Alabama

Alabama man sentenced for conspiring to transport goods to Iran, violating US sanctions

Hunt was sentenced to five years in prison. He conspired with two Tehran-based companies to export US-manufactured industrial equipment for use in Iran’s oil, gas, and petrochemical industries.

 The seal of the US Justice Department is seen on the podium in the Department's headquarters briefing room before a news conference with the Attorney General in Washington, January 24, 2023.
 Ambulances Parked Outside NYU Langone Hospital. Transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney.

Alabama woman becomes third living person to receive genetically modified pig kidney

 Crawling out of the ground.

Three and a half days after being buried alive, she emerged from her fiberglass tomb

 The gate at Holman Correctional Facility is monitored by law enforcement before the scheduled execution by asphyxiation using pure nitrogen of Kenneth Smith who is convicted for a murder-for-hire committed in 1988, in Atmore, Alabama, U.S. January 25, 2024.

Alabama completes first execution using nitrogen gas asphyxiation


Alabama's only Jewish representative asks: Where are we safe?

Phillip Ensler talks to ‘Post’ about Jewish pride, antisemitism, and community life in the US South

 PHILLIP ENSLER is sworn in to the Alabama legislature on a Tanach.

Space Command HQ decision not tied to senator or abortion, White House says

The Pentagon policy followed the US Supreme Court's decision last year to overturn a 1973 ruling that had legalized abortion nationwide.

 A new logo for the U.S. Space Force being added by the Trump administration as a sixth branch of the U.S. military, is seen in this handout image released by U.S. President Donald Trump from the White House in Washington, U.S. January 24, 2020.

Two teens charged with murder in Alabama birthday party shooting

The suspects - Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16 - both from Tuskegee, were arrested and charged with four counts of reckless murder

 A view of the crime scene a day after a shooting at a teenager's birthday party in a dance studio, in Dadeville, Alabama, U.S., April 16, 2023

Four dead, including high school football player, in Alabama birthday party shooting

In addition to the four people whose lives were lost, 28 people were injured, some critically.

 A view of the crime scene a day after a shooting at a teenager's birthday party in a dance studio, in Dadeville, Alabama, U.S., April 16, 2023

US Supreme Court rejects Christian preacher's challenge to university

The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, in recent years has taken an expansive view of religious rights, though this case came to the justices as a free speech dispute.

 THE US Supreme Court building in Washington: As many in Israel believe today, the Anti-Federalists, who opposed the constitution, objected to governorship by the court and feared such power granted to the court could render it an absolute ruler.

Over a third of all US executions in 2022 were botched - report

One notable execution saw a man, still believed by some to be innocent, having to help the executioners properly find a vein for the lethal injection.

Prison, death row (illustrative)

Alabama, Utah become the latest US states to ban TikTok on state devices

Alabama and Utah are joining the ranks of three other states that have officially banned the video-sharing social media app from government devices.

TikTok logo is displayed on the smartphone while standing on the US flag in this illustration picture taken, November 8, 2019.

Alabama passes bill making some transgender healthcare a felony

The legislation is the latest in a flurry of measures in Republican-led states dealing with transgender youth.

Capitol Building, Mongomery, Alabama.

Alabama school faces backlash over Nazi salutes to US flag

A Jewish student that raised alarm about a lesson that involved the Bellamy Salute was told to apologize by the school, and received death and arson threats.

German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler doing a Nazi salute

COVID vaccine encouragers should be greeted with guns - MTG

"In the South we all love our second amendment rights and we're not real big on strangers showing up on our front door, are we?" said US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.

US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) addresses a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, February 5, 2021.

Israeli teen outstanding player in US Wheelchair Basketball Championship

"This was one of the most challenging years of my life... to move to a strange county, with a different language and new team, and learn how to be responsible and independent."

Israeli teenager Amit Vigoda (#24) is studying at the University of Texas at Arlington while playing hoops for the school in the National Wheelchair Basketball Association.