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WASHINGTON, D.C., August 7, 2024 – U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and Tim Kaine's (D-Virginia) recently introduced a bipartisan childcare bill. This package has already received substantial support from organizations that advocate on behalf of children, families, small businesses, and more. Sponsors say that the Child Care Availability and Affordability Act and the Child Care Workforce Act, together form the boldest bipartisan proposal to make child care more affordable and accessible b...
On Tuesday, NASA updated reporters on the ongoing Boeing Starliner situation. NASA said that they are looking at both sending stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back on the troubled Boeing Starliner as originally planned or sending them back with the crew of the Space X Dragon Crew9 mission. The Crew9 mission which was scheduled for August has been pushed back to September 24 to give NASA, Boeing, and SpaceX more time to prepare for mission possibilities. Crew9 was to...
Many families around the country have traditions involving restaurants, whether it's returning to the same spot year after year for birthdays, Sunday morning brunches at a favorite local diner, or Friday night pies at a neighborhood pizza place. While plenty of diners like to visit the same restaurants every year, every month, or even every week, others also want to try something new. Consumers today are "looking for new flavor experiences that excite their palates and provide a respite from...
On Thursday, August 8 the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham will hold their Annual Memorial Mass and Reception to honor the life of Father James E. Coyle. The 103rd Memorial Mass is held each year at the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Birmingham, Alabama. The 103rd Memorial Mass will take place at 10:00 AM CST, and will be celebrated by Bishop Steven J. Raica. A reception will follow in the Cathedral Life Center. Father Coyle was murdered in broad daylight in Birmingham by a Ku Klux Klan member on...
August 8, 2024 (Muscle Shoals, Ala)-Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the indictment of a Florence man on four counts of capital murder. Travis Eric Fallows, 35, was served with the indictment against him on Wednesday and is being held without bail pending the resolution of this case. Following an investigation by the Attorney General's Investigations Division and the Muscle Shoals Police Department, Attorney General Marshall's Criminal Trials Division presented evidence to a Colbert...
August 8, 2024 - (Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) joined a coalition of 16 states in filing a lawsuit to stop the Biden-Harris administration from allowing illegal aliens from to receive subsidized health care under the Affordable Care Act. The final plan, set to take effect November 1, would make more than 200,000 deferred actions for childhood arrival (DACA) recipients eligible for taxpayer-subsidized health plans, including 3,460 in Alabama. "The latest a...
August 8, 2024 – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama), as a member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, secured a $20 million increase for the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Implementing a Maternal Health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) Initiative in the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. With Senator Britt's support, the total appropriated in the Committee's bill for the NIH I...
August 9, 2024 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) penned an op-ed in the Daily Caller about the importance of protecting veterans and taxpayers from mismanagement at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA has recently notified Congress that it is experiencing a $15 billion budget shortfall. "Why did the VA wait until the last minute to alert Congress to the shortfalls?," Tuberville wrote. "Did the VA know about the potential budget issues months ago - while Congress was drafting...
Amid a Supreme Court term that broadly diminished tools for holding powerful corporations accountable for their actions, one decision could have the opposite effect. The Marshall Project reports that the justices' ruling in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma raises the bar for companies trying to shield their wealth by filing for bankruptcy when faced with lawsuits alleging harm. Bankruptcy is a complex legal maneuver filed in federal bankruptcy court that allows a person or entity to seek relief from...
Historically, drug discovery has been characterized by high costs, lengthy timelines, and considerable uncertainty. Traditional methodologies often rely on trial and error, involving extensive laboratory research, animal testing, and multiple phases of human clinical trials. This painstaking process can span over a decade and requires significant financial investment. Yet, the success rate for drugs to make it from discovery to market remains low, with only 10 to 15 percent of drugs actually...
Preterm births in the U.S. are on the rise—and experts aren't entirely sure what's driving the increase. Northwell Health partnered with Stacker to explore the rising rate of preterm births in the U.S. using CDC data. In 2022, 1 in 10 babies born in the U.S. were premature, an 8% increase since 2014 after a steady decline in the early 2010s. Babies born at less than 37 weeks of gestation are considered preterm; early term births, or those between 37 and 38 in utero, increased by 20% during t...
August 9, 2024 - a federal appeals court blocked President Joseph R. Biden's (D) latest student debt relief plan. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 3-0 ruling extends the pause in the program that it ordered last month. This updated ruling blocks Biden's Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan until the court resolves the lawsuit. That could take months. The Court called the plan a "vast assertion of newfound power" and said that the Biden administration failed to show that there was any...
