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January 10, 2026 – IRAN – The government of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been rocked by increasingly violent protests. What started as peaceful protests by people concerned with economic conditions has grown into nationwide protests demanding that the Islamic revolutionary government go away. Khamenei responded to the peaceful protestors by dismissing them as "vandals," "rioters," and "terrorists." In a televised address, Khamenei said protesters were "vandals" trying to please the United Sta...
In recent years, the stability of Cuba's long-standing regime has come under increased scrutiny as international dynamics shift and old alliances falter. The island nation, once heavily reliant on support from Venezuela, now faces an uncertain future following the U.S. raid that sent former dictator Nicolas Maduro into exile and prosecution by the United States. End of an Era: The Venezuela-Cuba Alliance Unravels For decades, Cuba depended on generous supplies of oil and financial aid from Venez...
December 31, 2025 – MONTGOMERY – 2025 is about to fade into memory. 2025 had a lot of familiar faces making news. The Alabama Gazette reminisces on the biggest stories it covered during the year. Number one has to be the return of Donald J. Trump to the presidency. Whether you love him, hate him, or are indifferent few Presidents are in the news as much as Trump is. His return to power, complete with over a hundred executive orders and a pro-MAGA cabinet has changed federal policy in ways aff...
January 1, 2026 – ROSE BOWL - Old coaches back in the 1970s and 80s used to always say that the key to winning was "to be able to run the ball and stop the run." Football in a lot of cases have gone away from that mindset with the four wide receiver sets and the pinpoint passing games that can throw it all over the field. The Rose Bowl however was an example of one team being able to run the ball and one team not being able to run the ball. Unfortunately for University of Alabama fans, they w...
January 2, 2026 – AUBURN – The transfer portal is open and Auburn has no tight ends. Parallelling the exodus that Auburn has had at wide receiver, the tight ends at Auburn will be elsewhere in 2026. Auburn's starting tight end did enter the transfer portal. Based on the latest reporting, Junior Preston Howard, who was Auburn's primary tight end contributor in 2025, entered the transfer portal as soon as it opened. He previously had transferred in from Maryland. Although he played sig...
January 2, 2026 – Birmingham – Standout UAB wide receiver Iverson Hooks announced that he was entering the portal in late December. 2025 was a disappointing year for the Blazers but it was a breakout season for Hooks – a Pike Road, Alabama produce - who recorded 72 catches for 927 yards and seven touchdowns for UAB on the year. That is an incredible average of 12.7 yards per catch, earning him All American Athletic Conference honors. Hooks has visits scheduled with Wisconsin, Indiana, Oklah...
January 3, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald J. Trump (R) announced on Friday that the U.S. military has toppled the Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro. President Trump said on Truth Social – "The United States of America has successfully carried out a large-scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement. Details to fol...
January 3, 2026 - HALEYVILLE – Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-AL04) released a statement following operations overnight by U.S. military and law enforcement assets to capture and arrest Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. The U.S. says that it plans to hold him accountable for his role in narco-terrorism and related crimes impacting the United States and its citizens. "Nicolás Maduro has faced narco-terrorism charges in the United States for half a decade now, and it's time he face those cha...
January 3, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Mike Rogers (R-AL03), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, released a statement applauding the successful military mission to arrest Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. Rogers said that he expects a full committee briefing on the operation this week. "I commend President Trump for taking decisive action to bring Nicolás Maduro to justice," said Rogers. "His illegitimate regime brutalized the Venezuelan people, aligned with hos...
January 3, 2025 - WASHINGTON D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL07) released the following statement regarding President Donald J. Trump's (R) successful military action in Venezuela, seizing Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife without the loss of life of any American service members. "There is no doubt that Nicolás Maduro is an illegitimate and corrupt leader, but President Trump does NOT have the authority to unilaterally invade a sovereign country, capture its leader, and...
January 4, 2026 – Republican Congressional candidate Case Dixon is one of the very few Republicans who is criticizing President Donald J. Trump's (R) use of military force to remove the dictator Nicolas Maduro. Dixons, who is the Republican challenger in Alabama's Sixth Congressional District, told ALPolitics.com that Trump exceeded his presidential authority. "The executive branch cannot sidestep Congress's constitutional role in matters of war, regime change, or occupation by obtaining i...
January 5, 2025 – TUSCALOOSA - The transfer portal opened on Friday. One of the first players for Alabama to go in the portal was wide receiver Jaylen Mbakwe. On Monday Mbokwe signed to play for Georgia Tech. Mbakwe was a five‑star recruit out of Clay‑Chalkville. He was recruited as an athlete who played quarterback and defensive back in high school. One recruiting service ranked him as the number two cornerback and number 12 overall coming out in the 2024 recruiting class. He spent his first...
January 5, 2026 - Tuscaloosa – The University of Alabama football team did a lot of things right. They won 11 games, they beat rivals Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama in the regular season, they earned a spot in the SEC Championship game, they beat Oklahoma in the first round of the playoffs. The 11 an 4 campaign was a marked improvement over the 9 and 4 performance in Coach Kalen DeBoer's first year. One area where the Tide was notably weak last year was in the running game. Star running back J...
