminent in Florida, Missouri and Texas in the coming week. A federal appeals court panel allowed Alabama to enforce its ban on the medical care for youth
Officials said the president was convinced by the head of Space Command, Gen. James Dickinson, who argued that moving his headquarters now would jeopardize military readiness
Since 1996, tornadoes in the United States have killed 815 people in mobile or manufactured homes, representing 53% of all the people killed at home during a tornado
Tuberville’s brief comment in the hallway follows several media interviews in which he has repeatedly declined to describe white nationalists as racist
Authorities said 31 cows died in the northern Alabama town of Berlin during Saturday’s severe weather when lightning struck the tree they were hiding under
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined with the court’s liberals in ordering the creation of a second district with a large Black population
Missouri and Nebraska proposals are poised for action as well, and could add to the list of at least 17 states that have enacted laws restricting or banning gender affirming care for minors
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book that included language about inclusion and structural racism
Four young people were killed and 32 others were hurt in Saturday’s shooting at the birthday celebration in Dadeville, a small city in east Alabama. It was the 16th mass killing in the U.S. this year
Honest mistakes and simple acts like going to the wrong address or car in a parking lot, or even just ringing the wrong doorbell, can seem like a fateful question of trust