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Doug Jones

‘People are struggling’: Running on affordability, Democrat Doug Jones declares race for Alabama governor

By Kim Chandler and The Associated Press

PBS

‘Elmo Says Don’t Be Mean To Alabama Children’: State flirts with being first to cut ties with PBS before voting to continue paying contract

By Kim Chandler and The Associated Press

Police and emergency vehicles

Mass shooting in Alabama that killed 4 may have been ‘a hit’ job done for payment

By Kim Chandler and The Associated Press

David Johnston, right, a worker at Mercedes, thanks UAW President Shawn Fain following a press conference in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on May 17, 2024, after workers at two Alabama Mercedes-Benz factories voted overwhelmingly against joining the United Auto Workers union. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

UAW head Shawn Fain accuses Mercedes Benz of ‘egregious illegal behavior’ in union’s loss at Alabama car plants

By Tom Krisher, Kim Chandler, and others

United Auto Workers (UAW) members and supporters on a picket line outside the ZF Chassis Systems plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. The United Auto Workers struck a plant that makes parts for Mercedes-Benz Group AG vehicles, as the union continued to weigh expanding the number of walk-out targets at Detroit’s automakers. Photographer: Andi Rice/Bloomberg via Getty Images

UAW’s southern strategy falls short as Mercedes workers in Alabama reject union

By Tom Krisher, Kim Chandler, and others

FILE – United Auto Workers union supporters attend a rally, Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Birmingham, Ala. The United Auto Workers union faces the latest test of its ambitious plan to unionize auto plants in the historically nonunion South when a vote ends Friday, May 17, at two Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File)

UAW faces test of its plan to unionize auto plants in anti-union South as vote wraps up at 2 Mercedes-Benz factories in Alabama

By Tom Krisher, Kim Chandler, and others

UAW Mercedes

50-year-old Mercedes worker in Alabama on voting to unionize: ‘Not falling for the lies anymore’

By Kim Chandler, Tom Krisher, and others

US Senator Tammy Duckworth speaks during a news conference, on protections for access to in vitro fertilization

Alabama governor signs law that protects IVF providers from legal liability after court ruling equated frozen embryos with children

By Kim Chandler and The Associated Press

Birmingham, Alabama

Alabama’s largest hospital forced to pause IVF treatments for aspiring parents after court ruling on legal status of embryos

By Kim Chandler and The Associated Press

Pastors Lynn Hopkins and Shane Isner

Alabama claims its new capital punishment, a gas chamber, is ‘the most painless and humane method of execution known to man’

By Kim Chandler and The Associated Press

Bruce Gideos, floor manager at Pierre’s Place, in Chesterfield, N.H., prints out Powerball tickets on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. The Powerball jackpot climbed over $1.5 billion on Thursday after no one won Wednesday’s drawing. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)

Powerball’s $1.5 billion jackpot is driving lottery envy in the 5 states where people can’t buy tickets

By Kim Chandler, Mark Thiessen, and others

Pregnant woman protecting her baby with a face mask on her belly

Pregnant and sick with COVID: Some women regret not getting the vaccine

By Kim Chandler and The Associated Press

One of the roadblocks Sessions faces in his bid to be elected anew as a U.S. senator from Alabama is President Donald Trump’s enmity toward him, stemming from Sessions’ stint as Trump’s attorney general.

Sessions’ Path to Reclaiming His Senate Seat Is Filled With Obstacles—Particularly From Trump

By Alan Fram, Kim Chandler, and others

Roy Moore Announces His Plans For 2020 Senate Race

The GOP Doesn’t Want Roy Moore to Run for Senate. But He’s Doing It Anyway

By Kim Chandler, Alan Fram, and others