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Reply Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill will chair the Republican Secretaries of State Committee this year. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) MONTGOMERY, AL — Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill will chair the 2021 2021 Republican Secretaries of State Executive Committee, after the organization met March 9 to elect its new committee members. Merrill is the first person appointed to serve as chair of the committee for consecutive terms. Members of the RSSC have been working alongside their s...

Biden Admin Officials Had Roles in Probes, Surveillance of Trump Campaign News Analysis As President Joe Biden constructs his new administration, individuals from the Obama administration are quietly resurfacing in positions of power. Some of these people are well-known, others lesser so. But they all played critical roles at various times during the Obama administration. Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser and now the “top adviser to the president on domestic policy and related d...

Blunt’s retirement is certain to spark a chaotic GOP primary campaign that could pit controversial former governor Eric Greitens against several sitting Missouri officials.

Two girls at the Ngam camp for Central African Republic (CAR) refugees in Cameroon rest during the afternoon heat. According to UNICEF, CAR has one of the highest rates of child marriage in Africa, with 68 per cent of girls being married before age 18. At the multipurpose centre in the camp, UN Women runs awareness-raising programmes to prevent child and early marriage and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence, and advocates with the families to educate the children and keep girls in ...

Rep. Hall files bill to "authorize absentee voting without excuse" The bill also allows "for the increase of staff that is needed in the circuit clerks office, and the election managers office." Author: Keneisha Deas Updated: 9:09 PM CST March 1, 2021 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Theres a proposed bill under review to allow absentee ballot voting available for everyone. State Representative Laura Hall filed "H.B.396" last week. Part of the bill "authorizes absentee votin...

Jason Jernigan, a laid-off Keystone XL Pipeline worker, told "America’s Newsroom" on Monday that he doesn’t know how he is going to make a living now, saying, "This is all I know how to do."

The good news was that President Biden The bad news was terrible. Climate change reared its ugly head when winter’s wrath brought death and distress to Texas. The crisis exposed the tragic reality of climate change. Extreme winter weather created an overpowering demand on an outmoded energy grid. Friday Biden will be in the Lone Star state to witness the carnage from climate change. ADVERTISEMENT Texans died while their governor lied. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said the breakdown of clean en...

Alabama lieutenant governor to skip Senate race in 2022 Sign In Feb. 26, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth said Friday he will not run for the U.S. Senate seat being given up by longtime incumbent Richard Shelby next year. Ainsworth, a first-term Republican from Guntersville, announced on social media that he had considered a bid but decided against running because his three children need a father who’s present and involved in their lives. “...

AFP U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Washington will hold China to account for “atrocities” committed in its Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) during an address to the United Nations rights agency, as other nations piled on Beijing for its treatment of the Uyghur people. Speaking by video link to the 46th regular session of the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Blinken upbraided China for “attempts to subvert the values upon which ...

MONTGOMERY – This week, Alabama Secretary of State John H. Merrill led 15 other Secretaries of State from across the country in expressing their opposition to H.R. 1. The letter, which was sent to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Minority Leader of the House Kevin McCarthy, stated the following: "We are writing you today to urge you to reject the For the People Act otherwise known as H.R. 1 or S. 1, which is a dangerous ...