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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 33m

Via Nada Hassanein and Stateline: With hotter temperatures come more heat-related workplace injuries — about 28,000 injuries each year, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Environmental Health. https://ow.ly/6byI50X8v2w

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 2h

Via Ashley Murray: Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty to two felony charges Wednesday in federal court in Virginia, in response to an indictment that followed an extraordinary pressure campaign from President Donald Trump.

Former FBI Director Comey pleads not guilty to criminal charges demanded by Trump | Alabama Reflector

President Donald Trump has long targeted Comey for his role leading the FBI during an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 4h

Via Andrea Tinker: HB 44, sponsored by Rep. Donna Givens, R-Loxley, would direct the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR) to request a waiver from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to allow recipients of SNAP benefits to buy hot rotisserie chickens. https://ow.ly/N9ct50X8oKg

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 5h

Via Anna Barrett: Montgomery police said Tuesday they have not yet made arrests in connection with a Saturday shooting that left two dead and 12 injured. https://ow.ly/zz0g50X83BY

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 18h

Via Amanda Hernández and Stateline: The nation’s prison population grew for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing more than a decade of steady decline. But even with recent increases, the prison population in 2023 was still about 20% below the 2013 level. https://ow.ly/Vnq950X7Qrm

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 21h

Via Ashley Murray: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi aimed heated rhetoric at Democratic senators on Capitol Hill Tuesday as she faced questions over the administration’s surge of federal agents to blue cities, as well as a litany of controversial issues surrounding the Department of Justice.

A combative AG Pam Bondi confronts US Senate Judiciary over Trump crackdown | Alabama Reflector

“Madam Attorney General, it’s my job to grill you,” said U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, during one fervid exchange.

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 22h

Via Jennifer Shutt: The Trump administration may try to interpret a law enacted during his first term in office differently than it did following the last government shutdown, potentially denying back pay to hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers. https://ow.ly/uiaY50X7Uw5

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon, Portland, troops in ‘wait mode’ for federal challenge to temporary order blocking National Guard deployment via @oregoncapitalchronicle.com oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/06/o...

Oregon, Portland, troops in ‘wait mode’ for federal challenge to temporary order • Oregon Capital Chronicle

The Trump administration on Sunday was blocked by a federal judge from activating National Guard troops from any state and D.C. to Portland.

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 1d

Via Jacob Fischler: A federal judge will hear arguments Thursday in Illinois over Chicago’s lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to the state before deciding whether to block the move, the judge wrote in an order.

Trump deployment of troops to Democratic states targets Illinois | Alabama Reflector

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s complaint calls the federalization of state National Guard troops “illegal, dangerous, and unconstitutional.”

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 1d

Via Anna Claire Vollers and Stateline: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case that could reverse or solidify state laws across the country that ban a controversial counseling practice for LGBTQ+ youth.

Conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors goes before the Supreme Court | Alabama Reflector

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on Tuesday in a case that could reverse or solidify state laws across the country that ban conversion therapy, a controversial counseling practice for LGBTQ+ youth that has been discredited by much of the medical community.

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 1d

The Perry County PREP program is a a 90-day residential curriculum to assist former prison inmates with the transition back into the community. According to Pardons and Paroles, none of the PREP program's 400 graduates have been reincarcerated. https://ow.ly/nHkr50X6tWo

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 1d

Via Anna Barrett: Alabama GOP officials attacked Montgomery leaders over crime in the wake of a mass shooting. City leaders pushed back on Monday, noting police spending is up over 26% and that state leaders had thwarted local efforts to prevent gun violence https://ow.ly/OHbX50X7GoU

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 1d

Via Inside Climate News: Alabama officials charged with protecting residents from surface impacts of underground coal mining have notified the federal government that they’ve suspended plans to require that expanding mines monitor for potentially explosive methane gas. https://ow.ly/4WCx50X7lqv

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 1d

Via Ariana Figueroa: Judges on a federal appeals court panel seemed skeptical that the Trump administration’s expanded use of a fast-track deportation procedure didn’t violate the due-process rights of immigrants during oral arguments Monday.