The graduating class of 2024 may have the most trouble finding a job postgraduation compared to the last five years of graduating classes before them. JobTest.org analyzed survey data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers to show how hiring projections for recent college graduates this year compare to previous years. NACE conducts a survey on hiring intentions for full-time and internship positions annually. Today's college graduates are entering the workforce as the labor...
On Saturday, reporters asked President Joseph R. Biden (D) what is his message to Iran was. His one-word response was: "Don't." This comes with the world increasingly on the edge of what could be the start of a major Middle East war. Arguably Iran started this war back in October when it authorized and paid for a massive unprovoked attack on Israel by the terrorist group Hamas, killing many Israelis, and a number of American citizens, in their homes. Israel's response against Hamas and their...
When the air conditioning broke in a Terrebonne Parish school, it sometimes got so hot that kids fainted or had asthma attacks, and the school had to call an ambulance. More often, the school sent kids home early. In the best-case scenario, students packed into classrooms with working AC or relocated to the gym or cafeteria to escape the southeast Louisiana heat. So when the school district got its final federal COVID-19 relief package in 2021, school officials made fixing the AC a top...
On Friday, Congressman Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) said that the Biden-Harris administration's border policy has been a "disaster." "You may have seen the ridiculous argument the Biden Administration and some in the media have attempted to make that Vice President Kamala Harris was never named the "Border Czar," Rep. Moore said. "When you have more than 10 million illegal border crossings on your record, it makes sense why you would argue that border security isn't your job. No matter the formali...
Summer 2024 has already been record-meltingly hot, and it's not over yet—meteorologists predict that August is going to be even warmer. Part of the extreme heat this summer has to do with a long period of El Niño. These are conditions that make the surface waters in the eastern Pacific warmer—and bring with it warmer land temperatures, too. Though El Niño subsided earlier in the season, the transition to cooler La Niña conditions won't happen until late summer or early fall. Coupled with alread...
A regular habit of saving and investing is critical for financial independence; however, the practise of regularly setting money aside in a savings account or investment account can be hard. Enter the concept of automatic investing, or auto-investing. The concept isn't new with many cryptocurrency traders quite familiar with the advantages of auto-investing and many tech-savvy traders using scheduled transfers and execution orders to set up automatic trading strategies. However, for many...
Pets provide comfort and companionship, but they can also be a big financial responsibility. Emergency veterinary surgery can run anywhere from $1,500 to $7,000, according to 2024 data from Yelp; pulling a tooth can cost $500 to $3,000. Pet insurance can ease some of the worry of pet ownership by helping cover the cost of veterinary care if your pet gets sick or is injured. To see how pet owners feel about pet insurance, Experian recently surveyed more than 1,200 consumers. Nearly 1 in 3 Pet Own...
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 12, 2024- Fox News published a column written by U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) arguing if favor of their bipartisan childcare legislation. They argue that their proposal offers serious solutions to the childcare crisis in America, which is harming Alabamians and Virginians. In the op-ed, the Senators outline their bills to make childcare more affordable and accessible by bolstering existing tax credits and creating a pilot program to...
(Montgomery, Ala.) – Last week Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general asking the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to uphold the national TikTok divest-or-ban legislation passed by Congress earlier this year. The federal law bans TikTok in the United States if Chinese-owned ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, does not sell its stake in the platform. ByteDance and TikTok sued the federal government following the ban. "...
Tens of millions of persons without U.S. citizenship live and work in the United States (both legally and illegally) and a lot of those immigrants are on the voting roles in Alabama. After being sworn into office on January 16, 2023, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen (R) has been working to ensure that Alabama has the cleanest and most accurate voter file in the country. As part of this effort, Secretary Allen has identified 3,251 individuals who are registered to vote in Alabama who have...
August 13, 2024 - MOBILE – Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) announced approximately $30 million for 25 projects in Coastal Alabama, supported by funds from the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 (GoMESA). These projects are focus on environmental education and outreach, sewer and stormwater infrastructure, water quality improvements, recreational access improvements, and other projects that are included in the original intent and authorized use of GoMESA funds. "I am thrilled to be j...
(Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall today filed a 26-state amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision that the Constitution prohibits States from restricting girls' sports teams to biological females. The case arises from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held in June that Idaho's Fairness in Women's Sports Act likely violates the Equal Protection Clause by not allowing biological males-who identify as women-to compete on s...
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. – The Food Bank of North Alabama will be announcing its campaign Food is the Focus. People are the Why. at 4 p.m., Aug. 15 at 225 Finney Drive, SW, Huntsville, Ala., 35824. The announcement also will include speakers, a ribbon cutting ceremony and tours of its distribution center. Light refreshments will be provided. Food is the Focus. People are the Why. Campaign chairs are: Emily Propst Reiney, director of The Propst Foundation; Tracy Doughty, president and COO of H...
