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Over his four years in office, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) has gradually become President-elect Donald Trump's staunchest ally in the Senate.
Signs point to a possible election for Alabama Senate President Pro-Tempore when the State Senate's Republican caucus meets in Birmingham on Tuesday.
The election for Alabama State Senate President Pro-Tempore could come as early as next week sources tell 1819 News.
Tuesday, during an appearance on Newsmax TV's "Rob Schmitt Tonight," U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) continued to make his case for U.S. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) to fill the void soon to be left by outgoing U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
One potential outcome of President-elect Donald Trump's election win last week was the reversal of a 2023 Biden administration decision to relocate Space Command headquarters to Colorado over the Trump administration's pick of Huntsville.
The race for Republican leader of the U.S. Senate is down to three candidates, U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.).
President-elect Donald Trump's victory last week likely means a renewal for Alabama's prospects of landing the Space Command headquarters, according to U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn).
With Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stepping down from his leadership post, the spot is up for grabs.
Cotton is racist, allegedly.
More than a year ago, at the annual Alabama Republican Party winter dinner, former President Donald Trump pledged that one of his first orders of business would be to widen Interstate 65 from Huntsville to Birmingham.
Shortly after Fox News called the presidential election for former President Donald Trump early Wednesday morning, Trump took to the stage at his election night venue in West Palm Beach, Fla. to formally declare victory. With that came a slew of congratulatory messages for the president-elect from elected officials in Alabama.
U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) said the House Freedom Caucus could pick up seats in Tuesday's election, with all 435 U.S. House members on the ballot.
Alabama Department of Mental Health commissioner Kimberly Boswell, the subject of an ethics complaint filed in August by then-Department of Veterans Affairs commissioner Kent Davis, offered very little on the matter in an appearance on Friday's broadcast of Alabama Public Television's "Capitol Journal."
During an appearance on Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures" over the weekend, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) declined to say who he was backing to replace Mitch McConnell as Republican Leader until after the November election.
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) has joined an effort with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) questioning Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian for the treatment of Marine Corps veteran Catherine Banks, who was reportedly removed from a Delta flight for wearing a T-shirt that raised awareness about military suicides.
According to House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville), the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act undermined by the federal courts could get another look, if necessary.
According to a Montgomery Research survey, the contest for Alabama's second congressional district open seat is tightening.
Although the prospects for a possible Donald Trump return to the Oval Office are on the upswing, some state lawmakers are considering the possibility of Kamala Harris assuming the presidency and continuing Biden-era immigration policies.
"The invasion that wasn't," wrote Elaina Plott Calabro, a Tuscaloosa native and Yale graduate, as the headline for her nearly 4,000-word piece for The Atlantic on the news of Haitian resettlement in Sylacauga.
Tuberville told Roger Stone, a former Nixon campaign operative and Trump ally, that he considered the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz presidential pairing the worst possible selection for Democrats.
Recently, the mayors of Alabama's biggest cities have made overtures about repealing the state's permitless "constitutional" carry law, which was passed by the legislature in 2022.
Earlier this week, former President Donald Trump discussed how he was confronted with the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling on in-vitro fertilization (IVF), which posed issued to IVF clinics throughout the state and was used by Democrats to attack Republicans.
Earlier this week, multiple sources told 1819 News that State Sen. Vivian Figures (D-Mobile) would seek the open Mobile mayor seat up for grabs in 2025.
Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson's announcement last month that he would not seek another term as his city's chief executive shook up the political landscape in the southern part of the state.
State Sen. Chris Elliott (R-Josephine) is the latest to comment publicly on ending the statutory obligation.
During a speech to the Eastern Shore Republican Women, Allen doubled down on an earlier criticism of the League of Women Voters and warned attendees not to be fooled by some of their alleged efforts.
Based on the Biden administration reportedly opting not to extend the Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans program, U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl (R-Mobile) said he believes Baldwin County will get a reprieve from a potential Haitian migrant influx.