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By KIM CHANDLER, Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A Muslim inmate who filed a legal challenge because Alabama wouldn’t let his Islamic spiritual adviser be present in the execution chamber was put to death Thursday after the nation’s highest court cleared the way. Dominique Ray, 42, was pronounced dead at 10:12 p.m. of a lethal...

By TODD STACY, Alabama Daily News WASHINGTON, D.C. – The dust having settled from President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, the Homeland Security Conference Committee is back at work and trying to come up with a border funding deal to avert another partial government shutdown. As Senate Appropriations Chairman, Sen. Richard Shelby, R- Alabama,...

By TODD STACY, Alabama Daily News WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than a month into the Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congress is still adjusting to the new reality. Most House Republicans have never served in the minority before, and many House Democrats have never served in the majority. For two Alabama Congressmen,...

A new bill sponsored by Rep. Connie Rowe, R-Jasper, would give a deadline of three business days for sheriffs to issue or reinstate a concealed carry pistol permit after a successful appeal in district court.

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK,  Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump warned Congress that investigations and legislation don’t mix. But Speaker Nancy Pelosi said such threats have no place in the House, as unbowed Democrats charged ahead Wednesday with plans to probe Trump’s tax returns, business and ties to Russia. The...

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER,  Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to approve William Barr’s nomination to be attorney general Thursday in a vote that is likely to be mostly along party lines as Democrats have questioned how transparent Barr will be once special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked the planned execution of an Alabama inmate to consider whether the state was violating the Muslim inmate’s rights by not allowing an imam to replace a Christian prison chaplain in the death chamber. The 11th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay for...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A competitor is suing a newcomer in a gas price dispute in Alabama. News outlets report that Oasis Travel Center LLC has sued Buc-ee’s in federal court in Mobile, saying the company is illegally selling gasoline for less than state law allows. Texas-based Buc-ee’s opened its first store along Interstate 10...

By DAVID McHUGH,  AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Automaker Daimler said Wednesday that fourth-quarter net profit fell 49 percent to 1.64 billion euros ($1.87 billion) as its Mercedes-Benz luxury car business was buffeted by trade conflict, diesel woes and costs for developing new models and technologies. Revenue rose 7 percent to 46.6 billion...

By MARY SELL and TODD STACY, Alabama Daily News MONTGOMERY, Ala. and WASHINGTON, D.C. — As President Donald Trump pushes for a wall, some Alabama Republican leaders want changes in a federal program that’s seen thousands of teen immigrants apprehended at the southern border placed in the state. Most of these unaccompanied minors come from...

President Trump appealed Tuesday night for bipartisanship but refused to yield on the hard-line immigration policies that have infuriated Democrats and forced the recent government shutdown. He renewed his call for a border wall and cast illegal immigration as a threat to Americans' safety and economic security.