Trump administration defends nationwide rapid deportations at appeals hearing | Alabama Reflector

Judges on a federal appeals court panel seemed skeptical that the Trump administration's expanded use of a fast-track deportation procedure didn’t violate the due-process rights of immigrants.

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 1d

Via Jennifer Shutt: President Donald Trump sent mixed messages Monday about whether he would negotiate a deal with Democrats to extend the enhanced tax credits for people who get their health insurance from the Affordable Care Act Marketplace, a key issue that led to the government shutdown.

Government shutdown enters day six with talks over health care at an impasse | Alabama Reflector

Trump said “some very good things could happen with respect to health care” and that “if we made the right deal, I’d make a deal, sure,” before sharply criticizing the 2010 health care law, also called Obamacare.

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 1d

Via Ariana Figueroa: A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to produce evidence within 48 hours on its efforts to again deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, this time to the southern African country of Eswatini.

Trump administration wants to remove wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini | Alabama Reflector

U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis will consider an order to release Abrego Garica as part of his habeas corpus petition, which challenges his detention at a U.S.immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 1d

Editor @brianlyman.bsky.social writes that the detention and departure of two immigrants in the state -- both lacking criminal records -- is a reminder that immigrants aren't the problem. The problem is an immigration system determined to keep most immigrants outside the protections of the law.

Immigrating legally shouldn't be hard. Harassing immigrants shouldn't be easy. | Alabama Reflector

You can't immigrate to the United States "the right way" when the system makes it effectively impossible to come to the country legally.

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 2d

Via Stateline: Friday’s jobs report is missing in action because of the federal shutdown, but economists are finding other ways of measuring apparent job losses concentrated in Midwestern states and oil country . https://ow.ly/hLnU50X78Tb

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 2d

Select colleges in the Southeastern United States are offering prospective students a chance to have their application fee waived this week. https://ow.ly/aQpp50X6tgg

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 2d

Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: Experts say health care worker shortages and actual or potential federal policy changes, including higher tariffs and the possible loss of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, are driving costs up.

Why are health insurance prices rising in Alabama? | Alabama Reflector

Alabama isn’t alone in seeing rising insurance costs. According to an analysis by KFF, insurance premiums could more than double for 11 to more than 24 million Americans enrolled in Obamacare.

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 2d

Update: Montgomery police identified the deceased in Saturday night's mass shooting as Jeremiah Morris, 17, and Shalanda Williams, 43. Seven of the victims are under the age of 20.

Police: Montgomery shooting leaves two dead, 12 injured | Alabama Reflector

The injured included two juvenile males, including one with life-threatening injuries, the statement said.

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 3d

Via Anna Barrett: A shooting in downtown Montgomery late Saturday night left at least two people dead and 12 injured, according to police.

Police: Montgomery shooting leaves two dead, 12 injured | Alabama Reflector

The injured included two juvenile males, including one with life-threatening injuries, the statement said.

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 3d

Via @chatlanis.bsky.social and @stateline.org: With less federal money to provide health benefits to immigrants who are here legally, states will be hard-pressed to maintain their programs that offer coverage to all immigrants, regardless of their legal status.

1.4M lawfully present immigrants could lose subsidized health coverage | Alabama Reflector

An estimated 1.4 million immigrants who are in the country legally but are not citizens stand to lose their government-subsidized health care coverage under the sweeping tax and spending bill Presiden...

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 4d

My column from Monday. On the Alabama Public Library Service board; its relentless elevation of cranks attacking the Fairhope Public Library, and watching a state determined to raise standardized reading scores spending just as much time assaulting literacy.

Alabama's state library board seems hostile to literacy | Alabama Reflector

The Alabama Legislature is trying to raise reading scores as the Alabama Public Library Service is trying to limit what you can read.

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 4d

States Newsroom’s Washington, D.C. Bureau scoured agency plans published by the Trump administration and the courts, and produced this guide to help you understand what’s going on in the first federal government shutdown in seven years.

How the federal shutdown is playing out across the government | Alabama Reflector

WASHINGTON — The first federal government shutdown in seven years has left hundreds of thousands of workers furloughed and members of the public struggling to understand what’s open, what’s closed and...

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