Gov. Kay Ivey announced an extension of her "Safer at Home" order on Wednesday, extending the statewide mask mandate until Nov. 8. Ivey also said hospitals and nursing homes will now be allowed to admit one visitor per resident or patient.
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Daily News Digest – October 1, 2020
Mask mandate extended; Federal judge loosens absentee rules; Shelby meets with Barrett, pledges support; More talks on COVID relief; Trump, Biden continue sniping from the road; Debate Commission say changes coming
Shelby meets with Barrett, pledges support to confirm
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby met with Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday...
Federal judge loosens Alabama absentee voting rules
Older Alabama voters at risk for contracting COVID-19 shouldn't have to comply with all the state's requirements for casting absentee ballots, which disproportionately harm Black people during the pandemic, a federal judge decided Wednesday.
Pelosi and Mnuchin have ‘extensive’ talks on COVID relief
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held an “extensive conversation” Wednesday on a huge COVID-19 rescue package, meeting face to face for the first time in more than a month in a last-ditch effort to seal a tentative accord on an additional round of coronavirus relief.
Biden, Trump snipe from road; Debate commission say changes coming
President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden kept up their debate-stage sniping from the road and the rails on Wednesday, fighting for working-class voters in the Midwest while both parties — and the debate commission, too — sought to deal with the most chaotic presidential faceoff in memory.
GOP lawmakers grill Comey on leadership of Russia probe
Republican lawmakers on Wednesday confronted former FBI Director James Comey about his oversight of the Trump-Russia investigation during a politically charged hearing that focused attention on problems with the probe that have become a rallying cry for President Donald Trump's supporters.