BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Eight Alabama public high schools ranked among the top 5% nationally in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings. U.S. News ranked nearly 18,000 of the nation’s roughly 27,000 public high schools based on measures that include state test performance, graduation rates, and students’ participation and performance on Advanced Placement and […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama students statewide posted modest year-over-year gains in English language arts and math, but dozens of individual schools saw much larger increases. Alabama Daily News analyzed school-level results from the 2024-25 and 2025-26 Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program and found 78 schools where ELA proficiency increased by at least 10 percentage points and 77 […]

The deal that U.S. President Donald Trump signed at Versailles in June set an ambitious 60-day deadline for ending the war with Iran and reaching an accord on its nuclear program. That deadline was Monday, and the two sides are further apart than they were at the beginning.