January 6, 2025 -hoover - James "Jimmy" Dees, a Republican police detective from south Alabama, has officially qualified for the race for U.S. House of Representatives in Alabama's 1st Congressional District. "President Trump and his administration is continuing to set the country up for success. Now it is the responsibility of Congress to begin putting these changes into law. I support the entire Republican Platform," Dees said on his campaign website. Dees said that he is particularly...
January 6, 2025 - AUBURN, Ala. - University of South Florida Quarterback Byrum Brown has signed with Auburn Tigers football team, following former USF head coach Alex Golesh to the Plains. Brown led all FBS quarterbacks in 2025 with 42 total touchdowns while averaging 347.2 yards of offense per game. The 6-foot-3, 232-pound senior from Raleigh, North Carolina, dominated defenses through the air and on the ground in Golesh's high-powered attack. "Byrum is a true leader and competitor," Golesh...
January 5, 2025 - HOOVER - Congressman Robert Aderholt officially qualified to seek reelection to represent Alabama's Fourth Congressional District. Aderholt said that he was continuing his long-standing commitment to putting the needs of North Alabama first. Congressman Aderholt officially qualifies for reelection at the Alabama GOP Headquarters in Hoover, Alabama with his wife Caroline looking on. According to his campaign, throughout his service in Congress, Aderholt has made constituent...
January 6, 2026 – WASHINGTON, D,C. – In January the United States undertook the most sweeping revision of its childhood immunization schedule in decades, reducing the number of universally recommended vaccines from 17 diseases to 11. The move was announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and approved by Acting Director Jim O'Neill. President Donald J. Trump (R) said on Truth Social, "Today, the Trump Administration is proud to announce the United States of America's upd...
January 7, 2025 – TUSCALOOSA – University of Alabama starting Quarterback Ty Simpson announced that he will declare for the NFL draft. The decision comes after a week of speculation about Simpson's future. There was a possibility that the redshirt junior could return for another season at Alabama. Simpson reportedly met with Alabama offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb and head coach Kalen DeBoer over the weekend about the possibility of him returning for another year in Tuscaloosa. It is not kno...
January 7,2026 – AUBURN - Several Auburn players who pundits and self-proclaimed insiders had expected to transfer have instead decided to stay and play for the Tigers. The Auburn offense was pretty grim last year, and at this point it looks like that will be a new unit next year. 2026 will have an entirely new quarterbacks room for Auburn, just as the 2025 Auburn QB room retained anyone from the 2024 team – no great surprise there. That said multiple defensive players who were projected to hit...
December 3, 2025 – AUBURN – Auburn University announced that interim head coach/ defensive coordinator DJ Durkin will remain at Auburn as defensive coordinator. New Head Coach Alex Golesh made the announcement. "Choosing to keep DJ on our staff was an easy call," said Golesh. "Our relationship goes back more than 20 years to our roots in Ohio, we have worked with some of the same men, and we've competed against each other in this great league. We are fortunate to retain one of the top def...
November 27, 205 – WASHINGTON, D.C. - Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, a 20-year-old member of the West Virginia National Guard, died from her wounds after in a targeted shooting on patrol near the White House on November 27, 2025. She was on patrol as part of a federal deployment to Washington, D.C., when she and a fellow Guardsman were ambushed in what the FBI is investigation as a terrorist attack. President Donald J. Trump (R) announced Beckstrom's death in a Thanksgiving call to U.S. service mem...
December 2, 2025 – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) said that she was encouraged by remarks yesterdays from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul S. Atkins at the New York Stock Exchange. "Encouraging remarks from @SECPaulSAtkins at @NYSE this morning on efforts to support entrepreneurs, reinvigorate U.S. capital markets, and advance long-term economic growth. Pleased to see continued focus on keeping America's markets the strongest in the world," said Senator Britt on X. S...
November 9, 2025 – MONTGOMERY - This is the Christmas season and most Alabamians are focused on family, parties, football, college basketball, and the miracle of Jesus's birth in a manger. For politicos this is when campaigns are won and lost. Money is virtually everything in politics. Money buys ads in publications like the Alabama Gazette, TV commercials, radio spots, direct mail, and pays campaign staff. Even though qualifying with the major parties does not begin until next month, c...
December 10, 2025 – GUNTERSVILLE – On Tuesday Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth (R) hinted on social media that he might be looking at entering the race for the open Senate seat currently held by "Coach" Tommy Tuberville. "Hearing from a lot of people that the U.S. Senate race seems wide open right now. What do you think?" said Ainsworth on Facebook. Results were mixed with some Facebook followers enthusiastic about the move and others voicing their support for the candidates already in the rac...
December 11, 2025 - BIRMINGHAM - In a scenario that could reshape Alabama's economic landscape, Senator Tommy Tuberville has announced that Fannie Mae, the government‑sponsored enterprise central to America's housing finance system, will relocate major operations from San Francisco to Birmingham. "This is going to be hundreds of jobs," said Sen. Tuberville in a call with Alabama reporters. Tuberville said that he has been quietly fighting behind the scenes for Birmingham to be the site of F...
